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HILE I INTEND To avoid political blogging for Lent as per usual, I have to note that live blogging White House Meetings is a far cry from “the Vice President is Hidden in His Evil Lair and you can’t see him, ever“. Transparency, maybe, cheer-leading, certainly, pre-written script (post), probably, information overload too. But very [...]

ELIGION Dispatches walk us into the deeper meaning of the shoe incident. Yes: hitting someone with your shoes is a bad thing in any culture. But it’s important to understand what shoes mean in a culture where you take your shoes off at the boundary of holiness. “If Iraqi people come at you with shoes, [...]

O LAST Night at the Housing Co-Op we had our weekly pot luck. For afters we had some tasty homemade cakes frosted in a way that many will recognise: I took the cake and cut the first slice. As I passed it to my right I said, “This is my Obama, given for you.” No [...]

For America – by Jackson Browne As if I really didn’t understand That I was just another part of thir plan I went off looking for the promise Believing in the Motherland And from the comfort of a dreamer’s bed And the safety of my own head I went out speaking of the future While [...]

Which Dain Brammaged, megalomaniacal vigilante said it? The ever-wise Secret Pants sketch comedy troupe explore the options:

Increasingly, I get the sense that we (average Americans) know nothing about this war other than what we are told – and the Gov’t is using that to their own advantage. I have no idea if Raed is more or less biased than, eg, Fox News. But I know that more – not less – [...]