Ouch

A guy could get the bends from a fall like this:
There’s succession trouble in the Evil Empire. As the emperor ages, the dance to become Darth Vader is stumbling. Yet another candidate has failed, and is out and gone.
The husband of George Steinbrenner’s daughter, groomed for power, is history: There’s a divorce and that’s the [...]

After The Line

As Joe “The Plane! The Plane!” Lieberman tries so pitifully to sell his and Bush-Cheney-Coulter’s war he would do better to drop the just-one-more-for-the-road blatherings made hollow when last heard by those who insisted we could win if we only stayed the course in Vietnam (a war Rambo Joe situationally disliked when there was a [...]

Seasons

I am not so wobbly-kneed about the majesty of the law as the scholars and jurists who are so much wiser. I know enough to not confuse the law with justice, seeing in my own time when the law was so horridly unjust as when it allowed black people to be denied their American rights, [...]

The Fifth

The Fifth Amendment is no mere technicality, no idle bit of legal puffery to make life easier alone for gangsters, crooks and politicians caught in the act. It is a vital piece of our freedoms. It protects Americans from the goverment:
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless [...]

Blowing in the Wind

It is not about politics, as the President, who is all about politics-only, argues. The matter of the so-called Justice Department and the federal prosecutors is a matter of obstruction of justice.
Noun: obstruction of justice 1. Impeding those who seek justice in a court (as by trying to influence or intimidate any juror or witness [...]

Such a Sad Business

When I was young, it was accidents, wrecks and the rare suicide that took my contemporaries, or mangled them. Otherwise we were immortal.
Then there was a long hard season, so beloved of leaders then and now, when it was war that did the deed. Surviving that, we had the strength and bloom of youth to [...]

Down Underwear

I have the same problem!!
Probably you do, too.
Who wouldn’t sympathize with Australian opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s concern with the distraction of women throwing their underwear at her singing partner John Farnham. It is very distracting, take my word for it.
You might think it is only an odd Australian quirk to throw underwear at [...]

The Ever-Moving Buck

The scientists tell us that there’s evidence that chimpanzees have a reasonably sophisticated moral code. Imagine that: Chimpanzees are more evolved than Republicans.
With Bush & Co. (and for all practical purposes, the party of Ann Coulter and Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. indistinguishably includes the stellar anti-Democrat Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman) there is no moral [...]

Don’t Vote, Send Cash

I’ve changed my mind.
In this electronic space a bit back I solemnly pledged and vowed and averred that I would not run for president; I alone among the hundreds of millions would not throw my hat into the gigantic ring.
I lied. Thus qualified as a politician, I now throw my hat exactly into the ring.
Do [...]

UniProbe

This is a busy world. There’s so much else to do. In the name of high efficiency, oughtn’t the government simply create one huge probe of the Bush administration’s crimes, excesses, fatal and homicidal blunders and the like?
Instead of one Congressional panel looking into the sleazy goings on that took the justice out of the [...]