Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
Matt Taibbi on Clark in the Nation:
You can see something in the eyes of most all the Democratic candidates: the pugnacity of Howard Dean, the idealism of Dennis Kucinich, even (surprisingly) the elaborate sense of humor just under the surface of Joe Lieberman.
Not Wesley Clark. His eyes are blank. Like a turtle resting on […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
ON TRANSITIONAL HAIR
Men (the straight ones, anyway) probably don’t get this, but when women are ready for a big change, we usually do something to our hair first - almost like a trial run. It seems hardwired into our DNA.
For those of you of the male persuasion, pay attention. When the woman in your life […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
And so it grows…
Troops and their families and employers will soon find out if they will be affected by the Pentagon’s latest mobilization of 17,000 reservists for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In addition those mobilized Wednesday, nearly 8,000 reservists have been alerted for deployment to Iraq and around 700 for deployment to Afghanistan.
The […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
I don’t understand. I thought he said… oh, never mind.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who boasted during his campaign that he would not be beholden to special interests, has accepted a $53,000 donation from a company operating a private prison in the state slated to be shut down. The donation last week to the Republican, who […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
It’s hard to pick a favorite Bush boy; like their mother Babs, I love them all. But Neil sure is providing a lot of entertainment value these days, isn’t he? I just love reading and re-reading this story:
The hotel trysts took place while Mr Bush was working as a consultant for Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
“You know how it is. We were all caught up in things and, well, he grabbed my head and he really wanted me to swallow. It seemed important to him, so I did.”
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
Welcome to BushCo, where soon your country will also be in thrall to pharmaceutical interests.
Having beaten back price controls on prescription drugs in the United States, the American pharmaceutical industry is trying to roll them back overseas, with help from the administration and Congress.
In talks over a free trade agreement with Australia, American officials […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
Well, now we know the going price for a vote.
A provision benefiting a specific hospital in Tennessee was added to the Medicare bill at the last minute in an effort to get the vote of Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., Democrat of Tennessee.
The hospital was not named in the bill, but was described in terms […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
I love Studs Terkel, and the 91-year old has a new book:
My new book is called “Hope Dies Last.” I must have been crazy to try it. But something just occurred to me and I had to do it. Years ago, in an earlier book, “American Dreams Lost and Found,” I interviewed an old Mexican […]
Posted in General on Nov 27th, 2003
Arianna Huffington has the text of resignation letters from Bush officials, and adds her own subtext. Pretty funny. And sad.
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
I guess I must have scanned this story the first time I linked it, because I missed this:
The Bush divorce, completed in April after 23 years of marriage, was prompted in part by Bush’s relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips […]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
I suppose this is better than being that kid in India who had the snake in his penis.
But not much.
On the other hand, this doesn’t sound quite as bad, although it’s probably hard to get any work done.
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
Now here’s a man after my own heart.
Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy, is an army of one, the David in an era of Goliath-strength government stealth.
Armed with a pocket-size copy of the Constitution, the Freedom of Information Act and an investigator’s patience for source-building, Aftergood is out […]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
Good golly, Miss Molly. You said it all:
Wow! Not one, but two huge, horrible, last-minute life-changing bills, and the second is even worse than the first! Record-shattering bad legislation immediately eclipsed by record-shattering bad legislation. These Republicans have talent: It is not easy to do this much damage to people’s lives with a straight face […]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
Bill Grieder on why he’s for Dean:
I first observed these qualities during Dean’s second-to-last term as governor. Vermonters were inflamed–everyone was coming after him–when he and Democratic legislators enacted the infamous Act 60, a school-financing-equalization law that compelled the “gold towns” to share their property-tax revenues with poorer townships. Faced with general outrage, Dean barked […]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
You know, I’m with Eric Alterman: It really is scary to know how right we were.
Garner also complained of bad relations between the Pentagon and State Department, saying he didn’t learn of a detailed study by Secretary of State Colin Powell for post-war Iraq until just a few weeks before the war began in March.
[…]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
Bob Somerby compares and contrasts the NYT treatment of Bush’s military “service” vs. that of Gore - and Dean. For God’s sake, read the whole thing. It will make your blood pressure explode.
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
I’d say this is about right:
The House Republicans’ manipulation of the Medicare vote was characteristic of the bullying, win-by-any-means style that has become the congressional norm. More than at any time during their nine years in control, congressional Republicans have been unabashed in their exercise of raw political power. However poisonous relations between the parties […]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
DROP THE TUTUS, GET OUT THE CATTLE PRODS
If we’re going to win, we need to learn how to herd some cats. Anyone who gets past the fence should be shot on sight:
Longtime party strategist Harold Ickes was at a loss to see any upside to a Republican victory in an area Democrats have always owned. […]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
For once, a Nick Kristof column I won’t make fun of:
The Vatican has consistently opposed condoms and safe-sex education, even claiming falsely that condoms don’t protect against AIDS. That’s on par with the church under Pope Urban VIII putting Galileo under house arrest — except that this will have more deadly results.
Yet I take […]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2003
Harvey Fierstein asks the question: What if Santa Claus was gay?
The unhappy tradition continues today. The Bush administration spends billions spreading freedom abroad while at home it devises legislation to deny equal rights to gays and lesbians. What is it with you people, anyway? Are you so insecure about the way you handle marriage that […]
Posted in General on Nov 25th, 2003
One of Orrin Hatch’s staffers was put on leave for illegally accessing Senate server files.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he had put one of his staffers on administrative leave for improperly obtaining data from the secure computer networks of two Democratic senators.
Hatch, R-Utah, said preliminary interviews suggested that a former Republican […]
Posted in General on Nov 25th, 2003
Here’s a few highlights from Neil Bush’s divorce deposition:
According to legal documents disclosed Tuesday, Sharon Bush’s lawyers questioned Neil Bush closely about the deals, especially a contract with Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, that would pay him $2 million in stock over […]
Posted in General on Nov 25th, 2003
DOESN’T HE LOOK PRETTY IN THAT PINK TUTU?
I got this from Tom Daschle in my mail today. See if you laugh as hard as I did:
Dear Tom, The Republican attacks against our federal government endanger Social Security, Medicare and education funding, prevent a real prescription drug benefit and middle class tax cut and raise our […]
Posted in General on Nov 25th, 2003
Mike Signorile on why the gay marriage controversy may hurt the GOP more than the Democrats.
Few if any Democratic, Independent or Republican swing voters (most of whom are moderates) are going to look at the Democratic candidate for president and say, “Okay, I like his economic policies, and I like his foreign policy positions, and […]
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