From the Washington Post:
“… the assumption that the United States could create a liberal, constitutional democracy in Iraq defies just about everything known by professional students of the topic. Of the more than 40 democracies created since World War II, fewer than 10 can be considered truly “constitutional” — meaning that their domestic order is protected by a…
My last post not withstanding, the U.S. Attorney scandal is not about broken laws. It’s not about the executive branch of government exercising power it does not have. For me, it’s about abuse of power. This is the reason this scandal has an air of Watergate about it.
Conservative bloggers are mostly correct on at least one point: there are no smoking guns. There are no emails, no…
I think the main reason I make a lousy southerner is my pure hatred for fishing. The only worse sin MIGHT be indifference to NASCAR – but auto racing is not my metaphor du jour.
What good reason is there for fishing anyway? You sit there for hours casting a line in the water and reeling it back in – like some kind of failed stimulus-response experiment. Hell, even mice stop pressing…
“Yo, body! What do you make of this time change?”
“Not much; and that’s ‘Mr. Body’ to you.”
“That’s awfully formal for someone you can’t live without. What’s wrong, you can’t handle the time difference? It’s not like you didn’t know it was coming. I’ve been telling you for months it was…
When folks in government talk about our reliance on oil, why does it seem like there’s constant chatter about fuel cells? Why are we waiting on hydrogen fuel cells when we can do something now? Here’s the cynic/realist perspective (you get to choose which one): fuel cells are twenty years from production/wide spread use, and that’s a lot of time to put off tough economic…
For better or worse, right or wrong, there are two institutions I associated with Florida as a growing lad: Publix and Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q. When I moved with my family to Florida in 1979, there were was one developed corner of what is now a major intersection – and on that lonely corner of incadecent and neon lights sat our neighborhood Sonny’s. With my mother’s…
I had this idea this afternoon: I would sit through the State of the Union speech with a pen and note pad, like I was in a lecture hall taking notes in school. Then I would listen to the Democrat response and see if it was really a response at all. Then I would pick both of them apart.
Then I saw that there was a new episode of Rome AND Heroes on the DVR.
I tuned into the speech sometime after…