Time magazine, as a recent commenter at its website recently put forth, is quickly becoming the National Enquirer (Or would it be the Star? Knowledgeable readers please advise.) of purportedly legitimate news organizationS. This week on Time we had the cheap, inflammatory cover, and cover story, “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace.” Two weeks earlier […]
The Closing of the Conservative Mind
Mix one incompetent president and two ill-considered, poorly planned and waged wars together with rapacious economic policy and deficit spending, add institutional decline and structural budgetary problems, spice with dilemmas that require long-term thinking in a society shaped toward short-term demand, top with with ugly, ignorant, demagogic cultural warfare opposed by ideological platitudes, and serve […]
A Whole Beck of Trouble
In response to yesterday’s Ten Questions for Monday, Esteemed Commenter Kate (or E.C., a certified title with the American Honorifics Society) honors us, in turn, with her usual thoughtful considerations. Note that she both prefaces and afterwords her comments with a now customary expression of her otherwise addled state of mind. I’m beginning to take […]
The Political and the Wretched
(Updated Below) The separation of adjectives in the title is an act of forlorn hope against almost all evidence. There have actually emerged isolated instances of thoughtful, free-thinking, and humanistic consideration of the Cordoba Initiative Islamic center in lower Manhattan, but they are overwhelmed by the worst manifestations of reflexive political contention. All evidence now […]
I Know There’s a God Because There is Stephen Colbert
I’m late posting today because I’m working on that long post I promised last week to piss everyone off. In the meantime, a monkey hitting a keyboard randomly for a thousand years would one day type: I Take Sen. McConnell ‘At His Word’ When He Says He’s Not A Human-Turtle Hybrid. The Colbert Report Mon […]