Per aspera

In a Political Animal post about John Conyers responding sensibly to the press’ totally liberally-biased repetition of the Republican talking point about how the Democrats will IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH if the voters are foolish enough to elect them this fall, I read this:
When I asked some prominent Democrats how the party should conduct oversight if […]

Before May Day ends, I want to get some Glorious Workers’ Linkage in. Here’s some mp3s of the Internationale being sung.

Boy, the cronyism and corruption of the Bush administration sure has made a mess of FEMA. We should probably fix it raze it to the ground.
“Our first and most important recommendation is to abolish FEMA,” said Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “FEMA is discredited, […]

Theresa Nielsen Hayden, who is wise as I hope to be someday:
Someone has to declare a dividing line. I’m doing it. After this, there are three reasons to publicly support Bush, or to insist there must be an excuse for his actions:
1. You’re stupid.
2. You know there’s no excuse, but you’re too dishonest and unpatriotic […]

Okay, and to make a ninety-degree, Tron-bike turn from the last post: anyone else as pants-shittingly terrified as I am about our upcoming nuclear first strike against Iran? Anyone else as certain that even an action as breathtakingly evil as using nukes in a war for the second time in history can be “debated” […]

During the Oscars tonight, did you see the commercials for this new show Miracle Workers?
What the fuck kind of country do I live in, where people have to go on television and parade their illnesses for my entertainment, so that they can recieve medical treatment?