Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Dec 31st, 2003
I’m taking a few days off for an adventure and won’t be blogging - unless something really, really big happens and I’m near a computer. I need a break, ’cause I’ll really be gearing up when I get back.
Here’s why.
I’ve been working (actually, one of my faithful readers has been working - I’m more of […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
Josh Marshall on the CIA leak investigation:
It’s always been more or less an open secret who the perps are in this case. And they’re very high-level folks — people with deep influence of the formulation and implementation of policy. And the wrong-doing here is directly related to the execution of policy. So if a crime […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
Another one of Karl’s photo ops turns out to be a little different than we were told.
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF
Oh come on. Are we really supposed to believe this? Because “we’d never do anything like that”? Is it a coincidence that the news broke about a special prosecutor today? For whatever reason, I’m not buying it.
U.S. forces operating in the so-called Sunni Triangle — the region of Iraq most loyal […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Krugman explains it all for you.
A good indicator of the share of increased profits that goes to different income groups is the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the share of the corporate profits tax that falls, indirectly, on those groups. According to the most recent estimate, only 8 percent of corporate […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
‘WE GOT HIM’
More on the reports that the Kurds captured Hussein and bargained with the U.S.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that US forces took Mr. Hussein into custody Saturday, Dec. 13 around 8.30 p.m. local time, but “sat on the news” until 3 p.m. the next day. However, the Herald points out that in the […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
OVERSIGHT
What a funny thing. They don’t count people who have part-time jobs and want full-time ones when adding up the unemployment figures.
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
SO LIVE A LITTLE
Mark Kleiman give his take on the naming of a special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame leak investigation:
Whether it’s good news, as opposed to a good sign, is a different question. It’s pretty obviously something less than an investigation headed by a truly independent prosecutor. It’s probably better than having the case […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
WHY ARE REPUBLICONS OBSESSED WITH HATE?
E.J. Dionne is the perfect antidote to people like David Brooks.
Republicans won in 2002, but Bush lost most Democrats forever. Conservative critics of “Bush hatred” like to argue that opposition to the president is a weird psychological affliction. It is nothing of the sort. It is a rational response to […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
BREAKING NEWS
Ashcroft is recusing himself from the Plame leaks probe. A special prosecutor has been appointed.
Attorney General John Ashcroft will recuse himself from the Justice Department’s investigation of the unauthorized disclosure of an undercover CIA officer’s identity, U.S. officials told NBC News on Tuesday.
The officials did not give a reason for Ashcroft’s decision, which Deputy […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION
Bitch, bitch, bitch. The first letter is up at my new blog, asking the question, “How do I keep my depressed blogging buddies from slitting their wrists?” Go read it.
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
GIVE ‘EM HELL, RUSS
Russell Mokhiber is one of my heroes. He’s the editor of Corporate Crime Reporter and right now, he’s on C-SPAN talking to the National Press Club; naturally, there’s only a handful of reporters in the room as he speaks on corporate financial fraud.
He’s ripping Bush and Ashcroft for their total indifference to […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
World O’Crap is bitter ’bout Bush.
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
NO GOOD DEED…
As William Pitt points out, Valerie Plame was protecting us from the people the Busheviks keep shrieking about. Until Karl decided she was “fair game”, anyway.
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
HE GETS PAID FOR WRITING, AND I’m UNEMPLOYED???
Shorter Robert Samuelson:
Hating Bush is so much ickier than hating Clinton. So there.
In response, one pissed-off regular on Democratic Underground posted the following:
I’m a Vet. He’s a deserter.
I invest in the stock market. He’s a corporate criminal.
I’m a Christian. He fakes his religion for political gain.
He lied […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
PLAIN SPEAKING
Why people want him in the White House:
“I have nothing against corporations … but we’ve got to have room in the society for ordinary people,” Dean said while talking about passage of the most recent farm bill at Green Bay Southwest High School. “Our government has forgotten we are not meant to be cogs […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
FREE-MARKET EFFICIENCY
More of that “running government like a business.”
Although fighter jets were racing toward the city after the commandeered planes, the transcripts showed that controllers at La Guardia Airport, apparently unaware of the hijackings, continued to send out flights until the second plane had struck the World Trade Center. That was nearly an hour after […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
HE’S SUCH A SMALL MAN
Joe Leiberman does what he does best - stamps his little feet.
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) charged yesterday that former Vermont governor Howard Dean will “melt in a minute” under Republican attacks if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee and said it was “outrageous” of Dean to suggest that Democratic National […]
Posted in General on Dec 30th, 2003
WHERE’S THE BEEF?
81.
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
WE PAUSE FOR A BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT
In the grand tradition of the Rittenhouse Review’s TRR, I’ve started a new blog.
It’s called The Bitching Post, and it’s really just an anarchist advice column. Think of a cross between Dan Savage, Ask Isadora, Mr. Blue, Ann Landers, Dear Prudence and Jonathan Cainer. Only better, with the same unique […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
You would tend to think that, if someone was compelled to break into this, it only tends to confirm exactly what opponents have been saying all along. Because after all, what honest person doesn’t want us to have secure, reliable voting?
A company developing encryption-based software for secure electronic voting has itself become the victim of […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
NOW REMODELING
Suburban Guerrilla now features new, larger type for those of us over 40. Hope you enjoy it!
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
Great Mother Jones interview with Tony Kushner, America’s finest living playwright:
MJ: What about the Democratic Party? Can it effectively oppose Bush?
TK: I have said this before, and I’ll say it again: Anyone that the Democrats run against Bush, even the appalling Joe Lieberman, should be a candidate around whom every progressive person in the United […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
Max speak, you listen.
I’m aware of recent speeches attesting to the Administration’s determination to stay the course in a “generational” commitment. This calls to mind what Alexander Cockburn’s father Claud is known for saying: “Never believe anything until it is officially denied.”
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
No matter what shape the rest of the world, it’s still good to be Neil Bush.
Ah, it’s nice to be Neil Bush, who seems to be living the lifestyle immortalized in those famous Dire Straits lyrics: “Money for nothin’ and chicks for free.”
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