Per aspera

I don’t think I’ve ever linked to Jim Henley’s finest post:
So many publications have expressed such overwhelming interest in the perspectives of those of us who opposed the Iraq War when it had a chance of doing good that I have had to permit mutliple publication of this article in most of the nation’s elite […]

Jesus Christ.
(via Unqualified Offerings)
UPDATE:  Robert Farley at LGM has a slightly longer and more thoughtful response than I:
Long story short, it’s quite likely that an invasion would cause a lot more people to die than are likely to die sans intervention.
The idea of a threat of an invasion in order to force SLORC compliance with international […]

I’ve heard a disturbing number of people, all of whom I know to be otherwise sane, tell me that they think John McCain would make a good President, or even tell me that they might vote for him. This is nuts. He would be an awful President. Of course, you wouldn’t know […]

Survival instinct.

And it came to pass that global capitalism became too clever for itself by half, and stopped working so well, and threatened to pull itself into a bit of a death spiral.
So people are talking bailout.
Here’s my proposal. I offer it at no charge to any member of Congress, presidential candidate or editorial writer willing […]

Since I didn’t post yesterday, making my planned week of daily posts a success for exactly one day, I’ll give you two today.
Here then is a link I’ve been meaning to post, to a review by Rick Perlstein of Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon, by Mary Hershberger. A little […]

Happy (the day after) Treason in Defense of Slavery Day!

To this:  The Most Vulgar, Disgusting, and Foul Joke in the World

John Holbo writes:
Possible slogan for ‘08: ‘Anybody can make a mistake. To really screw things up requires a Republican.’ Maybe with a cute kitten, wearing a Goldwater button, barely clinging to a clothesline. And I’m talking slogans for the Republicans here. The Republican party is in some danger of becoming the party for those who […]

Rove lamented the loss of civility in politics on the web…
Oh, my sides!
(via Atrios)

Also via Avedon, Jay Rockefeller, Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, lies to try to get the Get Out of Jail Free Act passed for the telecom companies who helped the Bush administration illegally spy on Americans without warrants, from its beginning (it turns out that the Bush administration - and this is true, I am not […]

Via Shakes:
What does our poll show about the black vote in the Democratic race?
Well, it shows that black voters respond to other things besides race.
Another white guy who thinks it’s remarkable that black people live and think, just like you and me. I always get this image in my head of them running around […]

Also via Atrios, Ezra writes a very clear distillation of why those poor “liberal hawks” deserve every bit of abuse they get from the dirty fucking hippies on the blogs.

From a diary by litigatormom on Daily Kos, a portion of the 60 Minutes interview with The Commander-in-Chief:
    PELLEY: Do you think you owe the Iraqi people an apology for not doing a better job?
    BUSH: That we didn’t do a better job or they didn’t do a better job?
    PELLEY: Well, […]

Keith Ellison just got elected to the House of Representatives from the 5th District in Minnesota. This is a bit of a milestone, because he’s the first Muslim ever to be elected to Congress. As he is a Muslim, he’s decided to be sworn into to office on the Q’uran. This is […]