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    Albert Einstein

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    soggy crackers

    We may be better than West Virginia or Pennsylvania, but we’ve got racist assholes out here in the Pac NW, too:

    A substitute teacher accused of calling two students of South Asian descent “terrorists” last week in a Camas High School classroom will not work in the Camas district again, officials said on Thursday.

    The school district wrapped up an investigation of veteran [...]



    Egomania and the Near Death of Grace

    Image by jurvetson via Flickr

    Frank Rich of the NYT, in his article about the historic nature of Obama‘s ascendency to the Democratic Party nomination this week, points out that Obama is a new kind of politician in at least one subtle but extremely important way:

    Mrs. Clinton referred to herself by the first-person pronoun 64 times in her speech, and Mr. [...]



    in which i grow gills

    I thought, having presumed that Hillary Clinton would not concede, that nothing in her speech could phase me last night.

    Boy, was I wrong. Bile and white hot disgust threatened to bypass my clamped jaws and erupt out the sides of my neck as Clinton trilled me, me, me with nary a word for Obama’s nomination:

    Now, the question is: Where do we [...]



    Pfleger keeps racial tensions alive.

    Father Pfleger does no service to the black community nor Barack Obama, but drives a further wedge between, and creates greater division among the “races”. I emphasize “races” because, truly, we all descend from common parents (Adam and Eve) and are, therefore, of one bloodline. Father Pfleger’s function in this role is to perpetuate division. Only when we realize that racism itself was/is a [...]



    i’ll believe it when i hear the fat lady warming up her pipes

    When is a concession not a concession? When it’s Hillary Clinton doing the conceding:

    Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation’s first female president. … The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her [...]



    irony is truly dead

    Ships that are understood to have held prisoners include the USS Bataan and USS Peleliu.

    The Bataan? Are you kidding me? Committing war crimes on a ship named for the site of one of the biggest war crimes in the Pacific theater of World War II?

    As Paul Harvey says, here’s the rest of the story:

    The United States is operating “floating prisons” [...]



    just in time for the g.o.p. convention (because, as scotty says, war ain’t nuthin’ but a campaign tactic)

    The George W. Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.

    Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected [...]

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