The Casual Asides Archives

Writings, etc. mostly since May 2003...

About Me

Open Letter to Colin Powell
Full Circle
Happy Anniversary To Me
Virgil Fox, Meet Andy Warhol
Televangelist Marketing
See Me Live, Read Me Infrequently
Your U. S. Currency Is Not Microwave Safe For Democracy
Update re: Heeb Storytelling! Venue Change in Washington DC
Those Irrepresible Jehovah's Witnesses
It never ends...
Trampled by Ever-Quickening Media Cycles
Two-for-one Subway Story
If I Were A Rich Man...
Interesting Thing About Blogs
Behind the Scenes at Heeb Magazine
What's In A Name?
One-Liner of the Day
The Where Were We Now File
Process and Product
I Click Around
Inflammable Fiction
Swinging My Fist at the Vast Emptiness
The Phlegmatic Pragmatic
Heisenberg to the Moon
Election Day Confessional
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Part II
Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Part III
Sell-Out
Long Time No See
The Internot
Goodbye, Old Friend, Rest in Peace.
Tune In, Drop Out, Get With The Program
Hurricane Katrina Wipes Out the Whiteboard
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Why Doc, Why
Brief note about Abramoff
Taking Pleasure in Business
Salvage, With Productive Alternatives
Pies, or Jackboots?
Not Dead, Just Vacationing
Casual Second Birthday
Penguin Island
An Omnibus Responsa, Ceteris Paribus
Do As We Say, Not As We Do. Or Die.
Poll w/Optional Computer Literacy Test
It's My Birthday, I Can Post If I Want To
Kill Your Idols
The Mother of All War Protests
Housecleaning, or Making the Best of a Bad Situation
Letters, We Get Letters.
The Evolution of Casual Asides
While We're Twiddling Our Thumbs
Hello, Seekers
In Media Res
Healthy Skepticism
An Unpublished Hermit's Letters, Vol. 4
Start The Selective Outrage Machine
Barbarians at the Logic Gates
Gender Divides
Four More Years
Ask the Cop in The Woodpile
Fall Behind
Why I Am A Pacifist
Any Minute Now, Amos 'n' Andy Broadcasts Will Reach Planet X!
Knock On Wood

Afghanistan

Zinni, Flypaper, and Iraq is the New Afghanistan
Past and Present...
Defining Down Human Rights, or the Future of the Geneva Convention
Uncle Sam's Dirty Bombshell
By Jingo/We Have Got/The Gatling Gun/And They Have Not
The Best Defense is the Best Defense
The Most Relevant Reality TV Show Ever
Justice and Freedom, or Vengeance and Imperialism?
Do As We Say, Not As We Do. Or Die.
The Ends-Means Problem in Chart Form
He Should Give It Again, Maybe Next Time In Blackface
Forsake All Hope, Those Who Enter Into Iraq Debates
Don't Let That Giant Wooden Horse Into The... Sigh.
Start The Selective Outrage Machine
Why I Am A Pacifist

Atheism

We Pledge Conspiegence to the United States of Hysteria
National Day of Prayer and Fasting?
Newdow vs. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Are a Bunch of Fucking Pussies
A Short Debate About School Prayer
The Angry White Men
It's My Birthday, I Can Post If I Want To
The Evolution of Casual Asides
In Media Res
I Don't Believe In Bullshit

Casual Insides

My New Blog
Must Everything Be Commodified? Apparently.
My T-Shirt Store is Working!
Coming Soon: More Stuff.
Technical Problems With a Side of Complaining About Them
Hang On, Sloopy
I Have Bigger Blocks At Home
New Look, If You Hadn't Noticed
I Click Around

Comix

Messrs. Bush and Pitt hold a press conference
An HTML/Text-only Political Cartoon

Dada Manifestoes

WE HAVE HIJACKED THIS LOVE LETTER STOP (Dada Manifesto) 12/98
Dada for Fun, Not Profit

