I know this is kind of stupid. But I’m sure the Republicans are already printing up the posters.
Abiogenic Oil Drilling
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It took me a while to get around to commenting on McCain’s plan for reducing oil prices–offshore drilling that might make a tiny dent in a decade or more, probably none at all.
By the way, there are serious articles discussing the possibility of drilling for oil on the moon or on other planets.
Shoot the Gook
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John McCain’s inability to remember his number of residences (or, more accurately, Cindy’s) certainly exposes his inability to relate to ordinary Americans. Of course, the same is true of Obama, though to a less extreme extent.
Text Messages of Love
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Barack Obama’s text message announcement of his vice presidential running mate made an irresistible target for this cartoon.
The Fall of John Edwards
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A sex scandal claims John Edwards, despite the fact that he never campaigned as a “family values” conservative.
The Information Society
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In an information economy where information wants to be free, what’s the future?
Ticking Time Bomb
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The commander of Guantánamo admits that U.S. interrogators now spend more time asking detainees about activity in the concentration camp than, say, actionable intelligence.<
The Newspaper
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I never understood why newspapers run listings and reviews of movies and TV. It’s like, go watch something else! Go away! Now they’re doing the same thing with the Web.
Weird.
Here to Help
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Just when you think Obama was done bending over backwards to please right-wing Republicans–voting for the Iraq War over and over and over, voting for the Afghan War over and over and over, proposing an Afghan surge, voting to gut FISA–he flip-flops on offshore oil drilling, an issue that had been settled decades ago.
As I ask so often…what next?
