James Carville could have had anyone, and yet he picked Mary Matalin. But his judgment is sound on other issues.

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Anne Lamott on Alfred E. Newman as “Top Gun.”

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Why does Salon refer to Andrew Sullivan as a “gay liberal columnist”? Has Andy had a St. Paul-like conversion on the road to Damascus?

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Gee, I dunno. It seems to me that if my party often refers to my sexual orientation as “the gay lifestyle” and compares me to pedophiles and those who have sex with animals, well, it seems to me I’d have to be crazy to run for the Senate as one of that party. Wouldn’t that [...]

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Memories of another war…

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Dick Lugar, Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committe, breaks ranks with the Bushies and warns that we’re on the “brink of catastrophe” in Iraq.

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This is what it looks like when the Busheviks support our troops.

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Bob is God.

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Groups tracking the Iraq war damage say they estimate 5,000 to 10,000 civilians died. And the Boy King is still “feeling good” about that, no doubt.

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“But Karl, I thought we told them we wouldn’t govern by polls…”

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He was right here and I didn’t even know it - my fave rave SCOTUS justice (and I use the word loosely). And of course he was hanging out with wingnuts who want to stop the City of Philadelphia from recognizing same-sex partners.

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The Buzzflash interview with Sid Blumenthal is pretty amazing.
BUZZFLASH: Starr accused you of obstructing justice because you were merely talking to reporters.
BLUMENTHAL: Yes — what happened was I got subpoenaed. Reporters were writing articles critical of Starr and his office and their tactics, and writing articles about who the prosecutors were, what their histories were [...]

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WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: Richard & Linda Thompson, “The Dimming of the Day.” I see you on the streets in company/ Why don’t you come and ease your mind with me/ I’m living for the day we steal away/ I need you at the dimming of the day.

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Need a laugh? Check out this “interview” with Mrs. Ari Fleischer. Also via Skippy. Or these statements from Tbogg on Ari’s future plans.

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Jerry Bowles over at Best of the Blogs points out the people at the CMA Awards last night (the ones who booed the Dixie Chicks) are the multi-millionaires who run the business - and not rank-and file country music fans. And Skippy the Bush Kangaroo shares the news that the Chicks were (of course) the [...]

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I’m a fan of “24,” even though I have trouble following the plot sometimes. Nice piece from Salon (via Atrios) pointing out just how thin the present line is between political allegory and reality.

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WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Free As A Bird,” The Beatles.

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Doctors are still arguing with success.

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Bob Herbert puts Halliburton in perspective: Yeah, they’ve ripped off the U.S. taxpayers for millions - but they’re no Dixie Chicks.

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A symbolic victory for a pretend president who couldn’t give a rat’s ass about what this does to anyone who isn’t already a millionaire. Party on, Garth!

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In reading a review of her latest (last) book, I was shocked to learn Caroline Knapp was dead. That she died last year at 42, from lung cancer complications.
For those of you who don’t know who she is, she’s the author of “Drinking: A Love Story,” probably the single most moving account of addiction I’ve [...]

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Read the text of NYT reporter Chris Hedges’ speech at Rockford College, for which he was booed off the stage:
The seduction of war is insidious because so much of what we are told about it is true — it does create a feeling of comradeship which obliterates our alienation and makes us, for perhaps the [...]

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More from Salon on Christie Whitman’s resignation.

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The job interviews continue to pour in. I asked one of the employers yesterday why everyone was hiring again, all of a sudden. “Well, you know, now that the war is over,” he said.
Isn’t that cute? He thinks the war is over. In America, we think: If it was still happening, wouldn’t it be on [...]

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Aaron McGruder is God.

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Another installment in the GOP’s Enron-inspired “Let’s Run Government Like a Business” production… Turns out they made a $70 billion error when adding up the cost of the “Leave No Millionaire Behind” dividend tax cut. Oops.
The error means that a reduction and then temporary suspension of taxes on dividends paid to shareholders, which is contained [...]

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Miss Arianna explains why, despite the Orange terror alert, the Bushies think things really are getting better:
Bush and his fellow fanatics are the political equivalent of those yogis who can go without air for hours. Such is their mental control, these political masters can go without truth for, well, years. Because, in their minds, they’re [...]

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The Red Sox beat the Yankees. Hahahahahahaha.

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NRA bumper sticker: “An armed society is a polite society.”

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Dear Diary,Sid has been saying such awful things about my friends. But then my friend Mikey said, “Nuh-UH, he’s a big fat LIAR.” And my friend Jonah said so, too. He said he’s, like, bored with the whole thing. So I’m glad that’s settled.Love,David Frum

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