Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
FAVORITE S.I.T.C. MOMENTS
I watched the “Sex and the City” finale; I laughed and cried all the way through. (And for once, my phone didn’t ring in the middle.) Who knew Miranda could be such a mensch about Steve’s mom, or that Samantha could actually reserve sex for love? Or that Big’s real name is John? [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
What a great idea: Powering the world with buttered cats.
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
THE SKY IS FALLING
Interesting post from the Plaid Adder:
Signs of Trouble for Bush: My Dad’s Reading “An American Dynasty”
To understand why that’s trouble, you have to realize that my dad is:
a) a lifetime Republicanb) a staunch pro-business capitalist who loves tax cuts c) voted for ‘41 and for ‘43 in 2000d) knows some [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
SCREW THE CORPORATE MEDIA
Fucking bastards. From Bill Greider:
In 40 years of observing presidential contests, I cannot remember another major candidate brutalized so intensely by the media, with the possible exception of George Wallace. Howard Dean contributed some fatal errors of his own, to be sure, but he also brought fresh air and new ideas, a [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
Thoughtful New Yorker piece on what the Democrats need to do to take back foreign policy.
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
WHAT DEAD MEANS
Breslin captures the real truth in a way no one else can.
She didn’t know his name. It was on a tag someplace and it had already been logged in. They did that the moment they brought the dead soldier off the plane from Iraq and into the morgue at Dover Air Force Base. [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
Q: HOW CAN YOU TELL THEY’RE LYING? A: THEIR LIPS ARE MOVING
MoJo on the Office of Special Plans gang:
According to insiders, Rhode worked with Feith to purge career Defense officials who weren’t sufficiently enthusiastic about the muscular anti-Iraq crusade that Wolfowitz and Feith wanted. Rhode appeared to be “pulling people out of nooks and crannies [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
WISING UP
Say it isn’t so.
GOP campaign operatives are warily eyeing recent polls that for the first time show many Americans don’t see the president as truthful.
Last week, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that only 52 percent view Bush as “honest and trustworthy,” down 7 points from the last poll and down significantly from a [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
Three games from perfect. Go, Hawks.
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
A MAN IS ONLY AS GOOD AS HIS WORD
Speaking of lying assholes…
The CIA admitted it didn’t provide the U.N. with information about 21 of 105 sites in Iraq singled out by U.S. intelligence before the war as highly suspected of housing illegal weapons, The New York Times reported in its Saturday edition.
The acknowledgement, in [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
BUYER’S REGRET
Fuck Ralph Nader. Not a dime’s worth of difference, huh, Ralph?
“Beg” you not to run? Eat me, Ralphie. You’re just not that important. Everyone sees you for what you were: A terrible mistake.
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
STICK-TO-IT-IVENESS-LIKE
WashPo looks at Bush’s history as a pilot:
Another former director of the Air National Guard, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Paul A. Weaver Jr., said some “squadron jocks” such as Bush drop their flight status when civilian careers take precedence. Flying a fighter jet is risky, Weaver said, and commanders want pilots to be dedicated [...]
Congressman Curt Weldon reacts to the L.A. Times piece on his daughter’s sudden success in the consulting business:
“This a classic example of somebody hiring a relative of a member of Congress to get influence with Congress,” Allison said. “It’s troubling that somebody’s who tied to an obvious human rights abuser like Slobodan Milosevic has such [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
‘TOP GUN’ VS. ‘BORN ON THE 4th OF JULY’
Frank Rich has a good piece today - make that an excellent piece - on the war of the cultural icons:
But we’re not in ‘92, ‘96 or 2000 anymore. American troops are once again fighting a war of choice — and this time the National Guard is [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Sexual Healing,” Marvin Gaye - Baby I got sick this morning/ A sea was storming inside of me/ Baby I think I’m capsizing/ The waves are rising and rising/ And when I get that feeling/ I want sexual healing/ Sexual healing is good for me/ Makes me feel so fine, it’s [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
SPIN SPIN SPIN
More of that “best available science”:
The Bush administration says it improperly altered a report documenting large racial and ethnic disparities in health care, but it will soon publish the full, unexpurgated document.
