Ah, Pat. Just when you start to sound reasonable, you turn around and show your true colors:
Pat Buchanan has been a constant presence on cable TV since the release of his book, State of Emergency. Last night on Hannity and Colmes, Buchanan explained that he’s motivated by his desire to keep the country overwhelmingly white. […]

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Early Beatles:

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Call the wahhhambulance! The Whiny Ass Titty Babies are peeing their pants again!
They must play subliminal tapes when they’re sleeping, because they all sound exactly the same:
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Ex-U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that the thought of California Rep. Nancy Pelosi becoming the next leader of the House and being third in […]

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I’m still a little surprised when Christians act like they’re supposed to:
JERUSALEM, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The Vatican’s envoy in the Holy Land and bishops from three other churches have launched a rare joint attack on the Christian Zionist movement, accusing it of promoting “racial exclusivity and perpetual war”.
Christian Zionists form a growing part of […]

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Here’s some more reasons why New Orleans hasn’t been rebuilt yet:
Two former Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in federal prison for soliciting bribes while managing a FEMA base camp in Algiers.
Andrew Rose and Loyd Holliman, identified by their attorneys following their arrest in February as Colorado firefighters who […]

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A couple of dozen people have complained to the FCC about Bush’s use of the word “bullshit” on the airwaves.
While this has a certain amusing irony, the fact remains that some people need to get a life. I find it difficult to believe the complaintants have never heard the word, and I imagine they know […]

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I can’t say I have all that big a problem with this. I mean, is it somehow more immoral than when the rich seize the assets of the people?
CARACAS, Venezuela — Perched in a green and forested aerie in the city’s southern hills, the exclusive Valle Arriba Golf Club has long offered its members […]

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Duncan on Sebastian Mallaby’s little empathy problem:
Here’s a guy who undoubtedly has pretty damn good insurance through his employer. If an illness strikes and he’s unable to continue the backbreaking work of typing a couple of columns per week about how other people have too much insurance, at a very minimum I’m sure his employment […]

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Dr. John (the Night Tripper) on the current state of New Orleans:
I mentioned that Cyril Neville had told me that some people still don’t know where their friends and family members are.
“Some people?! ” he said, his eyes wide with indignation. “Over half this city don’t have a clue. They’re either missin’ in action, dead […]

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John Aravosis responds to the new ad campaign about remembering 9/11.

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Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you ’bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you ’bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don’t know nothing ’bout hard work.
Dear […]

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Everyone knows nicotine isn’t addictive, people have free will, and nobody made that 12-year-old pick up a cigarette.
Uh huh:
The amount of nicotine in most cigarettes rose an average of almost 10 percent from 1998 to 2004, with brands most popular with young people and minorities registering the biggest increases and highest nicotine content, according to […]

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Commander Codpiece, wearing the aviator’s portable urinal that accentuated his manly bits. And no, I’m not making that up.
Today’s WashPo story about the new, improved BushCo: ‘Blunt Rhetoric Signals a New Thrust.’ Ooo, so manly:
Bush suggested last week that Democrats are promising voters to block additional money for continuing the war. Vice President Cheney this […]

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Please, go read all of what Keith Olbermann said last night. And then ponder on the sorry state of national affairs when a sportscaster and a comedian vie for our country’s leadership, and not our “leaders”:
That, about which Mr. Rumsfeld is confused is simply this: This is a Democracy. Still. Sometimes just barely.
And, as […]

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And who has the balls to call him on it?
Bankrolled almost entirely by taxpayers, President Bush is roaming far and wide on Air Force One to help Republicans retain control of Congress and capture statehouse contests in high-stakes midterm elections.
In 15 months, including back-to-back fundraisers Wednesday in Little Rock, Ark., and Nashville, Tenn., Bush […]

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Tonight I got a call from a dear friend, someone I hadn’t spoken to in years (mostly, because I was too embarrassed and depressed to tell her what an awful mess I’d gotten my life into). But we picked right up, in that way good friends do (”I can’t believe your kids are in college […]

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David Corn on Armitage and the Plame leak:
The outing of Armitage does change the contours of the leak case. The initial leaker was not plotting vengeance. He and Powell had not been gung-ho supporters of the war. Yet Bush backers cannot claim the leak was merely an innocent slip. Rove confirmed the classified information to […]

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Here’s what the Wall St. Journal picked.
I’ll have to give this one some thought. (Edwin O’Connor’s “The Last Hurrah” has to be one. And, even though it’s not overtly political, I’d recommend Sinclair Lewis for “Elmer Gantry” and “It Can’t Happen Here.”)
What do you say?

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Mother Jones has posted an interactive, searchable timeline of the lies that led to the war in Iraq. I’m pretty sure you’re going to want to bookmark this one.

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Did I mention we had tornadoes reported all around the Philadelphia area yesterday?

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A Beatles doubleheader for your lunch hour:

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Noble beleagured Israelis, evil U.N., crafty Lebanese terrorists masquerading as sick women and children, etc. You know the drill:
Israel rebuffed a United Nations request to lift its sea and air blockade on Lebanon. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, fresh from a visit to Beirut, made the request to Ehud Olmert in their meeting in Jerusalem on […]

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Matt, stress is that condition that results from trying to impose logic on an illogical system. You seem to think they actually believe their own statements, and therein lies the source of your intracranial pressure.
The only way the hoo-hah over Iran makes sense is if they want to attack Iran for some reason other than […]

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My baby brother is 50 years old today. (Why, that makes me…. quite young for my age!)
Hugs and kisses to him down in the Land of Sunshine and Whackos.

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This explains so much, doesn’t it?
The three most prosperous large counties in the United States are in the Washington suburbs, according to census figures released yesterday, which show that the region has the second-highest income and the least poverty of any major metropolitan area in the country.
Rapidly growing Loudoun County has emerged as the wealthiest […]

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