President Bush getting in touch with his inner chimp George W. Bush can’t quite figure out why his presidency is proving to be the greatest failure in modern history. In an an interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson the other day, he was his usual clueless and inarticulate self. GIBSON: Do you feel in any way responsible for what’s happening? BUSH: …
Bush bids farewell White House Employee Trampled To Death As Bush Aides Flee Jan. 19, 2009 WASHINGTON D.C. [C.U.News] — Long time White House doorman, Oscar Willit, who served four different presidents, died in a stampede today as aides to President Bush and Vice President Cheney fled the building in advance of the incoming Obama Administration. “It was surreal”, said …
Children are born believers in God, academic claims By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent, Telegraph.co.uk 24 Nov 2008 Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose. …
The LA Times reports that: Ann Coulter’s jaw wired shut! We’re sooo sad…. Page Six is reporting that right-wing agitator and controversy-seeker Ann Coulter’s jaw is wired tightly shut. I know, I know. If the report is true, It’s almost as if our prayers have been answered. Apparently it was broken, but by whom, no one seems to be sure. …
Rethuglican self-immolation syndrome GOP Takes Another Image Hit Post-Election by Lydia Saad November 20, 2008 PRINCETON, NJ — The Republican Party’s image has gone from bad to worse over the past month, as only 34% of Americans in a Nov. 13-16 Gallup Poll say they have a favorable view of the party, down from 40% in mid-October. The 61% now …
Oh, Oh 7 ready to kick some imperialist ass Juan Cole has a great review of the new Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace, on his blog yesterday titled “A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism.” The movie’s plot involves the attempted regime change of a populist Bolivian president (a thinly disguised Evo Morales) who is unwilling to turn his country’s oil and …
