Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
BushCo would prefer we were all serfs:
More than 8 million workers in the United States will be ineligible for overtime pay under a plan proposed recently by the Bush administration, a research group said Thursday.
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a liberal Washington think tank, examined a proposal by the Labor Department to change the criteria [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
The latest from Mark Murford, minor God:
Speaking of gutted school budgets, let’s talk sex. Or, rather, let’s talk no sex, given how the snide sexless GOP very much wants kids to know sex is icky shameful wrong anti-Christian sin (well, hello, Mr. Ashcroft!) and hence we have BushCo’s malicious and asinine little $135 million “abstinence-only-until-marriage” [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
The Moveon.org primary results are in. And since no one candidate received more than 50% of the vote (the closest was Dean), they will not endorse at this time. Check it out here.
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
Pretty funny story from Salon. A website selling satirical T-shirts gets a cease-and-desist order from Fox News.
In a letter dated June 19, 2003, Christopher Silvestri, senior counsel for the network, accused Agitproperties.com of trademark infringement and ordered the company to stop selling the shirts. “Furthermore, the T-shirt ‘O’Reilly Youth tee,’ in addition to the infringements [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
No surprise here. The House turned down a proposal to expand the investigation into whether Bush twisted intelligence to justify invading Iraq.
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
WE PAUSE FOR A BRIEF COMPLAINT…
The thing I hate most about this humidity and heat is how the pollen just hangs there in the air. I made it ’til 8:33 a.m. today, when I gave up - I closed the deck sliders and turned on the A.C. My eyes are so itchy and they feel [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
This reminds me of a conversation I once had with a local lawyer when a particularly vicious and powerful Republican leader died.
“Going to the wake?”
“Oh, yeah. I want to put a stake through his heart and make sure he’s really dead.”
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
Today’s Krugman:
Mr. Confessore suggests that we may be heading for a replay of the McKinley era, in which the nation was governed by and for big business. I think he’s actually understating his case: like Mr. DeLay, Republican leaders often talk of “revolution,” and we should take them at their word.
Why isn’t the ongoing transformation [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2003
Seriously - do you think it’s the bow tie? Does wearing a bow tie do something to the synapses, cutting off blood and oxygen to the part of the brain that weighs logic against proportion? I’ve noticed it with Tucker, too.
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
And how thoughtful, that they protected all those priests.
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
I’m glad the Texas sodomy was struck down (as you know, I am TOTALLY behind sodomy) but I’m actually more interested in this SCOTUS ruling - and happy with the way it turned out.
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
Hoo WHEE! Next thing you know, it’s cats and dogs, sleeping together….
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
The Beeb is standing firm on its Iraq war coverage, despite “unprecedented” pressure from Downing Street:
BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan reported last month that a senior British intelligence official had told him that the government’s first dossier on Iraq’s weapons programme, published last September, had been “sexed up” at Downing Street’s request.
In particular, the official [...]
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
Well, looky here. The wingnut behind the Gov. Gray recall effort appears to have some rather flexible morals!
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the driving force behind the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis, was prosecuted with his brother in San Jose in 1980 for allegedly faking the theft of Issa’s Mercedes Benz sedan and selling it [...]
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
Mark Murford, one of my personal heroes, just won won first place in the online columnists division of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists contest.
Congratulations to a sick, twisted genius!
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
Oh, boo fucking hoo. The Busheviks are worried Tom the Bug Killer will make them look a little, um, extreme…
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
Miss Arianna on “Legally Blonde 2″:
Sitting between my teenage daughters while watching Elle take on the U.S. Congress, I was struck by the palpable affect it had on them: they left the theater inspired, empowered, and talking about the things they wanted to change, and the ways they might be able to change them. None [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual on Jun 26th, 2003
Hmm. Is this related? The woman thought to be Christie Whitman’s successor at the EPA has resigned.
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
WHILE YOU’RE STILL CHOKING ON THE OZONE, THINK ABOUT THIS.
A former Superfund lawyer for the EPA says she was pressured to keep quiet about her concerns when an EPA agreement let Monsanto off the hook for an immediate cleanup:
Instead, the federal government took over and imposed a consent decree that mandated a federal study rather [...]
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2003
WELL! ISN’T THAT SPECIAL?
This, from today’s NYT:
Long-term capital gains accounted for 64 percent of the income of the top 400 in 2000, nearly double the level in 1992. Wages contributed 16.7 percent to the incomes of the top 400 in 2000, down from 26.2 percent in 1992, and dividends made up 2.8 percent.
A second report [...]
Posted in General on Jun 25th, 2003
MoDo on Clarence Thomas is pretty funny:
What a cunning man Clarence Thomas is.
He knew that he could not make a powerful legal argument against racial preferences, given the fact that he got into Yale Law School and got picked for the Supreme Court thanks to his race.
So he made a powerful psychological argument against what [...]
Posted in General on Jun 25th, 2003
If you’d like to keep from making yourself crazy from worrying over prescription drugs (I’m writing on an Apple again and can’t find link commands), remember this: Be very careful about taking any systemic drug - that is, one that affects all of your organs and systems - for a limited effect.
Because the drug companies [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Jun 24th, 2003
This morning, I’m headed down the shore (this is how Philadelphians say “to the beach”) for a few days. I’m celebrating because I’m getting a formal job offer this Friday. And no, Bush’s tax cuts didn’t create a new job - someone else resigned and I’m the replacement.
Anyway, I’ll be checking in and I’ll [...]
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2003
Here’s a nice brochure to print and hand out at your 4th of July celebrations.
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2003
The Angry Liberal is back at Buzzflash with this take on “the birth tax”:
Here is a fun comparison of the “Death Tax” with the Birth Tax:
1. While the “Death Tax” was paid from less than 2% of the of the richest estates, the “Birth Tax” will be paid by everybody who pays federal taxes, including [...]
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2003
Krugman asks why so many people are willing to cover up the Boy King’s lies:
So why are so many people making excuses for Mr. Bush and his officials?
Part of the answer, of course, is raw partisanship. One important difference between our current scandal and the Watergate affair is that it’s almost impossible now to imagine [...]
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2003
The Shi’ite fundamentalists are gaining power in Iraq, and women are suffering the most. What a catastrophe! Iraqi women thrived in the most secular Middle Eastern country, and now they’re reduced to covering their hair and staying inside. More “freedom.”
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2003
NEUROLOGICAL PARENTING
Very, very interesting. And yet another thing my kids can discuss when they eventually go into therapy:
When you have a meltdown as a parent, you lose many of those nine functions, what we call the “low road.” Your emotions become out of control. You’re no longer attuned to your child, it’s hard to remain [...]
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2003
Okay, who did you vote for in the Moveon primary? I surprised myself; when it came right down to it, I voted for Kerry instead of Dean.
Why? Two reasons: I remember how ineffectual Jimmy Carter was with Congress, simply because he had so little experience. If the public decides to throw Democrats the White House [...]
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2003
Snow and rain = wet = mosquitos = West Nile Virus and encephalitis. All we need now are locusts.
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