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At a certain point, I just want to withdraw from the news, so if I don’t say much about more than general principles, please forgive me. The archives are still here; most of the content on the Iraq war, anti-terrorism measures, and Bush’s irresponsibility is still operative. I don’t write quite as much about these [...]
In the right-winger’s war on sex, the birth control pill is like Iran — it’s where the wingnuts want to invade, but they’re getting a bit ahead of themselves. The birth control pill is often credited as a significant factor in the increase of women’s rights, and has been under attack recently, again, as an abortifacient.
The ultimate [...]
*Update:* I hate it when I lose my temper on my blog only to discover “I was already outdone by -an Irishman- a Scot”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/18/galloway/index.html?source=RSS. (Many apologies.)
So the other day on the Al Franken show, Franken’s dittohead friend Martin Luther says to Al Franken’s objections to Bush’s military policy “so you think we’d be better off with [...]
So, let me get this straight:
We “didn’t find any”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3740-2005Jan12.html?nav=headlines weapons of mass destruction. We were, of course, supposed to.
Iraq is *now* a “training ground for terrorists”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7460-2005Jan13.html and we’ve helped unite and radicalize the Muslim community against us. We were, of course, supposed to *break up* terrorist training camps in Iraq and use Iraq as a base to [...]
On the left there I’ve added a button for “EnjoyTheDraft.com”:http://www.enjoythedraft.com/, a rather sarcastic site about this country’s conscription prospects. I realize some people believe the “Bush is going to start up the draft!” line to be fearmongering, and it may well be. But I also think it’s a legitimate thing to be afraid of.
See, the [...]