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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At least 50,000 civilian deaths in Iraq, equivalent to 570,000 here. Just so you know why the Iraqis aren’t so fond of us.

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You don’t suppose Arlen’s actually telling the truth for once? Nah, how likely is that?
WASHINGTON (AFP) -President George W. Bush may be considering backtracking on his insistence the US government can eavesdrop on telephone calls made by Americans without a special warrant from a counterintelligence court, a top Republican senator said.
The White House declined to […]

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Oh, and now Jerome Armstrong is a nut because he uses astrology? And yet, a certain dead president used it - and he’s the role model for the Republican masses. Go figure:
The pre-blogger activist life of ex-VA Gov. Mark Warner (D) advisor Jerome Armstrong continued to produce blogosphere fodder this weekend when Riehl World View […]

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“Information is the currency of democracy,” as one of my friends used to say:
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has conceded another legal victory to a group of Connecticut libraries, thereby ending the case entirely, RAW STORY has learned.
The Librarians, members of Library Connection, a not-for profit cooperative organization for resource sharing across 26 Connecticut library […]

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Looks like I picked the perfect week to be away. Some things never change, though - wacky Curt Weldon’s up to his old tricks.
I don’t suppose you’d call it “news” that the Wall St. Journal has another hit piece on Al Gore, but there you have it. (By the way, I was in a great […]

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Good morning, campers! I’m sitting in a Travelodge near Fisherman’s Wharf, sucking up free wireless and trying to figure out how I’ll stumble through the day on only a few hours sleep. (We pulled into San Fran at about 4 a.m.)
Kevin Drum was nice enough to host a blogger party at his home yesterday, and […]

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Just to let the cube rats know I’m thinking of them this morning:

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Can’t make Oakland because I’m leaving to come back to L.A. Wednesday a.m. so it’ll have to be the Monday night DL in San Francisco. Do try to come by and say hi, it’s always fun meeting readers.
Oh, and we’ll be at the Santa Barbara DL Wednesday night, God willing and the creek don’t rise.

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We’ll be driving up to the Bay Area tonight and we’re going to try to hit at least one Drinking Liberally this week. Anyone have any recommendations?

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The Washington Post is doing a great job with the Abramoff documents that were released Friday:
Newly released documents in the Jack Abramoff investigation shed light on how the lobbyist secretly routed his clients’ funds through tax-exempt organizations with the acquiescence of those in charge, including prominent conservative activist Grover Norquist.
The federal probe has brought a […]

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So we’re cutting troops in Iraq, so there’s the cutting, and we’re planning to have the majority of them out by December 2007, so there’s the running. Cut and run, get it? The very thing the Republicans just voted against last week.
If there was every any doubt that their allegiance is to their party and […]

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Here’s a nice treat for Sunday morning:

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1. Hotel California - The Eagles
2. Give It Up - Bonnie Raitt
3. Brass in Pocket - Pretenders
4. Put Your Records On - Corrine Bailey Rae
5. Bury Me - the Hiders
6. People Gonna Talk - James Hunter
7. I Don’t Want To Play - Ellen McElwaine
8. Luckie - Laura Nyro
9. The Ghetto of My Mind - Rickie […]

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The wingnut “we”:
REPRESENTATIVE Patrick McHenry, a 30-year-old Republican from North Carolina, rose during the recent debate over Iraq in Congress and declared that the struggle against “Islamic extremists” was his generation’s great challenge. Unlike the “white flag” crowd on the left, he vowed, he would not shrink from the fight.
That was a little too much […]

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This entire day has been an adventure. We started out with the breakfast buffet in the hotel cafe; they had a plasma-screen TV with CNN on one wall, and MSNBC on the other. CNN had the sorts of stories that I would, oh, I dunno, call real “news” - and MSNBC had breathless live coverage […]

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Hi kids, here I am in the gift shop in the Embassy Suites near LAX, checking my email. Got here safely and will post at length later.
Going to Grauman’s Chinese theater later and hooking up with a reader. Be good!

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Citizen action pays off this time:
Dear Susan,
I will pass along your concerns to our Program Director.As to your comments that it is ” info-tainment” rather than news, there is some degree of accuracy to that. We are a Music station, presenting ourselves in a family friendly environment. We should, however, strive for accuracy in what […]

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Greg Palast on Dan Rather, his coverage of Bush’s National Guard “service,” and the silence of the media lambs:
The lynching of Dan Rather is a cautionary tale of how news is made in the USA — and unmade — and topics permissible during an election. The story that cannot be reported is not about George […]

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Another episode brought to you by BushCo’s thespians.

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I can’t even bring myself to make a smartass remark about this. Now we know what was killing all those fish - cyanide. And apparently (it’s a little fuzzy) it may even be in the local drinking water. From Matt:
The Environmental Protection Agency identified a Merck and Co. Inc. research facility in suburban Philadelphia as […]

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