Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2004
MORE YOU-KNOW-WHAT
Mark Kleiman:
That an Iraqi Major General turns out to have been working for the other side is disappointing but not really surprising. We knew we were taking that risk when we started re-hiring Saddam Hussein’s generals.What ought to be surprisng, though to date I’ve seen no discussion of it, is that he was arrested […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2004
EVEN MORE DEMOCRACY
From Juan Cole:
Time Magazine reports that the Bush administration had had a plan to use the Central Intelligence Agency to funnel money to candidates it favored in the forthcoming Iraqi elections. The rationale given was that Iran was bankrolling its own candidates.This plan was apparently derailed in part by the intervention of Democratic […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2004
SAVE THE KITTENS
Over at The Poor Man, Godless Kittens for Kerry! Via Department of Louise. Don’t forget to read the comments.
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2004
YOUR LIBERAL MEDIA AT WORK
Krugman:
Let’s face it: whatever happens in Thursday’s debate, cable news will proclaim President Bush the winner. This will reflect the political bias so evident during the party conventions. It will also reflect the undoubted fact that Mr. Bush does a pretty good Clint Eastwood imitation.
But what will the print media do? […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2004
LEGACY
As you may know, the U.S. used missiles made with depleted uranium in Iraq. The U.N. considers them WMDs - for good reason - but the World Health Organization has blocked the release of information showing just how harmful they are:
An expert report by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults could contract […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2004
DEMOCRATIC VALUES
Today’s L.A. Times editorial:
Since election day 2000 and through his first term, Bush has talked a better game of democratic values than he has played. And he is not one for nuances in any event. But the point here is not subtle: The right to criticize the policies of those in power is not […]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2004
COMING TO A COLONY NEAR YOU
It depends on what you mean by the word “democracy”:
When Vladimir Putin used illegal tactics to engineer the election of his hand-picked subordinate Ahmad Kadyrov as president of Chechnya last October, Western pundits were quick to condemn the election as a farce. Yet the same media talking heads have expressed […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN
Here’s an email making the rounds. Feel free to pass it on:
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
OOPS
From Kos, a discussion about a New York Times story saying the FBI could have prevented 9/11:
The FBI intercepted Al-Qaeda radio communications on September 10th 2001 saying that “zero hour” was the next day, but didn’t get the message translated until several days later.
The fact that the FBI took days to get the radio […]
Posted in Life in the Big City on Sep 27th, 2004
Today I interviewed a guy who, on the way home from a soccer game almost two years ago, hit a patch of black ice. The ensuing crash of his SUV killed his wife and his oldest son. His other children were hurt badly; one was in a coma for a week. He himself had eight […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
PROTECTING US FROM TERROR
Feeling safer?
WASHINGTON — An internal audit finds the FBI still has a huge backlog of untranslated recordings from terrorism and spy investigations.
The Justice Department finding comes despite an influx of money and personnel earmarked for such translations after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The audit found the FBI still lacks the necessary language […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
ANGELS ON THE HEAD OF A PIN
Boy, they sure are cunning, ain’t they? In Ohio, they’re looking for any reason to block those new voter registrations:
In the final days before the registration deadline Ken Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State, has ordered the local election boards to send out new applications to applicants who have submitted […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
JOEMENTUM
It’s neck and neck for PA senatorial candidate Joe Hoeffel in the Democracy for America race. Please vote here for Joe by 1 p.m. today - it’ll be a big boost to his campaign.
Besides, wouldn’t you love to put the fear of God into Rick Santorum by beating Arlen Specter?
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
BOW BEFORE THE POWER OF BLOG
Over at Fafblog, Giblets rides the wave of blog adoration:
How has Giblets finally found himself in the hedonistic luxurious pleasure-garden he always so richly deserved? Because Giblets is a blogger, that is how - and as a blogger he rides the electric current of The Now, the young and nubile […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
Good Will Bunch draws specific parallels between Vietnam and Iraq:
Now, just like in 1964, a president seeks another term in office while softpeddling the need to increase troops in a foreign conflict. This time, it’s Iraq. There are some major differences — major combat has already taken place in the Persian […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
NOT COMING TO A TV NEAR YOU
There’s so much the Bush people don’t want you to think about, so they keep coming up with sideshows (terrorists on our shores!) to distract you:
Then there are the Pentagon’s figures that touch on all casualties from the war in Iraq: 1,042 dead; 7,413 injured in action, including 4,026 […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
CORRUPTION IN FLORIDA? NAH!
Update on Jeb Bush’s efforts to suppress black votes in Orlando:
A similarly low profile is being taken by Steve Clelland, the head of the local firefighters’ union. Last week, he did not even dare attend a local appearance by John Kerry, the candidate he is supporting for President, in case it added […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
SHELL GAME
I’m so confused. I thought we were fighting the terrorists over there so we wouldn’t be fighting them over here, see? But it sure sounds like we’ll be fighting them darned near everywhere:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 - The federal government is preparing to publish advice for state and local governments on how to react if […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
PRIORITIES
Via TalkLeft, these wingnuts are fucking crazy - and dangerous:
On September 23, the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, was scheduled to consider a new bill that would add mandatory minimum sentences to many non-violent drug offenses. Here are two:
Anyone convicted in federal court of the crime of “enticing” someone “who […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
WIRED
A plan to make Philadelphia a wireless hotspot is taking off:
Forget cheese steaks, cream cheese and brotherly love. Philadelphia wants to be known as the city of laptops.
The city recently announced a two-year effort to string a free wireless network across its 135 square miles, potentially giving Philadelphia an entirely new identity as the […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
‘I WANT TO GO BACK TO JERSEY’
Here’s the human face of this latest Florida hurricane:
Julie Monti, 86, said she stayed at home in Micco, about 30 miles north of Fort Pierce, because a shelter would not have welcomed her sickly dog. While she huddled in a closet overnight, the hurricane peeled the roof and walls […]
Posted in General on Sep 27th, 2004
DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY
Over at Salon, my esteemed colleague Joyce McGreevy sums things up nicely:
While John Kerry and his ilk would extend affordable healthcare coverage to 95 percent of Americans, including every child, only the Bush administration took the bold step of designating Sept. 21 “Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day,” encouraging […]
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2004
THE WAY WE WERE
While pulling missing shoes, etc. from beneath my bed in preparation for the big move, I came across a stash of old journals I didn’t know I still had. I burned a bunch of them last year and I thought they were all gone.
They weren’t. I found seven more.
I ripped out all […]
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2004
WHY BE NORMAL?
Digby links to Billmon’s pithy post-mortem on blogging in today’s L.A. Times:
Even as it collectively achieves celebrity status for its anti-establishment views, blogging is already being domesticated by its success. What began as a spontaneous eruption of populist creativity is on the verge of being absorbed by the media-industrial complex it claims to […]
Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2004
QUESTIONS
Via Kos, 20 questions a journalist should ask about poll results:Who did the poll?Who paid for the poll and why was it done?How many people were interviewed for the survey?How were those people chosen?What area (nation, state, or region) or what group(teachers,lawyers, Democratic voters, etc.) were these people chosen from?Are the results based on the […]
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