"We Almost Deserve It"
or, What Will It Take For Americans To Wake Up?
Jamie Dimon, the affable grandson of Greek immigrants who runs J.P. Morgan Chase.... |
Labels: History, Recommended Reading
Comments and Commentary from a member of the reality-based community.
or, What Will It Take For Americans To Wake Up?
Jamie Dimon, the affable grandson of Greek immigrants who runs J.P. Morgan Chase.... |
Labels: History, Recommended Reading
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Labels: History, Recommended Reading, Washington Post
Get your Motrin ready, |
Labels: 'Toons, History, Humor, Recommended Reading, Video
In his recent news conference, George Bush Jr. suggested that our nation's "problem" with high gasoline prices was caused by the lack of a national energy policy, and tried to blame it all on Bill Clinton. First, Junior said, "This is a problem that's been a long time in coming. We haven't had an energy policy in this country." |
Labels: CommonDreams, History, hypocrisy, Recommended Reading, Worst President Ever

Labels: 2008 Election, hypocrisy, OpEd News, Opinion, Recommended Reading, WMDs

Labels: History, Humor, Recommended Reading, Video
Welcome to the June 18, 2008 edition of The Carnival of the Liberals, hosted by my blog, Situation Awareness. I think that you'll agree with me that there are some great entries this week.
I have also included, at the bottom of this entry, a Blog Talk Radio player featuring my March 29, 2008 interview of Leo Lincourt, founder of The Carnival of the Liberals.
Enjoy!
- Hans
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Labels: Byline-Hans Meyer, Carnival of the Liberals, Free World Radio Network, Liberal-Progressive, Opinion, Recommended Reading
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Labels: 2008 Election, History, Huffington Post, hypocrisy, Recommended Reading, WMDs, Worst President Ever
A seagull in Marinette, Wisconsin has developed the habit of stealing snack chips from a neighborhood convenience store. The seagull waits until the manager isn't looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos. ![]() |
Labels: Free World Radio Network, Humor, Recommended Reading, Video
May 7, 2008 |
Labels: 2008 Election, History, Recommended Reading, This Modern World, Worst President Ever
If there's a so-called "whitey" tape out there I, for one, would like to see it instead of hearing all of the "I heard from someone who heard from someone who knows someone who has seen it" hype.
Labels: 2008 Election, hypocrisy, Opinion, Recommended Reading

Labels: Humor, Recommended Reading
There are those who erroneously claim that Jimmy Carter was the worst president ever. They cite the economic situation during his administration and the Iranian hostage crisis as proof of their assertion.
An Unnatural Disasterby Michael Hirsh In a month of horrific natural disasters—the China quake, the Burma cyclone—it's instructive to consider what one of the biggest unnatural disasters in memory looks like. That is the decline in America's position in the world from where we were when George W. Bush inherited power on Jan. 20, 2001, to what he will bequeath to the next president eight months from now. |
Labels: 2008 Election, History, hypocrisy, Newsweek, Recommended Reading, Worst President Ever
From our friends at Democratic Underground, and the 336th edition of The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (in this case, #7, George W. Bush):



Labels: 2008 Election, Democratic Underground, History, Humor, Recommended Reading, Worst President Ever
My good friend of over 35 years, Frank Lynch, just appeared on tonight's edition of The Story ("A Voter's Drive") on NPR.
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This continues the discussion from tonight's broadcast of The Political Atlas.
On the right, bloggers accused Obama of offering "false moral equivalence," "blame whitey," and "the politics of grievance." ... One thing is clear: those who predicted that an Obama-John McCain race would lead to a "civil" debate about this country's future (we're looking at you, Andrew Sullivan!) are deluding themselves. If the conservative reaction to the Wright controversy is any indication, an Obama-McCain race would be just as nasty as a Hillary Clinton-McCain race. |
Labels: 2008 Election, hypocrisy, Opinion, Recommended Reading, The Hotline
One of the best I've read:
Alas, I cannot give a more considered response right now as I have to get on the road. But I do want to say that this searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history. |
Labels: 2008 Election, Andrew Sullivan, Recommended Reading
Labels: Interesting, Recommended Reading
Have you ever heard the sound of a French existentialist seagull?
Labels: Humor, Recommended Reading
Why modern-day conservatism makes no sense to meOnce upon a time I was a moderate. I believed in Keynesian economics. I believed in using market forces to help institute desired policy. I believed in empowering people so that they could take charge of their own lives. I believed in incentives in business and personal tax deductions and rebates. I believed that people had a right to privacy. I believed that the government should stay out of people's private lives, but that the government is needed to protect people from not just crime but from abuse through pollution and fraud. I believed in free speech. |
Labels: hypocrisy, Media Girl, Opinion, Recommended Reading

The public understanding of World War II history and its precedents has suffered in recent years from the depredations of revisionist historians -- the David Irvings and David Bowmans of the field who have attempted to recast the meaning of, respectively, the Holocaust and the Japanese American internment. Their reach, however, has been somewhat limited to fringe audiences. |