A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Our buddy John over at Crooks & Liars has a two-year-old video of Tubby Tim Russert doing his best to shame Hunter Thompson about his opposition to the Iraq war. If it wasn’t so infuriating, it would be funny. Tubby Tim is simply shocked that anyone would dare oppose Fearless Leader […]

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DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY
I’m off in the real world today, but in the meantime, you can always watch the Numa Numa dance here.

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MILESTONE
I just got an email reminding me the Freeway Blogger will observe the death of the 1,500th soldier in Iraq, which is expected to happen sometime next week.
On a lighter note (and can’t we all use one of those), here’s the Freeway Blogger calling Rick Santorum’s office after the senator’s infamous “man on dog” remarks:
The […]

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MARATHON MAN
Howard gives them hell in Kansas:
And Dean told the Hiebert fund-raiser that gay marriage was a Republican diversion from discussions of ballooning deficits and lost American jobs. That presents an opportunity to attract moderate Republicans, he said.
“Moderate Republicans can’t stand these people (conservatives), because they’re intolerant. They don’t think tolerance is a virtue,” Dean […]

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ABC’S OF CENSORSHIP
From Drudge:
A growing chill is in the air over Hollywood Saturday night after ABC executives forced Robin Williams to drop a comic song from the Oscars show!
Williams, the presenter of the Academy Award for best animated feature, decided last week that his one minute on stage would be a prime time to […]

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NOSTALGIA
I have to admit, I’m watching “The Paper” on TV tonight and I find myself really, really missing the newsroom.
I’ll be fine tomorrow, though.

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE HEROES GONE?
I got your hero right here. [Thanks to M.M.]

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POINTING FINGERS
So will it be Iran or Syria next? Judging from this, I think we can guess:
TEL AVIV (AFP) - Israel accused Syria on Saturday of being implicated in the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed, while an official of the Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad said in Beirut his movement […]

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INTERMISSION
Watched “About A Boy” this afternoon. The first time I saw it, I was completely prepared to hate it - but I didn’t. Not at all. And unlike Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity,” they didn’t screw it up by moving the locale to America. I love John Cusack as much as the next warm-blooded female, but […]

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THE BUCK STOPS… SOMEWHERE OVER THERE
Someone’s got to be the goat:
There is widening unease within the Central Intelligence Agency over the possibility that career officers could be prosecuted or otherwise punished for their conduct during interrogations and detention of terrorism suspects, according to current and former government officials.
Until now, only one C.I.A. employee, a contract […]

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WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: “Electricity,” Joni Mitchell, “For the Roses.”

We once loved togetherAnd we floodlit that timeInput, outputElectricityBut the lines overloadedAnd the sparks started flyingAnd the loose wiresWere lashing out at meShe’s not going to fix that upToo easyBut she holds out her candleAnd she shines it inAnd she begs him to show herHow to […]

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EASY MONEY
There’s a $10,000 reward on offer to anyone who has proof Jeff Gannon had sex with any “high-ranking government officials.”

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STILL GOING
Here’s an update on the Ohio recount cases:
Kerry-Edwards 2004 has just made two filings in the Ohio recount case currently pending before Federal Judge Edmund Sargus in Columbus, Ohio.
Kerry-Edwards 2004 has been relatively quiet in this case for the past several weeks and its filings today indicate its continued interest and involvement in this […]

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THERE’S A VIRUS GOING AROUND
And my computer caught it - a security exploit called ByteVerify B. My daily virus scan found it this morning, and of course it said those words which strike fear into every blogger’s heart: “Cannot be healed.”
But Your Fearless Heroine had, in fact, nothing to fear. Because it was an exploit […]

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PROSEY
As I was falling off to sleep last night, I caught a re-run of the 1997 interview Charlie Rose did with Hunter Thompson. Rose asked about how he was known not only for reading the works of people like Hemingway and Shakespeare aloud, but for typing out their words.
The Doctor made perfect sense: He said […]

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BELTWAY BUZZ
Lots of interesting stuff from Voice of the White House this week. No, we don’t know who he is or if anything he says is true, but for the first time, he gives us information that a determined journalist should be able to check:
An absolute non-issue with the American print and TV media is […]

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I WAS WONDERING THE VERY SAME THING
From the Guardian:
George Bush is this week having an extravagantly orchestrated series of meetings with Europe’s leaders, designed to show a united front for the creation of democracy around the world. Tony Blair talks of our “shared values”. No one mentions the word that makes this show a mockery: […]

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THE MADNESS OF GEORGE BUSH
I just stumbled across this online:
At the root of Bush’s pathology is a deep dissociation. Like the terrorists, he has split-off from his own darker half, projecting the shadow ‘out there,’ and then tries to destroy this dis-owned shadow. By projecting the shadow onto each other, Bush and the terrorists are […]

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YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
I am shocked, stunned and amazed:
WASHINGTON Feb 25, 2005 — Ten members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel who voted that a group of powerful pain killers should continue to be sold had ties to the drug makers, a new analysis shows.
A study by the Center for Science […]

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SCRATCHING THEIR BACKS
From the Congressional Quarterly:
Democrats plan an aggressive fight against legislation that would overhaul the nation’s bankruptcy code, and they plan to offer many amendments on the Senate floor next week with the hopes of bogging down the bill. “It effectively makes our bankruptcy courts a collection agency for the credit card companies,” Sen. […]

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SOME PAYOLA IS CLASSIER THAN OTHERS
And they stipulate he has to keep the bow tie:
NEW YORK When the conservative Bradley Foundation awarded a $250,000 prize to George Will last week, it raised some eyebrows at a time when Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher, and Michael McManus have been criticized for accepting government money.
The foundation is a […]

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SQUASHING THE BUG
Oh, goody:
The National Journal’s Peter Stone will tear open the DeLay fundraising scandal in a Saturday exclusive, RAW STORY has learned.
The prominent lawyer and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is being investigated by federal authorities for his lobbying efforts of an Indian tribe and his relations with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), […]

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HERE’S YOUR FRIDAY CAT BLOGGING, PAL

Hit the Paypal or I kill the kitten. Thank you.
UPDATE: What kind of people are you, so cheap that you’d let an innocent little kitten die such an awful death? Just give me the money and the kitten lives.

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UNTANGLING THE THREAD
Dave Johnson on some of the more interesting connections to USA Next, the smear group:
Over at There Is No Crisis they have just released some research into USA Next, the front group for Social Securityprivatization. Go take a look at Social Security - Is theprivatization scheme just a junk mail operation? The firstinstallment […]

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MORE UNTOLD RICHES AND HONORS FOR BLOGGERS!
The Perranoski Awards are up on The American Street. And guess what? Norbizness wins the Drysdale award!:
The upset’s complete and the mole in our camp has been outed. We provide a 21 bun salute to the new Prince of Comedy for the Dark Side, to NorquemadaBizness (dba: Happy Furry […]

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