Is it just me or is this another case of journalists who don’t know that it’s only news if a Man Bites a Dog? Bush may have smoked pot President Bush indicated in interviews secretly taped by a friend before he became president that he had used marijuana but would not admit it for fear […]

Remarks of the Secretary of State at State Dept. African American History Month Celebration Here’s an excerpt, the whole thing is worth reading. So black Americans, African Americans, have always depended on faith and family and education. In the most hostile times, in the most difficult times, that’s what saw us through. But something else […]

Dogs playing poker paintings fetch $590,000 A pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000 at auction Tuesday. Or you can get a calendar for $11.95. (And the cover picture shown is “A Bold Bluff,” one of the pair that sold for $590,000.) Or pre-order the book Poker Dogs: […]

I ran across this piece called Republican Responsibility by J.D. Crouch from 1994 and was struck by the similarities to the 2004 election… 1994 was not just a simplistic vote for “change”–the word the White House spin doctors have tried to apply to the Democrat’s disaster–but a vote for change in a certain direction. The […]

Marginal Revolution explores a survey on the reasons people gave for attending protests during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Not surprisingly, the attitudes were far more anti-Bush than pro-Kerry, but what is surprising or at least amusing is that wanting to pick up chicks seems to also have been more important than supporting the Democratic […]

In a piece of “news” that I’d file in the “so what” category, Reuters, along with several people in the right wing anti-Saudi blogosphere, is surprised that St. Valentine’s Day isn’t celebrated in Saudi Arabia. Hmmm…if there were a Catholic theocracy, would we expect it to celebrate Ramadan? Apparently these folks at Reuters are so […]