CapitalistImperialistPig

The NYT has an editorial calling for Bush to can Alberto Gonzales. Their logic can hardly be faulted: he has failed to carry out his duties to enforce the Nation's laws. The comedy is in thinking that Bush would fire him for that - that is exactly what he appointed him for. During the hearing on his nomination as attorney general, Alberto Gonzales said he understood the difference between the job he held — President Bush’s in-house lawyer — and the job he wanted, which was to represent all Americans as their chief law enforcement officer and a key defender of the Constitution. Two years later, it is obvious Mr. Gonzales does not have a clue about the difference. He has never stopped being consigliere to Mr. Bush’s imperial presidency. If anyone, outside Mr. Bush’s rapidly shrinking circle of enablers, still had doubts about that, the events of last week should have erased them... The F.B.I. has been using powers it obtained under the Patriot Act to get financial, business and t...

This is ridiculous. After twenty-five minutes on Dell's stupid site, I could not figure out how to specify and order one of their blankety-blank computers. I've never had this problem before. Maybe it's time to buy a Mac.

The CPAC a week or so ago was a get together of the frothing-at-the-mouth right set. This year's recipient of their Jean Kirkpatric Academic Freedom award was an ex-Corporal Sanchez, an ex-Marine who alledged that he was persecuted by liberals at Columbia. Besides the award, he got appearances on Hannity and Colmes and O'Reilly, a picture with Michelle Malkin, and some quality time and picture with Ann Coulter, when she wasn't being hugged by Mitch Romney or calling John Edwards a faggot. The punchline, though, is it turns out that ex-Corporal Sanchez has another identity as gay porn star Rod Majors. Max Blumenthal has the story here . He also has a few ruminations on the gap between behavior and rhetoric among those who practice what he calls "the politics of resentment." Coulter's now-famous "faggot" remark was not an aberration, but rather a symbol of the politics of resentment that propels the conservative movement and its elected Republican su...