Miscellaneous political links

Okay, that was nice. I'll have to do the nice, nonpolitical personal anecdote thing more often. But I have a great big heaping stack of political links collected over the past month, too! Most of 'em are old news but rather than simply consigning them to oblivion, I'll give them their brief moment to shine in the rather feeble public glory of this blog.

Conservatives had snarky things to say when Hillary Clinton used rubber-stamped signatures to help sell copies of her book. What do they have to say, I wonder, about Donald Rumsfeld using fake auto-signatures on the condolence messages sent to the grieving families of US personnel killed in Iraq? (Discussion at DailyKos.) I guess it's probably okay. After all, Dubya and Rummy have important press conferences and golf games to get to. "Yer kid's dead. Now watch this drive!"

If George W. Bush were running against Jesus of Nazareth, his campaign advertisements would look like this.

General JC Christian, Patriot, explains it all for you. Presumably Republican Jesus would kick Liberal Jesus's ass. In a 100% manly, thoroughly heterosexual kind of way, of course.

Not exactly breaking news, but worth noting as one more example of BushCo's authoritarian, secretive, anticonservative agenda: the attempt, over the summer, to suppress legal information about asset-forfeiture procedures by which governmental bureaucrats unconstitutionally seize private property.

And, last but not least, the post-US election cover of Britain's Daily Mirror.