September 3rd, 2005

As it stands, only James Buchanan now guards the way between George Bush and the black abyss. Whatever  

If I had better instincts or a sense of injustice running amok, I would put this stainless steel Apple G5 in the trunk of my 325i and race over to the closest politician’s home - either Rohrbacher or Dreier or any politician, for that matter - and toss the airtight case through the large bay window overlooking a wondrous California countryside … chase the bought-and-paid-for freak out onto his manicured lawn in an extreme act of merciless revenge then spray him liberally with several cans of pepper spray and force him to run naked along the main street wearing a propeller beanie and a brass cowbell while repeatedly jolting him with a Stun Master 775,000 volt stun gun, converting his blood sugar into lactic acid until his bowels and bladder no longer functioned properly and a blossom of bluish black lumps covered his body for the eventual press coverage and News at Six video package. gonzography  

At this moment, people are dying in New Orleans while a smirking, arrogant son of privilege institutes half measures designed more to boost his flagging popularity than to save the lives of a class of people he detests. Jesus’ General  

A man who explodes government spending but can’t run a war or organize basic civil defense is simply a fiscally reckless incompetent. Daily Dish  

Dude, there’s no way in hell he’ll find us…he’s not a monkey. Overheard in New York  

September 2nd, 2005

For the first time in memory, a huge social welfare issue is pressing against a network of state governments heretofore disinclined to respond constructively. MaxSpeak, You Listen!  

Any attempt to flag down police results in being told to get away at gunpoint. interdictor  

When the dead are counted, most of them will have been poor. Count on it. The Doc Searls Weblog  

Looks like Karen Hughes picked a bad week to quit mainlining horse testosterone…. ??TBogg??  

September 1st, 2005

If you were Chief Justice of the Supreme Court along with John Souter, Terrence Thomas, Anthony Scalia, Nino Kennedy, Ruth Day O’Ginsberg, John Paul Jones, William Brennan, and your former boss Bill Rehnquist, and a case involving abortion and capital punishment came before you on an appeal from a panel upon which you sat, and you believed you would be committing a mortal sin by hearing the case but not deciding it, and you’d gone duck-hunting with counsel for appellants but the Founders and the French would agree with the other side, would you recuse yourself if your wife had signed but not been involved with drafting of one of the amicus briefs? How Appealing