Oh, look. The already inadequate FDA testing for mad cow disease has been lowered by 90%.

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It’s the Sunday Telegraph, so I’d take it with a grain of salt. But the story sounds credible nonetheless:
Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House.
Two members of Mr Gore’s staff from his unsuccessful attempt in [...]

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Save the chocolate! Nothing worse than that fake crap…

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BroD:
Reports have it that Rich Little stunk (note that, in deference to John McCain, I’m avoiding the b-word) at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. In fairness, it wasn’t the talent that stunk–it was the event.
The WHCA dinner celebrates the capitulation of the press under the terms that the press can have access to key [...]

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More tales from the FDA:
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — The first hints of trouble came with vague warnings from the outer reaches of the bureaucracy.
She was ”pushing too hard.”
She was ”alarmist.”
But it was something else — a clumsy bid to call her off the scent of the dangerous veterinary drug she was tracking — that really [...]

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Will Bunch is taking a few weeks off to work on a special project. (I could tell you what it is, but then I’d have to kill you.)

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Gee, ya think?

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Sounds like he’s drinking again, huh?
* “The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that’s how I feel. And she’s also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.”
* “There are jobs Americans aren’t doing. … If you’ve [...]

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I hear it’s all because she can suck the chrome off a bumper. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

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Gosh, there’s just something wonderful about two crazy kids in love…

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Via Laura Rozen:
Pentagon lawyers abruptly blocked mid-level active-duty military officers from speaking Thursday during a closed-door House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee briefing about their personal experiences working with Iraqi security forces.
The Pentagon’s last-minute refusal to allow the officers’ presentations surprised panel members and congressional aides, who are in the middle of an investigation [...]

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TBogg on William Kristol.
It would be highly unusual that a principled, honest person would be a talking head in the first place. Instead, we get wealthy political operatives like Kristol who are prized for their “credibility” - i.e. the ability to say any kind of amoral horseshit with simulated sincerity.
TBogg’s right. People on the street [...]

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I thought the same thing when I saw Card on “The Daily Show” the other night. Like, WTF? Glad Waxman’s on top of it:
WASHINGTON — When former White House chief of staff Andrew Card appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” last Monday, host Jon Stewart was so taken with Card’s dry humor that he [...]

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Still feeling safer, are we?
An industrial chemical linked to kidney failure in dogs and cats has found its way into the human food supply chain. California officials quarantined 1,500 animals at the American Hog Farm and are tracking who purchased nearly 100 hogs from the farm this month, when the animals’ feed included pet food [...]

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More e. coli, right here in Pennsylvania. (h/t Lutton.)

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First, go read Digby.
You know, these fetus fetishists really can’t seem to wrap their heads around the idea that women can be independent sexual beings. They prefer to see women as perpetually innocent victims, manipulated into having sex so their boyfriends will cuddle with them after. They have to convince themselves that pair bonding is [...]

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That such an important part of democracy is so unreliable:
CLEVELAND — Computer vote-memory card totals failed to match electronic voting machine ballot tallies in more than one quarter of the samples checked from the November election in the state’s most populous county, an independent audit showed Thursday.
In the 37 sample precincts where results didn’t match, [...]

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This is news?

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With the Edwards campaign. I guess you heard by now. (Yeah, I knew.)
I really like Edwards. If Al doesn’t come in, he’s probably my guy.

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Fiancee & I went out last night for a lovely dinner at Horizons and then to see Loreena McKennitt. I don’t know which was better.
Horizons is so good that it’s not just the best vegan or vegetarian restaurant I’ve ever been to, it’s probably the best restaurant I’ve ever been to, period - [...]

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So I was at the reception for this new art gallery, and I was standing in front of a large stone Cambodian phallus.
“You know, I was just thinking how much trouble it is when the right penis is attached to the wrong man,” I said to the woman standing next to me.
“You are so right,” [...]

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One of my dear friends back home wrote this privately today. With her permission, I’m posting it here. This conversation continues, but this was how it began and these were the words that got me to thinking, so I think it will be enough. I have such awesome friends.
I’m waiting for some [...]

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An anonymous letter informs the Senate Judiciary committee that the political standards extended even to the internship program:
Many employees within the Department’s litigating divisions are sitting quietly by, hoping that you will investigate what has happened to the Attorney General’s Honors Program and even the Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP). You are surely aware that [...]

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Great piece in the Phoenix on the significance of the Boston Globe Pulitzer win:
Savage’s win highlights the poverty of such reasoning. Plenty of national-news organizations (the Times, the Post, Newsweek, CNN, etc.) could have broken the signing-statement story. None of them did — and if not for the Globe, it might never have been reported. [...]

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the number of times Gonzales said he “didn’t recall” during today’s Senate hearing.
Should someone with Alzheimer’s be permitted to serve as AG?

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They’re all about the integrity, aren’t they?
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida repeatedly violated federal election law during his 2004 campaign, including accepting donations that exceeded legal limits, a new audit shows.
The Republican’s campaign also failed to report enough information about its donors nearly half of the time, according to a survey that was [...]

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Imagine that:
WASHINGTON - For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.
The administration intensified its efforts last year as President Bush’s popularity and Republican support eroded heading into a midterm battle [...]

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In case you’ve been wondering, it appears we can thank genetically-engineered corn.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg reads a summary of the dissent by Justices Stevens, Souter, Breyer and herself from the bench:
The Court asserts that its ruling furthers the Government’s interest in “promoting fetal life.” But the Act scarcely furthers that interest, for it targets only a method of abortion. The woman may abort the fetus, so long [...]

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As another young American is laid to rest:
NORFOLK — Honor, courage, determination, humor, friendship, and faith.
Those are the attributes that Army Sergeant Adam P. Kennedy represented to his brother Colin and six of the soldier’s friends, who eulogized the Iraq casualty yesterday before several hundred mourners at St. Jude’s Church.
“Adam was my best friend and [...]

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