Film

Vincent Gallo Crushes My Dreams of Fame and Fortune Without Even Trying
The Passion... Christ!
McLuhan Wins Again
Inflammable Fiction

Funny Ha-Ha

Messrs. Bush and Pitt hold a press conference
WE HAVE HIJACKED THIS LOVE LETTER STOP (Dada Manifesto) 12/98
Finally, Something For Both the GOP and White Liberals
Franken-O'Reilly, tee hee!
Vincent Gallo Crushes My Dreams of Fame and Fortune Without Even Trying
Open Letter to Colin Powell
Spring Cleaning, or What I Do at Work All Day
We All Knew This Was Going to Happen
Thoughts on the California Gubernatorial Race
Dada for Fun, Not Profit
An HTML/Text-only Political Cartoon
How the Internet Oracle Helps Me Get Over Writer's Block
The Weekly World News Scoops Reality-Based Newspapers Again!
R.I.P., Zombie Reagan!
If I Were A Rich Man...
Behind the Scenes at Heeb Magazine
Morning Conversational Snippet
Lingering Questions, Part I
The Most Relevant Reality TV Show Ever
He Should Give It Again, Maybe Next Time In Blackface
Barbarians at the Logic Gates
Everyone But Thee And Me
Fall Behind
The Rotting Corpse of King Croesus

Gossip

Could It Be the World's Shortest Celebrity Marriage?
Brief Moment of Vapid Celebrity Gossip

Iraq

Iraq: the Ideal Conservative Country
Saddam Captured, Now What?
Zinni, Flypaper, and Iraq is the New Afghanistan
Right Idea, Wrong Way To Do It
Everybody Wants A Piece of the Action
Why Am I Suddenly Agreeing with the Republican Party?
The Worst-Case Scenario: The Bush White House is Telling the Truth About Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The Weekly World News Scoops Reality-Based Newspapers Again!
High Tide in the Backwaters
Defining Down Human Rights, or the Future of the Geneva Convention
The Limits of U.S. Power
George and the Argonauts
Uncle Sam's Dirty Bombshell
We Broke It, We Blew It
By Jingo/We Have Got/The Gatling Gun/And They Have Not
Killing Them With Kindness
Everything is Debatable
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Beat 'Em Harder
The Best Defense is the Best Defense
The Real Question Neither Candidate Can Truthfully Answer
Inaugurate This
Not Psychic, Just Well-Read
Overstatement of the Union
Why Shoot The Messenger
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Poisoning the Well
...And Proliferation Became the Word of the Day
May I Suggest a Really Historic Compromise?
Penalties for Early Withdrawal
I've Called a Tune To Many a Torture Session/Now They Say I am a War Criminal
Focusing on Blurry Distinctions
The Most Relevant Reality TV Show Ever
An Omnibus Responsa, Ceteris Paribus
Justice and Freedom, or Vengeance and Imperialism?
Let Me Tell You The Story of the Narrative Ontology
What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
Do As We Say, Not As We Do. Or Die.
The Ends-Means Problem in Chart Form
Embargoes and the Limits of Government Market Controls
Kill Your Idols
The Mother of All War Protests
The Tortured Logic of Torture Apologists
He Should Give It Again, Maybe Next Time In Blackface
Open Source the Government
I'll Really Give You Something To Cry About
While We're Twiddling Our Thumbs
Hello, Seekers
Iran's Not So Far Away
Weekend Sampler
Being Objective About Objectives
Offers We Should All Refuse
Forsake All Hope, Those Who Enter Into Iraq Debates
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
Don't Let That Giant Wooden Horse Into The... Sigh.
Dashing The Troops Against Iraq With Surging Tides
The Way To Win At Gambling Is To Leave When You're Ahead
When You Hit 18, Stick to Civilian Life
An Unpublished Hermit's Letters, Vol. 4
Ultimately, The Buck Stops Nowhere
Start The Selective Outrage Machine
If The Hoods Don't Get You, The Monoxide Will
Four More Years
Cannon Fodder
Change A Light Bulb, Save Darfur
They've Plucked, They've Sown, They've Hollowed Him In
A Rose By Any Other Name
Everyone But Thee And Me
The World Would Swing, If I Were King
Fall Behind
Why I Am A Pacifist
Driving Like Jehu

