The latest polls show that Americans may finally be waking up from their bizarre sleep. George W. Bush’s approval rating is now a full twenty points lower than Bill Clinton’s was on the day he was impeached. — Eric Alterman, “Lowest approval ratings in 75 polls” (June 7, 2005) MSNBC. Alterman goes on to point […]

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I don’t want anyone to misunderstand the nature of this post. I have never paid much attention to Amnesty International, or Human Rights Watch. So I’d never even try to vouch for them. But this struck me as funny: We also know that it is suicidally irresponsible for groups that depend on the moral force […]

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The periodic “speculation” about a retirement of some Supreme Court Justice during the Bush Administration is amusing to me. From where I sit, it’s impossible to imagine that Bush will not get to appoint a Justice to the Court. And there’s nothing atypical about the approach, either. “This White House — I congratulate it on […]

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I spotted this over at the Blue Bus and I liked it so much — and currently have so little time for blogging — that I figured I’d share it here, too. Compare this: I’ll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and […]

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It’s no secret to many that the Bush Administration thrives on secrets. Recognizing the success of this strategy, the Administration has decided to take it to new heights.

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Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have new claims to fame. Not just anybody can say he has a slime-mold beetle named in his honor. But George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld can. — “Bush has slime-mold beetle named after him” (April 14, 2005) CNN. Being a crawly-bug-hater, I can think of nothing more […]

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I’ve got an idea and I think it’s a pretty good one, too. My wife isn’t so sure. You see, I need to find some way to make a little more money. So I’m thinking of starting a chicken farm. At first, I was really stumped, though, as to how I was going to protect […]

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CBS News says that gasoline this summer is expected to average $2.28 cents per gallon this summer. My wife and I pray that it goes that low. As I write this, the lowest price in Fresno in the last 72 hours has been $2.39 per gallon at Family Express on Butler & Cedar. The high […]

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Gas prices have been on the rise since, oh…about the year 2000. Since last spring, gas prices have risen faster than a flash flood in Shoal Creek, Texas. The Bush Administration has assured us through its press corp — that would be CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox and MSNBC, among others (but not The Daily Show) […]

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Bush’s recent comments about Terri Schiavo are B.S. in more ways than one. First, there’s the “Futile Care Law” he signed as governor of Texas, which gave hospitals — we’re not even talking “mom and dad versus husband” here — the right to remove patients from life support when doctors deem them unlikely to recover, […]

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