Deliberate Incompetence

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I have reached the conclusion that the last eight years weren't the stumblings of an incompetent frat boy, but rather, a deliberate effort to bring our country to its knees.…

Deep Thought

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Having a shoe thrown at him is the only consequence Bush will ever have to contend with for having killed tens of thousands of people, and utterly destroyed the economy.

Sunday Morning Press Blackout

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I’ve been thinking again about the 3,000 or so ancestors I have (a great many of which are your ancestors as well) and that long imaginary line of men snaking back into history to ancestor number 1 who lived, had sex at least once, and died near what is now Ethiopia around 10,000 years ago.

And what I am thinking is this: I’ll bet that line of 2,999 men are pretty boring guys. If the world is as statisticians tell us it is then there were some a little taller than me, some shorter. There were some outliers on the smart side and some outliers on the dumb side, but most of the 3,000 were probably fairly undistinguished.

I don’t harbor any illusions that my genetic heritage is terribly interesting or noteworthy.