MAN BITES DOG
Wow. What does it mean when even Howie Kurtz is writing thoughtful columns? I’m going to have to lie down, I’m feeling faint at the very idea.

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TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME
Okay, here’s a thought: Don’t we have a state that’s controlled by the Democrats where we can replicate what the Republicons are doing in Texas? I mean, what’s to stop the Ds from redistricting now? Couldn’t we figure out a way to get a few more congressional seats?

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WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Persuasion,” Richard Thompson. You and I/ Tempted by the promise of a different life/ Time has fled/ And there’s a constant battle running through my head/ And I don’t know what to do/ ‘Cause I still believe/ After all the foolish things you put me through/ We could always make a […]

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DIET ALERT
You know, I’m not really a chocolate freak, although I do occasionally indulge. (Some of my female friends wonder if I’m not really the formerly-male Sally from “3rd Rock“, because to them, being female is synonomous with chocolate addiction.)
But that may be about to change. Because the appropriately named “World’s Finest Chocolate” - yes, […]

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FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME
The wingnuts and fundies are oh, so happy with this administration. Which tells you a lot, doesn’t it?
Maybe I’m wrong. But I take heart from the idea that any time the extremists came out in the open with their agenda, they’ve been soundly rejected by the American people. If the […]

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HOW DO THEY STAND UP WITHOUT A BACKBONE?
Great piece, read the whole thing.
Most of us whose bylines appear in the American media should be embarrassed to look our readers, viewers and listeners in the eye. We are being held up for ridicule by real journalists, such as Webb, from nations that once looked upon us […]

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Now, here’s a great idea: Send the kids to camp.
This weekend’s camp, with 110 attendees paying $35 each to cover meals, is the first of nine planned in several states through year’s end; starting in 2004, the organizers expect to run as many as 20 Camp Wellstones each year.
…Camp Wellstone is the newest in a […]

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THE NEW DEPRESSION: COMING TO A STATE NEAR YOU
Bob Herbert on the state of the states:
The president, buoyed by the bountiful patronage of the upper classes, seems indifferent to the increasingly harsh struggles of the working classes and the poor.
As Mr. Bush moves from fund-raiser to fund-raiser, building the mother of all campaign stockpiles, states […]

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BUT WHAT IF I DON’T GET PICKED BY EITHER TEAM?
William Safire actually says something funny:
I used to fret about same-sex marriage. Maybe competition from responsible gays would revive opposite-sex marriage.
“C’mon, honey, it’s time for the ‘Heterosexual Humping’ playoffs! Who-WEE!”

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Look at this: divorce insurance. What won’t they think of next?

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IT’S STILL THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The ‘Cons really don’t get it, do they? Their strategy in New York calls for them to run a less-than-serious candidate against Sen. Charles Schumer to give Bush a better chance to win. They figure Schumer’s too popular and hard to beat, so they don’t want to stir up his supporters […]

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REMEMBER, MONEY IS HOW PEOPLE WITH NO TALENT KEEP SCORE
Dean announces he’s raised close to $9 million. Apparently this has the Kool Kidz all a-twitter and they may even let him sit at the big table, with the grownups.

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AH, WHO NEEDED A PAYCHECK, ANYWAY?
Salon’s Joyce McGreevy on helping you with your wage addiction. And for being a good little boy or girl and cleaning your plate, here’s some Tom Tomorrow for dessert.

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Daniel Meltzer in the Baltimore Sun:
I was at ABC News during the Watergate era. Early in the investigation, veteran reporter and anchorman Howard K. Smith had a one-on-one prime-time interview with President Richard Nixon, what was called then a “special.” The day after it aired, I overheard someone in the newsroom ask Mr. Smith why, […]

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BUT WOULDN’T IT BE ON FOX NEWS?
Just a warning: If you read this (and you should, the whole thing) before you go to bed, you might have trouble sleeping.
However severe these unfolding climate-change impacts seem, they are - like the canary in the coal mine - just the first whispers of the holocaust that lies […]

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PIMP DADDIES RULE
If you want to know where the Republicons are getting all that money, it will help if you read this.
Every week, the lobbyists present pass around a list of the jobs available and discuss whom to support. Santorum’s responsibility is to make sure each one is filled by a loyal Republican–a senator’s chief […]

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A GROWING CONSENSUS
Yep. What they said.

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OH SPEN-CER, I’M HOME!
Goodbye to a fabulous tough old broad.

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Checked out the NYT bestseller list, and Ann “Thrax” Coulter is nowhere to be found. And yet, look who’s no. 1. Can’t wait to see Tucker eat shoe leather!

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Q: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DOCTOR AND GOD? A: SOMETIMES GOD IS WRONG
Now, mind you, this man is a doctor:
The Senate majority leader said Sunday he supported a proposed constitutional amendment to ban homosexual marriage in the United States. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said the Supreme Court’s decision last week on gay sex threatens […]

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WHEN YOU CAN’T WIN BY THE RULES, MAKE NEW RULES
Oh, aren’t they clever little boys? From the Dallas Morning News via Josh Marshall, registration required:
For the first time in state politics, large amounts of corporate contributions made their way into political races during 2002, helping cement a GOP takeover of the Texas House, state and […]

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SINCE THERE WON’T BE ANY MONEY LEFT TO PAY FOR IT, WHY QUIBBLE?
More wisdom from Dr. Phil: “When you have nothing to hide, you hide nothing.” Is it any wonder the Boy King and his minions make us so uneasy?
An earlier analysis suggested that a Republican plan to inject market forces into Medicare could increase […]

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STILL WIPING HIS ASS WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS
John Ashcroft, well-known supporter of human rights, is using a little-known law meant to insure presidential security to arrest protestors:
The prosecutors say that Mr Bursey was not in a special “free-speech zone” that was set up for protesters half a mile from the hangar. The pro-Bush people […]

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HAVE FUN, BE SAFE
I’m going to give everyone a piece of free advice: You notice how, whenever a deck or porch collapses (or, as in the case here in Philadelphia, an entire pier), it’s during a party?
Chicago Police said as many as 40 or 50 people may have been on the porch at the time […]

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DON’T WORRY, THEY WON’T ACTUALLY FIND ANYTHING WRONG…
The feds are examining the relationship between Big Pharma and hospitals. Well, duh.
For years, drug companies have given hospitals and their doctors thousands of dollars in educational grants — money that pays for lunchtime lectures, expensive medical books, and conference speakers. Federal prosecutors are looking into whether drug […]

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