http://1boringoldman.com All Mickey, All the Time Fri, 16 May 2008 03:37:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en President Bush committed political treason today I've seen a lot of sad things in American politics in my lifetime -- the resignation of a president who became a national disgrace after he oversaw a campaign of break-ins and cover-ups, another who circumvented the Constitution to trade arms ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/15/dark-days-2/ Dear 1boringoldman, Last night, I appeared on MSNBC's Verdict with Dan Abrams to discuss Karl Rove's outrageous refusal to appear before Congress regarding serious allegations that ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/15/the-very-fabric-of-our-democracy/ Bush equates talking to terrorists with appeasing Nazis Original posting at 8:28 a.m. ET: President Bush just made some interesting remarks about terrorism, going so far as to describe negotiating with terrorist groups as a "foolish delusion" akin to the appeasement ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/15/what-a-jerk-2/ Misogyny I Won't Miss By Marie Cocco As the Democratic nomination contest slouches toward a close, it's time to take stock of what I will not miss. I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/15/isms/ http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/14/edwards-moves/ Yesterday, I was looking up the military experience of Donald Rumsfeld in Wikipedia, and I ran across these two statements: Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Rumsfeld led the military ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/14/but-the-patient-died/ I've been reading the transcript of John H. Richardson's interview with John Yoo in Esquire. It's long, and frankly pretty confusing. I wrote a long post about Yoo that I just erased. What I concluded was that the biggest force in Yoo's opinions ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/14/2167/ May 8, 2008 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/13/its-true-love-that-i-feel/ If you didn't see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Fieth, watch it here. If you did see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Faith, watch it here [it includes parts that didn't air]. The interview speaks for itself, but there's one point I'd like to make about the interview. ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/13/feith-again-2/ I knew that India was once floating in the ocean and slowly slid into Asia creating the Himilayas, but I had no idea that there was still this much seismic activity in inland Asia [bottom figure]. Earthquakes in China, Cyclones in Burma, Volcanos in Chile, Tornados in Georgia.  The ... http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2008/05/12/the-gods-must-be-angry/