Entitled Entitled Hippo

by | Nov 19, 2008 | Cherchez La Femme

I had a small and ancient fourth grade teacher with an affinity for elastic-waisted calico house dresses. We liked to call her Mrs. Itchy-Butt. She was evil. I recall her not allowing a girl to go to the bathroom, that girl then peeing in her chair, and Itchy-Butt...
Why We're Fighting

Why We're Fighting

by | Nov 19, 2008 | Leisure

In Michael T. Klare's Blood and Oil, current American foreign policy is examined in light of a 1945 meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Saudi king Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud. The pair agreed that the U.S. would provide military protection to Saudi Arabia, and...