WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?
Magpie is a former journalist, attempted historian [No, you can't ask how her thesis is going], and full-time corvid of the lesbian persuasion. She keeps herself in birdseed by writing those bad computer manuals that you toss out without bothering to read them. She also blogs too much when she's not on deadline, both here and at Pacific Views.
Magpie roosts in Portland, Oregon, where she annoys her housemates (as well as her cats Medea, Whiskers, and Jane Doe) by attempting to play Irish music on the fiddle and concertina.
To be fair, Dubya's speech was longer than that one sentence. But if you go read it, I defy you to prove that the summary of the prez's speech would amount to much more than what I quoted.
Can you imagine the uproar from the right-wing echo chamber?
If a left-wing writer (or even a liberal writer) wrote this?
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.
But since the quote comes from Thomas Sowell of the right-wing National Review, everything is A-OK.
If you're one of those folks who can't get enough Fox News ...
You'll be overjoyed to know that Rupert Murdoch (whose News Corporation owns Fox News) has made an offer for Dow Jones, the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal.
While the WSJ's editorial pages are make some people in Dubya's administration look like bleeding-heart liberals, the paper has one of the best news operations in the US. Losing the WSJ to Murdoch's right-wing propaganda machine would be a Big Deal.
