Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
An interesting interview with John Perry Barlow...
by Graham 
...from last year, with all sorts of interesting insights, including how he met the Grateful Dead, reflections on parenthood (he has three stunningly beautiful daughters), polyamory, why he left the cattle ranching business, how he gradually fell out wit… more »
12/23/06 10:27:45 am, The Social Gadlfy
by Graham
...is a web site that I have only just stumbled upon, with some penetrating critiques on a variety of subjects. Authoritarians and theocrats beware...many of The Social Gadfly's opinions may prove somewhat indigestible... more »
Excellent essay by Jay Rosen today at Pressthink
by Graham
...about the subtle but very important difference between the words realism and reality. The latter word became notorious after the 2004 elections when it was recast as part of the phrase "reality-based community" used by many progressive bloggers. Reali… more »
An excellent posting today...
by Graham
...which asks when all of the people who called Iraq invasion opponents "traitors" (and in some cases suggested some very unpleasant actions against the "traitors") are going to apologize.
Some apoloigies would be good...but I'm not holding my breath.… more »
The Iraq Study Group report
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Gleen Greenwald does an excellent job of explaining why this report has little credibility. In summary, the report's main authors are people who supported the Iraq misadventure, and who in many cases have never publicly repudiated that initial support, d… more »
A nice example of homeowner association megalomania and bullying...
by Graham
As a victim of bullying in high school, I know that the only solution when faced with bullying is to face down the bullies and send them packing. Note this part of the story:
Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but membe… more »
VP Cheney's speech to the Federalist Society
by Graham
...is dissected in this blog posting, with a number of explanations of why most of his assertions about the law are unsupportable. more »
A succinct summary of the current mess in Iraq and a mini-rant
by Graham
I am currently on vacation in the UK, which means that I am getting to read the UK print newspapers. While many of the afflictions that the US print media suffer from also appear to have found their way into the UK media (an excessive reliance on tittle-… more »
Sloganeering in politics
by Graham
As a progressive libertarian, one of the more amusing aspects of living in the USA is how I constantly get labelled as a "liberal" by people who have only just met me and (in most cases) have no real understanding of my worldview.
The real underlying f… more »
The Onion does it again....
by Graham
...with a summary of the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld that is somewhat indistinguishable from reality...one of the most surreal aspects of living in the USA in the last 4 years has been to watch the satirical presentation of the news become almost iden… more »