Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
BEEF - IT’S WHAT’S NOT FOR DINNER
One expert on mad cow disease says we’re trying to lock the barn door after the mad cow is out.
So to speak.
Stauber said some analysts believed early in 1997 that without an effective feed ban in place in this country, just one case of BSE could cause another […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
In case you missed my original post amid the holiday cheer: They signed Patriot Act II into law the day Saddam Hussein was captured. With a voice vote in the Senate, so it couldn’t come back to haunt them.
Cowards.
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
The “Spleen for Dean” campaign continues to build, and this columnist points out why.
Sure, there are differences on policy matters, but that’s not what’s going on here. The Washington Democrats — incumbents, fund-raisers and the consultants who feed off them — don’t like Dean mostly because he doesn’t need them.
So far, Dean has reacted to […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
NICKLED AND DIMED
Via Pandagon, the story of my life - and countless others.
Lisa Gluskin has had a tough three years. She works almost as hard as she did during the dot-com boom, for about 20% of the income.
When Gluskin’s writing and editing business cratered in 2001, she slashed her rates, began studying for […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
See what happens when you run government like a business - instead of a public trust?
When mad cow disease was discovered in Canada earlier this year, the cattle industry and the U.S. Agriculture Department shrugged off the incident as regrettable, but unlikely to affect beef in the United States. Resisting calls for more testing of […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
RUNNING OUT OF SOYLENT GREEN
So there’s no draft coming, right? Uh huh.
According to their contracts, expectations and desires, all three soldiers should have been civilians by now. But Fontaine and Costas are currently serving in Iraq, and Eagle has just been deployed. On their Army paychecks, the expiration date of their military service is now […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
A LESSON IN PROPORTION FOR THE ETHICALLY CHALLENGED
Let’s see. Am I the only one who sees the difference here?
In 1998, Dean’s Vermont similar task force met in secret to write a plan for revamping state electricity markets that would slow rising consumer costs and relieve utilities of a money-losing deal with a Canadian company.
The […]
Posted in General on Dec 29th, 2003
Bob Herbert on the continuing loss of white collar jobs to overseas outsourcing.
Americans are working harder and have become ever more productive — astonishingly productive — but are not sharing in the benefits of their increased effort. If you think in terms of wages, benefits and the creation of good jobs, the employment landscape is […]
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
PAST AS PROLOGUE
Today my cousin sent me a 20-page document tracing what he could find of our family tree on our mothers’ side. I can’t quite follow all the relationships, but we did have two relatives who served in the Civil War - one in the Navy, catching Confederate blockade runners, and the other in […]
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
“Tough” Ah-nold - soft on crime? Will John Ashcroft let him get away with this?
Convinced that California can no longer afford its $5.3 billion prison and parole system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration is exploring moves that would all but eliminate parole conditions for nonviolent, nonserious offenders and eventually — through early release and lighter penalties […]
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
HERD MENTALITY
More of that GOP corporate protectionism they like so much:
Legislation to keep meat from downed animals off American kitchen tables was scuttled - for the second time in as many years - as Congress labored unsuccessfully earlier this month to pass a catchall agency spending bill.
Now, in the wake of the apparent discovery of […]
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
Guess which company will make a lot of money when sanctions against Libya are lifted? I know, too easy.
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
Although I haven’t been following it (I already knew Rush was a lying hypocrite), World O’Crap does a great job putting the Rush Limbaugh medical records flap into perspective.
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
GO IGGLES
Congratulations to the new NFC champs.
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
Good op-ed piece on why the Democrats need to put God back into their politics.
For too many Democrats, faith is private and has no implications for political life. But what kind of faith is that? Where would America be if the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had kept his faith to himself?
Howard Dean, the […]
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2003
The Times finally gets around to covering the Tiger Force atrocity stories.
In recent telephone interviews with The New York Times, three of the former soldiers quoted by The Blade confirmed that the articles had accurately described their unit’s actions.
But they wanted to make another point: that Tiger Force had not been a “rogue” unit. Its […]
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
You know, this NYT Dean profile is really annoying.
The image of Dr. Dean as a Park Avenue patrician is also unlike his image in Vermont as an unpretentious, penny-pinching homebody. But there is little doubt that his family’s wealth and position have played a significant role in his life.
All told, for instance, Dr. Dean’s parents […]
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
SHAME ON THEM
Did you know that Patriot Act II was signed into law last month?
Me neither.
On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers. […]
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
MORE ‘GOOD NEWS’ FROM IRAQ
Melanie over at JABITB points us to this Nation article by Laura Rozen:
When US Central Command has good news to report in Iraq, as it did after troops from the Fourth Infantry Division captured Saddam Hussein on December 13, it adores the media. But journalists say that when there’s bad news–a […]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Dec 27th, 2003
Many baby birds on my deck this morning, including some tiny bluejays. While some people think jays are a nuisance, I love them because of what they do to squirrels.
You see, there’s an evil squirrel who lives to torture me.
Every day, it climbs up on the deck railing and periodically hurls itself across the deck […]
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
From To The Barricades, via Democratic Veteran - 25 Rules for How to be a Good Republican:
1) Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you are a millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it an “illness” and needs our prayers for your “recovery.”
2) You have to believe that those privileged […]
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
Why is it that the same people who have no problem telling Ralph Nader not to run this time get their backs up at any suggestion that the Democratic fringe candidates drop out of the race?
It’s not about stifling other points of view; it’s about money. As in, Bush will have huge amounts of it. […]
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
Very interesting piece on Daily Kos about the software innovations developed by the Dean and Clark campaigns, and the possible further democratizing of political campaigns as a result. Go read the whole thing.
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
What do people expect? I mean, really. This administration has systematically stacked the deck in favor of corporate profits, and one of their main strategies has been to quietly stop effective inspections of the food and drug sector. Like Reagan, they knew the public wouldn’t stand for actual repeal of regulations meant to protect the […]
Posted in General on Dec 27th, 2003
Liar liar, pants on fire.
The administration presents the new policy as a necessary tonic for southeast Alaska’s depressed economy, and as a necessary response to a state lawsuit that it says it could never have won. The reality is otherwise. This is essentially a holiday gift to Senator Ted Stevens and Gov. Frank Murkowski, both […]
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