“There was a mistake made,” Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, told Congress last week. “It’s going to [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
MY GOD’S JUICIER THAN YOUR GOD
Mark Morford:
But, sadly, these people are strongly overshadowed, publicly overpowered, by the far more outspoken and well-organized religious fire breathers who attempt to set the spiritual agenda for America and delineate what actions we can take and what kind of sex we can have and whom we can and cannot [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
I just think these stories are so wonderful.
At the Different Light Bookstore, greeting cards for same-sex newlyweds line the windows. “The Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings” has been flying off the shelves — just one display copy remains, and a new batch is on order.
“The cutest thing is when they come in [...]
Posted in General on Feb 22nd, 2004
EXPECTING THE SPANISH INQUISITION
Here goes whack job Sandy Rios again:
“They can’t possibly guarantee a large turnout of evangelical Christian voters if he does not do what is morally right and take leadership on this issue as he [Bush] did on the war” in Iraq, said CWA President Sandy Rios.
Do you mean he should deflect the [...]
Posted in General on Feb 21st, 2004
HALLMARK MOMENT
I’ve seen this posted so many places today, I can’t even remember where I first saw it. And I cry every single time I read about it, not just because I’m a sucker for romance but because I’m so happy when people rise to the occasion:
They continued surfing the Web to find a gay-friendly [...]
Posted in General on Feb 21st, 2004
AMEN
Yeah, what he said.
Posted in General on Feb 20th, 2004
Elayne Riggs posted a users’ guide to trackback.
Posted in General on Feb 20th, 2004
BLAST FROM THE PAST
Oh goody, my favorite ex-congressman (as in, I used to live in his district) is in the news today.
Karen Weldon, an inexperienced 29-year-old lobbyist from suburban Philadelphia, seemed an unlikely choice for clients seeking global public relations services.
Yet her tiny firm was selected last year for a plum $240,000 contract to promote [...]
Posted in General on Feb 20th, 2004
NOW ANNE, PUT THE KNIFE DOWN AND BACK AWAY
World O’Crap fisks Anne Coulter’s response to critics of her Max Cleland column.
… Ann doesn’t apologize for any of that. Instead, she claims that she was right about everything except about the part where she said that Cleland would now be a pharmacist if he hadn’t [...]
Posted in General on Feb 20th, 2004
Some progress on this:
American and British officials said Thursday that five British subjects who are prisoners of the United States military at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, would be sent back to Britain soon.
In London, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who first disclosed the impending transfer of the prisoners, said they would be arrested on their return and [...]
Posted in General on Feb 20th, 2004
LYING-DOWN-WITH-DOGS DEPT.
Jesus, can this really get much worse? Via Billmon, the news that the Bush administration has hired former South African secret police to lend a hand in Iraq:
In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company staffed with former henchmen of South Africa’s apartheid [...]
Posted in General on Feb 19th, 2004
MY ACHIN’ HEAD
Meteor Blades points us to this on information overload.
Feel overwhelmed by the deluge of information flooding the world today? No wonder. Researchers say that the amount of new words, sounds, pictures and numbers produced and stored on paper, film or computer disks has almost doubled in three years.
The supply of new material [...]
Posted in General on Feb 19th, 2004
UP IS DOWN
Kevin Drum has more on the “best available science”:
The UCS report describes several specific examples of the Bush administration deliberately ignoring or distorting scientific results for purely ideological purposes:
* A flat refusal to believe the (by now) almost unanimous scientific consensus that human activity is contributing to global warming. In one case, the [...]
Posted in General on Feb 19th, 2004
Atrios was right: Nick Kristof is scum.
Posted in General on Feb 19th, 2004
CLEAR AS MUD
I’m beginning to think Scotty is as dyslexic as his boss:
Q Thank you. The South Dakota State House of Representatives has just overwhelmingly passed a bill to outlaw all abortions, except to save the mother’s life, with no regard for her health or if she’s a victim of rape or incest. My question, [...]
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