Month: December 2006

Before they called it AIDS…

Promoted by Chris with no edits. In my memory, all the Reagan years have a taint — a texture almost –of cruelty.  I particularly hate 1982.  In 1982, Nancy hadn’t just said “no” yet, and...

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believe in

They believe in nothing; there is no core; they are blank.  Perhaps, one might argue, they believe in one thing: their own supremacy.  But that in itself is the nothingness that contains the emptiness. Using this...

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Pull the Plug

David Sanger tells it like it is: In the cacophony of competing plans about how to deal with Iraq, one reality now appears clear: despite the Democrats’ victory this month in an election viewed as a referendum on the war, the...

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Open Thread

New Rule: can we make a new rule that no one invades another country ever again unless like 89% of the people agree it’s a good idea? Just saying, if half the people think it’s a bad idea before you drop bomb one,...

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