Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
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.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Krugman on wagging the dog:
So what’s the problem? Wars fought to deal with imaginary threats have real consequences. Just as war critics feared, Al Qaeda has been strengthened by the war. Iraq is in chaos, with a rising death toll among American soldiers: “We have reports of skirmishes throughout the central region,” a Pentagon official […]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2003
Why tech jobs aren’t as secure as you might think:
Controversy over the visa, which has been in existence for 33 years, is not entirely new. Three years ago, the General Accounting Office reported that the the Immigration and Naturalization Services, the precursor to B.C.I.S., had found a high incidence of fraudulent use of L-1 visas […]
Posted in Our Booming Economy on May 30th, 2003
First it was “short-term economic stimulus.” Then it was a “jobs bill.” Now it’s “tax relief,” and that’s why it’s okay to shaft minimum-wage families who would actually spend the money they get (thus creating economic stimulus”) because it’s not an economic stimulus bill and it never was in the first place.
Democrats and some moderate […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
Daily Howler Bob Somerby expands on the media’s role in the new tax cut:
WASHINGTON POST: [T]he administration and lawmakers have opted for the easy way out in the bill Mr. Bush will sign today: a temporary and inadequate fix that simply gets taxpayers through this year and next without subjecting even more taxpayers to the […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
The Busheviks are invoking the Hatch Act to keep Head Start employees from lobbying to save their program:
The national association interpreted the letter as a threat to workers’ First Amendment free speech rights.
“Head Start has been around for 38 years and no previous administration has ever seen fit to twist and contort the federal laws […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
Whoever turns out to be the Democratic presidential candidate would do well to emulate the Texas Democrats.
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “The Look of Love,” by Dusty Springfield. The look of love/ Is in your eyes/ A look your smile/Can’t disguise/ The look of love/ It’s saying so much more than/ Just words could ever say/ And what my heart has heard well/ It takes my breath away/ I can hardly wait […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime Reporter is a personal hero. Check here for a short interview about what it’s like going head to head with Ari Fleischer.
RUSSELL MOKHIBER: Well, what we can say about Ari is that he’s very good at what he does, which is be the minister of disinformation and make sure that […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
It’s Testosterone Day over at Go Fish. Bait your hook and cast your line.
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
You already knew this, right?
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN. NO, WAIT, CALL THE NEW YORK TIMES. UM, NEVER MIND, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.
Where are the indictments? Where’s the special prosecutor and the multimillion dollar investigation?
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft or his aides blocked investigators from probing U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor as part of a fraud case involving illegal loans by the […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
How can you not love the irony of this:
Another umpire said he and his colleagues had to change their strike zones from QuesTec park to QuesTec park. “For years, you’re reacting to what happens; you call what you see,” he said. “In a QuesTec city, you say, ‘What is the machine going to say?’ not […]
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
Uh, Mom, Dad, I didn’t do my homework because it’s not called “homework” anymore - it’s “discretionary academic enrichment” and therefore doesn’t fall under the homework guidelines.
Marketing. It’s all marketing.
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
So video games are good for you. Well, why not? Except your carpal tunnel - they’re hell on that. My sons are avid gamers and yes, they do take in details that simply astound me. But they were geniuses to begin with (I understand it’s hereditary).
Posted in General on May 29th, 2003
EXTREME POLITICS
Lies, lies and more lies. Can we just cut the crap? When are Democrats going to stop admiring the cut of the emperor’s new clothes and call this what it is? A naked power play, an attempt to destroy all social programs and re-distribute income to the rich.
Remember Clinton’s budget drama? The Republicans chanting […]
Posted in General on May 28th, 2003
HUMAN RIGHTS ‘A LA CARTE’
Amnesty International, whose human rights work was used to justify the war on Iraq, says the war on terror is making the world worse for everyone:
Releasing its annual report into global human rights abuses in 2002, the London-based watchdog made one of its fiercest attacks yet on the policies pursued by […]
Posted in General on May 28th, 2003
Iran’s leadership is doing what the U.S. media has refused to do: Calling the Bush administration on its double-talking.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said on Tuesday the arrests had not quelled U.S. concerns about al Qaeda in Iran.
Asked about Fleischer’s comments, Asefi turned the tables.
“On the contrary, we believe America is not serious about fighting […]
Posted in General on May 28th, 2003
CalPundit’s Kevin Drum says he’s worried about the housing market. So is Matthew over at It’s Still The Economy, Stupid, and so am I. Probably not such a good time to buy a house:
Falling mortgage rates have indeed helped keep the housing market frothy, but they don’t have much farther to fall. Eventually, unless the […]
Posted in Class War, Politics As Usual on May 27th, 2003
Via Altercation, interesting piece from Dissent on the shortcomings of Michael Moore.
Posted in General on May 27th, 2003
From Best of the Blogs, the latest on the Texas “investigation” into how the Killer Ds were targeted - and the subsequent coverup. Apparently there’s a story about a large gap in a tape and a faulty recorder… deja vu?
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