Media

Where Have I Seen You Before?
Franken-O'Reilly, tee hee!
Vincent Gallo Crushes My Dreams of Fame and Fortune Without Even Trying
Fractal Patterns in the Hermeneutic Circle
Trampled by Ever-Quickening Media Cycles
Behind the Scenes at Heeb Magazine
McLuhan Wins Again
Inflammable Fiction
Round The Corner And Flog Those Horses
Why Shoot The Messenger
Why Doc, Why
Terry Schiavo, Unconscious Political Football
Remainders, et cetera.
Incredible Values
The Most Relevant Reality TV Show Ever
Penguin Island
Let Me Tell You The Story of the Narrative Ontology
Letters, We Get Letters.
Dashing The Troops Against Iraq With Surging Tides

Music

Where Have I Seen You Before?
Virgil Fox, Meet Andy Warhol

Politics

Messrs. Bush and Pitt hold a press conference
We Pledge Conspiegence to the United States of Hysteria
Complexity Defies Headlines in Montgomery
Finally, Something For Both the GOP and White Liberals
Franken-O'Reilly, tee hee!
Iraq: the Ideal Conservative Country
Open Letter to Colin Powell
Full Circle
No Recession/No Jobs
Thoughts on the California Gubernatorial Race
Saddam Captured, Now What?
Zinni, Flypaper, and Iraq is the New Afghanistan
Right Idea, Wrong Way To Do It
Everybody Wants A Piece of the Action
Why Am I Suddenly Agreeing with the Republican Party?
The Worst-Case Scenario: The Bush White House is Telling the Truth About Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Small Gripe about Larger Issue
National Day of Prayer and Fasting?
A Few Thoughts About Howard Dean
The Brooklyn Nets, or Ratner vs. Prospect Heights
Singer's "The President of Good and Evil"
The Nature of the Gay Marriage Debate
Newdow vs. Supreme Court
What Comes After the Nation-State?
An HTML/Text-only Political Cartoon
The Weekly World News Scoops Reality-Based Newspapers Again!
There's a Draft in Here, Close the Western Front
Past and Present...
High Tide in the Backwaters
Defining Down Human Rights, or the Future of the Geneva Convention
R.I.P., Zombie Reagan!
The Supreme Court Are a Bunch of Fucking Pussies
A Short Debate About School Prayer
Best Website Name Ever and Some Other Links
The Limits of U.S. Power
The Efficacy of Torture and the Pesky Ends-Means Problem
Taking the Long View of the War on Terror
UnConventional Wisdom
Very Small Public Service
Some People Approve of Racial Profiling and I Hate People Like That!
One Last Point re: Profiling
George and the Argonauts
Fighting The War on Terror... Or The War On Kerry?
Addendum About White House Leaks
The Final Word on Kerry and the 527s.
Republicans Love Lawyers, Republicans Hate Lawyers
Uncle Sam's Dirty Bombshell
We Broke It, We Blew It
By Jingo/We Have Got/The Gatling Gun/And They Have Not
Killing Them With Kindness
Everything is Debatable
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Beat 'Em Harder
I Click Around
The Best Defense is the Best Defense
Inflammable Fiction
The Real Question Neither Candidate Can Truthfully Answer
Casual Debate Notes
Morning Conversational Snippet
Republican Sex Scandal Sampler
Swinging My Fist at the Vast Emptiness
Rehnquist's Thyroid Surgery--the First Sign of the Apocalypse?
Bush Comes Out for Civil Unions?
Round The Corner And Flog Those Horses
Anybody, Anybody But Bush
Election Day Confessional
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Part II
Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Part III
Inaugurate This
Ask a Silly Question, Get a Serious Answer
Long Time No See
Wet Homeland Security Blanket
Sea Change
Not Psychic, Just Well-Read
Straw Poll
Tune In, Drop Out, Get With The Program
Overstatement of the Union
