The other day I was stumbling through Salon.com’s site as I normally do and happened upon a touching essay by Garrison Keillor. The profound message that I took away from this writing was that hope and cheer are the results of an inward, personal discovery, and we should keep this in mind and in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politco Schmolitico'
Shock Doctrine
September 26th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politco Schmolitico, The Way The World Works
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Subverting the distortion machine
August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Politco Schmolitico
Today, the Washington Post has an article concerning a draft of the latest report on Iraq coming out of the Governmental Accountability Office, which was leaked to The Post today. Here’s a snippet:
The person who provided the draft report to The Post said it was being conveyed from a government official who feared that its [...]
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Quote of the day: William Gibson
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Politco Schmolitico
One of my mostest favoritest blogs/podcasts out there is Christopher Lydon’s Open Source, which is currently on a summer’s hiatus due to some financial flibbertigibbet. The concept of Open Source is to take the open source software development design and apply that methodology towards a radio show. Concepts, guests, questions, nearly every aspect of [...]
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The Quantum State of Dick Cheney
July 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Politco Schmolitico
Hmmm, one supposes that instead of “particle spin” Cheney has “partisan spin”. In addition, according to the Dirac Equation, there would have to exist an anti-Cheney out there somewhere. Well, at least that’s the theory. Maybe he’ll (she’ll?) turn up soon, and annihilate the current VP in a puff of released energy. Hope [...]
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Explain to me why the world isn’t crazy. Please?
June 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politco Schmolitico, The Way The World Works
From Slate, an article about a sexual assault case where the words rape, assault, victim, and even “sexual assault kit” have been banned from being used in front of the jury.
Also, Darth Cheney asserts that he isn’t part of the executive branch in order to exempt himself from having to provide records. His [...]
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