Can I sue Ann Coulter for libel for calling me a traitor? Okay, barring that, I think someone on the left needs to do a counter-book called Scoundrels. As Samuel Johnson once said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” and I think someone needs to do an in-depth analysis of how the entire right wing — from Dubya and his minions in the legislature, to the right-wing media outlets like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News — have tried to portray liberalism, or, indeed,…
So I’ve got two more weeks of class here (and just one more test to go), and then I get two weeks off. The scariest thing is, my only real plan for my so-called summer vacation is to try to get some of the latest political books from the library to read. I think I’ve now offically gone from having no life to having a life that can only be classified by using negative numbers.
There’s almost something maddening about how I’ll be studying for a test, I’ll get to the point where I can repeat everything off the top of my head, and yet I still keep studying. Maybe I’m just too much of a perfectionist. Maybe it’s just because I’ve got nothing better to do. Or maybe I’m just obsessive-compulsive like that. Tomorrow it will officially be four weeks until the start of fall semester — my last at UT. I’ve had a lot of grad schools I’ve…
New on Backwash: “Rolled Heads”. A very quick politic polemic on the deaths of Oday and Qusay Hussein, and how all the spinning about this being a “turning point” in the US occupation of Iraq is a load of rubbish.
A small piece of the “wisdom” that’s come forth from my lips recently … “Just because I wish for death doesn’t necessarily mean that I believe in death.” And if you think that message was directed towards you … you’re probably right.