Archive for the 'Dick Cheney' Category

Clinging to My Martinis and My Constitution and My Antipathy Towards a Government That Doesn’t Represent Me

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

You want to talk about bitter? OK, let’s talk about bitter.

I’m bitter that the news most people watch and the news most people read chooses to report on ill-chosen words of one presidential candidate rather than the disastrous foreign policy views of another (Oh, really, John McCain, Sadr’s “influence has been on the wane for […]

The Neverending Story

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Tonight I attended one of the final installments of Vanderbilt’s Iraq War Series, a screening of No End in Sight. This caps off an intense week of politically-themed viewing. Fortunately, I squeezed in a few episodes of the British version of Creature Comforts, so I’m not just completely depressed.
No End in Sight was a very […]

Bush’s War

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I just finished watching the second installment of Frontline’s two-part series Bush’s War. It was a captivating look inside the personalities of the main players who mapped the path to war and then orchestrated the way it has taken place. Curiously, there was very little discussion of the cost of war, to America, to Iraq, […]

A Comic Look at the Day We Hit 4,000

Monday, March 24th, 2008

By Tom Toles
On Sunday, four US soldiers were killed by an IED in Baghdad, bringing the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq to 4,000. To memorialize the day in which this grim milestone was reached, the Nashville Peace Coalition will gather in front of the Federal Building in Nashville today, Monday, March 24th from […]