Lingering Questions, Part I
Hurricane Katrina Wipes Out the Whiteboard
Why Shoot The Messenger
Follow the Money, Spread It Around
Mayor Bloomberg and a Queer Missionary Position
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Think Globally, Bullshit Locally
Mad King George the Second
Brief note about Abramoff
Poisoning the Well
Terry Schiavo, Unconscious Political Football
Remainders, et cetera.
Resoluteness in the Face of Pervasive Uncertainty
The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act as the First Refuge of Scoundrels
Pies, or Jackboots?
Cruel and Unusually Foreign?
...And Proliferation Became the Word of the Day
Incredible Values
May I Suggest a Really Historic Compromise?
The Curse of Mount Olympus
Penalties for Early Withdrawal
The Angry White Men
Peak Oil. Piqued?
I've Called a Tune To Many a Torture Session/Now They Say I am a War Criminal
Focusing on Blurry Distinctions
Kelo v. New London
The Most Relevant Reality TV Show Ever
Racial Profiling Redux
An Omnibus Responsa, Ceteris Paribus
Justice and Freedom, or Vengeance and Imperialism?
Let Me Tell You The Story of the Narrative Ontology
What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
Life, Liberty, and Total Horseshit
Do As We Say, Not As We Do. Or Die.
Poll w/Optional Computer Literacy Test
The Ends-Means Problem in Chart Form
Embargoes and the Limits of Government Market Controls
Mohammed Has Come to The Mountain to Convince The Mountain to Come to Mohammed
Structuring Environmental Business Regulation
Kill Your Idols
The Mother of All War Protests
Housecleaning, or Making the Best of a Bad Situation
The Tortured Logic of Torture Apologists
This Blog Is Fueled By Fossils Such As Fox News
A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
He Should Give It Again, Maybe Next Time In Blackface
Open Source the Government
Fireside Chat With Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton
December In Review (Several Days Late, As Expected)
Top Ten Excuses for the Police State vs. Actual Police Work
The Evolution of Casual Asides
I'll Really Give You Something To Cry About
While We're Twiddling Our Thumbs
Hello, Seekers
In Media Res
Iran's Not So Far Away
Weekend Sampler
Healthy Skepticism
We Ought To Have That Growth Checked Out, It Might Be Cancerous
How Do You Define Civil Rights?
Being Objective About Objectives
Offers We Should All Refuse
Ten Questions About North Korea The White House Won't Have To Answer
Forsake All Hope, Those Who Enter Into Iraq Debates
It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
Don't Let That Giant Wooden Horse Into The... Sigh.
Dashing The Troops Against Iraq With Surging Tides
The Way To Win At Gambling Is To Leave When You're Ahead
When You Hit 18, Stick to Civilian Life
An Unpublished Hermit's Letters, Vol. 4
Ultimately, The Buck Stops Nowhere
Start The Selective Outrage Machine
Gender Divides
If The Hoods Don't Get You, The Monoxide Will
Four More Years
Cannon Fodder
Ask the Cop in The Woodpile
Change A Light Bulb, Save Darfur
They've Plucked, They've Sown, They've Hollowed Him In
Homework Over Summer Vacation
Oh, Pobrecito!
A Rose By Any Other Name
Everyone But Thee And Me
Is Virginia As Lost As Anbar?
The World Would Swing, If I Were King
Fall Behind
The Rotting Corpse of King Croesus
Why I Am A Pacifist
Casual Policy Suggestions
Drill Up, Stupid
Any Minute Now, Amos 'n' Andy Broadcasts Will Reach Planet X!
Bulls in the China Shop
I Don't Believe In Bullshit
Driving Like Jehu
Top Ten Myths About Ecology
If You Plant Ice, You're Gonna Harvest Wind
How Can America Break Free Of The Two-Party System?

