Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
BACK OFF, CHICKENHAWKS
From ICH, via the Left Coaster: Read this, print it out and send it to everyone you know.
04/28/04 “ICH” I’ve got a few words for George Bush and Dick Cheney, who keep telling me with a smirk and a scowl that “everything has changed” since 9-11. They say I need to show compassion [...]
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
TREND?
There was a large SUV with Mississippi plates parked outside my apartment building today. The owner had an American flag on the antenna, and a bumpersticker on the back window.
It said, “Let’s vote the son of a Bush OUT!”
It really cheered me up to see it.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT
There’s something so wonderfully creative about this:
Two young Norwegian environmentalists have created a pornographic website in an attempt to raise money for various organizations working to protect the environment, one of the two told AFP on Wednesday. “In light of the turn things are taking in the world today, I think that this [...]
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
FAIR PLAY
I love Google.
I’m a pretty consistent early adopter, and I first read about it in (I think) 1997 or so. I became an immediate convert.
I’m very happy to see they’ve set up their IPO to allow regular people in on the fun - much the way Bruce Springsteen does with concert tickets.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
If we’re going to be the B.J. party (and you know I think we should), we’ll have to, uh, bone up on technique.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
JOBLESS
Winn-Dixie to trim 10,000 jobs and sell some stores. Those lucky duckies!
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
JUNG STILL WINNING
This really is perfect, isn’t it?
BTW, this happened right outside my son’s old apartment building. Small world, huh.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
GOLDEN CALF
Jeanne d’Arc points us to this from Allen Brill on worshipping the free market.
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
NOVAK IS A WEASEL
Via Kevin Drum:
Tim Dunlop is reading Joe Wilson’s book for us. What a stand up guy!
Today’s he’s got an interesting excerpt: it turns out Wilson talked to Robert Novak several days before Novak’s infamous July 14 column in which he outed Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent, and told him [...]
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2004
I’ll be out running around today so I’ll leave you with a quick round-up.
Another top EPA official leaves; Cheney praises Fox News as being “more accurate”; E.J. Dionne on the GOP chasing moderates out of the party; Paul Bremer criticized the Bush administration for ignoring terrorism - before 9/11; Krugman wonders if the conventional thinking [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
OH, SO WE’RE PARANOID?
Bev Harris, the woman behind the Diebold story, needs some money, because she expects the Secret Service to seize her computer. Read her Democratic Underground post, “Secret Service on a fishing expedition. They want your name.”:
And by the way, they read every word of DU. Hi, agent Mike. This “investigation” no longer [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
AND THE THREE AMERICAN TRAITOR FINALISTS ARE…
Joe Wilson narrows it down:
WASHINGTON - Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, has been pegged as a possible leaker of the name of CIA (news - web sites) operative Valerie Plame to a syndicated columnist, according to accounts in a book by former ambassador Joseph C. [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
HORSEFEATHERS
The official response from the Sinclair Broadcast Group on why they won’t air “Nightline” tomorrow night:
Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq.
While the Sinclair Broadcast Group honors the memory of the brave [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
AND AN OLD WOMAN SHALL LEAD THEM
Josh checks in with the latest tapdance from Flounder McClellan:
SCOTT MCCLELLAN: Well, I’ll go over everybody that’s in there. You have all 10 commission members, you have one member of the commission staff present. Then you have the President and Vice President; Judge Gonzales is there, and two staff [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
HA HA
Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think? Bad Attitudes has this:
But Hughes also takes this opportunity to answer critics who call Bush unintellectual and incurious, a man who simply delivers elegantly constructed speeches. Hughes describes how Bush gave her a trenchant tutorial on effective speechwriting, using lessons he says he learned in “History of American [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
HEAR, HEAR
If you like Nick Drake or Robyn Hitchcock you should love Sondre Lerche. He’s a Norway musician whose sonic tapestries sound like bits and pieces of so many wonderful influences; you might have seen him on Conan O’Brien or seen the spread in Entertainment Weekly. (I actually ordered it on the basis on a [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
BREAKING NEWS
CNN breaking news: Bob Kerrey and Lee Hamilton walked out on the 9/11 commission hearing. More to come. [UPDATE- False alarm, apparently. Hamilton had a previous appointment. Nothing yet on Kerrey.]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
‘CONTRARY TO THE PUBLIC INTEREST’? WHOSE INTEREST?
