Month September 2007

Those wacky Republican presidential campaign advisors

Giuliani advisor Daniel Pipes advocates collective punishment against Palestinians, something which the Geneva Convention labels as a war crime, while a Romney advisor is a Blackwater USA co-chair, something which certainly helps explain Romney’s deep silence on the recent Blackwater…

Message to our cats

While we appreciate that you want to teach us how to hunt, we do ask that you stop bringing chipmunks into the house, dropping them on the floor quite alive, and watching them scamper away. Especially since this is now…

Straight outta cyberspace. The Jena protests

The Jena protests are probably the first real world protests that came almost entirely and spontaneously out of the Internet. White bloggers, myself included, were asleep at the wheel. Black activists mainly from the hip hop community showed us how…

The fruits of polarization

I’ve been thinking about what to say about the nasty, deliberately insulting Moveon.org ad and found Andrew Sullivan just said it for me. Sullivan is a conservative blogger who renounced the neocons a while back and has the scars to…