Uninvited
We’ll stay if we want
Searching through your closets
For your grandfathers gun
-Cake
Over the last several days, I have made several attempts at writing a piece for this site, or for the Dig, called “Minimum Wage Nation.” The basic thrust of the whole thing was going to be that, like most families in America, our beloved country [...]

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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You don’t have to hear it from me to know that things have gone south for the reasonable among us in the month or so since I left you. The last, despairing cries of my undergraduate career are echoing in the halls of the clean, ill-lighted place my days have become.
By that, I in no [...]

On February 17th, Sensenbrenner and a few of his pals introduced this legislation:

109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 24

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 17, 2005

Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SABO, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the [...]

Okay, so I don’t have a document to link to or even an actual source, but I keep hearing that the Democratic Party of Wisconsin passed a resolution at their state convention this weekend calling for the impeachment of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. This doesn’t literally MEAN anything - it isn’t as if this will [...]