Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
If Michael Leavitt does for the EPA what he did for Utah, we’re fucked:
Watchdogs like Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have for the past 30 months been revealing one horror story after another of environmental law being compromised by Bush appointees eager to please their former colleagues (or employers) in one or another environmentally damaging [...]
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
You’ll notice how the Mighty Wurlitzer is gearing up for another rendition of “the liberals are gleeful over the horrors of Iraq…” Total and complete bullshit. What’s going on is sad, disgusting, infuriating - you name it. (Just read Bob Herbert’s column today.) But gratifying? Only the wingnuts could believe those who opposed the war [...]
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
As Miss Molly so rightly points out, “When in doubt, disagree with DeLay, and you’ll be okay.”
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
The incomparable Mark Murford on the Boy King’s inaction figure:
Country’s in shambles and economy’s gutted and schools are shot and Iraq’s a violent bloody mess and joblessness is rampant and it’s a proud time indeed to be an American, and hence you might be asking yourself, what, pray what, can I give the hardcore lockstep [...]
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
Joe Conason on the corporate thievery behind the blackout.
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
Josh Marshall on Tom the Bug Killer’s master plan.
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
Krugman nails Arnold:
Even Mr. Schwarzenegger’s description of the state economy is pure fantasy. He claims that the state is bleeding jobs because of its “hostile environment” toward business, and that California residents groan under an oppressive tax burden: “From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they’re taxed.”
One look at [...]
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
E.J. Dionne puts it right out there today:
Last March on “Meet the Press,” moderator Tim Russert asked Cheney: “If your analysis is not correct and we’re not treated as liberators but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, bloody [...]
Posted in General on Aug 22nd, 2003
MY NEW GANGSTA-PIMP ‘PUTER
As my regular readers know, I’ve been in computer hell for the past few weeks. (Still in limbo, but getting out soon, I hope. I’ll have to ask Jim Capozzolla how many Hail Marys it’ll take this time…)
Anyway, they called me the other day from the computer-repair place. It seems Compaq put [...]
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2003
Sounds like a great lady. Her kids should be proud.
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2003
USE YOUR ENEMY’S STRENGTH AGAINST HIM, GRASSHOPPER
Now, here’s a great link. Put in your zip code and you’ll get a list of all the newspapers in your area. Then click on “write a letter,” and a form comes up for that very purpose.
The thing is, it’s the Bush campaign site. They set it up to [...]
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2003
BRINGING FAMILY VALUES TO THE FORE
I thought this was the party bringing morality back to Washington? Oh, I forgot - Rep. Janklow was home in South Dakota when he slammed into this guy and killed him.
Another story - I’ll have to dig it up - pointed out he’d had quite a few tickets fixed before [...]
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2003
GUERRILLAS GONE WILD?
On the personal front: I’m much cuter than this. And my desk is a lot messier.
Just so you know.
Posted in General on Aug 21st, 2003
THE LEGACY: IN DEFENSE OF A SHORT, RICH, INCOMPETENT GUY WHOSE DAD’S APPOINTEES HANDED HIM THE MOST POWERFUL OFFICE IN THE WORLD
Don’t get me wrong, I love my country’s CEO. I don’t why people say he doesn’t take his job seriously - I mean, come on, people! After he received news of the U.N. bombing [...]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Fuck the Poor, General, Life in the Big City, Our Booming Economy, Politics As Usual on Aug 20th, 2003
Jimmy Breslin will never be a media whore. That’s because he cares about ordinary people, not the Georgetown social scene.
A baby screamed in a stroller. The cry was contagious and now another screamed. A woman who was first in line at a window held a baby who yelled. She opened her shirt and breast-fed the [...]
Posted in General on Aug 20th, 2003
Now, admit it. Does this really surprise you?
A provision of the federal energy legislation that a congressional conference committee will consider next month would dramatically reduce the regulatory oversight of the nation’s largest energy firms. The section, which has received scant attention as lawmakers and environmental groups focus on issues of oil drilling, proposes to [...]
Posted in General on Aug 20th, 2003
Four 9/11 mothers are going after Bush for all the actions he did - and didn’t - take.
After the formal meeting, senior agents in the room faced a grilling by Kristen Breitweiser, a 9/11 widow whose cohorts are three other widowed moms from New Jersey.
“I don’t understand, with all the warnings about the possibilities of [...]
Posted in General on Aug 20th, 2003
The idea is spreading like a stain.
Ohio Republicans may take a cue from state legislators in Texas and Colorado and tinker with the lines that shape their congressional districts.
Ohio Democrats emerged unscathed from redistricting after the 2000 census when district lines were redrawn to reflect changes in population — even though the GOP controlled the [...]
Posted in General on Aug 20th, 2003
CROCODILE TEARS
Here’s an op-ed piece from the Times on “How to create a terrorist haven”. (You guessed it - we did it.)
What I’m really wondering, though, is when someone is going to state the “other” obvious: Bush and the Repugs did everything in their power to denigrate, erode and attack the credibility of the U.N. [...]
Posted in General on Aug 20th, 2003
“Bring ‘em on.”
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
Ashcroft is coming to Philadelphia - irony of ironies, to the Constitution Center. To promote the Patriot Act.
Excuse me while I choke.
Now, the Philadelphia City Council rejected the Patriot Act. So this should be interesting.
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
And now, on top of everything else, workers have to worry about losing overtime pay. Yet they still think Bush is on the side of working people. Go figure.
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
“Scores” of people reported injured in the U.N. Headquarters explosion in Baghdad.
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
Today is the Big Dog’s birthday. Happy birthday to the last elected president!
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
Krugman on faith-based deregulation:
Anyway, market manipulation aside, energy experts have long warned that deregulation would lead to neglect of the grid. Under the old regulatory system, power companies had strong incentives to ensure the integrity of power transmission — they would catch the flak if something went wrong. But those incentives went away with deregulation: [...]
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
If Karl Rove would love to run against Howard Dean, why is he trying so hard to emulate Howard’s internet base?
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
It all depends on what you mean by “sexual relations.”
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
WHY I HATE GATES
Okay, so the actual “new” used computer is in the shop, having the hard drive wiped of the horrendous Windows Millenium. I get it back tomorrow night. Until then, my blogging will be sporadic. Try to be patient - as patient as I have to be with the evil that is the [...]
Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2003
My first-born called last night to tell me he saw “Jason vs. Freddy” - and it “sucked.” I started laughing. “Don’t you think the mere fact that it existed should have been warning enough?” I said.
Now, I happen to like the “Nightmare on Elm Street” movies - some of ‘em, anyway. I can’t say the [...]
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