Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
Boo fucking hoo. A Jewish Republican whines that people always say “Republican assholes” as if the two words are intrinsically linked:
To be sure, in this era of diversity and sensitivity, a veritable cottage industry has sprung up to stamp out bigotry and intolerance. Many of those who have dedicated themselves to the eradication of bigotry [...]
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
Amy Sullivan in the Washington Monthly talks about why the Democrats can’t afford to ignore the religious vote next year:
If you have any doubt that it is still possible to charge up a Democratic-leaning audience with religiously tinged rhetoric, listen to the sermons at some liberal churches. When the Rt. Rev. John Chane, Bishop of [...]
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
The hot new topic in the Blogosphere is wikis. What are they? Basically, web content anyone can edit - from any browser. The implications for community and grassroots organizing are clear.
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
Miss Arianna says it all: The Democrats are a buncha gotdammed pussies. Do I offend any of you politically correct types? Too bad. That sort of hedging is exactly why they’re in the winner’s column and we’re not. This is war.
These dithering poltroons are so paralyzed by the fear of doing or saying something that [...]
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
Sean Penn’s full-page ad in the New York Times has Freeper panties in a bunch - apparently without them ever having read the actual text. Here it is.
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
A former FCC chairman calls the impending media deregulation a “right wing power grab.”
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
Some truths are self-evident. (Like this, for instance.) And, as a woman who has often been told I have an alluring voice (I talk on the phone for a living; no, it’s not what you think so get your filthy, dirty, liberal mind out of my warm, moist oral cavity), I have nothing to add [...]
Posted in General on May 31st, 2003
So I’m reading this, and suddenly it comes to me: The White House has been invaded by New Agers. It’s the Completion Backwards principle. They decided Iraq should be an imminent threat, and so they set about to, like, manifest it? And sure, the intelligence community was filled with negative non-believers, but they couldn’t stop [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Great piece on “even the liberal New Republic” and its media lies:
Back in the 1980s, the NR loved Reagan’s foreign policy. The magazine’s editorials, often penned by Krauthammer, led the cheers for such Reagan-backed torturers and murderers as the Nicaraguan contras, the Salvadoran army and Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA rebels in Angola. No matter how many [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Marketing. It’s all marketing.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
I’m proud to be from Philadelphia, the birthplace of the American Revolution, home of the non-discriminatory Boy Scouts - and the giver of the middle finger to the Patriot Act.
Our citizens will also be demonstrating against George W. “I’m All For War As Long As I Don’t Have To Fight It” Bush when he visits [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
THE GEEK TEST
Go ahead, I dare you.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
The Guardian has an interview with Salam Pax and the story behind “Where is Raed?”
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Via Bartcop: You know, when you’re sick to death of the lapdog media and their love affair with the Boy King, there’s always another great piece from Take Back The Media.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
From Confined Space, yet another example of the Bushevik mentality: Why should we regulate that? Everyone will do the right thing. Even though they haven’t done it before… but we’re sure everything will be fine.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
It’s like the end of The Wizard of Oz, and everyone is finally waking up.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
More on the Judy Miller Show from Slate.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
On the Jessica Lynch story: I’ve said this before and I’ll repeat it. On CNN, there was a very strange comment made by the military spokesman at the press conference announcing her “dramatic” rescue. One of the reporters asked why the camera crew was present, and he responded something along the lines of, “in case [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
E.J. Dionne on the new rules in politics:
With a slim congressional majority, Bush would have been expected to seek genuine compromise — under the old rules. But Washington has become so partisan and Bush is so determined to push through a domestic program based almost entirely on tax cuts for the wealthy that a remarkably [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Michael Kinsley on the surprising Supreme Court decision on the Family and Medical Leave Act:
Now, a brief trip down memory lane. The Family and Medical Leave Act requires employers to give as many as 12 weeks of unpaid leave for medical and other emergencies. Bush I vetoed it twice. It was the first major piece [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
“Trust me.” Right up there with “the check is in the mail” and… well, you know the rest.
Administration officials denied that Bush’s goal was to farm out government workers’ jobs to private companies. They said that Bush’s goal is to encourage competition and that federal workers could very well win the contests and keep their [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
A bunch of fat old white men have a frat reunion - in this case, on the lawn of the White House.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Cradle of Love,” Kelly Willis. Down in the valley/ You can lose your name/ All your sorrow and your pain/ Dark cold waters/ They can heal you/ And make you/ All brand new again/ So baby come on over/ And lean your head on me/ Come on into/ My cradle of [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Lying, like gambling, is a virtue. Notes from the GOP 2004 playbook.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Sandra Day O’Connor defends the Supreme Court coup that put the Boy King in the White House:
“I think we did the best we could,” O’Connor told Fox News Thursday in what may be the most extensive public remarks yet made by a justice on the December 2004 Bush v. Gore (search) court case.
O’Connor said the [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
“He’s really phony and conceited, just like Al. You know, stuck-up? Omigod, and did you see that haircut?” These are the middle-school lunchroom tactics with which the GOP hopes to undercut Kerry. Which is on a par with their statesmanship and economic abilities…
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: Beach Boys, “God Only Knows.” Young Rascals, “How Can I Be Sure?”
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Everyone knows the tax bill is bullshit, but of course, being academics, they have to come up with a “reasonable,” less offensive way of saying so. Here’s one, from the Century Foundation:
Wasow’s paper attacks five so-called myths invoked by defenders of the tax cut.
First, it disputes the “myth” that the rich deserve most of the [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Big Brother is back - but in a nice way. The latest cartoon from Mark Fiore.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
“I’ll think about that tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day.” - Scarlett O’ Hara
Kristof on the hunt for the possibly imaginary WMDs. And Jake Tapper on the effect this has on our allies.
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