Religion

We Pledge Conspiegence to the United States of Hysteria
National Day of Prayer and Fasting?
The Nature of the Gay Marriage Debate
Televangelist Marketing
Newdow vs. Supreme Court
Those Irrepresible Jehovah's Witnesses
The Supreme Court Are a Bunch of Fucking Pussies
A Short Debate About School Prayer
Interesting Thing About Blogs
Mayor Bloomberg and a Queer Missionary Position
Think Globally, Bullshit Locally
Colourful Local Legend
Resoluteness in the Face of Pervasive Uncertainty
Joey Ratz, Papal Enforcer
Incredible Values
The Angry White Men
December In Review (Several Days Late, As Expected)
The Evolution of Casual Asides
While We're Twiddling Our Thumbs
In Media Res
How Do You Define Civil Rights?
Being Objective About Objectives
A Rose By Any Other Name
Everyone But Thee And Me
Any Minute Now, Amos 'n' Andy Broadcasts Will Reach Planet X!

Serial Killers

Finally, the Charles Manson Website Resurfaces!
Full Circle
Correction re: Manson
Oh, Pobrecito!

The War on Terror

The Worst-Case Scenario: The Bush White House is Telling the Truth About Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Small Gripe about Larger Issue
Your U. S. Currency Is Not Microwave Safe For Democracy
The Efficacy of Torture and the Pesky Ends-Means Problem
Taking the Long View of the War on Terror
Some People Approve of Racial Profiling and I Hate People Like That!
One Last Point re: Profiling
Fighting The War on Terror... Or The War On Kerry?
Addendum About White House Leaks
The Best Defense is the Best Defense
The Real Question Neither Candidate Can Truthfully Answer
Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Part III
Wet Homeland Security Blanket
Mad King George the Second
Poisoning the Well
The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act as the First Refuge of Scoundrels
May I Suggest a Really Historic Compromise?
I've Called a Tune To Many a Torture Session/Now They Say I am a War Criminal
Focusing on Blurry Distinctions
The Most Relevant Reality TV Show Ever
Racial Profiling Redux
An Omnibus Responsa, Ceteris Paribus
Justice and Freedom, or Vengeance and Imperialism?
What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
The Ends-Means Problem in Chart Form
Embargoes and the Limits of Government Market Controls
The Mother of All War Protests
The Tortured Logic of Torture Apologists
He Should Give It Again, Maybe Next Time In Blackface
December In Review (Several Days Late, As Expected)
Top Ten Excuses for the Police State vs. Actual Police Work
Hello, Seekers
Ask the Cop in The Woodpile
A Rose By Any Other Name

1998
[20 Dec] WE HAVE HIJACKED THIS LOVE LETTER STOP (Dada Manifesto) 12/98

2001
[ 5 Jan] Dada for Fun, Not Profit

2002
[15 Jul] Messrs. Bush and Pitt hold a press conference
[22 Aug] We Pledge Conspiegence to the United States of Hysteria

2003
[ 6 May] My New Blog
[ 7 May] Complexity Defies Headlines in Montgomery
[ 7 May] Finally, Something For Both the GOP and White Liberals
[13 May] Where Have I Seen You Before?
[13 May] Finally, the Charles Manson Website Resurfaces!
[23 May] Spring Cleaning, or What I Do at Work All Day
[23 May] We All Knew This Was Going to Happen
[ 9 Jun] Open Letter to Colin Powell
[18 Jun] How the Internet Oracle Helps Me Get Over Writer's Block
[20 Jun] Full Circle
[28 Jun] Franken-O'Reilly, tee hee!
[11 Jul] Correction re: Manson
[14 Jul] The Worst-Case Scenario: The Bush White House is Telling the Truth About Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.
[14 Jul] My Latest Column: What if the Bush Administration Is Telling the Truth?
[18 Jul] Iraq: the Ideal Conservative Country
[ 3 Aug] No Recession/No Jobs
[28 Aug] Thoughts on the California Gubernatorial Race
[29 Aug] Fractal Patterns in the Hermeneutic Circle
[14 Oct] Vincent Gallo Crushes My Dreams of Fame and Fortune Without Even Trying
[20 Oct] Right Idea, Wrong Way To Do It
[24 Oct] Everybody Wants A Piece of the Action
[30 Oct] Why Am I Suddenly Agreeing with the Republican Party?
[15 Dec] Saddam Captured, Now What?
[24 Dec] Zinni, Flypaper, and Iraq is the New Afghanistan
[29 Dec] Small Gripe about Larger Issue

