HA HA
Hey, Eisner, read it and weep. Despite being in 2000 fewer theaters than the closest movie (”White Chicks”), F911 outgrossed every other movie Friday.

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MAY THE WIND BE AT YOUR BACK
Billmon points out the warm welcome Ireland has for Bush.

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SUGGESTION BOX
I was thinking about how much I liked “TV Nation” and “The Awful Truth.” Now that Michael Moore is a demi-god, would it be too much to wish that some cable network would start showing the reruns?

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AN OBSERVATION
I had on the local NBC/GE affiliate last night and they were plugging their upcoming bit about F911 - “not everyone agrees with Michael Moore,” in an ominous voiceover.
By the time they finally got to the thing, they couldn’t really back up the tease. Three of the four people they interviewed said they loved [...]

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FIGHT THE POWER
A theater owner in Northern California (natch) announced he’s dropping the “R” rating for “Farenheit 9/11.”
The manager of Lafayette’s Park Theater, also owned by Michaan, said it will show the film with the same PG-13 rating. PG-13, which cautions parents about films that may be unsuitable for children under 13, gives minors more [...]

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ROFLMAO
I love it.

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S.O.S.
Nicholas Kristof on America’s attention span problem with genocide:
The U.N. describes Darfur as the No. 1 humanitarian crisis in the world today. The U.S. Agency for International Development estimates that at best 320,000 more people will still die of hunger and disease this year — or significantly more if we continue to do nothing.
Moreover, apart [...]

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AROUND THE NATION
Over at Democratic Underground, Dems from all over the country are posting about their experiences today at movie theaters showing “Farenheit 9/11.” Apparently my experience wasn’t unusual - most people are describing standing ovations and packed houses. In Pasdena, evening shows are sold out for the next six weeks.
Most of those writing in [...]

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NERVOUS, AREN’T THEY?
It’s kind of funny, isn’t it? After all those smear attacks on Richard Clarke, now he’s the probity pinup boy of the right wing. Because now it suits their purpose - making it look as if Michael Moore manufactured falsehoods.

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Unlike Jim C., I actually got to see “Farenheit 9/11″ today. It wasn’t sold out, either. (But then, I saw it at the local suburban multiplex on the big screen, not at the downtown art houses.)
It was the first show of the day, but the theater was about three-quarters full. The audience cheered and clapped [...]

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WHORE
Well, of course.
WASHINGTON — Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, the highest profile Democrat to endorse President Bush for re-election, will speak at the Republican National Convention later this summer, a congressional aide said Friday.
Miller drew a sharp rebuke from the dean of Georgia’s congressional delegation, Democratic Rep. John Lewis, who called the senator’s decision “a [...]

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PUT A CORK IN IT
It’s not funny anymore:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is making it harder for scientists to speak to their global colleagues and restricting who can attend an upcoming major AIDS conference, a congressman charged on Thursday.
Rep. Henry Waxman said he has a letter showing that the Health and Human Services Department [...]

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LIBERALS ARE FUNNIER
I haven’t mentioned it before, but the World O’Crap deconstructions of The Family Circus comic strip as an allegory of George W. Bush are fucking brilliant.

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Joe Conason interviews the Big Dog in Salon:
The Bush administration has sharply criticized the deal you made with North Korea as a failure, because it was revealed that they have begun to clandestinely reprocess uranium and built at least a couple of nuclear weapons. What is your response to that criticism? How should the United [...]

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RUNNING SCARED
The Washington Post has this about “Farenheit 9/11″ this morning:
The question that started every conversation at the party was, “What did you think?” To be certain, most of the crowd consisted of Democrats and left-leaning activists and journalists. So you know what they think. But a good number of moderate and conservative types [...]

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SOME SPEECH ISN’T FREE
Coincidentally, I was listening to Howard Stern when I got an email from Kevin over at The American Street about this:
There’s at least one American who has publicly praised, condoned, trivialized and joked about the abuse, torture, rape and possible murder of Iraqi prisoners. This American does not appear to be going [...]

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MAKING IT CLEAR
Jesus’ General puts that Ryan sex scandal in a totally different light:
Dear Sen. Allen,
On the surface, the Jack Ryan scandal looks like a simple case of a man taking his wife to sex clubs and then pressuring her to have sex with him while everyone else watches, but I think there is more [...]

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MORE TO COME
From Back to Iraq:
Yesterday’s attacks may or may not have been the start of a larger uprising. I’m hearing — from several sources — that the next five to seven days will be the most dangerous. Westerners are targeted and in Baqouba, journalists are particularly targeted. These reports of a massive offensive by [...]

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SAFE SURFING
After reading this, I’d say it’s time to dump Internet Explorer. Try Mozilla or Opera instead.

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LIE DOWN WITH DOGS, RISE UP WITH FLEAS
From Kos, this telling anecdote from an Oregon reader:
This Saturday, there will be a convention in Portland, Oregon to attempt to place Ralph Nader on the Oregon ballot. They will need 1,000 registered voters for his name to be on the November ballot and an independent. A few [...]

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Here’s the text of the speech President Al Gore gave this week:
I am convinced that our founders would counsel us today that the greatest challenge facing our republic is not terrorism but how we react to terrorism, and not war, but how we manage our fears and achieve security without losing our freedom. I am [...]

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THIS is my favorite billboard on I-95: “No more comb overs!” It’s from Dr. Katz’s Hair Restoration. 

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CLASS ACT
Remember they told us we could relax, that the grownups were in charge now? Via Wonkette:
CNN is reporting that on the floor of the Senate yesterday, Dick Cheney told Sen. Pat Leahy, “Go fuck yourself.” We agree! Go fuck yourself — while it’s still legal!
UPDATE: Speaking of sodomy. . . Wonkette operatives tell us [...]

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SAINT RALPH
From Eric Alterman, this look into Ralph Nader’s past via a letter Alterman received:
I read the reports about the UAW and Teamsters considering a vote for Ralph Nader and interviews like Kuttner’s and think - I must be living in never-never land.
Ralph Nader fired me and two other editors from Multinational Monitor in 1984 [...]

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SOBER AS A JUDGE
I used to date a judge. I don’t find this difficult to believe.

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ROFLMAO
Via Atrios, this:
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won’t have to reveal secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)’s energy task force before the election, after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a lower court should spend more time sorting out the White House’s privacy claim.
In a 7-2 decision, justices said [...]

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BREAKING NEWS
The thing you have to admire about the SCOTUS is, once they’re bought, they stay bought:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to order the Bush administration to make public secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force, sending the case back to a lower court.
In a 7-2 vote, the [...]

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WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE?
Via Julia: It’s not sovereignty - it’s sovereign-esque.
The US-led occupation authority in Baghdad has warned Iraq’s interim government not to carry out its threat of declaring martial law, insisting that only the US-led coalition has the right to adopt emergency powers after the June 30 handover of sovereignty.
Senior American officials say Iraq’s [...]

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AUTHORITY
In today’s Back to Iraq, Christopher Allbritton talks about the issues the interim government will face:
Stumbled on an interesting story yesterday. It’s no secret that there are a lot of squatters in Baghdad who have taken over formerly government buildings. But what’s interesting is that after June 30, the Iraqi Interim Government (IIG) is looking [...]

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SELLING OUR HERITAGE
Did you know under the 1872 Mining Act, you can buy public land for less than .84 an acre?
Clinton tried to reform the act. When the politicians wouldn’t cooperate, he placed a moratorium on the sales.
Guess who lifted it? (Via Pacific Views.)

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