Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Feb 29th, 2004
‘HAMLET’ - THE REVIEW
Via Daily Kos, we learn Howard Kurtz has the inside story on how the Dean campaign imploded. Yes, it’s Howie, but it’s still fascinating stuff.
The feuding and backbiting that plagued the Howard Dean campaign had turned utterly poisonous. Behind the facade of a successful political operation, senior officials plotted against each other, […]
Posted in General on Feb 29th, 2004
POT, YOU REMEMBER KETTLE
From Kevin Drum, more of that civil disobedience the wingnuts claim to despise:
Yesterday, the South Dakota legislature passed — and the governor is expected to sign — a bill that essentially outlaws abortion. It is quite clearly in defiance of settled constitutional law, something its authors pretty much admit. Conservatives, oddly enough, […]
Posted in General on Feb 29th, 2004
THE BIBLE HAS SOMETHING ABOUT THE “PLANK IN YOUR OWN EYE”
Frank Rich with a great piece on the culture war over gay marriage:
The full-time Defenders of Marriage also like to pretend that they are “tolerant” of their misguided gay brethren, but their priorities give them away. You’d think they’d be most concerned about divorce, which […]
Posted in General on Feb 29th, 2004
SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS
Lisa Schiffrin, a Republican speechwriter, explains why we need a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage:
Undoubtedly, there are more judges across the country waiting for their chance to be creative, too. Whether you favor gay marriage or not, it should be a concern when judges and officials decide to circumvent the democratic process […]
Posted in General on Feb 29th, 2004
UNMOTIVATED
MoDo is looking for answers:
Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, George Tenet was asked why the C.I.A. never picked up the trail of Marwan al-Shehhi, the pilot who crashed Flight 175 into the south tower on 9/11.
Thirty months earlier, German intelligence had passed on a hot tip to the C.I.A. — the Al […]
Posted in General on Feb 29th, 2004
THISCLOSE
One more.
Go, Hawks!
Posted in General on Feb 29th, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Asshole,” Julian Coryell, “Rock Star” - Heaven knows it?s a sin/ To fuck around and stay out all night/ With someone else while she?s home/ Heaven knows I?m a cheat/ God that girl?s so sweet to me/ Why does she/ Why does she stick around/ When I?m such an asshole/ I?m […]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2004
SCHLOCK AND AWE
I went to the movies this afternoon, where I saw long lines of snuff film fans waiting to see “The Passion.”
I hear the sequel will be “Revenge of the Christians: The Spanish Inquisition.”
Nobody ever expects that.
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “The Lines Around Your Eyes,” Lucinda Williams, “Sweet Old World“: There are things about you that make me wanna scream and shout/ There are things about you that make me wanna lock you out/ But there’s a little thing that drives me wild/ Something that happens every time you smile/ I […]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2004
WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?
A logical move:
Saying he can’t stomach President Bush’s support for the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), a gay Republican leader in Ohio announced on Thursday he is becoming a Democrat.
In a letter to the chair of the Republican Party of Cuyahoga County, John Farina, a former official in the county’s party organization […]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2004
SHOW TRIAL
I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but it’s much more likely the real reason Howard Stern was suspended by Clear Channel was because he’d ripped into Bush that morning, quoting extensively from Al Franken’s “Lying Liars.” (The Clear Channel boss is tight with Bubble Boy.)
The New York Post has this today:
Besieged shock […]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2004
WISH I COULD SAY IT WAS FAR-FETCHED, BUT…
For what it’s worth, Iranian radio is reporting that bin Laden was captured some time ago.
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2004
A LAW-ABIDING NATION?
Atrios points us to this, which indicates same-sex marriages aren’t illegal in New York:
Unlike California law, New York’s matrimonial law does not restrict marriage licenses to persons of the opposite sex, in the view of leading legal authorities.
A 1997 report published jointly by three committees of the Association of the Bar of […]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2004
DAMN QUEERS
I was watching Bill Maher have his way with Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women of America, on “Real Time” tonight. She said gay marriage would lead to the downfall of civilization, and the state of marriage.
He missed asking the divorced woman the obvious question: “So, Sandy. What did homosexuality have to do with […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
PHARISEES
More of that “best available science” we were promised:
President Bush yesterday dismissed two members of his handpicked Council on Bioethics — a scientist and a moral philosopher who had been among the more outspoken advocates for research on human embryo cells.
In their places he appointed three new members, including a doctor who has called […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO SEE
It’s still about controlling the pictures.
The U.S. military will launch its own news service in Iraq and Afghanistan to send military video, text and photos directly to the Internet or news outlets.
The $6.3-million (U.S.) project, expected to begin operating in April, is one of the largest […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
DOUBLE DATE
One of my friends called me to ask if I wanted to double with her and her ex-husband. He’d had a fight with his wife and called, asking if she wanted to go get some dinner.
“I figured you could throw your ex into a shopping bag and bring him along,” she said. “I thought […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
THE POWERPOINT PRESIDENCY
Want to read something really scary? Check out Brad DeLong on how thoroughly Bubble Boy was briefed on privatizing Social Security:
The most remarkable thing is the form of the “memo” that is being drafted for Bush: it is a seven-page Powerpoint presentation plus nine pages of charts. 659 text words total. That’s one […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
TAPDANCE DU JOUR
Mr. Bojangles, dance.
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
BREAKING NEWS
The judge has dismissed the most serious charge against Martha Stewart.
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Walking on Sunshine,” Katrina and the Waves: I’m walking on sunshine, oh/ I’m walking on sunshine, oh/ I’m walking on sunshine, oh/ And don’t it feel good/ Don’t it feel good/ I used to think maybe you loved me/ Now I know that it’s true/ But I don’t want to spend […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
A former Hallibuton employee explains how they refused to contain costs at the taxpayers’ expense.
Bunting worked as a buyer for Halliburton’s “Logcap” contract with the U.S. Army, a $3.7 billion deal under which Halliburton provides the military with logistics support — it builds bases, runs mess halls, does the laundry, supplies water and performs dozens […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
Krugman on the trade tightrope:
Yet it’s bad economics to pretend that free trade is good for everyone, all the time. “Trade often produces losers as well as winners,” declares the best-selling textbook in international economics (by Maurice Obstfeld and yours truly). The accelerated pace of globalization means more losers as well as more winners; workers’ […]
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
This pretty much sums up my feelings about journalism in general. Thanks, Jordan.
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2004
What a sublime slogan.
“A Jobless Recovery is like Waterless Rain”
Via TBOGG.
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