World Fail 101
Intractable international problems continually and increasingly reveal how ineffective— and unethical— it is for any single nation, like the United States, to assume the mantle of “World Sheriff.”
Paul Conrad, R.I.P.
Paul Conrad cartoon censored by the LA Times, 1999 Growing up in LA, Paul Conrad was the first political cartoonist I ever read. He did much to light my political fires. He’ll be missed. Paul Conrad dies at 86; Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist helped bring The Times to national prominence. His unyielding liberal stance, delivered as savage black-and-white harpoons, bedeviled …
Koch Suckers
Proving that while intelligence may be limited, stupidity is not Getting people to consistently vote against their own self-interest is one of the more fascinating dimensions of American politics, a triumph of modern propaganda technique. You’d think that people who can barely survive on low paying, non-union jobs and have no health insurance for themselves or their families would support …
Arizona Train Wreck Brewing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] “I have done so much.” “We have done everything we could possibly do.” “We have did [sic] what was right for Arizona.” If you can’t be focused when it counts, what are you like when it doesn’t count?
Open Cordoba House
Roman bridge leading to the Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain I got me a bone to pick with Sharif el-Gamal, the developer of the Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, originally called Cordoba House, on near the site of the former World Trade Center. While there are a variety of groups for and against its construction, the most frenzied …
THE TOWER OF BECKEL
“Now the whole earth had one lunatic with a few words. And as other men illegally migrated into the west, they found a Job in the land of Shiny Stuff…
King v. Beck
Can’t wait to hear the Beckophiles howl about how unfair it is to run actual clips of their hero’s bigotry and madness.
