The Bushies are free to pursue their policies -- that is, their politics -- unclouded by remorse, anguish, second thoughts, private doubt, or relevant personal experience.
I'm trying to take President Bush seriously. I'm trying to resist the idea that everything he says is a lie, or a delusion; I'm trying to imagine that he actually thinks what he says.
This front page New York Times story makes you wonder what it would be like if the mainstream media voluntarily agreed to its own set of principles, accompanied by corresponding badges of approval.
Imagine if the same kind of blanket coverage that's currently conferred on loopy astronauts, bratty rehaboholics, and, yes, outrageously slandered basketball teams, were afforded instead to the silent coup now underway in America.
I don't know whether there's room in my noggin, or in our collective consciousness, for the indiscriminate mix of crap and content we are continually served.
Dick Cheney calls the Democrats "cynical," on the same day that Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman's brother provide the textbook example of actual cynicism.
