A New Look!
As you are most likely noticing, Dog Canyon is sporting a new look. As Dog Canyon has grown and changed over the past year, our audience has grown as has our pack of writers. To better reflect the diverse content you will find on Dog Canyon, we have changed its format. You can now find multiple articles featured on Dog Canyon on the home page. We hope it inspires you to do some hunting through the more than 600 pieces and learn something new about the world.
As with most things online, change is the only constant. You can expect the site to continue to morph and change as we get used to our new skin and as we reflect the feedback we get from our audience.
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george w bush Archive
Tarballs and Tainted History
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on July 12, 2010 | No CommentsOur friend Rachel Farris, otherwise known as blogger Mean Rachel, visits DogCanyon with a great post. We’re proud to welcome her to the Canyon, and recommend everyone read this, visit her blog regularly. You’ll wanna send her presents. By Rachel Farris BP’s wells aren’t the...A Troubling Pattern in America’s Obama Story
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on June 7, 2010 | 3 CommentsGeorge W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 and was appointed president by the conservative U.S. Supreme Court. A sanctimonious pundit class tells us it is crabby, unpatriotic and uncivil to dwell upon that bit of history. But questions of legitimacy (“does he really...
When Johnny Came Home
By James C. Moore | Posted on April 28, 2010 | 2 Comments(Author’s note: The president is expanding American presence in Afghanistan. The Iraq war does not appear to be ending any time soon, in spite of significant troop draw downs. I voted for something else and I support neither conflict. In 2003, when President Bush launched...
Coyote Nation
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on September 20, 2009 | 7 CommentsCoyotes have come to the city. I sit here writing in the foreshortened suburban night and listen to them howling and singing out back, hidden in what we used to call a gulch but is now called a green belt. A coyote can hold a...
Texas Political Guidebook — Chapter Two
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on September 13, 2009 | 3 CommentsTexas is a place bursting at the stock-pens with proud and determined individualists who live by the motto: conform, or I shoot. To those not fortunate enough to have lived in Texas, there is in this a mild suggestion of hypocrisy. A visitor from back...Character Versus Brand: A Lesson in Framing
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on May 24, 2009 | No CommentsAdvertising and marketing gurus have so successfully established the importance of “brand” that we in the political sphere often lose sight of the real core of political argument: character. The distinction is not trivial. Brand is about a list of facts or attributes. It’s character...Little Words Mean Life or Death: Framing Health Care
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on May 10, 2009 | No Comments“Little words can mean death or life to someone.” -Electra, in Sophocles’ tragedy, Electra. People die who could be saved. People suffer who could recover. Those are the consequences of the private insurance-based health care system in America today.Secession and Racism
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on April 19, 2009 | No CommentsAnd now, just after the inauguration of America’s first black president, comes loud talk of secession and nullification. What a coincidence. It seems like only yesterday that right-wingers were condemning critics of a president as un-American, chanting “Proud to be an American,” and branding as...The Real Battle Line
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on January 25, 2009 | No CommentsIn his first couple of days in office, President Barack Obama signed executive orders closing secret prisons, ending state torture, and erasing eight dangerous years of official government secrecy.