Category: Politics

I live in the pot. I live in the kettle. Maybe that phrase needs to be updated…why is it a bad thing for the pot or the kettle to be black? Is it a bad thing to be black? I don’t think so but I did see a preview for a TV show where a…

I’m not just saying this arbitrarily….The governor of South Dakota signed the nations first law banning abortion in more than 30 years… The law bans abortion in almost all cases, punishing doctors who perform one with five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. It bans abortion even in cases where a woman is pregnant…

Prepare to be nauseated. Bill Clinton got impeached for lying about a blowjob, and we are just going to sit back and take this shit? “Have some more Soma, dear – I’m sure everything is under control…” There they sit, a whole room full of hurricane experts and disaster managers, shouting down a telephone line…

On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

I am a big fan of Arundhati Roy’s writing and of her political sentiments. Here’s a lovely example of both. (And if you haven’t, read her heartbreaking The God of Small Things.) On his triumphalist tour of India and Pakistan, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush has…

OK, what is going on here? Liberia’s brutal former-warlord Charles Taylor is enjoying asylum in Nigeria, rather than being sent to the UN Special Court in Sierra Leone to be tried for war crimes. Nigeria had previously indicated that it would turn Taylor over to an elected Liberian government, if not to the special court….

I see a lot of Che T-Shirts on the UH campus…I like these better… cd His spirit may never die, but he’s dead as a doornail. Che fought exploitation, inequality and oppression. I doubt he would be a fan of his iconic image on t shirts.

Check this out if you want to see some irony at work…great article… cd Gandhi, Bush, and the Bomb by Lawrence S. Wittner On February 24, at a press briefing, White House National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley announced that, when U.S. President George W. Bush travels to India next week, he will lay a wreath…

This is something everyone should watch…question it, listen to it, and most importantly, don’t accept everything (or anything ) that Bush and the US government are telling you on faith… I don’t think this is any kind of ‘proof’, but it is something to consider… cd THE TRUTH & LIES OF 9/11 – Google Video…