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The House of Representatives approved a today defining the Iraq War as between a man and a woman.
Congressmen speaking in favor of the resolution argued that it would help preserve the sanctity of killing people.
I’m glad they got this off their chests before the fall elections.
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CEO: Leaving this lavish, so soon, Senator?
Senator: Yes, I need to get back to Washington to address an important .
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On the eve of on an , I adapt the verse appearing on a of the 1900s …
Not Particular
I know you’re not particular to a fault
Though I’m not sure you’ll never be sued for assault
You’re so fond of sex that even a mensch
Attracts your gross fancy despite his man-stench
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From the :
At Saturday’s commencement ceremonies, McCain and Falwell marched side-by-side onto the stage in the university’s basketball arena. After a sometimes raucous faculty processional, in which students and faculty doused one another with aerosol cans of string, Falwell warmly praised his guest, saying, “The ilk of John McCain is very scarce, very small.â€
But did Jerry Falwell actually see John McCain’s ilk?
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An eye-catching item from the May 1, 2006 New Yorker:
In the ongoing South Americanization of political culture north of the border—a drawn-out historical journey whose markers include fiscal recklessness, an accelerating wealth gap between the rich and the rest, corruption masked by populist rhetoric, a frank official embrace of the techniques of “dirty war,†and, by way of initiating the present era, a judicial autogolpe installing a dynastic presidente—what has been dubbed the is one of the feebler effusions.*
South Americanization. It’s a wonderful conceit that will no doubt make the rounds of dinner parties and earnest discussions of the failings of the current junta. Of course we can expect our overly sensitive neighbors to the south to object to this characterization. They’ve not forgotten, like we have, Allende, Arbenz, and the other democratically-elected Latin American leaders we removed from power—all of this before we sank into the depths of our South Americanization.
But what progress this new political culture represents! Before we were South Americanized, “dirty war†was out of the question and we had to resort to killing people like the Vietcong by tidier means. When we enslaved the Africans and interned the Japanese we were no doubt forced to use a purer, more nuanced North American form of state brutality.
But now it’s cojones all out, people. Ay, caramba!
From my vantage point here in the heartland of America, I see, quite frankly, more signs of Disneyfication than of South Americanization. I see field after field of anaesthetized, consumerist sheep only vaguely aware of the nefarious forces that maintain the flow of corporate profits and, by logical extension, our American way of life. The Devil may doff his hat and show us his horns because we’re simply much too sated to care. Baaaaa!
If our country is headed South, it simply doesn’t have far to travel, so let’s enjoy the ride because detrás de nosotros viene the fucking lluvia.
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This item from the :
Greeted by anti-war protesters at almost every stop in a tour of working-class England, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the Bush administration has probably made thousands of “tactical errors†in its handling of the Iraq war.*
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* “Rice Admits Thousands of ‘Tactical Errors’ in Iraq†by Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, March 31.
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The only thing missing is the white Persian cat.
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