Category: Politics & World Affairs
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I don’t know about you but I no longer hold out any hope that the Iraqi problem is within our powers to resolve in a peaceful or moral manner. We all feel anxious, angry, betrayed and stressed out . I have not heard any solution from politicians of either party that lays out a realistic…
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Found this funny piece at Truthout.org by Bill Zide via Leiter Reports. It is a pretty accurate description of what conservative politics (aided and abetted by the likes of Bush, Cheney, Rove and DeLay) has become. "Once upon a time there were real "Conservatives." They believed in fiscal and political responsibility. They expounded on the…
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O wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us! ( To A Louse) : Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Tell that to Bush – Cheney Inc. The New York Times reports that the image of the USA around the world is on a downward slide like Bush’s own approval…
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One of the worst experiences of my otherwise wonderful university days was the daily commute from home to college using Delhi’s notorious city buses. (It was common for us to live at home and attend local universities, especially when you lived in big cities like Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai etc where most good schools are located.)…
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Brian Leiter at Leiter Reports has two comical examples of politicians speaking the truth inadvertently. Their self serving platitudes are meant to convey righteous indignation, but the delicious irony is not lost on us. First…., Bush (speaking to a Venezuelan woman in Omaha, NE ): ”I’m a little worried about your country, I’m worried about…
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No shrinking violets – these right wing divas of the Republican Party. Although they admonish the rest of us women to curtail our reproductive rights, to cleave unto our men and busy ourselves with Kinder, Kuche und Kirche, the ‘Belles for Bush" are a fierce bunch in lock step with (and sometimes one step ahead)…
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Ever since the surreal 2000 presidential elections, the world has been reeling under blow after stunning blow from natural and man made disasters. I am not the superstitious type. I don’t believe in the inauspicious confluence of planetary forces or evil demonic powers exercising their destructive will on the routine circadian rythm of life. But…
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Readers may have noticed a paucity of political posts and a preponderance of art and culture related writings on the blog in the last week or so. It is not because I am not thinking of politics. I am – almost all the time. But I am numb, exhausted, bereft and too demoralized to collect…
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From the Danish cartoons to the French riots – it has become increasingly clear to me that Continental Europe is quick to criticize the US on race relations and what Europeans see as a lack of liberal social policies in America. But when it comes to dealing with their own minorities, especially the Muslims, Europeans…
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Paraphrasing Andy Rooney’s eloquent Memorial Day message: Those who lose their sons, daughters, parents or best friend in a war rarely ever set aside a special day or moment to remember their loved ones. The memories of lives cut short can flit in and out of their minds any time, any day … in the…
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The context is a bit old but the some of the information is new because most major news media never reported it. It took a cozy chat between two Grande Dames on the political left – one here in the US and the other from India, to reveal some interesting tid-bits about Bush’s vistit to…
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The May 12 breaking story (later dismissed as blogosphere babble) about the possible indictment of Karl Rove by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is becoming curiouser and curiouser. Here is the latest from truthout.org.
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The US Senate hearings are a platform for our voluble senators to talk endlessly and posture before the American public and C-Span cameras. The exercise often appears to be designed for the senators to showcase their hard hitting questioning abilities, sharp wit, insider knowledge and gift of the gab. The apparent objective is to get…
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Why am I not surprised? I had speculated in a previous post that the nefarious Bush-Cheney adiministration is not above spying on its own citizens under the cover of national security. Now, just in time for the confirmation hearing of Gen. Michael Hayden — Bush’s choice to take over leadership of the CIA, USA Today…
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