I just finished listening to an interview with (the so-great-I-named-my-son-after-him) Howard Zinn, in which he tells it like he see it: “…You mentioned McCain as a pilot in the war. I think something should be said about McCain — that I haven’t seen anybody in the press or politics dare to say and somebody should […]
I keep hearing a lot about how Sarah Palin is ‘patriotic’, & that trumps her lack of qualifications and general awfulness. I’m usually quick to dismiss this as lazy thinking, since patriotism is a love of country, and a country is a set of principles (or truths that we hold self-evident ), and the current […]
You know, someday I hope to do more with this blog than parrot what was on the Daily Show, but damn…they’ve been on a roll lately. Might be NSFW, or too much for the overtly-Republican…
Well, I used to say that I was ambivalent about the two front runners for President, McCain and Obama. I had an unexplained level of respect for McCain, perhaps just from an understanding of his personal sacrifices as a soldier and his years of public service. And it helped that he didn’t seem to be […]