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In their own inimitable way. Via TBogg:
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Kristinn Taylor of the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic.com, 202-309-1589 or kristinn@verizon.net
News Advisory:
WHAT: Groups to Protest Treasonous Reporting by New York Times at Washington, D.C. Bureau on Monday
WHEN: Monday, July 3 at 12 p.m.
WHERE: 1627 I Street NW, Washington, D.C.
The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, [...]

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You know, some things just don’t need any more details:
US actor David Hasselhoff has been treated in hospital after being hurt in a chandelier accident.
Hasselhoff, 53, hit his head on a chandelier in the men’s room after using the gym at the Sanderson Hotel in London’s West End on Thursday.

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Imagine that:
WASHINGTON (AP) - America’s top climate scientists are giving five stars for accuracy to An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s documentary on global warming.
The former vice-president’s movie mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.
It tells of [...]

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I’m so pleased the L.A. Times is reading Suburban Guerrilla, because one of our attorney commenters pointed this out yesterday:
THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both U.S. military law and the Geneva Convention.
But the real blockbuster [...]

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This really has been quite a vacation, my first “real” one in years. I’m soaking in the sights and sounds of California, which is a magnificently wild and beautiful place. (I can see where they get their attitude.) I can’t get over the fact that I see mountains everywhere I go.
Did I mention it’s also [...]

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See, the Republicans aren’t going to fix anything until it breaks down and the muffler’s dragging behind them:
WASHINGTON — Back in the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, aggressively delving into alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration, logged 140 hours of sworn testimony into whether former president Bill Clinton had used the White House Christmas [...]

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Only two days 12 hours left in the Draft Gore $5 primary. Guess it’s not sounding quite as farfetched as it did a month ago, huh? If you haven’t pledged yet, go put your money where your mouth is.
In the meantime, there’s a great new Gore interview in Rolling Stone. Does this man sound too [...]

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About time:
Voters increasingly see Democrats as the party best able to handle the top problems confronting the U.S., as Republicans struggle to hold their congressional majorities in midterm elections little more than four months away.
Registered voters favor Democrats over Republicans in contests in their congressional districts by 49 percent to 35 percent, a Bloomberg/Los Angeles [...]

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Via Wired, one geek alleges that here’s how to tell:
here’s the 27B Stroke 6 guide to detecting if your traffic is being funneled into the secret room on San Francisco’s Folsom street.
If you’re a Windows user, fire up an MS-DOS command prompt. Now type tracert followed by the domain name of the website, e-mail host, [...]

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Oh, great:
WASHINGTON - The House voted Thursday to end a quarter-century offshore drilling ban and allow energy companies to tap natural gas and oil beneath waters from New England to Alaska.
Opponents of the federal ban argued that the nation needed to move closer to energy independence and insisted the gas and oil could be taken [...]

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This one’s big, folks, and I’m watching Tony Snow spin, spin, spin at the White House press conference today. He’s not “aware” of any changes that would have to be made at Gitmo to bring it into compliance with the Geneva Conventions, as ruled by SCOTUS.
But then, how would he know? He only watches Fox [...]

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Trent Lott. Remember this?
When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.

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Charles Pierce, in a post called “Just Say No“:
This is what Peggy Noonan wrote today on a website sponsored by one of America’s most influential publications: “Bush The Younger would breastfeed the military if he could.”
This is one of those moments in which I love to imagine how the editing process at a place like [...]

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If I could just take a minute here to comment on the massive floods this week…
Yes, the weather has a lot to do with it - but so does development. I covered this as a reporter and was surprised to learn that even a driveway can produce millions of gallons of storm runoff.
There’s a little [...]

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Voting Rights Act, just barely. All I know about the redestricting ruling is, the Dems better be prepared to be just as ruthless as the Repubs on this one.

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Oh look, my very first post on Huffington Post. And you’ll never guess: it’s about Al Gore!

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CNN just now:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the Bush administration does not have the legal authority to go forward with military tribunals for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. The case is a major test of President Bush’s authority as commander in chief during wartime. At the center of the [...]

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I still miss John Lennon:

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I’m leaving shortly for Drinking Liberally in Santa Barbara. I’ve been out of contact until just now because the motel I stayed at last night allegedly had wireless - but they didn’t. I haven’t even been able to check my email until now. Oh well.

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Imagine how compelling the evidence must be that, even in an administration known for massaging the facts in favor of big donors, they said it anyway:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Separate smoking sections don’t cut it: Only smoke-free buildings and public places truly protect nonsmokers from the hazards of breathing in other people’s tobacco smoke, says [...]

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Are you kidding me? The United States Senate came within one vote of passing a law making it illegal to “desecrate” the flag?
Jesus. They’re too fucking stupid (or cowardly) to get the irony. Our freedoms are close to being nothing more an annoyance as we build the new regime.

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TBogg - right again.

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Kevin Drum addresses a subject near to my heart - progressive funding. I talk to a lot of people from foundations, etc. and they only want to fund programs, ideas that follow a restricted, familiar format. You’d think liberals would get the concept of innovation and creativity, but apparently not. Well, Kevin says things are [...]

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Let’s just say first that the San Francisco DL really rocks. The members are typical of the smart, funny, passionate people who show up at DLs around the country, so if you haven’t been to one yet, you’d better do it soon; no one likes to be the last person riding the trend wave!
I met [...]

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Jeopardy expert Bob Harris:
Meanwhile, Think Progress tears the Wall Street Journal a new one for their unsurprisingly dishonest “rebuttal” of Al Gore’s movie. And strikingly fierce storms in Washington, where climate change of course does not exist, have caused an elm tree to fall startlingly close to the White House.
Fortunately, Homeland Security had kept [...]

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Duncan is exactly right:
As treason charges against the New York Times (but not, oddly, the Wall Street Journal) are getting thrown around on various “respectable” news outlets by people working in “journalism” I think it’s probably time for the serious reporters at those outlets to inform management that their resignations will be forthcoming if it [...]

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Matt has more questions on the Merck cyanide spill. Sure would be nice if someone followed up on them - you know, the people who are paid for it?

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Yeah, it really sucks that I’m on vacation and you’re not. But here’s another Beatle song to cheer you up:

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This was the cover story in yesterday’s L.A. Times. Apparently the computer models were too optimistic - the Greenland ice melting is a lot worse than they thought.
But don’t worry. The WSJ says it’s hoohah. You can all rest easy.

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