“…I don’t even think Cheney is awake enough to know what’s going on. Rumsfeld is the guy in Washington to watch. He’s running the country. [Cheney is] a sick man you know.He’s got heart disease, but the disease is not restricted to that part of his body. He grunts a lot, so you never really […]

In another sign that the Bush admin has blown it in Afghanistan, support for military operations in that country increasingly has come from — ahem — France. You know, the country we called a bunch of pussies because they didn’t support Bush’s application of the theory of Manifest Destiny in Iraq.
According to the Associated […]

Strike a victory against the inane, “But it’s not fair” whining of a public trained to expect two sides (and only two sides) to every issue. Starbucks, which is printing quotes on its cups to get people thinking, isn’t going for it.
Seattle Times:
A national Christian women’s organization is accusing the Seattle-based coffee maker of promoting […]

Karl Rove is the poster child for political hubris. The Globe profile ends by suggesting he may find his destiny when the special prosecutor in the CIA Leak investigation issues his indictments. We can only hope.
The Boston Globe has a short overview of the career of Karl Rove that is quite telling. What we […]

The fallout continues from hastily passed Florida laws to keep “sex offenders” away from children. The Jessica Lunsford Act, passed after the 9-year-old was kidnapped from her home and killed, requires everyone who could come in contact with children at school campuses to be fingerprinted and background checked by Sept. 1.
Everyone.
South Florida Sun Sentinel:
But […]

Finland’s Agriculture Ministry said on Friday it had found a possible outbreak of bird flu in seagulls in the northern town of Oulu, but probably not the highly pathogenic strain that has caused deaths in Asia.
A ministry official said laboratory tests had identified the virus among “sick and dead seagulls” found in a park in […]

Bonne chance Lucy Jane, Little Queenie, the critters at the Audabon Zoo and all y’all — stay high and dry. J’ai gros couer. A la prochaine!

Iowa Congressman Jim Leach will become the first Republican to sign on as a co-sponsor of a resolution demanding the White House turn over documents related to revelations in the Downing Street Memos, according to the Des Moines Register.
Leach represents a Democratic-leaning district around Iowa City and has often broken ranks his party […]

The Rev. Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist in Kansas, contends that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays.
Is it possible that Fred Phelps could turn out to be the best thing to happen in the gay equality movement since “Queer Eye?”
As strange […]