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Writing by treason on Tuesday, 25 of October , 2005 at 3:24 pm

Bar’s Boy

The most interesting thing about the coverage of Hurricane Wilma was the number of times the name “Jeb Bush” and the word “leadership” were spoken in the same sentence.

Civil Rights or Civil Rudeness?

Rosa Parks has died. Her refusal to give up her seat to a white man got her arrested and sparked a movement. Now, fifty years later, it’s rare for anyone to give up a seat for anyone, anywhere. We’ve come a long way.

Follow the Money

Christopher Hitchens must be smiling to himself. George “The Guttersnipe” Galloway has been implicated in the Oil-for-Food scandal. Lickspittle, indeed.

1996…1998…2000!

The media was Johnny-on-the-spot when tallying the number of dead American soldiers this week. What they haven’t mentioned is that there was recently an election in Iraq and some of us would like to know how it ended up. Could you put down the calculators for five minutes and give us some numbers as they pertain to election results?

Oh, say - can you see?

When did we start telling people to “please rise and remove your caps” before the National Anthem? Wasn’t there a time when we did that automatically?

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Discussion of events both personal and political from Albuquerque, NM

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