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The Girl From Ipanema
Monday, 29 June 2009, 12:18 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Dozens of people have been killed by suicide car-bombers in Iraq over the last several days in an ominous upswing of violence that gives lie to the recent veneer of stability in that nation. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Grand Old Parachutes
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 10:41 am | William Rivers Pitt
George W. Bush crawled out of the puckerbrush last week to deliver a speech in Erie, Pennsylvania, in which he took a poke at President Obama. "I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor," he said, before doing exactly that. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Walking Soft
Monday, 22 June 2009, 11:33 am | William Rivers Pitt
A lot of different things have been happening in Iran over the last several days, some of them hopeful, some of them ominous, and most of them as opaque and inscrutable as the country itself. Ever since last weekend's election, hundreds of thousands ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Why the Caged Bird Sang
Monday, 18 May 2009, 11:39 am | William Rivers Pitt
Dick Cheney has been doing a lot of talking lately. From his most recent barrage of public statements, we have gleaned that he loves Rush Limbaugh, doesn't much care for Colin Powell, believes President Obama is about to sell the Sixth Fleet to the ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Get Ready
Monday, 11 May 2009, 1:45 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The news of Supreme Court Justice David Souter's imminent retirement hit Washington, DC, to paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, like a dung bomb. Not that there isn't a great sense of excitement over the prospect of what the next few months will almost certainly ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Bad Trouble in Pakistan
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 11:33 am | William Rivers Pitt
America's attention has for several years been focused on the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for good reason. Thousands upon thousands of American troops, along with tens of thousands of civilians, have been killed and maimed. The ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Other 100 Days
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 11:22 am | William Rivers Pitt
President Obama marked the 100th day of his term with a prime time press conference on Wednesday night, during which he highlighted a few key accomplishments while reminding the American people that he has quite a lot of crazy crap to deal with. A swine flu ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Rift
Saturday, 25 April 2009, 10:50 am | William Rivers Pitt
An interesting report popped out of the blogosphere on Tuesday concerning some political upheaval in Arizona. Ben Smith, writing for Politico.com, revealed that long-time Republican Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain was staring down ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Barbary Wars, Continued
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 2:08 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It's a very odd time to be alive in the United States today. Two wars, a staggering economy, domestic political upheaval, and now, what, pirates? America was still in short pants the last time piracy got this much attention around here. Back then, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Opening Day
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 11:03 am | William Rivers Pitt
Monday in Ohio, Texas, Arizona, Maryland, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, California and a small corner of Canada was Opening Day for the 2009 Major League Baseball season. Last year's World Series winners, the Philadelphia Phillies, began their season the ... More >>
Old, New, Borrowed and Dumb
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 3:00 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Everyone knows the old adage about new brides needing something old, new, borrowed and blue for their weddings. Well, a number of Republicans have taken the line and recreated it for use in their attacks on the Obama administration. For them, now ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Getting Well
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 10:52 am | William Rivers Pitt
The Obama administration won its way through to passage of the economic stimulus package, and President Obama will sign the thing on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he's going to Phoenix to kick off a big national push for fixing the foreclosure crisis. There ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: America Needs a Job
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 3:13 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The news to begin the week could not have been any more jarring. Due to a stark downturn in demand for glass used in flat-screen televisions and computers, Corning Inc. announced it would be cutting 3,500 jobs, or 13 percent of its payroll. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: First Steps on a Long Road
Saturday, 24 January 2009, 4:28 pm | William Rivers Pitt
So Bush is out and Obama is in and change has come, and you've probably read or heard this enough times already, so let's move on, because reality must sadly intrude. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A Great Gettin' Up Morning
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 1:14 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The cover of the newest Nation Magazine depicts a painting of Obama's inauguration rendered and submitted by a member of the online web forum DailyKos. The painting is in no way historically accurate, as Thurgood Marshall is depicted delivering the ... More >>
William Pitt: The Most Ridiculous Speech of All
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 1:49 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Two separate miracles were visited upon the Earth on Thursday. In the afternoon, an Airbus filled with more than 150 people took off from La Guardia Airport in New York. Ten minutes later, it was floating down the Hudson River with its passengers ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A Very Bad Year
Thursday, 1 January 2009, 3:57 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The year 2008 began on a Tuesday. Matters went downhill swiftly from there. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The War in Common
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 11:16 am | William Rivers Pitt
I met a chef from Texas who was like an oak tree with tattoos, and made a mean barbecue sauce. He'd been in the 101st Airborne and was about to be deployed to Iraq, but destroyed his knee in a training exercise and wound up getting discharged. He knew ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Back to the Grind
Friday, 14 November 2008, 10:23 am | William Rivers Pitt
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election has completely and totally screwed up my life. Seriously. It has been more than a week now, and I'm ... More >>
Tomorrow
Tuesday, 4 November 2008, 7:28 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It has been a long and terrible time since tomorrow mattered as much as it does today. It began with that first terrible election, the media manipulations, the stolen and uncounted votes, the menacing mobs, and a decision by the highest court which ... More >>
