Bill Maher is puzzled by it.
New rule: 12 years after 9/11, and amidst yet another debate on whether to bomb yet another Muslim country, America must stop asking the question, “Why do they hate us?” Forget the debate on Syria, we need a debate on why we’re always debating whether to bomb someone. Because we’re starting to look not so much like the world’s policeman, but more like George Zimmerman: itching to use force and then pretending it’s because we had no choice. [Read more…]
Can anyone harbor even the slightest illusion that the US Senate is the ‘world’s greatest deliberative body’, as it frequently boasts itself to be, after this latest episode. It happened when Louisiana senator David Vitter decided that he would block senate business until he got his way. [Read more…]
Both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report weighed in on the bad arguments being made both for and against war with Syria. [Read more…]
The trouble with John Kerry is that he is clearly in love with his own voice and does not know when to stop talking. While in the senate, he was notorious for long droning speeches at committee hearings that often resulted in him running out his allotted time before he could ask questions of the people before the panel. The Daily Show lampooned his performances back in 2009. [Read more…]
There is a new web comedy series Ask A Slave where actress Azie Mira Dungey, who used to work as a ‘living history’ character at George Washington’s plantation in Mount Vernon, re-enacts some of the questions she was asked by tourists.
You know how people say that there are no stupid questions? We might want to rethink that. [Read more…]
He talks about the impending war against Syria and, unlike most news outlets, in just a few minutes manages to remind us of the similarity of the drive of this latest war to wars of the past, the hypocrisy of US policy, and the absurd arguments being given in favor of this latest war. [Read more…]
Jesus and Mo disagree as to whether it can be done.
Sometimes, we need a bit of dark humor to get through periods of political darkness. Humorist Andy Borowitz has the scoop on the reasons that Obama is considering bombing Syria.
Attempting to quell criticism of his proposal for a limited military mission in Syria, President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have “no objective whatsoever.” [Read more…]
