But maybe the Internet needs an exercise in cleaning the slate…

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Poor Karl. His lawyer can’t even pull off a basic mind trick. It’s so hard to find decent young Jedi recruits anymore.

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Talk about getting boned. (h/t Lutton.)

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This is my cousin’s new job. I’m awed, inspired and worried. And it makes me think I could be doing a lot more close to home.

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Faithless:

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Larry Johnson says Karl may yet be frogmarched out of the White House.

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You probably want to read this. My guess is, they will never sufficiently inspect Chinese food products, because the Chinese have us by the economic short hairs:
Inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are able to inspect only a tiny percentage of the millions of shipments that enter the U.S. each year.
Even so, shipments [...]

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Apparently he would pay her to announce she was “shocked” and “awed” every time he dropped his drawers:
McLEAN, Va. — A woman charged with running a prostitution ring in the nation’s capital made good on her threat to identify high-profile clients, listing a military strategist known for his “shock and awe” combat theories as a [...]

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Via TPM Muckraker:
According to Mr. Kelner, the RNC had a policy, which the RNC called a “document retention” policy, that purged all e-mails from RNC e-mail accounts and the RNC server that were more than 30 days old. Mr. Kelner said that as a result of unspecified legal inquiries, a “hold” was placed on this [...]

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has issued subpoenas in the U.S. attorney scandal.

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Oh, look. It really wasn’t my imagination.

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“Efficiency wedges.” That’s what they’re calling the malignant financial neglect that led to the horrible conditions at Walter Reed hospital because, of course, it was more important to give tax cuts to the the richest Americans.
But really, who can blame them? The White House expected unicorns, pixies and fairy dust in Baghdad, and who on [...]

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Jon Landau on Huffington Post:
For some reason, people who make no secret of the fact that they despise Al Sharpton feel that they are doing something meaningful by engaging with him at times of crisis on racial issues. In going to him, they are seeking out someone who they think is disliked by large [...]

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It’s going to take a long time for the military to recover from our national nightmare.
Recent graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point are choosing to leave active duty at the highest rate in more than three decades, a sign to many military specialists that repeated tours in Iraq are prematurely driving out [...]

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Reuters: Explosion rocks Iraqi parliament, casualties reported.
And in the meantime, that Iraq thing is really going well, isn’t it?

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We didn’t really mean to hide those emails and break the federal documentation laws. It was, like, an accident! Yeah, that’s it!
Now, picture what would happen if this had been the Clinton administration.
By the way, I was at a dinner party last night where the host is an astrophysicist who works on NASA projects. (He [...]

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Billy Pilgrim had come unstuck in time.
- “Slaughterhouse Five,” Kurt Vonnegut
The first time I read that, of course it didn’t have the depth of nuance it does now. Now I’m older, and the older I get, the more my mind drifts in and out of time, and the harder it gets to easily tell the [...]

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Sadly, he’s gone. So it goes.

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But in Washington, the debate continues.
Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again.
In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of [...]

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Matt Taibbi on the presidential race:
Mainly in an attempt to preserve my own tenuous grip on sanity, I made it through this past weekend without reading much coverage of the campaign. The election, after all, is nearly a full Martian year away, with a Super Bowl and two World Series still to play out in [...]

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What former Bush backer said this?
We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car….I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is [...]

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Via Froomkin, from today’s WSJ:
A top Democratic lawmaker says outside email accounts were used in an attempt to avoid scrutiny; the White House says their purpose was to avoid using government resources for political activities, although they were used to discuss the firing of U.S. attorneys.”
Most of the e-mail accounts at issue are on Republican [...]

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It used to be that sometimes I would wake up in the morning and Imus would be on the TV and then I’d change the channel and everything would be right again. Now when Imus is on the TV and I change the channel, he’s still on the TV and no matter how often or [...]

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For BushCo’s disastrous schemes:
April 10, 2007 — ABC News has learned that the Pentagon is considering extending the tours of duty for every active duty soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Forget small extensions and trickles of National Guard troops. Under the proposal, deployments for active duty soldiers would be extended from the current 12 months to [...]

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Just something for consideration:
If Chris is a shorterned version of “Christopher,” then would it be acceptable to name your child “Christopher” but refer to him as Christ?
Is this blasphemous?

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I’ve always found Don Imus to be literally intolerable. I can’t listen to him for even five minutes, and no, it’s not because I have such delicate sensibilities. I mean, I’ve been a Howard Stern fan from the beginning. I used to stick a radio antenna out my office window every afternoon so I could [...]

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Howard Dean.

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Via Adventus, this horrifying tale of an Arizona man who’s being imprisoned in solitary confinement with no hot water, sunlight, radio or TV, because he carries a deadly strain of T.B.
Even though it’s not especially contagious. But, you know, just in case.
The Reverend concludes:
I don’t mean to be snarky, or deliberately insulting: but this is [...]

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Republican presidential wannabe and actor (terms not mutually exclusive) Fred Thompson.

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You know, it wouldn’t be so infuriating if these intramural attacks had one iota of anything other than careerism behind them:
It’s worth just noting the fact that a Democratic-aligned political consultant is harshly criticizing a Democratic Speaker of the House in exactly the terms which the Republican Party is currently deploying all throughout the media. [...]

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