Sherry Chandler

A commenter at The Sideshow, who blogs at Pruning Shears, suggests that we are all being distracted from vital issues by the horse race of our Democratic primary. He (signs Dan so I assume he) had in mind focusing attention on the Bush administrations war crimes so that they will be brought to justice.

I would agree, to an extent, that media coverage of the primary and its every gaffe and cough is withdrawing attention from important matters. The problem is that there are so many crises that it fatigues the mind. And I have no real faith that Bush will ever be brought to justice. None of our three candidates is talking anything serious on that front.

Dan Froomkin summarizes exactly what Bush has admitted in the Washington Post. Via

Here is the ACLU action page. Sign their petition or use their language as an outline to write a letter to the editor.

A reminder of Washington Monthly’s No Torture, No Exceptions issue

I do think, however, that this election is one of our vital issues. The country is seriously wounded by 8 years of Bush and our choice of leader will determine whether we can heal ourselves. And you can count me as one of the old women who is seriously angry about the sexism manifest in so many aspects of this campaign. Some healing needed about that for sure.

Are working class voters really “bitter?”. Kevin Drum says it may be more complicated than we think.

Kevin also pointed the way to The Feminist Re-awakening.

And then there’s Salon’s Rebecca Traister: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!

In other issues, Kevin Phillips says debt has become the U.S’s principle industry. I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with an old Nixon advisor but if I hear the man right he’s saying what I’ve been saying for years. The whole American economy is a bubble kept up by borrowed money.

By the way, NPR keeps trying to convince me that the Pope has a softer side at the same time that their newscasts tell me how close his moral stance is to that of GWB. I’m sorry. I remain unconvinced.

On the war front: Why the Surge Doesn’t Matter. From War and Piece

And in Kentucky, as you no doubt know, the Republicans threw a party — at which Geoff Davis lives up to his name and Mitch McConnell illustrates why he didn’t go into stand-up. Non-apology followed.

And the Supremes held up our lethal injection techniques.

Accept — well — consider: just as life has its twins, its symmetries, two eyes, two hands, day and night, hot and cold, life and death, so also it has its triplets, its asymmetries. The nose makes a triangle on the face, brow to chin makes a triangle, shoulders to pelvis. When we place our two feet wide on the ground, we make a triangle with the earth, a stable stance. The nature of God is triple: father, son, holy ghost (father, mother, child). The nature of the Goddess is triple: virgin, mother, crone. The Fibonacci sequence contains both two and three.