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Archive for August 31st, 2009

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Bona Fides

May I state that I personally will not be happy until everything in the country – every road, building and airport, every bridge and dog park – is named after The Troops? Or, failing that, Ronald Reagan. You may think that we already live in a country where everything is “Veterans Memorial” This or “American [...]

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Paging Kevin Carson

By Thoreau
Big company has safety problems.  Big company lobbies for safety  regulations.  Regulations are passed.  Company then gets special permission to do safety testing in-house while smaller competitors have to hire independent labs to do it.  This just proves that we need more regulations and more of the right people in charge.
In other news, dog [...]

Monday, August 31st, 2009

John Q. Adams was the original mistake

By Thoreau
In analyzing the hiring of Jenna Bush by NBC, Greenwald also explains why I refuse to say anything nice about Ted Kennedy.  I mean, whether you think he was a great Senator or a bad Senator or whatever, surely in all of Massachusetts there must be some other liberal politician who could have done [...]