WELCOME TO ALLERGY WORLD
I’m one of those people who gets bizarre manifestations of allergic reactions. Right now, for instance, I have what feels like one of those hangovers where you’re still drunk the next day - and that’s from dust. (I was helping a friend clean her apartment last night.)
When I was much younger and [...]

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OVERDRIVE
Ralph Steadman remembers the Doctor:
Hunter said these words to me many years ago: “I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.” I knew he meant it. It wasn’t a case of if, but when. He didn’t reckon he would make it beyond 30 anyway, [...]

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SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT DAY
RawStory:
The Campaign for America’s future, a group seeking to quash the “big money corporate agenda” will issue a report today showing that the Chairman of the House Social Security Subcommittee, Rep. Jim McCrery (R-LA) - President Bush’s ally, and the man charged to push Social Security privatization through the House, has accepted [...]

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WARMING UP
SpinDentist over at the All Spin Zone reports on rough sledding for Rick “Frothy” Santorum:
At Drexel University, for example, Mr. Santorum was greeted by protesters, was heckled during his speech by people declaring their loyalty to Lyndon LaRouche, and was asked several questions by young people on issues that had little to do with [...]

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TRACK RECORD
Via Think Progress, from the L.A. Times, the track record on pirate - I’m sorry, did I say that? - state pension private savings accounts:
Nebraska: When Nebraska’s state and county workers were given do-it-yourself accounts, they made so many investment errors that they ended up making less than colleagues with fixed-benefit pensions – and [...]

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NUKULAR MISSILES SOLD SEPARATELY
TBogg:
Condoleeza Action Figure - competency not included.
Your Condi® action figure comes with a Condi® dream house full of Condi® furniture including a couch, an easy chair, and a coffee table with dusty “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” memo sitting on it.
Piss off your friends! Invade your enemies!
Condoleezza Rice is [...]

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UNCLE KARL: WORKING HARD FOR AMERICA
Josh points out the very, very tight connections between USANext, the so-called “seniors association” lobbying against the AARP andSocial Security, and the (surprise) Republican party:
BBB Wise Giving Alliance, a rating and reporting bureau for public charities and nonprofits, notes that one of United Seniors Association’s (USA) “affiliates” is O’Neill Marketing [...]

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MENDING FENCES
News item:
IRAQ war wobbler Jacques Chirac scuttled George Bush’s fence-mending trip to Europe yesterday — by cranking up a row over the future of Nato.
He embraced a German-led plot to ditch the alliance as the backbone of transatlantic relations, in favour of the European Union.
He also snubbed President Bush by speaking French at a [...]

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ALL IN THE FAMILY
Gotta love those Bush family ties:
WASHINGTON — The Iraq war helped bring record earnings to St. Louis-based defense contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc., and new financial data show that the firm’s war-related profits have trickled down to a familiar family name — Bush.
William H.T. “Bucky” Bush, uncle of the president and youngest [...]

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FUCKING BRILLIANT
Just go read Steve Gilliard’s “Outlaw journalism and the blogs.” Read all of it or I’ll have to hurt you:
It goes without saying that the death of Hunter Thompson is a tragedy, but it comes at an odd time for journalism. Thompson and his peers, like Lucian Truscott, Frances Fitzgerald and others who came [...]

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STILL FEELING COMFY?
Dave Johnson:
Is there enough going on to make you nervous yet? The Vice President of the United States was the keynote speaker at a conference where other speakers called for “a new McCarthyism” to bring “terror” to intellectuals, saying “let’s oppress them [liberals],” and “the entire Harvard faculty” are “traitors.” A Congressman said, [...]

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Looks like there’s something else Tony Blair and Bubble Boy have in common:
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be ruled illegal.
The government was so concerned that it might be prosecuted it set up a team of lawyers to prepare for legal action [...]

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SPREADING SANTORUM
Little Ricky Santorum had a very bad, rotten, no-good day here in Philadelphia. From MyDD’s Chris Bowers:
Second, I’d like to talk a little about the Santorum Social security event that I attended today. It was quite eventful and well attended, although I am pretty sure it was well attended because around six or seven [...]

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NOW WE’RE TALKING
From Roll Call, via Kos:
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has spoken with several Democratic governors in recent weeks about the possibility of revisiting their states’ Congressional lines in response to the ongoing Republican-led redistricting in Georgia, according to informed party sources.
Faced with the prospect of Republicans redrawing Congressional lines in a third [...]

