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Since I’m violently ill and sitting at home with very little to do other than revel in the marvels of the gastrointestinal system, I’ve decided this is as good a time as any to turn comments back on. So let’s see how long it takes to break this thing.
Update: Ha! It only took 2 […]

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Let’s just say that Jeff Gerth, the New York Times point man on the Whitewater pseudo-scandal, does not do my former profession proud.

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This is too much fun.

Via some obscure blogger.

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I know I’m surprised. Aren’t you?
Bush administration officials throughout the government have engaged in White House-directed efforts to stifle, delay or dampen the release of climate change research that casts the White House or its policies in a bad light, says a new report that purports to be the most comprehensive assessment to date of […]

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John McCain believes in Iraq fairies.

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This is just a reminder that comments are turned off right now in order to avoid crashing our database server. Even though it seems like you ought to be able to sign up and make a comment, that’s not actually the case. We may well have to go down that route in the long run, […]

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Is on the march.

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Contrary to reality, and contrary to common sense, the Beltway bobbleheads continue to push their fantasy of what will make life easier on the cocktail party circuit. Joe Conanson:
Someday the Democrats may learn an important lesson about the collective wisdom of the media in the nation’s capital: On important questions of policy and politics, the […]

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Drinking Liberally at Tangier, 18th & Lombard, 6 - 8 p.m. Free wings and drink specials for the early birds - plus, the weather’s really nice and we can probably even sit outside!

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OK, I’ll admit I didn’t watch Katie Couric’s interview with John and Elizabeth Edwards. The plastic surgery as made her eyes way too far apart for her head, and couple with the barely existent nose she looks like the love child of Skeletor and Nemo.
Be that as it may, apparently the interview didn’t go […]

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Hello again. How is everybody? Sadly, I’ve had to disable commenting for the time being in order to keep the spambots from getting us tossed off of yet another host. Things should be back to normal tonight or tomorrow.

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Mitch McConnell of Kentucky predicted legislation similar to that already passed by the House of Representatives would eventually get through the Senate, which is more narrowly controlled by Democrats.
“The final bill is likely to have the offending language in it,” the Senate minority leader said as the Senate prepared to begin debating the war-funding bill, […]

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Melanie tipped me to this Bob Somerby assault on the Beltway bobbleheads. You really do have to read the whole thing to get the context, but I especially liked this part:
This group’s capacity for projection is astounding. After all, it wasn’t the Clintons who said Gore “invented the Internet;” it was them, the mainstream press […]

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I wish I could say this surprised me.

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So Gonzo’s senior counsel is going to take the 5th, rather than testify. This reminds me of when they immunized Oliver North at the Iran-contra hearings to force him to testify.
This was a tactical error, because it caused all kinds of legal problems later on. It was the excreable Lawrence Silberman, GOP hack supreme, who […]

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Krugman:
Remember how the 2004 election was supposed to have demonstrated, once and for all, that conservatism was the future of American politics? I do: early in 2005, some colleagues in the news media urged me, in effect, to give up. “The election settled some things,” I was told.
But at this point 2004 looks like an […]

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Chicago Dyke has a great piece on credit that everyone should read over at the Mighty Corrente building, and I have to say, it resonated with me.
I am, in fact, grateful that my credit got so screwed up that I can only pay cash. It’s made me a much more careful and patient person, because […]

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You ain’t seen nothin‘ yet.
Michael Moore, look out. Rick Santorum is getting into the documentary filmmaking business and he’s out to tell ”the other side of the story.”
Less than three months removed from his congressional career, the former Pennsylvania senator said in an interview last week that he is planning two film projects in part […]

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I’m speechless.
The pulverized remains of bodies from the World Trade Center disaster site were used by city workers to fill ruts and potholes, a city contractor says in a sworn affidavit filed Friday in Manhattan Federal Court.
Eric Beck says debris powders - known as fines - were put in a pothole-fill mixture by crews at […]

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I don’t know what the American Reform Party, the Constitution Party, the Green Party, the Reform Party, and all the other third parties are doing to prepare for next year’s Presidential election, but I can see a real opportunity for a third party to make inroads next year if they’ll just try to find a […]

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I don’t know if you have ever listened to Gilberto Gil - highly recommended if you haven’t - but I thought this article was worthy just for the strength of that quote.

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But damned if I can tell the difference. [Via TBogg.]

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I’m not surprised, but I’m still appalled at the number of people who find it necessary to tell Elizabeth and John Edwards what their priorities “should” be. One of the most common scolds is that they have very young children, and John Edwards should quit running and devote all his attention to his family.
Well, excuse […]

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1. Why Should I Care - Diana Krall
2. If She Knew What She Wants - Jules Shear
3. Store Bought Bones - The Raconteurs
4. I Don’t Want Anything to Change - Bonnie Raitt
5. Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
6. Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream
7. All Men Are Liars - Nick Lowe
8. String Out Again - […]

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