It's easy to be critical of the government's response to the BP oil disaster. It's easy even to shrug off the President getting $20 billion for the people of the gulf as too little in the face of the size of the catastrophe. But to turn the focus of the...
0 Comments | Posted June 13, 2005 | 1:34 AM
Last night I had a crazy dream. In it, President Bush publicly bitchslapped Phillip Cooney and other administration officials who had been lying about the dangers of global warming. The President cited the same dozen “doctored, distorted or suppressed” reports to which Robert Kennedy Jr. has referred...
0 Comments | Posted May 26, 2005 | 2:37 AM
David Corn’s blog on 800 conservatives and lobbyists singing “If I had a Hammer” at Tom DeLay’s testimonial dinner reminds me of that great American schoolyard tradition: Opposite Day. A kid declares, “It’s Opposite Day!” and instantly everything is its opposite. Simple. Elegant. Childish. You say,...
0 Comments | Posted June 21, 2010 | 10:20 AM