What the fuck?
NewsBlues.com is reporting [no free link] that Sinclair Broadcast Group has ordered its ABC-affiliated stations not to carry tomorrow’s “Nightline,” which will air the names and photos of soldiers who have been killed in combat in Iraq.
Sinclair General Counsel Barry Faber tells the site: “We find [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
MSN Money ran an article about my favorite group, Freecycle.org. If you’re hurting for money, or want to give your extras to those in need, this is not just practical - it’s fun!
As with every good idea, there are glitches. Every time an article appears in a local paper, or the site gets mentioned [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
JUST DISGUSTING
I’m so mad, I could spit.
I was reading another story in the local paper today about Celeste Zappala’s son dying in Iraq. Celeste is a familiar face around town; she works for the city and is active in the same Mount Airy neighborhood where my friend Cos lives.
This jumped out:
In one of Sher’s recent [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
COOL BEANS
Julia from Sisyphus Shrugged will be a guest on Air America this Monday night. (Remember, the live stream link is right over there, upper left.)
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
SEEKING SENSITIVE NEW AGE GUYS
Comedy Central is looking for you. And they’ll pay. (Hey, if you can’t get a real job…)
Comedy Central is looking for real guys, 21-35, in PHILLY, to star in an upcoming reality series. It could be you or someone you know. The catch? He needs to be, in some specific way, [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT
Reader J.G. checks in with some more info on Massachusetts gay marriage:
You note that our esteemed Governor plans to keep out-of-state gay couples from marrying using a 1913 law, originally intended to prevent interracial couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage was illegal in their home state.
As it turns out, this statute remains [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
Dahlia Lithwick explains it all for those trying to follow the Cheney lawsuit.
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
LYING LEADERS
Sid Blumenthal has a cogent piece in today’s Salon on how the Bush supporters are misled on the facts:
The misperceptions that Cheney was reinforcing are pillars of Bush’s support, according to a study conducted by the University of Maryland. Fifty-seven percent of those polled “believe that before the war Iraq was providing substantial support [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
VOTING WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
The New York Times sums up yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling:
It is unfortunate,” Justice Anthony Kennedy lamented yesterday, “that our legislators have reached the point of declaring that, when it comes to apportionment, `We are in the business of rigging elections.’ ” Despite that trenchant analysis of the state of our democracy, Justice Kennedy joined [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
GOD’S OWN PRESIDENT?
“The Jesus Factor” is on Nightline tonight and should be worth a watch:
The question is not, When did George W. Bush accept Jesus as his personal savior? The “Frontline” documentary “The Jesus Factor,” on PBS tonight, raises a different issue: Do most Americans realize just how fervent the president’s evangelical faith really is?
***“The [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU SEE THE GLASS AS HALF-FULL OR HALF-EMPTY
From Josh Marshall:
NBC has a new story out this evening which reports that members of the Iraqi National Congress in Iraq are currently being investigated by the Iraqi police for abduction, robbery, “stealing 11 Iraqi government vehicles” and “assaulting police by firing [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
STILL FIGHTING
Kerry seems to have found his voice:
Senator John F. Kerry, whose attacks on President Bush this week have becoming increasingly personal in tone, told voters yesterday that the Iraq occupation was faltering because of Bush’s own “pride” and that the president was afraid to “look the people in the eye who have lost their [...]
Posted in General on Apr 29th, 2004
GOOD CHOICE
Michael Kinsley has been named the new op-ed editor at the LA Times:
Political commentator and columnist Michael Kinsley has been named editorial and opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times, the paper said Wednesday.
Kinsley, 53, will be responsible for the paper’s daily editorial and letters page, its commentary page and its Sunday Opinion section, [...]
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