Nutria invasion! I first met these furry pests in the Louisiana swamps...now they're infesting our local wetlands. And we don't even have alligators to help eat them.
Kevin Phillips, author of American Theocracy:
Let me start by saying that I don't think most Evangelicals should be thought of as anything like extremists. They have a personal religion which is concerned with revelation and salvation; but they are shaped by their leaders – LaHaye and others – into a force on behalf of a pretty aggressive Christianity, which has come up with a world view of almost Jesus the terminator; and then, God so loved you that He's bringing you World War III.
Just goes to show, there's no "crisis" that Bush can't turn into an excuse to try to make life a little worse for all of us. I really, really despise that man. I know he doesn't care. That's part of why I despise him.
President Bush on Tuesday urged the waiver of clean air rules to ease local gas shortages and called for the repeal of $2 billion in tax breaks for profit-heavy oil companies. Still, experts said Bush's actions wouldn't have much impact on prices at the pump.
The reason I put "crisis" in quotes? This isn't a crisis. Higher gas prices are a natural and inevitable consequence of increasing world demand for a scarce, non-renewable resource. Calling it a "crisis" seems to justify fundamentally stupid, short-term "solutions."
After nationally syndicated columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin posted the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of three members of Students Against War, they received a flood of obscene and harassing messages from around the country, including death threats. When a liberal Web site, in retaliation, published Malkin's cell phone number and home address, a full-blown blog war ensued.
"I am now forced to remove one of my children from school and move my family," Malkin wrote Thursday in an e-mail to the Sentinel.
She who lives by the sword, dies by the sword?
"The Montgomery, Alabama City Coucil has a message for late civil rights icon Rosa Parks and other blacks who were mistreated in Montgomery during the 1950s: We're sorry."Better late than never, I guess. At least it didn't take 'em quite as long as it did for the Catholic church to apologize for Galileo
Sex is more satisfying in countries where women and men are considered equal, according to an international study of people between the ages of 40 and 80 by researchers at the University of Chicago. The study appears in the April issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior. It was funded by Pfizer, which makes the impotence drug Viagra.
Yes, we are inching toward 100-year life expectancy as death rates dropped in 2005.
Somebody drowns in a tub nearly every day in this country...most of them in western states. Not just California, which you might expect -- Wyoming is ahead of the curve as well. Fear the tub! Fear it!
If you want to know what I think about immigration...check out Horsey's Saturday Spin!
I don't care if Rumsfeld resigns, actually. That's because I'm reasonably certain that, as long as Bush is in office, anyone else he appoints will be equally incompetent. Because, you know, the appointer is a thorough muck-up. Oh, did I say "the appointer"? I should have said, "the decider"
Just to cheer things up a bit, An inspiring story about a pastor running for office in Texas.
Horn said he eventually left Austin in 1990, when he could no longer "emotionally support the issues.
"The attitude then became very negative," Horn said. "The Moral Majority was neither moral nor a majority. No political party can claim moral superiority over the other as long as it’s made up of the same fallen people."
The shocker -- he's running as a Democrat! Oh my goodness! The end times are nigh!
I (heart) The Times-Picayune. Their Katrina coverage won a Pulitzer.
A sweet little story about children with gay parents rolling Easter eggs on the White House lawn, except for the pathetic protest, although even that is so...ridiculous...it's hard to take seriously. Half a dozen people? Your children will be punished with COLDS?
And, really, you have to be an awfully sorry, mean-spirited, small-minded little snit to protest children rolling Easter eggs. Even though The Easter Bunny Hates You.
I read this Sean Hannity quote and had a serious, almost Pratchetty, mental footnote moment:
"Let me be straight with you - I like George Bush," Hannity said. "I think he's a man of principle,*
a man of faith.**
I think he's got a backbone of steel***
and he's a real, genuine, big-time leader**** ...
He's a consequential figure for his time.*****
We don't see it right now."
*Principles mostly having to do with the innate superiority of the rich.
**Faith that his plans will work out the way he intends, and indeed, faith that they have worked out the way he intended, in spite of abundant material evidence to the contrary.
***Thanks to modern surgery.
****Of the sort who tends to be immortalized for getting lots of people killed in stupid ways. Like Custer, for example.
*****Of course, The Worst President Ever and The Man who Almost Singlehandedly Destroyed America is necessarily a consequential figure for his time. Consequences don't have to be GOOD.
I think I'm done with this Zeitgeist. Except maybe I have to ask Bill Napoli first.
