Why so little uproar over Hagee? Doesn’t the answer have to be about race?
Obama On NASA
Sanity, mercifully.
Googling Goeglein
How one blogger exposed the latest ethical high-point of the Christianists:
Reporting in one minute, writing in one hour, a whole career undone in one day.
Wal-Mart and Compact Disks
A small incipient sign of a pricing revolution?
Where’s The Beef?
David Corn on Clinton, Obama, and double standards on Afghanistan:
It’s true that Obama has convened no meetings of the subcommittee, but his camp counters that he became chair of the subcommittee early last year, just as he was starting his presidential campaign. Clinton is technically correct that Obama could have used the subcommittee to conduct oversight of actions and policies related to Afghanistan. But the full foreign relations committee, under the guidance of Senator Joe Biden, has held several hearings on Afghanistan that covered NATO’s role there. It’s not as if the foreign relations committee did nothing on Afghanistan because Obama did not take on the mission. Also, as happens with many committees, the chair of the full committee reserves the right to handle the big issues him- or herself, and Afghanistan counts as a big issue.
Clinton ought to be careful about hurling stones in this area.
As she always tells campaign crowds, she is a member of the Senate armed services committee. In February the committee held two hearings on Afghanistan. On February 8, it focused on appropriations for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was a witness. Eight days later, the committee zeroed in on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, holding a two-part hearing examining recent reports on Afghanistan. Key witnesses included senior officials from the State Department and the Pentagon responsible for the administration’s Afghanistan policy.
Clinton attended neither of these hearings. She was on the campaign trail.
Prepared For The Worst
One reader looks on the bright side:
There is one good thing: If I have to hear "the comeback kid" applied to her, I won’t be able to eat for weeks and will drop some weight. Otherwise, I can’t think of anything.
One More Day
Obama’s closing ad in Texas:
Faces Of The Day
Local boys play on the beach at Maracas Bay on March 2, 2008 near Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. By Chris Jackson/Getty Images.
Sensitive Scales
They don’t blurt out your weight if you can’t handle the news.
Spanking: A Testimonial
Not sure whether to believe this reader:
I laughed at your spanking post, which I read immediately. I am the child of a man who truly believed in bare-bottom-with-leather-belt whippings as the only proper way to punish a child. (He’s from West Virginia and inherited his beliefs from his father and grandfather, which I had to hear about often.) So it’s safe to say that I had quite a bit of belt while growing up.
Oddly, as a fairly well-adjusted adult (middle-aged) gay man, I now crave the same treatment from my lovers. My current lover is a much older angry black man who truly believes that I was sent to him by God.
Just Sayin’ !!!
