Both Bush and Cheney — most recently in tonight’s debate — claim that the mere scheduling of an election is proof of success in Afghanistan and Iraq. As if the day after the election, they’ll suddenly be living in a peaceful, democratic country.
If the mere holding of an election is their barometer of success, well, they really are the champions of low expectations.
When I look at DC’s new paper, The Examiner — free, because who would pay for it? — I get a vision of a scale. The right side, laden with The Examiner and The Times, is scraping the ground; by [more...]
I was reading an entry on gay rights by Wil Wheaton, having been directed there via Thom’s blog, and was amused by this comment on Wheaton’s blog: Dude, I live in San Francisco. I have visited the people in [more...]
An interesting quote from a D.C. citizen in a Washington Post story on our city’s state of siege — roads blocks and checkpoints like the Berlin Wall: Standing outside Union Station and waiting for a Metro [more...]
