Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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Zainabu Sesay of Sierra Leone is one of the millions of sick and dying that are protected from the wickedness of pain relief, due to world-wide opiophobia resulting from a global war on drugs (or rather, on the people who use and/or need them):

She had breast cancer in a form [...]

Kevin Drum’s suspicion that it’s counterproductive for Republicans to spend all their time denouncing MoveOn’s new ad dovetails with last week’s article on research about how repeated debunkings and rebuttals can end up reinforcing the original beliefs. Which is to say, Kevin’s probably right. Republicans believe that they need to sieze every opportunity to paint [...]

The sad part about the otherwise excellent National Security Network video making the rounds now is the very end, where the heads tell us that the terrible thing about continuing the intervention in Iraq is that it might prevent us from starting a new intervention somewhere else “if something happens.” I’ll feel the country is [...]

By Mona
Tired of that world-weary, draining feeling that no matter what we do it will be the Twelfth of Never before we are out of Iraq, and soon in Iran as well?
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GET FUCKING MAD AND JOIN YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS IN DEMANDING IT STOP! Yeah, petitions may or may not mean much. But if you can’t [...]

Did Hillary Clinton really say that?
That’s – Chewbacca-level gobbledygook. In the crypto-lesbian buddy-cop movie of my naughty dreams starring Joan Allen and Laura Linney, whichever one plays the wiseacre would lay down a line of incomprehensible patter like that just long enough to bamboozle a guard. But neither one would play a US Senator.

I wonder how the Surge is going.