MoDo gets inside Arnold’s head. Believe it or not, this isn’t a humor piece. Scary.

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Even the New York Times is taking Bubble Boy to task for his insulation from anyone who disagrees.
Some of this may be a pose that is designed to tweak the media by making the news appear to be below the president’s notice. During the Iraqi invasion, when the rest of the nation was glued to [...]

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The spineless Dems - yes, even Biden - are feeling the effects of the political Viagra injected by Bush’s polling freefall.
Even some of those who had previously backed the administration were harsh in their judgment.
“The administration waited until the 11th hour to begin planning,” said Senator Joseph R. Biden, Democrat of Delaware, speaking to the [...]

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I hope the media continues to question the official version of this story.

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I don’t get involved in the Israel-Palestine rhetoric wars. It’s too complicated and time-consuming, it’s not my area of expertise. All I can say as a point of common sense is, whatever they’re doing doesn’t seem to be working.
That said, I thought this was worth mentioning.

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And we don’t even get cheap gas out of this whole mess.

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Salon has an excerpt from “Bushwacked!”, the new book by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose about the Boy King:
There he was. On the Tuesday after a long Fourth of July weekend. In the ballroom of an ornate Wall Street hotel that once housed the New York Merchants Exchange. Standing in front of a blue-and-white backdrop [...]

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So now we’re running the Iraqi government like a business.
But several American and Iraqi specialists contend the U.S. occupation authority has been slow to address the problem. Immediately after Hussein’s government fell, they maintain, more money and attention should have been focused on buying spare parts and trucking in large, gas-powered generating units that can [...]

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What a miserable failure he is.

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A panel of security experts says Microsoft’s monopoly on operating systems creates a major security risk.
Well, duh. That’s why so many government sites are switching to Linux or Apple servers to run Unix. Because Windows is shoddy and full of holes!

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Check this out. Via Corrente.

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So what’s up with Bush going on and on about the sex slave trade during his U.N. speech?
I mean, come on. When his brother Neil admitted to having sex with “two or three women” in Thailand, did Incurious George connect the dots? Why isn’t Neil in jail? And why aren’t we invading Thailand, where American [...]

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A bi-partisan group of congressman returned from Iraq, stating the American media was emphasizing bad news at the extent of the good.
Now, compare and contrast from Angry Bear.

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Wired reports the Army used the JetBlue passenger data in what sounds an awful lot like the Total Information Awareness program. You know, the one they said they wouldn’t use?
According to a corporate press release from May 8, 2002, the Torch-built system would identify “abnormal events or activities that may include rebel actions before damaging [...]

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Diebold has shut down the website that broke the story about their electronic voting machines.

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Good golly, Miss Molly.
For eight long years, this country was a zoo of Clinton-haters. Any idiot with a big mouth and a conspiracy theory could get a hearing on radio talk shows, “Christian” broadcasts and nutty Internet sites. People with transparent motives, people paid by tabloid magazines, people with known mental problems, ancient Clinton enemies [...]

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Jimmy Breslin knows what real reporting is.
So the three now say that they never said that Hussein was involved in the World Trade Center attack. Look up what we said. We never said it.
Of course they did. Anybody who thinks they didn’t is a poor fool. Take a half-word out of a sentence, replace it [...]

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More costs shifted back to the states. Are there still people left who don’t get what he’s doing?

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Well! Isn’t this special. Ahmed Chalabi’s nephew is getting rich off the Iraqi reconstruction. Wouldn’t it be something if American papers did stories like this?
Amid all this boasting about its lucrative connections, IILG is surprisingly modest about the family connections of its founder, Salem Chalabi. The website doesn’t mention that he is a nephew of [...]

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I still don’t know if I’ll vote for him, but I really like Dean’s speeches.
Dean launched his broadside against the administration in Kerry’s backyard, at a rain-drenched rally in Boston’s Copley Square, where he called on supporters to lead a modern-day grass-roots campaign to oust the president by pointing to the Revolution as a comparison. [...]

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Salon takes a look at the latest recipient of faith-based government largesse: the Unification Church and the wacky (but much loved by the GOP) Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
Read this and tell me again how Bush is a man of God.

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Just think: If we overwhelm the courts and prisons even more, and cut services so they’re even less, we’ll probably be able to outsource the criminal justice system to some hardnosed MBAs who will “run government like a business.”
I wish Charles Dickens was still alive.

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The American take isn’t much different:
But that was not how others, from the secretary general of the United Nations to the French president, saw it. The invasion of Iraq, to them, remained a dangerous act of unilateralism now beset by intractable problems.
The audience of world leaders seemed to perceive an American president weakened by plunging [...]

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A former Philadelphian living in London sent this today:
George Bush was increasingly isolated on the global stage yesterday as he defied intense criticism from a litany of world leaders at the United Nations over the war on Iraq. Showing no contrition for defying the world body in March or the declining security situation in Iraq, [...]

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Apropos of nothing (or maybe the repair bill I just got slammed with), I had a sudden urge to memorialize all the old cars I’ve ever owned:
1. 1963 VW Beetle, aqua. “The Little Darling.”2. 1966 VW Beetle, white. I did the body work and painted it. Stolen next day.3. 1966 Chevy van, tomato red.4. 1964 [...]

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Digby says it all for you.
I wish it were 1972 again or even 1992 again and I could feel sanguine that the United States was going to toddle along, for better or worse, under a basic bipartisan consensus that recognized certain constitutional boundaries and limits that could not be breached. I wish that we had [...]

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Bob Somerby says it’s deja vu all over again. Check it out.

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I guess this is what they mean by the “Texas miracle.”

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Nice piece about the human side of Wesley Clark on Open Source Politics today.

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Salon has an interview with Bev Harris today on the dangers of electronic voting.
I’m not that brilliant. Immediately when they began looking at the GEMS program they began commenting on the fact that it has no — it’s something called referential integrity. And what that means is that there are many different ways that it [...]

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