Readability Results for this website, as analyzed by this website: Summary Value Total sentences 548 Total words 5,664 Average words per Sentence 10.34 Words with 1 Syllable 3,650 Words with 2 Syllables 1,176 Words with 3 Syllables 568 Words with 4 or more Syllables 270 Percentage of word with three or more syllables 14.80% Average Syllables per Word 1.55 Gunning … Read More
Oh, the Irony!
"The time has come that the American people know exactly what their representatives are doing here in Washington. Are they feeding at the public trough, taking lobbyist-paid vacations, getting wined and dined by special-interest groups? Or are they working hard to represent their constituents? The people, the American people, have a right to know. I say the best disinfectant is … Read More
Not Practicing What He Preaches
Then-Gov. George W. Bush as a presidential candidate in 2000: The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price . . . [As President I will] convince them to open up the spigot to increase the supply. President Bush yesterday: I wish I could simply wave a magic wand and lower gas prices tomorrow. Keep … Read More
Practicing What He Preaches
George W. Bush, 4/20/05: If someone doesn’t pay his or her debts the rest of society is left paying for them. Amount added to the federal debt during the George W. Bush presidency: 2.2 trillion
A Link-o-riffic List
Top 10 Reasons Why Bolton Should Not Be Confirmed As U.S. Ambassador To the United Nations: 10. He hates the UN. He’s said that the U.S. should be the only country on the UNSC, that the UN building could be shaved of 10 stories without it making a difference, etc. Check here for direct quotes. 9. He doesn’t believe in … Read More
Somebody’s In Deep Doo-Doo
This RealPlayer media file is nearly an hour long. It is a lecture from a biology class at Berkeley. The real fun begins at timestamp 48:45 or so. That’s where the professor explains the terrifying consequences that will soon befall the student that stole his laptop. Seems like the student (whoever he was) made a gross error in judgment, to … Read More
Dumb DeLay Quote Du Jour
Amazingly, Tom DeLay is going after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Apparently, DeLay is ignorant of the fact that Kennedy was a Reagan appointtee, and while occasionally a "swing vote", he is undisputably right-of-center. But DeLay really steps in the steamy hot Texas cow manure when he says this: “We’ve got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not … Read More
Viva Voinovich!
Credit should be given where credit is due. It is not often when a politician — especially a Republican — especially a House Republican — goes against his party and acts on his conscience. I’m still skeptical about the likelihood that Bolton’s nomination can be stopped, but it sure is nice to see a guy like Voinovich (R-OH) have the … Read More
Anti-Christian Bigotry In The Air Force Academy
I’ll let Josh Marshall tell it: There’s a profoundly disturbing article out tonight from the AP about what appears to be a widespread climate of intolerance and even harassment of non-evangelical Christians at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. ‘Widespread’ is a vague word. And I’m only going on the basis of this one article — and … Read More
Landmark Restaurant Going Bye-Bye
Playbill informs us that the curtain is coming down on the wonderful Howard Johnson’s in Manhattan’s Time Square: Howard Johnson’s, Landmark of Old Times Square, to Shut Down Howard Johnson’s, one of the last functioning remnants of the rough-and tumble, Runyonesque Times Square of yesteryear, will be torn down sometime this year, the New York Post reported April 19. The … Read More
Pope Benny 16
I have absolutely no thoughts on the subject, although that may be rightfully attributed to my fatigue arising from rehearsals for this. Suffice to say this: I’m already sick of right wing pundits trying to make this a victory for conservative moral values, continuing Pope John Paul’s legacy. Need they be reminded that the conservative Ratzinger — at Pope John … Read More
Cold Black Hearts
Yesterday I posted about the sad death of Marla Ruzicka, the California humanitarian who went to Afghanistan and Iraq to help innocent victims (often, orphaned children) of those wars. She was killed in a car bomb explosion in Bagdhad Saturday while en route to visit a young girl orphaned in the Iraqi War. It seems that the right wing blogosphere … Read More
Dobson Christianity
The "influential" Publius has a post about Hugh Hewitt’s defense of James Dobson. In it, Publius invokes the term "Dobson Christianity", distinguishing it from others forms of Christianity. I’m sure this comes as a surprise to many on the religious right, who simply don’t believe in diversity of beliefs even within the Christian faith. To them, you are either a … Read More
If Bin Laden Strikes America Again, Blame Women
Some advocacy pieces are so off-the-chart bizarre that they defy parody or counter-comment. This article qualifies. The thrust? The failure of the Bush Administration to capture bin Laden in Tora Bora when we had the chance had nothing to do with the fact that he diverted troops from Afghanistan so that we could invade Iraq to find non-existent WMDs. Nope, … Read More
This Is Disconcerting
Earth’s gravity may lure deadly asteroid A HUGE asteroid which is on a course to miss the Earth by a whisker in 2029 could go round its orbit again and score a direct hit a few years later. Astronomers have calculated that the 1,000ft-wide asteroid called 2004 MN4 will pass by the Earth at a distance of between 15,000 and … Read More