Someone sent me this in response to the Greg Palast piece on Cynthia McKinney. Close, but no cigar. McKinney certainly asked some tough questions but she never actually accused Bush of knowing about 9/11.

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And speaking of blind faith, what is it with things like this? There’s an office building with a similar condensation problem on Route 19 down in Clearwater, Florida. Over the past decade, believers have donated enough money for a religious group to buy the affected office building and there’s a 24/7 prayer group outside, complete [...]

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Wait, didn’t I read just last week about all those poor people whose doctors don’t recognize they have a Paxil/Prozac/Effexor/Wellbutrin etc. deficiency? And didn’t they say if everyone would just take their pills, everything would be hunkydory? Because this seems to contradict that.

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Jordan over at Confined Space pretty much nails it on the so-called “workers comp” crisis.

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Shameless, really. Just shameless.

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George W. Bush is still a big, fat liar. And the lapdog press is letting him get away with it.

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Marketing. It’s all marketing. Go read this.

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CAN I GET AN ‘AMEN’?
Danny Goldberg says it all:
The left as well as the right can learn to communicate so that “the boys in Lubbock can understand it”. Unless it connects with a mass constituency, progressive politics is like the proverbial trees falling in a forest that no one hears. Professors and critics can and [...]

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What do you do when your preference on the Moveon.org ballot is, “I’m not sure yet”? Some suggestions.

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For those of you attempting to follow, this is the best summary I’ve seen of the SCO lawsuit against IBM - the one that claims pieces of UNIX have been incorporated into Linux.
Will Linux suffer irreparable harm? Once again, there are a range of opinions on this subject. Although no one is recommending outright abandonment [...]

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Welcome to the Invertebrate Party. Their symbol is the jellyfish:
The problem isn’t that Democrats are on the wrong side of the issues. They are afraid to make an issue of being on the right side - not to mention directly in the middle of mainstream America.For example, three out of four Americans believe the latest [...]

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DON’T WORRY, IT’S ONLY BRIBERY. NO BLOWJOBS INVOLVED.
Now Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) is part of the Westar ethics scandal.
Internal Westar documents show a concerted effort to send campaign funds to certain key members of Congress who would help the company “get a seat at the table.” In those documents, made public during an unrelated investigation, [...]

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One of the few independent voices in journalism is Jimmy Breslin, and he says maybe it’s time for him to leave:
Because of it, I am thinking that it could be time for me to begin thinking about leaving this news business. It is not mine anymore. Let me tell you why.
Friday, the newspapers and television [...]

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Well! When even George Will expresses public doubt about the WMDs, you have to wonder.

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We need to stop them. They’re evil.
Top Bush advisers do not believe one election alone creates a political realignment, but they know that 2004 is the key date in their long-term plan for expanding the party.
One part of the strategy calls for continued care and feeding of the party’s tripartite base of economic, national-security and [...]

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Hmmm. A piece on why it’s been raining every weekend - a combination of a trapped weather system and urban air pollution.

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Short version: Pensions are vastly underfunded, businesses say they can’t expand if they have to put all the money in their pension funds, Congress figures out a way to let them off the hook while fooling workers into thinking they will actually get a pension. Feel better now?
“The reason these funding rules were put into [...]

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WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: The Beach Boys, “Surfer Girl” - I have watched you on the shore/ Standing by the ocean’s roar / Do you love me/ Do you, surfer girl?

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My son once quipped, “I fucked Liz Phair - and then I ran.” Well, I like Liz. And I don’t expect her to do the same thing over and over, so no matter who trashes her new album, I figure it’s gotta be worth a listen.

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You know, I really should have mentioned this earlier: In response to concerns over the effect on growing human resistance to antibiotics, McDonald’s is going to require all its direct suppliers to certify the beef, chicken and pork they purchase is antibiotic-free. Way to go, Mickey Dee.

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STILL NO BLOWJOBS, STILL NO OUTRAGE
From the June 9th Newsweek:
Bush administration officials say that U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon expected that American troops in Iraq would stumble across all kinds of lethal and “dual use” equipment made by Western companies as they comb through the wreckage of Saddam Hussein’s military-industrial complex. Among the more [...]

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Now he blames looting for the missing WMDs. Which would really point to his war as a failure, wouldn’t it?

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WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE? OOPS, NEVER MIND, NO BLOWJOBS INVOLVED
Fair.org points out that the media have been very, very good little boys and girls, keeping quiet and sitting politely with their hands folded in their laps over Gen. Wesley Clark’s amazing statement on last week’s Meet the Press: That Bush administration officials called him on Sept. [...]

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Pending legislation would give religious organizations sponsoring Head Start programs the right to discriminate against workers not of the sponsor’s religion.

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Don’t forget, the Moveon.org primary is coming.

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In a symbolic move that reeks of pathos, Joe Lelyveld plans to change the New York Times headline fonts. A bold, Bush-like move, eh?

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Quote of the week and possibly the month:
We’re so used in this country, in the post-Vietnam era, to seeing the media in an adversarial role when it comes to the government and military action. When a network like Fox drops some of that adversarial role and takes the government often — although not always — [...]

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Would any of my readers like to suggest a title for this new venture?

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You know, I’m in a definite minority on this. My kids didn’t have TV in their bedroom until they were in their teens, and whenever they watched a PG or R rated movie, I sat in the room and watched it with them. I figured I couldn’t keep them from watching what was out there, [...]

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Sid Blumenthal responds to Joe Lelyveld’s review of “The Clinton Wars” and Lelyveld answers his assertion. I’m too tired to sort it all out. So I’ll leave the heavy lifting to Joe Conason and Gene Lyons.

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