When Bush went to the Rose Garden on October 11th, the event failed as theatre and served as an unintended display of a presidency adrift. His usual repartee with reporters about their inflated salaries and spiffy dress failed to elicit more than polite titters. It was the serious stuff that was laughable.
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Mijn mening over politiek, beslissingen en de effecten daarvan op onze maatschappij.
Bush keeps revising war justification
President Bush keeps revising his explanation for why the US is in Iraq: initially, the rationale was to stop Saddam Hussein. These days, the justification has become far broader and now includes the expansive “struggle between good and evil.” Vice President Dick Cheney takes it even further: “The hopes of the civilized world ride with …
O’Reilly: North Korea wants to influence the November election
Neo-cons in the US are having a great time exploiting the ‘explosive situation’ in North Korea. The more spin they can add to their newsbulletins, the merrier. Bill O’Reilly is one of many nitwits who thinks America really is the center of the universe: the reason North Korea is causing trouble is that it wants to influence the November election.
Olbermann: “Why does habeas corpus hate America”
Last week the US government approved a law that will get rid of the habeas corpus and provides president Bush with the necessary tools to keep torturing prisoners. Keith Olbermann just can’t let this news be covered up.
Correspondents’ Association annual dinner
Als men mij vraagt wie mijn idolen zijn ben ik telkens gedwongen het antwoord schuldig te blijven. Idolen lijken me eerder iets voor de doordeweekse VTM-kijker denk ik, ze maken er in Vilvoorde zelfs speciale televisieprogramma’s voor. Bij het woord ‘idool’ moet ik ook meteen denken aan stereotypische elementen als blinde adoratie en hysterisch tierende …
V for Vendetta (2005)
Remember, remember the fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Met dit gekende rijmpje herinnert men in Engeland aan Guy Fawkes, een katholiek samenzweerder, die op 5 november 1605 het parlement in Londen probeerde op te blazen, met enkele tonen buskruit in de …