Author: Meteor Blades

[promoted by BooMan] In 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson set the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Not coincidentally, it was the same weekend that twenty of us chose to read aloud the list of the American dead in...

[promoted by BooMan] A little later than this time tomorrow evening, George W. Bush – or, as I used to call him before I reacquired my childhood manners, Dubyanocchio – will have 1000 days left to botch, bash and...

To those of us who have been following the Administration’s hard line on Iran, it was a tad surprising that so many folks in wwwLand seemed shocked this past weekend when Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker and Peter Baker,...

[promoted by BooMan] I spent my first nine years in southern Georgia. And if there’s any label that can universally be applied to the South of my youth, it’s “polite.” Oh, I know, some of you think the...

[promoted by BooMan] I’m having difficulty filling the hole Dubyanocchio left in his Iraq speech Monday at George Washington U. The patriotic phraseology that every liberty-loving human being on the planet can’t help...