Army Strong

Blackfive approves of the new Army commercial.

So do I.

Yes, I can tick off a list of every emotional trick being used in it. (Sorta part of my job.) But that’s why I like it.

Armey vs. Dobson

Dick Armey, who seems to make sense just about every time I read him, has a smackdown of Dr. James Dobson. Seems the Focus on the Family leader may not be the benign teddy bear of his public image.

As Majority Leader, I remember vividly a meeting with the House leadership where Dobson scolded us for having failed to “deliver” for Christian conservatives, that we owed our majority to him, and that he had the power to take our jobs back. This offended me, and I told him so.

In a later meeting Dobson and a colleague came into my office to lobby against a trade bill, asking me to stop the legislation from going to the House floor. They were wrong on the issue, and I told them no. Would you at least postpone the vote, they asked? We have a direct mail fundraising letter about to go out to our membership, they said.

I wondered then if their opposition to the bill was driven less by their moral compass and more by the need to rile their membership and increase revenue. I wondered then, if these self-appointed Christian leaders, like many politicians, had come to Washington to do good, but had instead done well for themselves.

How to Be a Racist in England

Simply be a student and mention that you can’t understand what your table mates are saying because they don’t speak English.

Then you get arrested.

Any questions?