One of the more despicable things about the Bush Administration, the most disastrous in modern history, is that they’re all still so proud of themselves, against all evidence. While the two losing wars they’ve left behind continue to drag us into bankruptcy, impotence, and disrepute, count on ol’ Dick Cheney or one of his hell-spawn [...]
In every major remodeling project there’s inevitably a long, messy period where progress fails to register as the knotty infrastructure goes in, and the scale of the project still seems to be growing, but all that changes when paint finally hits the walls, and the finish materials long ago selected are suddenly brought in, to [...]
As we approach another Thanksgiving here at CHNN, I was feeling pretty cheated on my list of things to be thankful for. Both wars still rage, with more offered up every few months, Obama has continued to be a horrible disappointment on civil liberties, the economy, and on and on, and the Republican party has [...]
Over the weekend I accidentally got into a rather bitter argument with a righty; she seemed normal enough at first, but I found after a very short time that I couldn’t put up with her, because there is simply no getting through to such people, nor is there any way to politely skirt politics with [...]
The Oregonian has an odd policy about running letters, or rather, not so odd, unfortunately. Like many other withering daily newspapers, it tries to hold onto its old and addled but nonetheless loyal readers at the expense of publishing, daily, such complete nonsense that other readers must find pretty discrediting to the paper, not to [...]
Ted Koppel, one of the last eminences of the old broadcast news era, weighed in some days ago on the never-ending debate about how things just aren’t as august as they used to be (whenever that was) when it comes to informing the American people (instead of just yelling at them). Koppel targeted Fox News [...]
Until I saw this clip today I was in a pretty bad mood, and not just about politics. The rain is coming down sideways, and temperatures will be in the thirties by tonight, which has already started and it’s not yet 4:30. But no bad weather and/or serial capitulations by Democrats can spoil my [...]
It seems like such a long time ago, when Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, performing in England, told an audience that she was “embarrassed that the President of the United States is from Texas.” As an Oregonian I personally was less embarrassed, but I’d been routinely apologizing to foreign friends about Bush for years; [...]
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Perusing the Shock Doctrine proposals of the Cat Food Commission, I have to say I’m not surprised, but I do question their rather unseemly honesty. That’s not the way these people usually operate. Throwing caution to the four winds, they start right out by saying that reducing taxes is much more important than cutting the [...]