Boing Boing directed me to this video mixing John McCain with music and singers. Its worth a quick look. It certainly has the best use so far of the “Bomb bomb bomb Iran” soundbite. Video on You Tube Via Boing Boing: Yes We Can — the McCain mix

Wow, all the hoopla surrounding these primaries is really quite astounding. As usual however, the hoopla is reserved only for a grand total of 4 or 5 front running candidates, leaving the rest of the field virtually ignored. For instance, with all this talk of hope and progressive change that gets associated with Barack Obama, […]

As American as… kidnapping? Do you get apple pie along with the sack over your head? A senior lawyer from the US government testified in England that kidnapping of foreign citizens is permissible under American law, as it is sanctioned by the US Supreme Court. And this is not just kidnapping people from Afghanistan, but […]

You know, there’s always been something to this idea of “American exceptionalism” when it comes to things like politics, economics, social freedom and technology. So it should come as no surprise that Americans would be exceptional in another way: religiously. Of course we are talking about that peculiar brand of American Christianity that stands somewhere […]