BOSTON-DAY 6
I awake with a start at 7:30 AM, when one of my roomies begins banging the door with a ferocity that would raise the dead. Good job- I had asked him to do precisely that. I'm groggy from the few hours of sleep I got, but manage to haul myself down to the bathroom, douse my head in cold water, change clothes, and down another quickie breakfast of fruit-yogurt thingies. (more...)
Cover your ass, republicans- it's your only hope- if you think Bush's speech tonight solved your problems, you're sadly mistaken- throw up as much dirt as possible- and hide... I'm not going to address his rhetoric, in any way, tonight, because it was all, well- bullshit. Seriously- not one, single word that he spoke tonight, will bear any resemblance to the events that will follow, in coming days, weeks, months, and years. (more...)
In "Bush on the couch" (reviewed below), Justin Frank addresses Bush's dogged and stubborn disdain for science. At its root, we have a dissociative disorder, in which Bush, lamentably, exists in a very "internalized" world. Having long since retreated into himself, he has adopted a perverse strain of solipsism as a world view (this is rationalized by the Bush Bowl as "clear vision", deriding those who rationalize and argue outside of the vagaries of Bush's consciousness as the "reality based" community.) (more...)
I took full advantage of this holiday, and slept in. Just as I was turning over for the third time, however, I heard, distantly, a group of people chanting "Troops out NOW!" DOH- the parade! I swiftly donned some rather rank clothing and headed down to the parade route, but by then, the procession had moved on. Anyone in Montclair, NJ see this- or was I just hallucinating? (more...)
The buzz this week, of course, has been North Korea's missile tests. Watching the talking heads and the utterly incompetent John Bolton warbling out inanity after inanity, I just had to take a step back, and spend a few hours playing GenePool, to cool off. (more...)
Meet Ted Stevens- Republican senator from Alaska (originally from Indianapolis, Indiana). He's a bleeding-heart conservative who has distinguished himself by grabbing half a billion of US tax dollars to build a literal bridge to nowhere (which, of course, will be named the "Ted Stevens bridge.") In the wake of the Katrina disaster, he was asked whether he'd consider dropping a few million from his bridge projects to help out the folks in New Orleans. (more...)