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Again, an article echoing Lakoff's argument, with which I agree:
Why Conservatives Can't Govern:
If leaders consistently depart in disastrous ways from their underlying political ideology, there comes a point where one has to stop just blaming the leaders and start questioning the ideology.
The…
Our SciBlogging colleague William "Stoat' Connolley had to do come climbing down after a recent post tearing a strip off fellow Brit, enviro-activist and Guardian columnist George Monbiot turned out to be grossly unfair. Most of the fuss was over Connelley's mistaken impression that Monbiot didn't…
No doubt the boy in the bubble thinks heâs done a heckuva job. From here:
Toronto Star: âBush was an unmitigated disaster, failing on the big issues from the invasion of Iraq to global warming, Hurricane Katrina and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.â
Daily Mail: âHe leaves the…
General Colin Powell, the African American former Secretary of State famous for winning the First Gulf War as Chief of the Amy and, later, for being duped by Dick Cheney and George Bush to convince the world that Iraq was harboring illegal weapons of mass destruction, oft considered to be a…
I think that the George W. Bush disaster is guaranteed to be over. We will have to find someone else to blame for everything that we are doing to our fellow Americans, to other countries, and to the planet.
Sometimes The Onion's work is so close to reality that it is scary and hard to separate from satire. Like the Landover Baptist Church and its affiliated sites, it is easy to mistake for a real news site if one doesn't pay close attention.
My worry is that if we have a new McCain presidency, the long national satire nightmare may not be over for another four years or more (depending on who the Veep is.)
In a way, I feel sad for him, with the eyes of the whole world watching his next desastrous move. I mean really, it is humiliating to be remembered in history for doing bad things. Unfortunately, he can't remain unaccountable, and he must suffer the consequences.