Sep 14 2008
Back in 1988 when George Bush chose his running mate, I remember someone saying to me, “You know, of all the people of our generation that could could rise to be the cream of the crop, who’d have thought it would be Dan Quayle?”
Oh, how quaint. And now, twenty years later, as John McCain makes his [...]
Sep 09 2008
Juan Cole has a very interesting comparison of Islamic fundamentalists and Sarah Palin in today’s salon.com. The difference between Muslim fundamentalists and Sarah Palin? Lipstick and not much more. Check it out …
Sep 01 2008
The news is now filtering out that Sarah Palin’s 17 year-old daughter is pregnant. At the outset, let me say that I have a great deal of empathy for Bristol Palin, the father of the unborn child and his family. It is by anyone’s measure a less than ideal situation and my prayers go out to those involved.
Having said that, [...]
