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Why I want John McCain to wreck the country

I’m monitoring Barack Obama not by listening to anything he or Joe Biden says, but by tracking the sputtering heads bobbing in his wake. I’m no longer reading blogs that appear to be taking either man or the Democratic party seriously, so when I run across something like Digby’s lament of Joe Biden’s elegiac . . . → Read More: Why I want John McCain to wreck the country

Hanged by the neck until dead: Bugliosi’s plans for George W. Bush

True to his prosecutorial roots, Vincent Bugliosi gave a concise summation on Thursday of his case against George W. Bush. Bush, says Bugliosi in his new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, is responsible for the death of each US soldier killed in Iraq because he lied to Congress and the . . . → Read More: Hanged by the neck until dead: Bugliosi’s plans for George W. Bush

Mood music: what to hear when writing about politics, Part I

You don’t try very hard to please me; with what you know it should be easy … this could be the last time, this could be the last time, may be the last time, I don’t know …

If I had an audience large enough, I’d make “The Last Time”, a pre-punk Rolling Stones . . . → Read More: Mood music: what to hear when writing about politics, Part I