http://thetalkingdog.com/ The Unofficial Vanity Blog of the Self-Proclaimed American Pseudo-Intellectual en-us 2009-07-02T19:23:40-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001328.html Charles Gittings is the progenitor of the Project to Enforce the Geneva Conventions, a web-site compiling "torture memos" and other evidence of governmental criminality during the so-called "War on Terror,"... tdog 2009-07-02T19:23:40-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001327.html It seemed like it was going on the length of "the Al Franken decade"... but the Minnesota Senate race is finally over, and soon-to-be Senator Al Franken is absolutely delighted... tdog 2009-06-30T22:09:19-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001326.html Well, disturbing trends are picked up by the ever-astute Glenn Greenwald, in this Salon piece in which Glenn observes the Obama Administration's public thought balloons on issuing executive orders pertaining... tdog 2009-06-29T22:31:52-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001325.html So many alarming trends at once reflected in this story, of a premature infant born in Ontario to Canadian parents, transferred to the only nearby neo-natal unit available, that across... tdog 2009-06-28T13:24:51-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001324.html Ed McMahon died earlier in the week well into his 80's; he had a helluva life, as the tandem member of perhaps the perfect dual straight man opposite Carson's straight... tdog 2009-06-25T22:20:33-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001323.html In a Grey Lady op-ed by Stuart Beck, Palau's UN rep, he debunks the right-wing meme that alleges that Palau will be taking a multi-million dollar ($200M) bribe to accept... tdog 2009-06-21T09:33:11-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001322.html The most exciting political development in a number of years (other than some guy named Obama, of course) is the inconceivable-ten-days-ago massive popular uprising in Iran, for which I can... tdog 2009-06-19T21:01:30-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001320.html Dr. Ewart Brown, premier of the local government in Bermuda, has shown immense courage (more courage than the entire United States, btw) in accepting the entry of four completely innocent... tdog 2009-06-15T08:14:39-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001319.html What in God's name is going in Iran? Keep your eyes on the prize, and, as is almost always the case where political legardemain appears to be going on in... tdog 2009-06-14T15:30:34-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001318.html We'll start with our friend Barb and this artice discussing the "principled" (as in "principal plus interest") opposition of the American Medical Association to the "public option" being discussed with... tdog 2009-06-13T11:20:52-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001317.html Amidst talk that the [chicken-sh*t] Obama Administration [catering to a chicken sh*t morally bankrupt nation, that kidnaps men, tortures them, holds them for years in a dungeon, and then, when... tdog 2009-06-12T05:40:17-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001316.html Glenn Greenwald continues to kick ass as he brings truth to power. This Salon piece documenting "liberal" news oulets, the N.Y. Times and National Palestine Radio ("NPR"), and their specific... tdog 2009-06-07T14:08:57-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001315.html E.J. Dionne of WaPo tells us in a column called "Rush and Newt are Winning" what regular readers here know to be true a moral certainty, though of course, it... tdog 2009-06-05T05:45:24-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001314.html It seems to be something about this time of year... maybe it's just a coincidence that May or June seems to bring this sort of thing... to wit, the military... tdog 2009-06-03T00:04:44-05:00 http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001313.html Peter Jan Honigsberg is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco, where among other subjects, he teaches a course on terrorism and national security law. He is... tdog 2009-06-02T20:23:00-05:00