Dear Friends and Relatives: I have the distinguished honor of being on the committee to raise $5,000,000 for a monument to George W. Bush. We originally wanted to put him on Mt. Rushmore until we discovered there was not enough room for two more faces. We then decided to erect a statue of George in the Washington, DC Hall Of Fame. We were in a quandary as to where the statue should be placed. It was not proper to place…
In the words of an English teacher at Wellesley College… O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! Oh beautiful, for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine ‘Til all success be nobleness And…
A lovely temperature animated mapping – by statewide approval polls – from the 2004 elections to the present. The Bush Approval Map at Radical Russ. (via Recommended)
I don’t want to hear about any “4th of July.” The holiday is “Independence Day.” Last year I noticed a strange reluctance to use the words, to invoke the history. Let’s avoid repressing the point. While we’re all celebrating this holiday, patting ourselves on the pack and claiming superiority, let’s remember the roots of the American experiment. America is celebrating its 230th birthday on Independence Day this year. On July 4th 1776, the Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of…
This was an excellent Frontline. You can watch it online if you missed it. The Dark Side “OOOOSH-Whooosh….Luke – I mean George -I am your President….whoosh.” Oh, and on the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo… isn’t it pretty clear now that this administration is guilty of war crimes? So… what? Are the Republicans so tied to their funding that they will ignore even this?
My dear friend Tina has had letter to the editor published in the New York Times! Woo-hoo! The Use of DNA In Rape Cases To the Editor: In New York’s Crime Against Women (Op-Ed, June 18), Sonia Ossorio correctly observed that New York State’s statute of limitations for prosecuting rape was nearly the shortest in the nation: only Florida, North Dakota and Utah had shorter time limits during which a rapist may be brought to justice. However, in 2004, Florida…