It looks like Al Sharpton's campaign isn't going too well.
Here's a great Entertainment Geekly review of my favorite episode of Angel in a while, Smile Time. Via WHEDONesque. Beware of spoilers... I didn't realize there was one, and now I'm worried about what it may mean. Don't read the last paragraph if you care.
Josh Claybourn has had a bunch of funny and insightful political parodies over the past few days:
For more fun, see this.
Also, really funny political cartoons over at American Realpolitik. The first and third are the best.
John Hawkins has an interesting post about why Bush's triangulation hasn't worked.
Update: I wonder if other conservatives feel as betrayed by Bush as I do, or whether I had just been naive to hope and trust in any polician. One of the first things I remember Bush saying early in his term is that "the government doesn't have money, it has the people's money". At the time I thought that was awesome, since that's how I think about it exactly. But Bush hasn't behaved like he really believed that at all.
Maybe it's just because he was the first President I'd ever voted for (in fact, 2000 was the first time I'd ever voted). One of my friends asked me in 2000 whether I was going to vote for Bush because I liked him or because I was playing the typical "lesser of two evils" game. I told him that I really did like him. Maybe I feel this way because I invested emotionally in him in that way.
In any case it appears lots of other people feel like I do. This article focuses much more on "evangelicals" and how they're unhappy with Bush. For whatever reason I'm much more upset about the growth of government than about the moral reasons the article cited, even though I agree with what it says. Whatever our reasons for not being happy with Bush, Lileks compels us not to try to "teach the GOP a lesson" in November because Bush isn't perfect.
Who would have ever thought? More aliens try to enter for amnesty:
The number of illegal aliens caught crossing into the United States increased dramatically just days after President Bush proposed a guest-worker program that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants now in this country, according to the union that represents the Border Patrol's 9,000 field agents.
The National Border Patrol Council said apprehension totals increased threefold in the San Diego area alone, adding that the vast majority of aliens detained along the border told arresting agents that they had come to the United States seeking amnesty.
It turns out the border patrol started taking a survey of illegals detained at the Mexico border asking whether "rumors of amnesty" led them to enter the country, but had to cancel it for political reasons. They probably found out the vast majority answered "yes". It's like when the Europeans shelved a report about the rising antisemitism there when they discovered that Muslims were responsible for most incidents. Any time a report or survey is cancelled, question whether it was cancelled because someone didn't like the results.
Friday, February 20, 2004
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