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PEACE
Due to the ADD, I’m not the most organized person. My mail is all over the place, and for weeks, I’ve been looking for the cable bill (I had some vague notion it was time to pay before they shut it off. I have an inner alarm clock about these things.)
I tried to pay it [...]

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DEAR MR. OR MS. PORN SPAM PERSON
As per your recent communication, no, I do not require your assistance to “go all night!” I am a female, and it’s just not that difficult, assuming I can stay awake that long.
Neither am I looking for “horny housewives home alone.” If I were in need of such specific [...]

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FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME
Funny, how the closer Right Supremacy comes to the home base, the worse it looks. From Think Progress [via Kos]:
A number of right-wing Washington, D.C. politicians have headed back to their states as newly-elected governors. And their behavior, once they leave Beltway fantasyland for the real world, shows just how [...]

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London Yank over at Kos on the dollar dump:
The dollar fell against the euro by more than a cent overnight after it became known that the Korean central bank is rebalancing its reserves away from the dollar and in favor of a basket of other currencies.
Korea is the 5th largest US creditor, owning [...]

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WISHFUL THINKING?
The latest from Voice of the White House - usual caveats apply, blah blah blah. We have no way of knowing if he’s accurate but damn, he sure is fun:
“The internet anti-Bush people are completely right about the Karl Rove/Gannon love affair business. I have been repeatedly told by people on the inside that [...]

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CASE CLOSED
Excuse me, any oil there? Well, then.

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BAIT AND SWITCH
Krugman:
I don’t know which foreign threat the administration will start playing up this time, but Bush critics should be prepared for the shift. They must curb their natural inclination to focus almost exclusively on domestic issues, and challenge the administration on national security policy, too.
I say this even though many critics, myself included, [...]

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‘IS OUR CHILDREN PLAYING?’
I read years ago children actually learned more positive social lessons from a pickup game in the local schoolyard than they do from organized team sports, which makes sense. Since when did playing become so much work? And now there’s yet another reason to avoid Soccer World:
Dr. Angela Smith, an orthopedic surgeon [...]

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Kevin Drum on the same alleged “dearth” of female political bloggers he brings up like clockwork every 90 days:
My guess is that it’s a bit of both, and the proximate reason is that men are more comfortable with the food fight nature of opinion writing ? both writing it and reading it. Since I don’t [...]

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OUTSIDE THE LAW
I’ve been thinking, and there’s just something I have to get off my chest. It’s this:
If I had a dollar for every pretentious, half-assed “journalist” I’ve worked with or known who had the cajones to compare himself to Hunter S. Thompson, I would never, ever have to hit my readers up for money [...]

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This is the actual ad the wingnuts are running on the American Spectator website to attack the AARP on Social Security. [Via Kos.] Which, I suppose, will appeal to the hordes of self-loathing, repressed homosexual men who are filling up all those Republican closets.

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A MANLY WOMAN
Here’s the amusing blog of Mr. Heathen, a woman who’s keeping a diary of her reaction to testesterone shots. Pretty funny.

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A LITTLE BIT OF SOAP
Interesting piece on Amway’s ties to the radical right wing, their shady business dealings, the political brainwashing of its distributors, and the relationship with Doug Wead - who, oh yeah, served as George Bush’s “spirital advisor” when he wasn’t busy taping their private phone calls.
Quite enlightening.

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OH RICKY YOU’RE SO FINE, YOU’RE SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND
Rick “Frothy” Santorum is going to appear on a call-in TV show tomorrow, Tuesday night:Santorum will appear on a special edition of the Pennsylvania Cable Network’s call-in program on Tuesday night at 7PM EDT. The toll free call-in number is 1-866-PCN-LIVE.
This will be [...]

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VALEDICTORY
Somehow, I just knew the Rude Pundit would write the definitive Hunter Thompson eulogy.

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BUT BUT BUT… I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL SINNERS
Do you believe this clown
GEORGE Bush has banned Camilla Parker Bowles from the White House - because she is a divorcee.
The unprecedented snub has effectively sabotaged Charles’s plan to take his bride on a Royal tour of America later this year.
The trip would have been the pair’s [...]

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