Category Archives: fiasco

Another Reason To Hate France

As if it wasn’t bad enough that the French Empire has returned triumphant of late, France is also responsible for this disco-themed atrocity that assaulted my eyeballs on Reddit last night. Good thing de Gaulle developed nuclear weapons; his country … Continue reading

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SOTU Response Fiasco

She gazed not at the pool-camera where a national audience awaited eye contact, but at the Tea Party Express cam. What should have been a national arrival was instead the perfect picture of cognitive dissonance.

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Macondo Fiasco

“Systemic management problems” at private companies and ineffective federal oversight caused the Macondo blowout: “The blowout was not the product of a series of aberrational decisions made by rogue industry or government officials that could not have been anticipated or … Continue reading

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Between Fail And Fiasco There Is Epic Fail

Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio after a disaster-themed 49-7 bowl loss to Alabama, via my local daily: “This game is a roller coaster,” he said. “You go into it — you can be in the locker room all focused … Continue reading

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Netroots Failure

I caught this at Reuters last week. It’s an analysis of the likely outcome of the FCC’s net neutrality decision this week: “There aren’t really any better options for Copps and Clyburn than to support the chairman, despite their preference … Continue reading

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Nothing More Than This

For regular readers living outside the south, a brief digression into the history of church and sound: southern evangelicals only recently accepted such musical concepts as “Christian rock,” to say nothing of “Christian metal.” The appearance of a strong, epic … Continue reading

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Anwar al-Awlaki Is A Traitor Who Has Earned His Death

That is all, or ought to be. But others feel differently: Logically, I would expect that if the government has evidence compelling enough to justify assassinating (or imprisoning forever) an American citizen, the government would prove its case in court. … Continue reading

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It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

January 28, 1863: in heavy snow at the Confederate encampment in  Virginia’s Rappahannock Valley, the First and Fourth Texas Infantry got the bright idea to fight cabin fever by starting an impromptu exercise. You, know, to blow the dust off … Continue reading

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The Bush Legacy

Why am I not surprised at this? LOS ANGELES — The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy … Continue reading

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Murkowski’s $375 million BP Bailout

The president has had enough of BP and the Interior Department. It’s a good time for getting mad at Big Oil. But Senate Republicans have been falling all over themselves to woo the industry, and last night Lisa Murkowski (R-BP) … Continue reading

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Interior Damage

The Interior Department was already a mess in 2001 as Bush was sworn in. It spent the next eight years getting so much worse: billions in missing oil & gas fees, corruption, drug use, and mismanagement led to scandal and … Continue reading

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