Yoo Morality
Shorter John Yoo testimony: Conyers: Is the president allowed to bury people alive? Yoo: Evade hem haw evade bullshit evade. Conyers: IS THE PRESIDENT ALLOWED TO BURY PEOPLE ALIVE? Yoo: He probably wouldn’t want to do that anyway!
Shorter John Yoo testimony: Conyers: Is the president allowed to bury people alive? Yoo: Evade hem haw evade bullshit evade. Conyers: IS THE PRESIDENT ALLOWED TO BURY PEOPLE ALIVE? Yoo: He probably wouldn’t want to do that anyway!
If there’s any silver lining to the outrageous FISA bill that the Democrats rammed through congress today, it’s this: we now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the government doesn’t give a shit about our privacy. That doesn’t go for everyone in government, of course1, but the don’t-give-a-shit contingent is almost always larger [...]
Congressional democrats are about to cave in again, and this time it’s serious. They’ve apparently come to a “compromise” on the telecom amnesty bill, which gives the telecommunications companies who have been spying on us for the last six years — listening to our calls, reading our emails, monitoring our browsing, all at the government’s [...]
Kevin drum hits the nail on the head: No political ideology lives in isolation. We judge communism by how Mao and Stalin implemented it, we judge 60s-era liberalism by how LBJ and the Democratic Party implemented it, and we judge social democracy by how Western Europe has implemented it. That’s how you judge movements: by [...]
You know how, in the old Road Runner cartoons, Wile E Coyote, in hot pursuit, would routinely careen off the side of a cliff and then spend ten seconds running through thin air before he realized that there was nothing under his feet? And then fall? That’s Hillary Clinton’s campaign, more or less — except [...]
It is impossible to be cynical, even fake-cynical, about Barack Obama. He inspires me like no other public figure ever has.
Fascist! is a word that gets thrown around a lot by abstractly angry people who don’t like what their governments are doing. But sometimes those people don’t really know what “fascist” means. People like me, for example. The word has a viscerally ugly ring to it, and suggests all sorts of nonspecific nastiness, and it’s [...]
One thing that the Bush Administration does very well is lie. We’ve long known, in a sort of mushy intuitive way, that pretty much every single thing they told us on the runup to the war in Iraq was false, but now we have documentary evidence that quantifies the breadth of the deception. A study [...]
If this blighted decade in American political history has taught us nothing else, it’s taught us this: we are governed by a pack of cretinous monomaniacs. This was brought forcefully home to me when I read about the stimulus package that Bush proposed last week, to save us from the recession he’s spent the last [...]
I just saw Christopher Hitchens — author of God Is Not Great — give a pretty amazing answer to a question about why the US is so much less receptive to atheism than Europe: I think it’s hugely exaggerated. Everywhere I go, I find that everyone who comes to the meeting thinks that they’re the [...]
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