2004
[ 3 Jan] National Day of Prayer and Fasting?
[ 4 Jan] Could It Be the World's Shortest Celebrity Marriage?
[14 Jan] A Few Thoughts About Howard Dean
[18 Jan] Must Everything Be Commodified? Apparently.
[19 Jan] My T-Shirt Store is Working!
[26 Jan] The Brooklyn Nets, or Ratner vs. Prospect Heights
[28 Jan] The Nature of the Gay Marriage Debate
[ 3 Feb] Virgil Fox, Meet Andy Warhol
[16 Feb] Televangelist Marketing
[16 Feb] Coming Soon: More Stuff.
[ 4 Mar] See Me Live, Read Me Infrequently
[ 6 Mar] Your U. S. Currency Is Not Microwave Safe For Democracy
[15 Mar] The Passion... Christ!
[17 Mar] Update re: Heeb Storytelling! Venue Change in Washington DC
[25 Mar] Newdow vs. Supreme Court
[ 7 Apr] What Comes After the Nation-State?
[12 Apr] Technical Problems With a Side of Complaining About Them
[12 Apr] An HTML/Text-only Political Cartoon
[19 Apr] The Weekly World News Scoops Reality-Based Newspapers Again!
[24 Apr] There's a Draft in Here, Close the Western Front
[ 5 May] Singer's "The President of Good and Evil"
[ 6 May] Happy Anniversary To Me
[12 May] Those Irrepresible Jehovah's Witnesses
[18 May] It never ends...
[29 May] Trampled by Ever-Quickening Media Cycles
[30 May] Past and Present...
[ 2 Jun] Defining Down Human Rights, or the Future of the Geneva Convention
[ 9 Jun] Two-for-one Subway Story
[14 Jun] R.I.P., Zombie Reagan!
[15 Jun] The Supreme Court Are a Bunch of Fucking Pussies
[17 Jun] A Short Debate About School Prayer
[20 Jun] Best Website Name Ever and Some Other Links
[20 Jun] Hang On, Sloopy
[25 Jun] The Limits of U.S. Power
[29 Jun] Brief Moment of Vapid Celebrity Gossip
[22 Jul] I Have Bigger Blocks At Home
[23 Jul] The Efficacy of Torture and the Pesky Ends-Means Problem
[24 Jul] Taking the Long View of the War on Terror
[25 Jul] If I Were A Rich Man...
[29 Jul] Interesting Thing About Blogs
[30 Jul] UnConventional Wisdom
[30 Jul] Very Small Public Service
[ 1 Aug] Behind the Scenes at Heeb Magazine
[ 5 Aug] What's In A Name?
[10 Aug] The Where Were We Now File
[13 Aug] George and the Argonauts
[17 Aug] Some People Approve of Racial Profiling and I Hate People Like That!
[18 Aug] One Last Point re: Profiling
[19 Aug] One-Liner of the Day
[23 Aug] McLuhan Wins Again
[24 Aug] Fighting The War on Terror... Or The War On Kerry?
[27 Aug] Addendum About White House Leaks
[31 Aug] The Final Word on Kerry and the 527s.
[ 1 Sep] Republicans Love Lawyers, Republicans Hate Lawyers
[ 8 Sep] Uncle Sam's Dirty Bombshell
[10 Sep] Process and Product
[12 Sep] Wither the American Accent
[15 Sep] We Broke It, We Blew It
[15 Sep] Carbophobia! In Stereo
[23 Sep] By Jingo/We Have Got/The Gatling Gun/And They Have Not
[26 Sep] New Look, If You Hadn't Noticed
[27 Sep] Killing Them With Kindness
[ 1 Oct] Everything is Debatable
[ 3 Oct] If You Can't Beat 'Em, Beat 'Em Harder
[ 5 Oct] I Click Around
[ 6 Oct] The Best Defense is the Best Defense
[ 7 Oct] Inflammable Fiction
[12 Oct] The Real Question Neither Candidate Can Truthfully Answer
[14 Oct] Casual Debate Notes
[18 Oct] Republican Sex Scandal Sampler
[22 Oct] Swinging My Fist at the Vast Emptiness
[22 Oct] The Phlegmatic Pragmatic
[25 Oct] Morning Conversational Snippet
[25 Oct] Rehnquist's Thyroid Surgery--the First Sign of the Apocalypse?
[26 Oct] Bush Comes Out for Civil Unions?
[27 Oct] Heisenberg to the Moon
[31 Oct] Round The Corner And Flog Those Horses
[31 Oct] Anybody, Anybody But Bush
[ 2 Nov] Election Day Confessional
[ 4 Nov] Should I Stay or Should I Go?
[10 Nov] Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Part II
[14 Nov] Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Part III
[18 Nov] Sell-Out
[ 8 Dec] Long Time No See
[13 Dec] Wet Homeland Security Blanket
[22 Dec] The Internot

