Here’s a good (and calm) summary about what we do and don’t know about the swine flu. We do know that you can’t get it from eating pork.
“Next month in Toronto, Canada, former President George W. Bush will debate former President Bill Clinton. The question of the debate — is it worse to lie to your wife or lie to the entire country?” – Jay Leno “Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, once two of the most powerful men in this country, are […]
I am not making this up! “The Irony of Satire” is the actual name of a study done at Ohio State University on “biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report”. The study compared conservatives and liberals, and how they reacted to Stephen Colbert. Interestingly, both groups thought that Colbert was funny. But […]
“What was it, 101 today? Man, it was hot. People were sweating like Miss California at the gay pride parade.” – Jay Leno “A journalist from Playboy magazine attempted to withstand 15 seconds of waterboarding. And he’s going to write all about it in an article that no one will ever read.” – Craig Ferguson […]
The Republicans are in imminent danger of having another Katrina-disaster, in this case in the form of a swine flu epidemic and its effect on the economy. The swine flu has already killed over 100 people in Mexico and has spread to the US, causing the closing of schools and other public facilities in US […]
Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) seems to be awfully proud of himself. On Friday, he sent out the following twitter: “I seemed to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question – Where does oil come from?”. Barton was referring to Steven Chu, the new US secretary of energy, who appeared in front of the US […]
“Well, as you know, President Obama’s been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can’t seem to be able to reach out to, Texas.” – Jay Leno “Barack Obama was in Venezuela this weekend for the Summit of the Americas, and he shook hands with […]
Here is a direct quote from Newt Gingrich: There is no place for abuse in what must be considered the family of man. There is no place for torture and arbitrary detention. There is no place for forced confessions. There is no place for intolerance of dissent. … The roots of American rule of law […]
“Texas Governor Rick Perry said the state of Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to. Is that what we need, another foreign country on our southern border speaking a language we don’t understand? Come on!” – Jay Leno “Former President Bush wasted no time responding to this. He said, ‘Wow, does that […]
Peggy Noonan on Clinton committing perjury in a civil suit (December 21, 1998): The Democrats had long labeled the impeachment debate a distraction from the urgent business of a great nation. But the Republicans argued that the pursuit of justice is the business of a great nation. In winning this point, they caught the falling flag, producing […]
I keep seeing people debating whether or not torture works, and in particular whether it produces “actionable intelligence”. An example of this is liberal pundits trying to respond to Cheney’s recent assertion that torture produced intelligence that prevented a terrorist attack. You’d think by now we would have seen the Bush administration framing the debate […]
