Author: rri

July 28, 2007

Voting Republican

Occasionally, a friend who is fond of me, will send me columns by Maureen Dowd, hoping to expand my somewhat limited political sensibilities. There was one recently, “Brothers and Sisters, July 25, 2007, NY Times” (Free Democracy link), that addressed the effect Bush is having in turning previously staunch Republicans into Democrats. Well, that is…
July 21, 2007

The Ignoramus

He is sitting the by himself in the bar at McCormick and Schmick’s. This is okay, I eat by myself in restaurants all the time and I am female. Yes, it is harder for us then for you others, but another matter that. There he is. “Yes, sir, we do have a one and a…
July 20, 2007

The God Vote

Sitting around in a hotel room, as I seem to be doing quite a lot of these days, and attempting to avoid doing whatever it was that I should have been doing, having also sacificed my laptop to the male members of the family, there was naught to do but watch CNN on TV. Repeatedly,…
July 19, 2007

Jet lag

Phoenix Chicago West Lafayette Niles Kalamazoo Ann Arbor Toledo Cleveland Providence Old Greenwich Providence Las Vegas Gibson hypothicates that when you fly, your soul, not traveling as fast, trails behind you, lost somewhere in the ether, struggling to catch up.
July 10, 2007

How I Learned My ABCs

“a” word “b” word “c” word “d” word “e” word “f” word “g” word “h” word “i” word “j” word “k” word “l” word “m” word “n” word “o” word “p” word “q” word “r” word “s” word “t” word “u” word “v” word “w” word “x” word “y” word “z” word We are a…
March 20, 2007

Iraq: A Republican War

Whether a consequence of principle or politics, one thing is clear from public polling at the four year mark: George Bush’s war in Iraq has become indisputably a minority, one-party, Republican War. Now supported by only 32% of Americans according to a recent CNN/Opinion Research poll (Poll: Support for the Iraq war deteriorates, March 19,…
June 29, 2006

Drive By Briefing of President Bush

A wonderful piece of video — get it while you can — illustrating the effects and contents of what George Bush — the man himself, a ramblin’ and explannin’, up and grinnin’ wide as day on the hot spot before the camera — very genuinely, believably described as a “Drive-By Briefing,” prepping him for questions…
May 26, 2006

Neil Young’s Articles of Impeachment

Article I Let’s impeach the president for lyin’ Misleading our country into WAR Abusing all the power that we gave him And shipping all our money out the door Who’s the man who hired all the criminals The white house shadows who hide behind closed doors And bend the facts to fit with their new…
March 2, 2006

The Canonical List of Weird Band Names

This unexpurgated version of “The Canonical List of Weird Band Names” from 7/19/98 is preserved and presented here to give the lie to the growing number of web sites, commercial and personal, that are mindlessly reproducing some nameless PC-ditherhead’s sanitized version, which first surfaced back in the wild and woolly days of the net when…