There are some things a weasel or a snake wouldn't do....

Regular readers may recall that I have long considered John Dean to be one of the most despicable characters in American politics. Not that I'm alone in my assessment. For years the man has been called a rat, and while...

The terrorist and the "plumber"

In the ongoing campaign to minimize Bill Ayers (discussed previously in this post and others), the latest meme is an attempted moral equivalency comparison between Obama's friend Bill Ayers the terrorist, and McCain's friend G. Gordon Liddy the Watergate burglar....

What if they gave a Republican sex scandal and nobody came?

"(expletive deleted) Of course, I am not dumb and I will never forget when I heard about this (adjective deleted) forced entry and bugging. I thought, what in the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are...

Correcting wikipedia entries

Considering the Wikipedia editing scandal that's erupted lately, I don't know whether this is the right time for me to be raising questions which go to Wikipedia's "integrity," so perhaps I should hold off on publishing this post; perhaps not....

Questioning authority (and other forms of "authoritarianism")

Sorry for the long post which is about to follow, but the time has come for me to return to the roots of my various political (doubtless infantile) disorders. A better choice for the title of this post might be...

Is CHB leftist? Is CHB rightist? Do I care?

I'm getting a bit tired of Capitol Hill Blue. It's an unreliable web site which I'd never read before July 16, and I think it's staffed by sock puppets. John Hawkins had it right in February, when he said: I...

"A result of rigid toilet training"

I'm glad I called myself a "Goldwater liberal" before this latest bout of psychopolitical "analysis" started: Something is rotten in the state of conservatism, says John Dean in Conservatives Without Conscience. Today’s conservatives are “hostile and mean-spirited,” “vengeful, pitiless, exploitive,...

I hope Felt wasn't Deep Throat

At the risk of being a total bore (I try to make this blog fun, and if there's one thing I hate it's being forced to take things seriously), I have to raise a serious question about Mark Felt. Please...

Deep Throat -- a heavy non smoker

Rick Moran at RightWing Nuthouse has an excellent summary of the little-known Moorer-Radford affair. (Before Watergate, the military had been spying on Nixon, who called the ring "a federal offense of the highest order" when he found out about it,...

Will the real composite please stand up?

"It's OK to leave things out to protect the identity of a source, but to add something affirmative that isn't true is to publish something you know to be an inaccuracy. I don't believe that's ethical for a reporter." Thus...

A lie about a lie about a lie?

If Deep Throat was Mark Felt, then Woodward was lying. About Deep Throat, of course. And if Woodward was lying, considering that Deep Throat was Woodward's (and Bernstein's) construct, then why the fuss about Deep Throat? I'm just not buying....

Watergate begins with DUBYA

And George Dubya has now been indicted! Here's Spike Lee, discussing his latest film "She Hate Me" in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer:Q: Are you putting this movie out in an election year on purpose? A: It just happened....

The Suspicious Rise Of Michael Savage

Please brace yourselves, because this post will sound a bit crazy. But I have to say it, and it's personal. Earlier today, while in the middle of writing the last post in which I mentioned Watergate and my history with...

Enemies In Need, Indeed

Enemies In Need, Indeed More on fanaticism. Radical fundamentalists often strike me as insecure people who use fanaticism to bolster an unacknowledged lack of confidence in their beliefs. Sometimes I see atheists behaving the same way. Fundamentalists and atheists...