category archive: politics

Ronald + Osama

After writing recently about my difficult-to-suppress desire to overthrow rogue governments from within, my Kiwi buddy and former co-worker Julian pointed out this article: Reagan’s Osama Connection – How he turned a jihadist into a terrorist kingpin. After a quick review of the situation—the Reagan administration funneled billions to Afghanistan’s Islamic resistance to the Soviets—the [...]

Homer, Ronald, the war

It seems The Simpsons has become like a drug to me. I actually felt a twinge of anxiety when I saw that tonight’s 6 p.m. re-run was being pre-empted by services for the late Ronald Wilson Reagan. No, it doesn’t make me particularly proud to think that my dependence on a cartoon momentarily overshadowed the [...]

filmmaking & patriotism

Bunker wrote a post this morning linking to this NY Times article about Sony Pictures buying the rights to make a movie out of Richard Clarke’s controversial book Against All Enemies. Bunker states that: This might be the major Democratic effort to unseat Bush in November. I was fascinated by where this whole development could [...]