driftglass on...

* driftglass on why we dont need million-people marches to make a point anymore, and why cindy sheehan is walter cronkite:

"Nowadays, ten minutes after the Bush Administration tries on a shiny new pair of Jogging Lies to see if they’ll give him better traction that the old pair... it's all over Left Blogistan. Crooks and Liars will have the video within minutes. Steve Gilliard will take a twenty-pound maul to it within a matter of hours. James Wolcott --- the undisputed Hattori Hanzo of Progressive Prose – will come swashbucklin’ in from the hottest clubs and coolest dives, working his wicked, monofilament-thin blade like a maestro’s baton (because it’s all in the wrist) effortlessly separating Wingnuts from their clammy epidermi, and then sprinkling them lightly with just a smidge of sea salt. Atrios will get a million hits wrapping it up and by the next day, Jon Stewart will be working it into The Big Show.

Bush's poll numbers are cratering. His enervating, I’d-rather-be-anywhere-but-here speeches are getting shredded by conservative papers. And even people deep in his own party are starting to look anxiously around for the Emergency Exit Doors as Iraq continues to fall out of the sky.
(I guess they weren’t paying attention during the takeoff when the flight attendants showed that little movie that warned them this is what would happen.)"

* driftglass on science:

"The path from the Christmas Tsunami to Hurricane Katrina to 9/11 is simply this: When your dogma demands that God become the author of mass murder for His own inscrutable purposes, it is only a matter of time before the hatefully righteous that claim to be on His Holy Buddy List start their own bloody race to the bottom in His Name.

And whether they are perverting the Bible or the Koran, their aims are always the same; to destroy your capacity to reason by assassinating Science, to spread the hate and fear that give them purpose and power to every corner of the Earth.

And to make you kneel."