How about a visit to New York? Just don't break any laws. Don't sit on a milk crate, have a frame around your car's license plate, or stop to rest while walking up from the subway.
And here are some thoughts on Bush's tax cuts from somebody who writes better than me. Yay, we're back in the era of trickle-down Reaganomics! Huzzah!
The Supreme Court has ruled that it's perfectly alright to torture innocent people for confessions. Kind of scary, I think.
Howard Dean's Blog isn't Howard Dean's blog, it's just a collection of hype from other people. And it's really boring. I'm dumping it from my links as of the next update. Gary Hart's Blog, on the other hand, is written by Gary Hart, although rarely updated, and has some interesting thoughts, so it stays.
Salam Pax is irritated by some of the e-mail he's been receiving. People are questioning who he is and asking about his parents. He gives away a lot more information about himself in this entry, and it's not what some folks would expect. The above link will only work if blogspot archives are working.
Jim Henley has some strong words on the continuing effects of the war. The death of one US soldier a day in Iraq is getting to him.
Here's the story of the WMDs in the words of our leaders. Makes you just want to spit, doesn't it? Oh, but wait, we're the good guys! Never mind. Here's another take on the same theme.
And I think this particular quote (taken from the comments section of the first link above) is spot on as far as the Bush Administration's lies are concerned:
No-one disagrees that the Saddam regime was brutal and I suspect that I and a lot of other people could have supported military action to remove him and his regime IF THAT WAS WHAT WAS ACTUALLY PROPOSED. That is a valid, and preferred, liberal position but it was NOT the case that the Administration relied on.
All the Administration's justifications were based on the 'imminent threat' that Iraq posed to the U.S., combined with the continual comingling of the words "Iraq", "Al-Qaida" and "terrorist".
So, it looks as though there are now 2 kinds of people:
First, those who knew they were being lied to about WMD's before the invasion and don't believe that the U.S. should start military action based on lies; and
Second, those who believed what they were being told in the lead up to the invasion and, now that the U.S. has "won", are comfortable justifying the action on the basis of an outcome that was never used to gain support for the action.
Joe Betsin
And I'll leave the rest at that. The next few blogs should be all about comic books, blackberries, and baseball, and not much else.
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