The Bush Administration and my youth...a compelling comparison
A few weeks after I turned sixteen, my best friend (who I've known nearly thirty years) came to my house to show me the car that her parents had given her for her seventeenth birthday. I hadn't seen...
View ArticleGeorge Will spreads climate misinformation
In a column in Sunday's Washington Post, George WIll spout misinformation about global climate. At this point, it should be an embarrasment to the Post that it allowed his column to be published...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Torture -- Isn't whether or not it works
I came across this site today in a troll comment on the Huffington Post. It purports to "watch" Olbermann. In reality it's nothing but flypaper for Conservative trolls. I swear they're all the same...
View ArticleNeocon Iraq delusions in their own words
And so it begins... “The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a...
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Self-Doubt, Illusions, Delusions, Disappointments, Depression
© copyright 2007 Betsy L. Angert This is the Twenty-First Century, the Information Age. Wherever we journey people are chatting. They do it online, while in line, and with a Digital Subscriber Line...
View ArticleTen Great Lies That Threaten Western Civilzation
I AM VERY CONCERNED THAT THE KOS COMMUNITY LIKE MANY OTHERS HAS BEEN BRAINWASHED. I AM SINCERLY SOMEONE WHO IS AN OBJECTIVE INDEPENDENT AND WHO HAS AUTHORED A NEW BOOK FOR THOSE WHO ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO...
View ArticleBill Kristol's Fever of Unreality
Never has a political pundit been as consistently wrong in the positions taken and the predictions made as has Bill Kristol over the past seven years.
View ArticlePipe Dreams
"Pipe dream" refers to the pleasant delusions obtained from smoking opium. A pipe dream is a drug-induced fantasy that must, alas, vanish as the addict returns to earth. Today, lucky people, I want...
View ArticleObama Delusions
I've been an active participant here for four years and have been relatively quiet as the quantity of illogic has gradually percolated into a bitter brew. Daily Kos has always been a brutally honest...
View ArticlePost-Ike/Gustav Gulf Energy Shitstorm
After Ike came ashore and failed to kill thousands of people and did not completely obliterate the oil refining capacity of the Houston-Galveston metroplex, the nation seemed to breath a collective...
View ArticleMcCain Preparing the Country for Suspension of Election??
Is it me, or is the McCain campaign putting out their proposal to suspend their campaigning in light of this great national economic emergency in order to get people used to the idea that elections...
View ArticleFailed Conservative Values: Kos Moulitsas on Self-Delusion
Failed Conservative Values: Markos (Kos) Moulitsas on Self-Delusion I interviewed Markos (Kos) Moulitsas, founder of the Dailykos.com and asked him about the failure of conservative values. For him,...
View ArticleWe Really Should Pity Them (please read this, gang)
I'm one of the openly-liberal posters at RedState. It isn't easy. Too many folks bite my head off for no good reason. There are some reasonable and decent folks there (yes, there are) but that place...
View ArticleFun with Republican Delusions
Really Brief here. The esteemed Wall Street Journal has a story today titled:Democrats Risk Losing Hispanics. http://online.wsj.com/... (Subscription) The premise is that if the Democratic party...
View ArticleWingnut Delusions [w/poll]: GOP allowed Inauguration success
A friend sent me today an email quoting some Wall Street Journal letters to the editor writers, who were clearly miffed at Markos for, among other things, characterizing their brand of patriotism as...
View ArticleMore delusions and laughter from Michael Steele
MSNBC reports that RNC chairman Michael Steele is going to make a speech tomorrow to the state party chairmen, in which he will look forward to the future: The era of apologizing for Republican...
View ArticlePreying on Tycoon Fantasies
Whenever someone asks me, usually with a voice filled with frustration, "Why do so many lower-middle class whites vote against their own economic self interests by supporting Republicans?" I have...
View ArticleDunedin Frigatebird & Moorhen Fight
Nature beautiful and dramatic today under the clouds and in the sunshine ... http://www.flickr.com/... The birds are afflicted by all the troubles and sorrows which perpetually afflict humankind....
View ArticleLet us Convince Ourselves That the HCR Senate Bill is Good
Despite all the evidence that show with zero shadow of doubt that the last compromise in the Senate healthcare bill is nothing but utter defeat for the public option and for the progressive demands for...
View ArticleWars or Jobs: Decide Now
Speech at White House, December 12, 2009 Can you imagine the outcries of national shame from liberal commentators if George W. Bush had accepted a peace prize by advocating for war and announcing his...
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