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Mark Drolette: Attempt To Save The Country Falls
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 3:26 pm | Mark Drolette
My plan to inspire one million pissed-off Americans (the “madder’n hells”) to descend upon the U.S. Capitol on September 26, demand Congress hold hearings on the Downing Street Memos (DSM), and then attend said hearings while re-swarming the building ... More >>
The March/Swarm Of The Madder'n Hells, Part II
Monday, 4 July 2005, 9:24 am | Mark Drolette
'Twould appear I'm not the only American who's fed up with the political goings-on in our country today. Fancy that! My most recent article, "The march of the madder'n hells," calling for one million of us to march to both the White House and Capitol ... More >>
Mark Drolette: The March Of The Madder'n Hells
Monday, 27 June 2005, 10:53 am | Mark Drolette
All right, I think the choir's been preached to long enough. Let's get out of the pews, start spreadin' the news, and reclaim our country already. It's time to march on Washington. (As in the District of Columbia. If you end up in Spokane, don't blame ... More >>
Mark Drolette: Dems forget first rule of C.Y.A.
Monday, 20 June 2005, 11:39 am | Mark Drolette
I have this dream: I'm a U.S. forest ranger. (Must be the hat.) I oversee a national park, and for longer than I care to admit, I've allowed all of its trees, streams, plants, critters -- you know, the foresty-type stuff -- to be subjected to regular ... More >>
In A Land Of Sausage Brains, Suspect The Wurst
Friday, 10 June 2005, 5:14 pm | Mark Drolette
As bad as things are in America, I've always felt safe in saying I'd consider leaving the country only in the unfathomable event Dubya started offering vocabulary lessons. So.when's the next flight to Costa Rica? More >>
Mark Drolette: Spaced Cowboy's Space Cowboys
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 2:37 pm | Mark Drolette
As any politically-minded American should know, it's never a bad idea to regularly revisit the document that enumerates the core principles by which the American government operates. More >>
Mark Drolette: Is Fascism Really All That Bad?
Monday, 23 May 2005, 11:20 am | Mark Drolette
Amidst all that's been written about Newsweak's agreement to now let the Bushies vet its reporting in the wake of the magazine's article about Guantanamo Bay interrogators' rather rude treatment of the Quran, a particular piece by Terence Hunt of the Associated ... More >>
Not-So Endearing Enduring Military Bases In Iraq
Friday, 20 May 2005, 1:35 pm | Mark Drolette
It's not easy writing about something about which I know very little, but I'm going to try anyway. (Hey, you, in the back. I heard that. It has too stopped me before.) More >>
Mark Drolette: Star-Struck And Proud Of It
Monday, 2 May 2005, 10:43 am | Mark Drolette
I'm pretty ticked off at the media right now, and here's why: Why should I have to turn to page A7 of the local paper before I get to the news that matters most to me and other well-informed Americans these days: the Michael Jackson case? This is ... More >>
Mark Drolette: Even Two Boots Is Two Too
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 10:44 am | Mark Drolette
The Eyes Wide Open exhibition, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, came to Capitol Park in downtown Sacramento recently. I live right across the street, so it took me about three minutes to walk to the traveling presentation on a gorgeous ... More >>
Pointless Political Parlor Game, American-Style
Monday, 18 April 2005, 12:49 am | Mark Drolette
For over two centuries now, a favorite pastime in which Americans have partaken shortly after each presidential election has been to predict the major political parties' standard bearers for the next quadrennial go-round. More >>
U.S. Human Rights Record (Flayed in China)
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 4:04 pm | Mark Drolette
Remember when communists used to be our mortal enemies? Now, apparently they're our mortal friends, 'cause if weren't for reds, particularly those of a Chinese bent, we'd be hard-pressed to find anyone else to regularly buy ever-riskier U.S. Treasury ... More >>
Comic Relief From Feith While Bushies Lie
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 11:45 am | Mark Drolette
It really is a shame neoconservative Douglas Feith, current undersecretary for policy for the Department of Defense ("Death Dealer, Level IV" on the federal government pay scale, I believe), is so dangerous, 'cause the guy comes up with stuff that would ... More >>
Drolette: The Fashionable Politics of Face-Spiting
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 12:02 am | Mark Drolette
My neighbor's poodle died the other day. It's very sad, of course. What's worse is now I have to take my dog out back and shoot him. He's not ill. In fact, he's in perfect health. But because my neighbor has endured a loss, I must now similarly ... More >>
The Benefits Of A Deep Message, Er, Massage
Monday, 21 March 2005, 12:12 am | Mark Drolette
My wife and I spent a couple of days recently at a beautiful hot springs resort to garner some rest and relaxation. The garnerin' was good. I even came away with a little inspiration, and here it is: I wanna go back. More >>
Hey, Look at Me, Everybody: I'm Evil! Who's Next?
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 11:26 am | Mark Drolette
I knew it was only a matter of time before I was publicly identified as a scourge to society, and now it has happened. According to Arnold Schwarzenegger, I am evil. More >>
U.S. Govt - If It Walks Like A Goose… (Part II)
Monday, 28 February 2005, 8:12 pm | Mark Drolette
Mark Drolette writes: Religion and ruling elite tied together. Unlike communist regimes, the fascist and protofascist regimes were never proclaimed as godless by their opponents. In fact, most of the regimes attached themselves to the predominant religion of the ... More >>
Mark Drolette: Pizza, Ice Cream, and Free Speech
Monday, 21 February 2005, 6:49 pm | Mark Drolette
I got lucky the other day. (No, I'm not talking about that kind of lucky. What do you think I am, a ''family values'' Republican at convention?) More >>
U.S. Govt. 2005: If It Walks Like A Goose (Part I)
Monday, 21 February 2005, 6:36 pm | Mark Drolette
Previous readers know I can be a little, well, uh.rough on the Bushies, for lack of a better term (like, say, ''unapologetically brutal''). That's OK; I've never had a problem calling a spade a spade, or, for that matter, a scoundrel a scoundrel. More >>
Quarter Mil for a Shill: So Much for a Free Press
Monday, 24 January 2005, 11:23 am | Mark Drolette
The Bushies really should have come to me before bribing -- uh, hiring; no, no, I was right the first time -- right-wing commentator Armstrong Williams to shill for the federal No Child Left Behind Act in his newspaper columns and on his radio and ... More >>
