Month: December 2005

My Little Red Book

cross-posted at the paper tiger It takes a lot to flabbergast me these days. I mean is anyone really shocked by the relevation that the NSA is engaged in domestic surveillance, authorized by the Preznit, without any judicial...

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Bush Surprise Sunday Address

My fellow Americans. As you know, I am president of the United States.   And, of course, you also know by now, I am not very good at it. We are stuck in a war that we cannot win and which will never achieve any of its...

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How they died

In tomorrow’s Sunday edition, the New York Times published the results of their sample of 260 people who died during or shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: More than 100 of them drowned....

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