http://jb2.writesthis.com jb2! Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:15:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You have to wonder if this is what Cho Seung-Hui was wanting to happen: write some cryptic phrase on his arm and have the whole country obsessing over him and his actions and thoughts for weeks (or longer) after his rampage. So I kind of feel guilty for looking ... http://jb2.writesthis.com/ismael-ax-theories/ The right-wingers are getting all up in arms, shouting LIBERAL MEDIA from their rooftops over this one. They say that the AP reported that four mosques were destroyed in Iraq, when really they just had minor damage. And the Bush supporters out there, desperate to show that no, ... http://jb2.writesthis.com/the-ap-and-destroyed-mosques/ Michael Lind has an article in the Washington Post claiming that George W. Bush is only the fifth-worst President of all time. I don't know if I buy it, though. Lind says that the worst was James Buchanan: In office when Lincoln's election in 1860 triggered the secession of one Southern ... http://jb2.writesthis.com/bush-only-the-fifth-worst-president-of-all-time/ Paul Krugman has an article about electronic voting glitches in this year's midterm elections, and this is a story that I hadn't heard anything about yet. The evidence sounds pretty convincing that the voting software had some serious flaws, and most likely elected the wrong candidate. They did ... http://jb2.writesthis.com/paul-krugman-when-votes-disappear/ Ah, George Dubya Bush. What kind of a person would say that torture is something that needs to be continued, Geneva Conventions be damned? How does Bush sleep at night? Paul Krugman has this take on Bush's reasons in his newest column, "King of Pain": The central drive ... http://jb2.writesthis.com/paul-krugman-king-of-pain/ Isn't it time that somebody in the Bush administration started reading the news and/or Congressional reports once in a while? We know that Bush is a self-declared non-news reader (and seemingly proud of it, like a college student who's just there for the parties). In Frank Rich's newest ... http://jb2.writesthis.com/frank-rich-the-longer-the-war-the-larger-the-lies/ Wow, I think Maureen Dowd pretty much hits the nail on the head about Bush in her latest column, Awake and Scream: Whenever W. does something legally sketchy and morally ambiguous -- from pre-emptive war to spying to torturing -- he claims he's doing it to protect Americans from terrorists. But ... http://jb2.writesthis.com/maureen-dowd-awake-and-scream/