Politics

16 Sep 2008 1100H

Oh no you di’n't

By way of the LA Times Blogs’ Countdown to Crawford:
Now comes Dick Armey, once House Majority Leader, who described a classified one-on-one briefing in the vice president’s hideaway office in the U.S. Capitol where he says Vice President Dick Cheney went beyond that into outright deception.
Yet why do I feel he is only slightly [...]

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12 Sep 2008 1045H

What is the Bush Doctrine anyway?

Yeah, it didn’t help that Mrs Palin didn’t know what Charlie Gibson was talking about, suppose you could call it a kind of casting of pearls before swine, really . . . but as it turns out, according to the WaPo, there are multiple versions of the Bush Doctrine, so who can blame her for [...]

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04 Sep 2008 0553H

Palin in comparison

Since the Mrs and I were passed out last night, I’m depending on a transcript and the Economist’s Democracy in America blog to relive it:
10:15: If “drill baby drill” is the new GOP chant, this is going to be a really awkward convention. RNC also similar to porn in that it really shouldn’t be [...]

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01 Sep 2008 0716H

By the by

Kudos to Chicago NPR’s Ben Calhoun for a fantastic story about the Illinois Dems group-hug last week at the DNC. Love fest, cynics might call it politics by other means, whatever. Great story.

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29 Aug 2008 1441H

Not his best talk

I’m with the Economist when they said last night, liveblogging the talk:
10:55: This is obviously the big final build, but something’s off in his rhythm; it’s not got quite the punch it could.
But the proof of the pudding is in the eatin’. So let’s close the deal and see what the Obama administration brings to [...]

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13 Aug 2008 1005H

Send in the Ghosts

Not kidding. Didn’t we do this scenario in Ghost Recon all the way back in ‘01?

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07 Aug 2008 2112H

Chicago ain’t ready for reform?

Can’t say I’m surprised, politically motivated hiring still happens all the time. You think this stuff doesn’t matter to you? It costs you, Chicagoans and Cook County residents. That’s the kind of so-called “affirmative action” we don’t need, because if people are hired on the basis of patronage, and are not the most qualified staff, [...]

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24 Jun 2008 1849H

A lack of imagination

This is very sad, because I now want to see this exhibit. It sounds like a really interesting exploration about terrain, about imagining ourselves, imagining the place we live in, about the stories we tell ourselves and others about faith, nationhood, home, exile, origins, legacies, myths and realities.
It is sad because to even discuss [...]

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29 May 2008 2200H

The irony is

practically no one in Chicago, not the Mayor, not City Council, cares or listens to what happens on the South Side, where there are few if any jobs and services, no groceries, no shopping malls, no corporate parks, there is a dearth of everything, including hope and justice. But no dearth of fiery voices blazing [...]

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28 May 2008 2117H

Is it just me or

does Scott McClellan come off slightly disingenuously as he accuses the administration of this that and the other? Rather odd, and late at that. Is he maneuvering in case of impending subpoenas, indictments, so on? What did he know, when did he know it, that sort of thing? Although I must say the one nice [...]

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