another driftglass edition

* driftglass: "Then, like all abusers and alcoholics do, they admonish us all not to “look backwards”. Funny how drunks, junkies, wife-beaters and George W. Bush all have that trait in common: they are all violently allergic to looking behind them, and all for exactly the same reasons.
Then Bush jumps behind the wheel of another car, still bedewed with the blood of the victims of their last failure." (link)
as only he can.

* more driftglass: "If you wonder why I have such an intractable loathing for Conservative Fundamentalists, this is what it comes down to. The simple fact that they are nothing more than Heaven’s Gate multiplied by a million, and in control of a nation armed with atomic weapons." (link)

* driftglass again: "Dubya is Terrorism's greatest beneficiary, and he has learned it’s lessons so well that I would argue that he is not a War President at all: that he is, by definition, our first Terrorist President.
A terrorist is one who uses the threat of random violence to stampede people to where they would not ordinarily go. One who governs by manipulating fear or by intimidation.
One who uses terror as a political weapon, for political ends." (link)

as always, go read those posts. and congrats to driftglass for hitting his target of 300 posts, and thanks for every word.