Homage to Icarus

Glenn Greenwald is dis­cussing the stun­ning hypocrisy of Republicans, as they decry the viciously par­ti­san Democrats for out­ing a gay Republican  —  osten­si­bly because drag­ging per­sonal sex­ual con­duct into pol­i­tics will drive good peo­ple from gov­er­nance.
Color me cyn­i­cal, but why is this such a shock? This is the same crowd that spent a large chunk of 1992 […]

via Rad Geek:

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If you’re an enemy com­bat­ant, who decides if you ever get a full-blown trial  —  a mil­i­tary com­mis­sion trial as it’s been called?

Fmr. Bush Counsel Yoo
That’s ulti­mately up to the President. I think it’s still up to the President and the Secretary of Defense who’s going to be tried by a mil­i­tary commission.

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The gov­ern­ment will […]

Last Wednesday night, I was call­ing friends to try and do a lit­tle street the­ater down­town Chicago, in the hopes of pro­vid­ing a par­tic­u­larly gritty infomer­cial and gen­er­at­ing pres­sure on the Senate to not pass S.3930 (aka the “Just Confess to Something Act of 2006″). It appears I wasn’t the only one with the same […]

Inspired from from a com­ment on Ezra Klein: A Bit More On Gore, I went look­ing for Sartre, first as a tool in ser­vice of blame, until about three para­graphs in, when it became a tool in ser­vice of knowl­edge. This caught my eye:
Tomorrow, after my death, some men may decide to estab­lish Fascism, and the […]

Good to see more evi­dence that America is now a third-world/developing nation (albeit with toys on credit). Social ser­vices con­tinue on the brink of col­lapse, the gov­ern­ment vio­lates its own laws in the name of “secu­rity from ter­ror­ists,” wealthy cor­po­ra­tions with tight con­nec­tions to the gov­ern­ment get bid-less con­tracts while the coun­try accu­mu­lates ever larger […]