Or worse, a tampon, from which sight all Godly men must be protected:
When Pope Benedict visits the homeland of his predecessor this week he will find Poland and its Catholic Church struggling to adapt to life after John Paul - but he will not see any advertisements for lingerie, beer or tampons on state TV.
Broadcasters [...]

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The Rude Pundit on Al Gore:
Al Gore is our Coriolanus, one of those Shakespeare characters that doesn’t get as much attention as your fancy Hamlet or crazy MacBeth. See, Coriolanus was a hero to the Romans, celebrated by the patricians as a warrior, but he couldn’t take his place as a leader because he couldn’t [...]

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Amen.

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Completely stolen from Duncan:
Max Cleland is coming to Media, PA (Philly burb) to support the candidacy of Bryan Lentz for state senator.
Tuesday, May 30th, 2:30 PM.
Location: Iron Hill Brewery
30 East State Street
Media, PA
For those up towards the NE corner of the state Cleland will also be attending a variety of events in support of Chris [...]

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You know anyone the Beltway Bobbleheads hate this much must be a good guy:
But this week, just as Gore’s star rose with the release of his widely acclaimed movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” the press’ utterly predictable backlash swung into action, proving that any attempt to erase 2000 from your memory is pointless because the Beltway [...]

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Paul Craig Roberts:
The Republican Party has been reduced to one principle — its own power. It protects the Bush regime from accountability and covers up its lies and misdeeds. Under the myths and lies that enshroud 9-11, the Democrats have collapsed as an opposition party.
The Bush regime has destroyed Iraq without being able to [...]

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Funny, how many of the right-wingers I’ve known are from the IT world. Wonder how all those self-righteous, libertarian programmers are feeling, now that they don’t have jobs?
Thursday the Senate passed legislation that will increase the number of H-1B visas available for engineers and high-tech workers from 65,000 to 115,000, with an option of raising [...]

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To fight global warming.

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Here’s a lovely Mark Morford column.

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If anyone ever asked me to describe my style of blogging, I’d say it’s a mosaic. I happen to think posting little pieces of the pattern gives the best overall picture of what’s going on in this country, and I also like to throw in a bright, shiny object once in a while to cheer [...]

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Newt Gingrich:
“The House is now faced with a reality of power,” says former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a possible candidate for president in 2008 now working at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank. “Either they do things that involve appropriations or oversight that are real, or they earn the contempt with which they [...]

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Was the theft of Veterans Affairs data a much bigger security threat than they’re telling us?

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Doesn’t read polls, my ass:
A jaw-dropping moment occurred in Bush and Blair’s Thursday presser: Bush said he regretted saying “bring it on” (precise wording in 2003 was “bring ‘em on”) and “wanted dead or alive.” He admitted he should have been more sophisticated in his use of language.
The significance of this shouldn’t go unnoticed. Bush [...]

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More of that “good news” from Iraq Mr. Bush keeps telling us about:
WASHINGTON, May 25 — A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians, Congressional, military and Pentagon officials said Thursday.
Two [...]

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Oh, interesting!
On September 29, 2003, three days after it became known that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate who leaked the name of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, columnist Robert Novak telephoned White House senior adviser Karl Rove to assure Rove that he would protect him from being harmed by the investigation, [...]

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From YouTube, George Harrison and Paul Simon:

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Faith-based mine safety? These people are worse than crazy.

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“Nothing to worry about with avian flu.” Yeah, right.

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No details yet. Enron’s Lay convicted on all 6 charges; Skilling on 19 of 28 charges.

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BushCo has announced a new Minister of Propaganda to soothe the angry conservative base. What a stroke of genius! Now all the independent voters will be even more motivated to vote against the Republicans this year.

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The New York Times gives a thumbs up to “An Inconvenient Truth.” Are you going to see it this weekend?

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I’ve been invited back as one of the bloggers for the Take Back America conference this year, and my finances aren’t in much better shape then they were last year.
Last year, they comped my hotel room. This year, they say they can’t. You guys made it all possible then, so I’m asking again for donations. [...]

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What a fucking tool. I’m embarrassed Morton Kondracke’s name sounds anything like mine:
ENOUGH already! It’s harmful enough that ideological conflict and partisan politics are preventing this country from solving its long-term challenges on health care, fiscal policy and energy. Now it’s threatening our national survival.
I do not exaggerate. Bush-hatred has reached such intensity that CIA [...]

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We know exactly what we’re doing:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The United States government, not any court, is the best judge of whether to keep programs such as its controversial effort to eavesdrop on citizens
a secret, an assistant attorney general said on Wednesday.
Peter Keisler, an assistant attorney general, and other U.S. officials made the claim in [...]

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If only we could inoculate voters against the press.

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And the terrorists? Grover Norquist and the rest of the greedy bastards who decided to keep hacking away at government subsidies for just about everything that benefits ordinary people, deciding it was high time they crowded out the weak and powerless runts of the litter in favor of those giant corporations who want exclusive access [...]

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Hastert says he’s not a target, and when a man of such integrity speaks, we should all listen.

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This will surprise you, I know:
Drug companies fund a growing number of the studies in leading psychiatric journals, and drugs fare much better in these company-funded studies than in trials done independently or by competitors, researchers reported Wednesday.

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Don’t worry, I’m sure they’d execute this plan with the same impressive attention to detail and planning they did to Hurricane Katrina:
A federal database program with a checkered track record could dramatically expand to affect every U.S. employer and worker under provisions of the immigration legislation being considered by Congress.
The program is intended to keep [...]

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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performs “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

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