Month: August 2007

What’s with all the frivolity? Criminy 😉 But do you remember those childhood grossout jokes where you were presented with a choice between an option that was truly disgusting, and another that was merely deadly, and asked...

Let’s engage in some omphaloskepsis, shall we? It’s Friday, many peeps are coming off the YearlyKos wave (not me, I was chained to my desk), and an explosion of kinetic energy has hit blogtopia (yes, skippy coined...

With Markos Moulitsas meeting DLC Chairman Harold Ford, Jr. on this week’s Meet the Press, I thought I’d point how strong the correlation is between membership in the New Democratic Coalition (NDC) and the Blue Dog...

Think About This…… Set the Iraq War aside for a moment, and think. Before 9/11/01: The Bush Administration thought the biggest threat to this country was long-range missiles. At a NATO meeting in June 2001 in...

In a diary yesterday titled Police & Puppeteers: New Mission for US Military in Iraq, I analyzed the August 8th Rand Corporation report, “US Policy Options for Iraq: a Reassessment” commissioned by the USAF....