If you are here you fall into one of three categories:

1. you’re here by accident
2. you’re a friend of mine who got coerced or tricked into coming here through a link I sent you
3. you think Bush is evil

Given the three visitors per week I get, I suspect that most people fall into at least two of those categories. Anyway, looking through my server logs the other day, I realized that a couple of my twelve visitors for January managed to arrive here by typing the phrase “Bush is evil” into Google. So here is a shameless self-promotion of my products that allow left-wing wackos like me to fly their colors.

Note that most of the designs below come not just in the versions pictured, but as bumper stickers, t-shirts, tote bags, messenger bags, coffee mugs, beer steins, fridge magnets and so on and so forth. Also, please note that Cafe Press, who manufactures and delivers the goods, has had some trouble with the black t-shirts. That’s why most designs are not available in black t-shirts (esp. the Burning Bush one). Aside from some color print black shirts, usually the quality is excellent. If for any reason it is not, contact CafePress (all the info is available when you order) and ask for a refund or replacement. They are normally excellent about this.

	Proud member of the vast liberal conspiracy I don’t want to focus on the negative, so though this missive is really oriented at angry people who think that our dear leader is evil, I did want to throw in something positive. I like to focus more on what I’m for than what I’m against, and this one is more along those lines: “Proud member of the vast liberal conspiracy.” It’s also a bit whimsical because, from where I stand, I see the country being taken over by a vast right-wing conspiracy and a cabal of administration cronies. However, they see the vast liberal conspiracy lurking everywhere, and I just want to do my part to make us easier to find. Please, come debate me on the issues. Despite Anne Coulter, I’m proud to own up to a variety of liberal treasons such as social security, medicaid, civil rights, women’s suffrage and a variety of other crimes that liberals have committed.
	Lost. One Democracy. Great Sentimental Value This is my second most popular design, by which I mean I have sold one to someone (four actually). If you can’t read the caption on your monitor, the text is: “Lost. One democracy. Major military and economic power. 300,000,000 citizens. Last seen in North America cavorting with corporate fat cats and religious fundamentalists. If seen, please return to the American people. Great sentimental value.” This was actually the idea that got me making these “products” in the first place. Originally, I had wanted to take out ads with this wording in papers across the country in the lost and found sections, but that was starting to look expensive and I wasn’t sure what the point would be. Then I found out about Cafe Press, so I photoshopped up the text to look like it has been torn out of the newspaper and put it on a t-shirt. The organic cotton tee is slightly off-white, so that one looks like a yellowed old newspaper because the background color shows through as you can see in the picture.
	Miracle of the Burning (George W.) Bush I originally thought about calling this site The Pretzel Conspiracy in reference to the time our fearless leader was almost taken out by a terrorist pretzel, but first I don’t generally like to promote violence, second I don’t want to write about just politics and third, I don’t want Cheney as president either. Anyway, this was one of my first designs.
	I think, therefore I didn’t vote for Bush (Latin) I’ll be sort of surprised if I ever sell one of these since the number of people who know Latin and hate Bush is a relatively small subset. Basically, this is a takeoff on Descartes’ famous “Cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am). I was thinking that if Descartes were living today, he might be forced to say “I think, therefore I didn’t vote for Bush” and so I did up this nice little cursive design in Latin: “Cogito ergo non Frutici suffragatum sum”. A Latin scholar told me he might choose a different word for bush, but frutici is definitely one possible way (this is one of the aggravating things about Latinists is that they are always arguing about the best way to say this or that). Anyway, the Latinists who have seen it have immediately gotten the joke and gotten a laugh. I suppose that means that there is a potential worldwide market for this baby of about 32 people.

If none of that appeals to you, there are literally thousands of anti-Bush items at Cafe Press by thousands of people who are much more talented artists than I.

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I generally don’t like to merely comment on news stories, but since this one hits on several issues mentioned here before, here it is: Google, U.S. Clash Over Online Searches – Yahoo! News

I don’t even know if the Bush administration is in fact being evil in the case at hand. Maybe there is a compelling interest in protecting youth in subpoening search records from major search engines, the putative rationale for the subpoena. What the case shows me, rather, is that they just don’t get it. Hot on the heels of a myriad of allegations of human rights abuses from detentions without trials, first encouraging torture and later insisting on refusing to take a firm stance against it, and finally with illegal wiretapping, they just don’t seem to get that more and more people fear and distrust the Bush adminsitration. Effectively, the Bush administration is like a convict on probation with everyone on the left and many traditional conservatives who are in favor of limited government. Anything with a semblance of wrongdoing is going to be interpreted as malfeasance, given their consistent record of malfeasance, but they still seem to think that they have some ethereal political capital to spend based on the narrowest of electoral victories. All in all, I’m starting to like the Bush adminstration more and more, since I can’t think of anyone since Nixon who has done as much to harm the Republican party.

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One would think that, having spent the second half of the twentieth century fighting one protractrated struggle against an implacable ideological enemy, we might have learned something. The Bush administration’s actions would seem to indicate that we did not. What should we have learned? That in a war of ideals, ideals that are not practiced do not triumph.
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Quick quiz: what does the Bush administration stance on torture, and their stance on wiretaps have in common? Disregard for constitutions and treaties? Well, that’s obvious, but how so? Disregard for human and civil rights? Sure, but exactly how so? There is something fundamental that ties together much of the Bush administration’s policy from the Ashcroft inJustice Department to the Gitmo detentions without trials. Before reading on and having your mind corrupted by my screed, think for a couple seconds about your take and drop it in a comment.
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