2005
[ 3 Jan] Sea Change
[10 Jan] Goodbye, Old Friend, Rest in Peace.
[17 Jan] Inaugurate This
[18 Jan] Not Psychic, Just Well-Read
[18 Jan] Straw Poll
[20 Jan] Tune In, Drop Out, Get With The Program
[ 2 Feb] Overstatement of the Union
[ 3 Feb] Lingering Questions, Part I
[10 Feb] Mayor Bloomberg and a Queer Missionary Position
[12 Feb] Things Ain't What They Used To Be
[14 Feb] Think Globally, Bullshit Locally
[19 Feb] Mad King George the Second
[23 Feb] Why Doc, Why
[ 3 Mar] High Tide in the Backwaters
[10 Mar] Ask a Silly Question, Get a Serious Answer
[17 Mar] Poisoning the Well
[18 Mar] Taking Pleasure in Business
[23 Mar] Salvage, With Productive Alternatives
[28 Mar] Terry Schiavo, Unconscious Political Football
[ 4 Apr] Colourful Local Legend
[ 5 Apr] Remainders, et cetera.
[ 9 Apr] Resoluteness in the Face of Pervasive Uncertainty
[12 Apr] The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act as the First Refuge of Scoundrels
[12 Apr] Pies, or Jackboots?
[19 Apr] Cruel and Unusually Foreign?
[27 Apr] Joey Ratz, Papal Enforcer
[29 Apr] Not Dead, Just Vacationing
[ 6 May] Casual Second Birthday
[10 May] ...And Proliferation Became the Word of the Day
[18 May] Incredible Values
[25 May] May I Suggest a Really Historic Compromise?
[ 8 Jun] The Curse of Mount Olympus
[15 Jun] Penalties for Early Withdrawal
[17 Jun] Peak Oil. Piqued?
[22 Jun] I've Called a Tune To Many a Torture Session/Now They Say I am a War Criminal
[22 Jun] Focusing on Blurry Distinctions
[25 Jun] Kelo v. New London
[ 3 Jul] The Most Relevant Reality TV Show Ever
[10 Jul] Penguin Island
[11 Jul] Racial Profiling Redux
[11 Jul] An Omnibus Responsa, Ceteris Paribus
[14 Jul] Justice and Freedom, or Vengeance and Imperialism?
[17 Jul] Let Me Tell You The Story of the Narrative Ontology
[18 Jul] What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
[23 Jul] Life, Liberty, and Total Horseshit
[26 Jul] Do As We Say, Not As We Do. Or Die.
[ 3 Aug] Poll w/Optional Computer Literacy Test
[11 Aug] The Ends-Means Problem in Chart Form
[15 Aug] It's My Birthday, I Can Post If I Want To
[18 Aug] Mohammed Has Come to The Mountain to Convince The Mountain to Come to Mohammed
[18 Aug] Embargoes and the Limits of Government Market Controls
[24 Aug] Structuring Environmental Business Regulation
[29 Aug] The Mother of All War Protests
[ 8 Sep] Housecleaning, or Making the Best of a Bad Situation
[19 Sep] The Angry White Men
[26 Sep] This Blog Is Fueled By Fossils Such As Fox News
[ 4 Oct] A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
[10 Oct] He Should Give It Again, Maybe Next Time In Blackface
[18 Nov] Open Source the Government
[ 8 Dec] Fireside Chat With Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton
[16 Dec] The Tortured Logic of Torture Apologists
[24 Dec] Letters, We Get Letters.

