There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor in heavens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true.
— Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-executed 1927) Italian-American fish peddler, anarchist; found on a prison tablet after his execution

What is Bush on?
In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Mr Bush said former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible to unite the country.
Bush: “Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”
“I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s Mandela?’,” he said.
“Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”
The bizarre gaffe [...]

HBO has chosen Jacksonville for the main location of its big screen feature, “Recount,” based on the 2000 presidential election and rumored to be staring Kevin Spacey and William Hurt.
Droves of local amateurs answered the call for extras.
“I’m not sure, but I think they cast me as a Democrat. Honestly, I’d rather be Green [...]

That cheer you hear is Florida Democrats receiving some good news. At long last, state party leaders are showing signs of intelligent life. They are announcing today that they will tell the DNC they are not coming up with work-arounds for the national leaders’ sanction of Florida’s Jan. 29 presidential preference primary.
Instead of spending [...]

Billo’s narrative about a recent trip to Harlem offers keen insight into the rightwing’s inner monologue on race:
You know, I was up in Harlem a few weeks ago, and I actually had dinner with Al Sharpton, who is a very, very interesting guy. And he comes on The Factor a lot, and then I treated [...]

The Republican mayor of San Diego — the last remaining large city in California with a conservative base — changed his position on gay marriage last week:
“In the end, I couldn’t look any of them in the face and tell them that their relationships, their very lives, were any less meaningful than the marriage I [...]

Surrender Does Not Work. Just Ask Pres. Kerry
If you think Democrats in Washington are on high alert and in rapid-response mode, readied for the inevitable barrage of Republican Swiftboat attacks, think again. The sad fact is the GOP successfully deployed just such a campaign this month right under their noses, and the Dems fell for [...]

If there were more extremists in evolutionary periods, there would be no revolutionary periods.
— Benjamin R. Tucker (1854-1939) American philosophical anarchist

It seems the Florida Democratic Party just gets patheticker and patheticker. According to the Politico, state Chair Karen Thurman, in an effort to make the party’s October state convention at least marginally meaningful compared with its totally meaningless January primary, wrote to the four early-primary states to ask them to permit the Dem prez candidates [...]

The prestige of an M.I.T. degree just took a dive.
An MIT student wearing what turned out to be a fake bomb was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport and later claimed it was artwork, officials said.
Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat [...]