I managed to talk Daddy down from posting a picture of Bill O’Reilly (whoever that is) and calling this “Fox Parvi Populi,” taking over my rightful spot as Queen of Sunday Morning, and instead, still manage to keep this site as politically relevant as Daddy wishes it were. See above re the cast of “Cory in the House,” a true vision of what a multi-cultural White House might look like, with the only thing truly White being, well, the House. Cory features, of course, Kyle Massey as Cory, son of the chef, the Jason Dolley character “Newt” standing in for...

And so, the question of when the paper-trail of modern American war crimes would finally go to the top has been answered: the President disclosed that he knew about– and approved– the highest-level meetings of officials in the White House itself on the subject of the specific degree and details of “enahanced interrogations” on suspects in the War on Terror(TM). Yoo You know: torture. (Jokes aside, Uber-torture-facilitator John Yoo was himself a frequent briefer of this group, which included Cheney (and Addington), Rumsfeld (and DOD general counsel Haynes), Condi, Tenet, Ashcroft, and Powell.) It was horrifying enough to find out...

I have long surmised that the President’s ‘exit strategy” for Iraq was called “January 20, 2009”. Further evidence of the correctness of my surmise comes from this WaPo piece telling us that the President “backs Petraeus and Crocker”– as if they were themselves doing anything save reciting the party line– to “suspend troop reductions”… i.e., the President will sustain the unsustainable Surge(TM) in the interest of keeping Iraq from going sufficiently to hell in a handbasket during this election year so that even our feckless media might actually report events there. As to our soldiers… well, they volunteered, didn’t they?...

This week’s teeny-bopper icon in “vox parvi populi” (voice of the tiny people, though Daddy says “little people”) is Miranda Cosgrove, now star of “iCarly” and previously a living demonstration of how girls are just smarter than boys in “Drake and Josh,” where two boys– even one who was supposed to be smart in school– were just no match for a girl– even several years younger. Daddy says Miranda’s character, Megan, was like a young Hillary Clinton: totally smart, totally focused, totally ruthless. (Click on Miranda for an explanation of her fashion statement.) This has been… Vox parvi populi.

Jesus’ General J.C. Christian writes to the Dean at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall Law School in praise of its faculty member John Yoo, proudly espousing the vision of the America we are becoming… that shining interrogation center on a hill. (I note that Prof. Yoo himself was actually pretty courteous in declining my request for an interview with this blog, at one time; it’s mostly a free country, after all, even if he doesn’t seem to think so.) The General spots a fascinating trend between youthful cruelty to animals and adult cruelty to, well, everyone… that other servant of Jesus,...

California Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) (who, you’ll recall, was the one-time-car-thief-turned-car-alarm-king and financial force in the recall of Gray Davis that gave us Governor Schwarzenegger) appears to have put his foot in his mouth by calling the events of 9-11 “just a plane crash” resulting in “just another fire”. The usual suspects– numerous Republicans, “the families,” New York’s tabloids, etc.–have duly jumped on this statement. The statement was apparently intended by Issa as a justification for opposing funding of an aid-to-New-York-bill, thereby screwing various rescue workers and other New Yorkers sickened by toxins released from the 9-11 events– who were...

I have been quite critical of the lack of political courage shown by the Democrats since re-taking control of Congress, but this morning’s surprise announcement at a joint news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers that articles of impeachment against the President for high crimes and misdemeanors will be presented to the House Judiciary Committee certainly puts an end to such criticism on my part. Pelosi and Conyers announced that their articles of impeachment “were much better than that lunatic Cynthia McKinney’s” and “made a whole lot more sense than that idiot Kucinich’s.”...

Damned if I know. That’s kind of the point, is it not? I got an e-mail from Randy earlier in the week, to tell me some dreadful news about someone we both knew from our work lives. As coincidence would have it, Norman was someone I had met in the job I managed to secure in White Plains, New York shortly after September 11th (I lost my previous job because of the proximity of that office to the WTC site, i.e. one block North of what is now the north side of “Ground Zero”). Norman was often kind enough to...

“If I can’t have it, NO ONE CAN!” Thus is the classic tantrum of many a small child, or, at present, twenty small, rich, spoiled children, who wrote a letter to Nancy Pelosi essentially threatening not to contribute to Democratic causes any longer unless Speaker Pelosi takes back her statements critical of Hillary Clinton’s attempts to save the party by stealing the nomination back from those stupid voters. I suspect that when this tactic starts to spin out of control (or be spun out of control, as the case may be), as with many a prior gaffe, Team Clinton will...

While I think of someone to post a picture of, check out Daddy’s Amercan Street entry of the week, If God Wanted Us to Keep these things, He wouldn’t have put them in the way. Daddy tells me I haven’t yet done… Ashley Tisdale. ! That’s right, Ashley Tisdale. (Click on her to see what she thinks about the dog she’s holding… and someone else.) I’m pretty sure that, like Selena Gomez, Ashley’s cool exterior hides a seething cauldron of petty jealousy and supreme rage. At least, I hope so. This has been… Vox Parvi Popui.