2006
[ 3 Jan] December In Review (Several Days Late, As Expected)
[14 Jan] Brief note about Abramoff
[20 Jan] Hurricane Katrina Wipes Out the Whiteboard
[28 Jan] Follow the Money, Spread It Around
[ 9 Feb] Top Ten Excuses for the Police State vs. Actual Police Work
[18 Feb] The Evolution of Casual Asides
[21 Feb] I'll Really Give You Something To Cry About
[23 Feb] Hello, Seekers
[ 2 Mar] While We're Twiddling Our Thumbs
[ 7 Mar] In Media Res
[19 Mar] Iran's Not So Far Away
[31 Mar] Weekend Sampler
[ 8 May] Healthy Skepticism
[19 May] We Ought To Have That Growth Checked Out, It Might Be Cancerous
[ 7 Jun] Why Shoot The Messenger
[11 Jun] How Do You Define Civil Rights?
[ 4 Sep] Being Objective About Objectives
[ 9 Sep] Offers We Should All Refuse
[17 Oct] Ten Questions About North Korea The White House Won't Have To Answer
[25 Oct] Forsake All Hope, Those Who Enter Into Iraq Debates
[20 Nov] It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
[ 8 Dec] Don't Let That Giant Wooden Horse Into The... Sigh.

2007
[ 9 Jan] Dashing The Troops Against Iraq With Surging Tides
[16 Jan] The Way To Win At Gambling Is To Leave When You're Ahead
[15 Mar] When You Hit 18, Stick to Civilian Life
[30 Mar] An Unpublished Hermit's Letters, Vol. 4
[ 5 Apr] Kill Your Idols
[ 8 Apr] Start The Selective Outrage Machine
[10 Apr] Ultimately, The Buck Stops Nowhere
[11 Apr] Barbarians at the Logic Gates
[14 Apr] Gender Divides
[26 Apr] Cannon Fodder
[ 3 May] Ask the Cop in The Woodpile
[ 6 May] Four More Years
[10 May] If The Hoods Don't Get You, The Monoxide Will
[18 May] Change A Light Bulb, Save Darfur
[28 May] They've Plucked, They've Sown, They've Hollowed Him In
[29 Jun] Homework Over Summer Vacation
[ 5 Jul] Oh, Pobrecito!
[12 Jul] A Rose By Any Other Name
[17 Jul] Is Virginia As Lost As Anbar?
[31 Jul] The World Would Swing, If I Were King
[20 Aug] Everyone But Thee And Me
[29 Aug] The Rotting Corpse of King Croesus
[13 Oct] Fall Behind
[ 6 Nov] Why I Am A Pacifist
[ 5 Dec] Casual Policy Suggestions

2008
[ 9 Mar] Any Minute Now, Amos 'n' Andy Broadcasts Will Reach Planet X!
[ 3 May] Bulls in the China Shop
[ 6 May] Knock On Wood
[ 1 Jun] I Don't Believe In Bullshit
[20 Jun] Driving Like Jehu
[21 Jun] Top Ten Myths About Ecology
[16 Sep] Drill Up, Stupid
[ 8 Oct] If You Plant Ice, You're Gonna Harvest Wind
[27 Oct] How Can America Break Free Of The Two-Party System?




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