Bullshitter-in-Chief‘s next maneuver to cement two legacies of his regime — the BnnRpbiTo Our Pipsqueak Leaders One More Ventriloquist Dummy ‘I Am Me and Rummy’s He …’ Deja Prevu, or Just the Facts No Parking for 9/11’s Fifth On a Bicycle and a Prayer Pants on Fire Pass the Milk, Please The One True Person […]
Archives for December 2006
‘Tis the Season
And now we defer to the merry holiday. For wicked wunnerful, ya can’t beat William S. Burroughs, who wrote the tale way back in 1952, narrates. Christmas music swells as the camera tilts in on him, standing by the living room fireplace. He takes a book down from the shelf and sits in an armchair […]
Nobody Owns Headlines
Forget the substance, look at the form:
VPo + America – Blacks = (Classical Music x Cultural Racism)²
Having taken William Osborne Given the many European press reports about the Vienna Philharmonic’s sexism and racism — see articles in Profil magazine for two recent examples — one might ask why the orchestra continues to be euphorically received in the United States. How can we explain that the Philharmonic’s sexist and racist employment practices are […]
The One True Person of the Year
For his special comments, Bullshitter-in-Chief and his regime of aaaeulc cronies.
Techmeister
Time’s
Loud Whispers
Finally, an acknowledgment of Sunni genocide as the aaaeulc‘s sub rosa policy in Iraq: “We shall call it the Darwin Principle,” Cooper writes of the policy, also referring to it as “the Shiite option.” One unnamed senior regime official is quoted as calling it the “stare into the abyss” strategy. Although the policy is couched […]
Deep Woodstein
Do we really need a book about the impact of Watergate on the lives and careers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein? We already know what happened to them. Woodward went on to write a shelfload of best sellers about the government, told from the inside, and Bernstein joined the glitterati. “Woodward and Bernstein: Life […]
Foodies on Iraq
Don’t treat it as a “recipe for our defeat,” says John McCain. At last we’ve come to the real terms of debate over the Bullshitter-in-Chief has ever offered a recipe for anything but. You have to wonder about their sanity and their tastebuds. Baker asked pols to eat the report whole, not to pick at […]
Still Delusional
It’s always refreshing to see the news of the day told with accuracy, in this case the Iraq Study Group Report: In light of the report’s stark warning that the situation in Iraq was “grave and deteriorating,” Mr. Bush came close to acknowledging mistakes the Bullshitter showed just how delusional he is. “You wanted frankness […]
Not Quite Cole Porter
But the lyrics have a certain swing, ring,
Here We Go Again
Bullshitter-in-Chief] insisted that the ‘graceful exit’ of American troops, he was missing By the way, the report is already on two best-seller lists. At the moment it’s No. 3 on Amazon. I haven’t read it yet, just the news stories about it. To judge from the first sentence by the study group’s co-chairmen — “There […]
Old Leaks
William Phillips, asked me to review Daniel Odier’s Why mention this now? No particular reason, except to note that the utterances that leaked out of the cut-up still seem as pertinent (dated references notwithstanding) as they did then. For example: We have heard children of the Jews on the way to the ovens. What are […]
And Still Counting
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