Have you noticed people are actually starting to stand up to these cretins?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was asked Monday to stay out of a case involving a foreign detainee because of remarks Scalia made about the rights of enemy combatants.
Speaking at the University of Freiberg in Switzerland on March 8, Scalia said foreigners waging [...]

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Julia kicked off the meme of posting anti-war songs. Go take a look at the results, and in the meantime, here’s another one for you:
It was back in nineteen forty-two,
I was a member of a good platoon.
We were on maneuvers in-a Loozianna,
One night by the light of the moon.
The captain told us to ford a [...]

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Why so polite, ladies and gentlemen of the Press Corpse? Why not call a lie a lie, particularly when it’s about something as important as global warming?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan blames a 15-year misinformation campaign by the oil and coal industries.
“The point of this campaign was not necessarily to persuade the public that global [...]

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Political Wire:
In their latest memo, James Carville and Stan Greenberg provide a strategic framework for Democrats to use for the fall elections.
“The goal is an upheaval in 2006, now a genuine possibility. The moment is right because Bush’s problems are now so clear, deep and long-standing, and because Republicans too are now part of [...]

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Duncan explains how they actually came down in favor of bloggers. Good news!

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Oh, my, my, this is getting interesting. Sing, Karl, sing:
Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has recently been providing information to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the ongoing CIA leak investigation, sources close to the investigation say.
According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and [...]

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Steve Clemons has a remarkably insightful piece on how the United States is exporting something that isn’t quite democracy but rather, a culture of exploiting the loopholes in democracy.
Maybe one of the most important things you’ll read this year - I strongly urge you to do so.

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I’ll be dropping by Drinking Liberally at Johnny Brenda’s tonight at Frankford & Girard to grab dinner before I go home to pack. (And pack, and pack…)
It’s 6 - 9 p.m., head for the booth in the back room.

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Christy at firedoglake has a project for those of you with a fax machine.
Citizens, do your duty.

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Will Bunch, our norgs guru, weighs in:
Frankly, I won’t get too much on my own high horse and pontificate, not yet, anyway. Ironically, those of us in the middle of this are all a bit too mentally and emotionally exhausted to make pithy sense out of it. But I loved pretty much all the ideas [...]

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The Times has a story today based on the other Downing Street memo, and the amoral bastards who tricked us into war:
Stamped “extremely sensitive,” the five-page memorandum, which was circulated among a handful of Mr. Blair’s most senior aides, had not been made public. Several highlights were first published in January in the book “Lawless [...]

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Salon’s Heather Havrilesky on the cult of individualism in TV:
America rewards and celebrates individualism, and TV land reflects this spirit. But as the movers and shakers on TV demonstrate, you can’t just come blasting out of the gate as an individual. No, first you have to conform to the dominant notions of behavior and [...]

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It’s spreading rapidly and it’s expected to be here by the end of the year:
Though the virus also could mutate into a harmless strain, scientists have recently found that it has infected domestic cats and a stone marten in Germany, increasing concerns over its ability to cross into mammals.
“Something generally disturbing is going on at [...]

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I’ve been too stressed out to follow March Madness this year, but my, I do love a Cinderella story.

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Imagine the kind of rage that leads a doctor to do this - and what we’ve done to get him to that point:
BAGHDAD, March 26 — A doctor has admitted killing at least 35 Iraqi police officers and army soldiers by giving them lethal injections, reopening their wounds or engaging in other deadly acts while [...]

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Philadelphia Indymedia was kind enough to post streaming video of Saturday’s “reinventing journalism” conference, where I was one of the discussion leaders.
By the way: You know you’re old when the guy interviewing you tells you his mother’s “a huge fan” of your work.

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Now that it’s safe to come out, the New York Times is running to the front of the parade:
The New York Times is planning an article on a secret memo from January 2003 that “sheds light on the buildup and decision-making process before the invasion of Iraq,” RAW STORY has learned.
The article, written by Don [...]

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Hey, don’t forget - there’s an actor playing Duncan on “The West Wing” tonight.
UPDATE: Ha ha. They got some dweeby little guy who doesn’t look anything like our favorite Sweaty Lunk.

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Why do they keep calling this a civil war?
(CBS/AP) Police and soldiers responding to a report of killings Sunday found 30 bodies, most beheaded, near a village north of Baghdad, in one of the bloodiest episodes in a cycle of apparent sectarian killings terrorizing Iraq, police reported.

Imagine this:
Police and soldiers responding to a report [...]

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I was explaining to someone yesterday what happens when Mercury goes direct. “You know how in the cartoons, the Roadrunner comes to a screeching halt at the end of the cliff and Wiley Coyote always slams into something? It’s like that. You have ripple effects.”
And I didn’t even know then how bad the next 24 [...]

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Koufax voting closes at midnight tonight. Please vote for me here. (You can only vote once.)
Or you can vote by email with this nice cut-and-paste list.

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I forgot to thank Karl Martino and Wendy Warren of the Daily News for all the work they did on the Norgs conference at Annenberg, and Will Bunch for being the bombthrower who got it all started.
UPDATE: I’m really tired and my feet hurt, since I have no car and had to walk from the [...]

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1. Everytime You Go Away - Hall & Oates
2. Telephone - Shelby Lynne
3. Baby Mine - Allison Kraus
4. Blind Fiddler - Hoyt Axton
5. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
6. Mr. Harris - Aimee Mann
7. Running With Scissors - Ben Lee
8. Super Freak - Rick James
9. Shake Sugaree - Chris Smither
10. My Best Friend - Weezer
11. [...]

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Looks like the media’s finally catching on that all is not well in Bush’s America.

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Why, ask Bill Napoli!

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Remember that story last week about Barbara Bush earmarking her Katrina contribution to her son Neil’s educational software company?
She’s one of the investors.
So she made a tax deductible contribution to a company that benefits… herself.

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Duncan links to this post from Glenn Greenwald, and says, “I have no idea how to wake the slumbering press.”
Put another way, the Administration has seized the power of Congress to make the laws, they have seized the power of the judiciary to interpret the laws, and they execute them as well. They have consolidated [...]

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I don’t know what I think yet, but here’s the news: the FEC has issued new regulations for the Internet and blogs.

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Arlen, you’re such a wit:
WASHINGTON, March 24 — The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a hearing for next Friday on the call by Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, to censure President Bush for his approval of a program to allow electronic eavesdropping without warrants.
Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of [...]

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Brendan Calling From the Underground:
Wendy says, of the South Dakota abortion ban, “y’know i’m really starting to think it shouldn’t be repealed, and let’s just let the showdown happen already.”
I agree. The penalty for murder in South Dakota is the death penalty.
To my pro-life friends: you have argued, time and time again, that abortion is [...]

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