The Clockwork Chartophylax

If you’ve been looking at the American news (or the Selected Bloggenings sidebar there on the left) at all over the last few days, you can’t have missed the article in GQ about the Bible quotes that then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld had plastered on (the fantastically ugly) intelligence briefings destined for the desk [...]

Posted on May 20th, 2009 under america, atheism, politics, religion. Tags: atheism, bible, bush, religion, rumsfeld. Comments: 2

Some of the Webby storm wrack that has fetched up on my shores:
Nicholas Kristoff in the NYT:
Mr. Obama understandably wants to focus on economic recovery rather than a dissection of the past. Why fritter political capital on an inquest that would antagonize Republicans and imperil our economy and his agenda?
But as George Santayana, the eminent [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2009 under Britain, Crazy, america, atheism, cooool!, economics, politics, religion, science. Tags: america, attenborough, bush, christians, Crazy, crimes, economy, evolution, fred phelps, golddiggers, gulag, immortal, jellyfish, megele, milan kundera, mormon, politics, recession, science, twins, various items. Comments: None

Literally speaking a thousand words.
Credit: Brennan Linsley/AP, via The Guardian.

Posted on January 21st, 2009 under america, photos, politics. Tags: america, bush, guantanamo, obama, photo. Comments: None

Genius:
George Bush Junior will be remembered for many things, for a very long time. But the witless clown who jacked off at his pretend ranch in Crawford while freaked-out FBI agents were frantically begging for White House help in stopping an organized plot unveiling itself within the United States for foreign hijackers to crash passenger [...]

Posted on December 6th, 2008 under Strangeness, america, humour, politics, wtf?. Tags: bush, don't look, warren ellis, wonkette. Comments: None