DefenseTech’s Noah Shachtman writes:
Organizing thousands and thousands of people, in hellish conditions and in a hurry, is tough work. Let’s take that as a given. But still: We’re now a work week into a natural disaster that had been forecast for years, and New Orleans “is being run by thugs,” the city’s emergency [...]

Posted September 2, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, defensetech, dhs, disaster, donations, emergency, fema, flood, george bush, george w bush, gulf coast, homeland security, hurricane, hurricane katrina, katrina, louisiana, new orleans, pat robertson, shame, w, wtf. 3 Comments.

Two items from the blogosphere about Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate at Tikun Olam and AlterNet.

tags: alternet, bush, coverup, george bush, george w bush, karl rove, rove, tikun olam, w, white house

Posted July 24, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy. Tags: alternet, bush, coverup, george bush, george w bush, karl rove, rove, tikun olam, w, white house. One Comment.

It’s a story that won’t die, and yet it can’t get any attention. Since November 3rd, reasonable people have been wondering what happened. On election night, exit polls predicted a 5 million vote win for Kerry, but the official election results declared Bush the winner by 3 million votes. We’re all suspicious of polls, but [...]

Posted June 19, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: 2004, abuse, allegations, bush, corruption, election, election fraud, evidence, exit poll, exit polls, fraud, kerry, ohio, politics, president, ukraine, vote, voter, voter abuse, voting. 3 Comments.

The are few things as joyus as the excitement of discovery, so it was a great pleasure to learn that Stay Free! Magazine has a new blog: Stay Free! Daily. The blog has a number of stories about intellectual freedom and copyright oppression that resonated with me. Take a look at Silent Disobedience, Christo’s policy [...]

Posted March 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Politics & Controversy. Tags: broadcast flag, bush, christo, dubya, fbi, fcc, gannon, guckert, james guckert, jeff gannon, laugh, movie studio, movies, prurient, psas, repression, sexual repression, stay free magazine, stayfree, subscription tv, tivo. One Comment.

Cliff over at Spiralbound.net posted the video of Bush flipping the bird. It’s not as exciting as I’d hoped, but it’s on video.
Then there’s the Dubya Movie. It’s a fantastic mashup of old Don Kotts movies, but that’s already giving too much away. Go watch it, you’ll laugh.

tags: bird, bush, dubya, flipping the bird, laugh, [...]

Posted December 3, 2004 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: bird, bush, dubya, flipping the bird, laugh, movies. 2 Comments.

On the heels of “There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in” comes a story from Alternet: “Bush has failed the military on almost every level — marking the difference between being militaristic and pro-military.”
Discounting that he sent American troops into Iraq on false pretenses, a real commander would fight for [...]

Posted October 28, 2004 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, george bush, george w bush, militaristic, support our troops, w. One Comment.