Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on May 29th, 2004
HOMELAND SECURITY
Andrew Greeley:
Colombo Bay sounds like it might be a novel by Joseph Conrad. It is instead a story by Richard Pollak about his voyage from Hong Kong to New York on a container ship named the Colombo Bay, which indeed stopped at the capital of Sri Lanka. The Colombo Bay also reveals just how […]
Posted in General on May 28th, 2004
YANKEES GO HOME
Okay, so the Yankees won, 48-3 or something like that. It didn’t matter; Camden Yards was mostly filled with Yankees fans, anyway.
I tried to explain to my friend’s daughter that the Yankees are the Republican party of baseball - that they have so much money and power, it’s a wonder anyone ever beats […]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2004
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
This is a disgrace. Talk about corruption…
With less than six months to go before the presidential election, thousands of Florida voters who may have been improperly removed from the voter rolls in 2000 have yet to have their eligibility restored.
Records obtained by The Herald show that just 33 of 67 counties […]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2004
BLOGGING BREAK
I will be on the road today - my best friend is taking me to Baltimore where we will watch the Orioles beat the shit out of the Yankees (hopefully) tonight. (She’s a Yankees fan but I like her anyway.)
We’re staying overnight and I won’t have a computer. However, I do plan to try […]
Posted in General, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on May 27th, 2004
Breslin:
The one military center Bush avoids is Dover Air Force in Dover, Del., where they bring in the dead bodies from Iraq.
Bush pretends they do not exist. He has the base sealed from cameras and reporters.
He also pretends that the prison torture scandal does not exist. But in attempting to make the nation into a […]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2004
OBSTRUCTION
They always have something to hide:
Taguba’s report blamed, in part, a confused chain of command after Nov. 19, when the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade was given responsibility for Abu Ghraib and authority over the 800th Military Police Brigade. He reiterated that guards should play no role in the interrogation of prisoners.
Members of Congress from […]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2004
LIAR
As little domestic spending as the Compassionate Conservative does to begin with, he wants to do even less:
The White House put government agencies on notice this month that if President Bush is reelected, his budget for 2006 may include spending cuts for virtually all agencies in charge of domestic programs, including education, homeland security and […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BLOGGER
So. You think your donation is supporting a liberal voice? Think again. Here’s a closer look at NPR’s “balanced” coverage.
Despite the commonness of such claims, little evidence has ever been presented for a left bias at NPR, and FAIR’s latest study gives it no support. Looking at partisan sources—including government officials, party […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
ARE YOUR KIDS SAFE AT WORK?
Day after day, Jordan over at Confined Space fights the good fight for a safe workplace. If you have kids and they have summer jobs, you really need to read his Teen Safety Diaries.
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
TSK TSK
Why, oh why, does Tom Clancy hate America?
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
CORRUPT OR STUPID? WHAT A CHOICE
So Bush’s Treasury secretary can’t keep track of his own finances?
May 26 (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary John Snow was unaware he owned about $10 million in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds for 15 months, a period when he was lobbying Congress to create a tougher regulator for the two […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
If you missed President Gore’s rousing barn burner of a speech (full text here, video here, here are the highlights.
NEW YORK — Al Gore delivered a blistering denunciation Wednesday of the Bush administration’s “twisted values and atrocious policies” in Iraq and demanded the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
KIND OF LIKE A TERROR ALERT, ONLY WITH TRAINING WHEELS
It’s sort of a terror alert - more of a caution or general admonition, really. Yet with a pinch of urgency, seasoned with falling poll numbers.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Officials in major U.S. cities from New York to Los Angeles said they had not been informed […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
NOW WHAT?
Dude, what am I going to do with my ‘68 VW bus now?
Vermont jam band Phish is looking to go out on a high note. The band will call it quits at the end of their summer tour.Frontman Trey Anastasio said on the band’s web site the band got together on Friday and talked […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
SUPPORTING THE TROOPS
Uh-huh.
WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) — The Army kept a soldier whistle-blower in a locked psychiatric ward at its top medical center for nearly two weeks despite concern from some medical staff that he be released, according to medical records.
The Army then charged him nearly $6,000 for the stay at Walter Reed Army Medical […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
THEIR BEST AND BRIGHTEST
Wacky Laurie Mylroie was on C-SPAN again this morning. I can’t figure out if she’s drunk, or on medication. She’s as nutty as ever, insisting Iraq had WMDs and was involved in 9/11 - giggling the entire time. She says she could explain it to us “but it’s too technical.” However, she […]
Posted in General on May 26th, 2004
ALL APOLOGIES
Well, here it is: the New York Times’ long-overdue apology.
Some critics of our coverage during that time have focused blame on individual reporters. Our examination, however, indicates that the problem was more complicated. Editors at several levels who should have been challenging reporters and pressing for more skepticism were perhaps too intent on rushing […]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
There’s a new Big Pharma cover group in town, and they have ties to both the Schwarzenegger and Bush administrations. Isn’t that special?
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — A new pharmaceutical front group, “CURES,” opposing legislation to reimport cheaper U.S. made prescription drugs from Canada has political ties to both the […]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
SETTING THE BAR
I did write about this before, but in case you missed it, we’re taking hostages in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops wanted Jeanan Moayad’s father. When they couldn’t find him, they took her husband in his place.
Dhafir Ibrahim has been in U.S. custody for nearly four months. Moayad insists that he is being […]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
MEA CULPA
Oops.
This magpie was one of the bloggers who cited a report that US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld had ordered a ban on camera phones and other video devices among the troops in Iraq. According to this article in The Register, however, the story isn’t true — it originated in this piece from The Daily […]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
TECHNICAL QUESTION
I have a question for the electronic engineers out there.
I have a CD/DVD player hooked up to my TV and stereo system. If you turn it on, it overrides the TV and the picture’s a mess. (That’s not the problem; it’s supposed to work that way.)
The weird thing is, lately it’s been going on […]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
ANOTHER STERN FAN
Kos finally listened to the Howard Stern show.
Like most people who get over their prejudice and do finally listen to him, he liked Howard.
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
‘OFFICE SPACE’ - THE REMAKE
Via Gadflyer, this adaptation of “Office Space,” one of my favorite movies:
ExxonMobil ReHash Theatre presents:Oval Office Space — The Director’s Cut
Ebert and Roeper gave it two thumbs up. Entertainment Weekly called it “the laugh-out-loud funniest film about Washington politics since ‘All the President’s Men.’ ” Now, with GWBWYPGN?! heading up to […]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
TOLD YA
Matthew Yglesias says Howard Dean was right:
Remember Howard Dean? Early last December he was riding high. Having been dismissed early in the campaign by even his fans as a hopeless cause, he’d managed to parlay a wave of anti-Bush sentiment and novel Internet organizing into front-runner status for the Democratic nomination. Still, two interconnected […]
Posted in General on May 25th, 2004
COUNTERATTACK
Use the Force, Nancy:
The plan outlined by the President last night might have had more of a chance for success had it been announced a year ago.
The apparent aimlessness that has characterized Iraq policy for the past year has not encouraged international cooperation in either security or reconstruction, and has hardened the negative attitudes […]
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