Unfortunately, there’s a marked tendency on campaigns to push the candidate in the direction of the issue rather than let the issues shape the campaign. In this case, it sounds plausible - although we’ll never know for sure what happened:
WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002 after weighing [...]

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Via James Carroll:
“If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted,” the Vietnam novelist Tim O’Brien wrote, “or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.” O’Brien says that the hallmarks [...]

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I had no idea they grew this big. Eww!

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Still bubbling away.

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Went to see the movie today and loved it. I have a strong belief in the healing powers of pie, so it wasn’t such a hard sell to begin with.
I was also happy to see Andy Griffith in a supporting role. (In his youth, I’d put him right up there with Gary Cooper for sex [...]

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One of the funniest things I’ve seen.

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From Memorial Day 2005:
Soldiers are not chunks of identical clay; they each have a story, their own reasons for being caught in a war.
Brave? Maybe - sometimes, under some conditions. Scared, mostly. The younger they are, the more likely their presence had to do with restlessness, cockiness. The need to be part of a [...]

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Apparently we’re just supposed to sit and listen to the men folks.

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For Brendan.

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As big corporations jump on the regulatory bandwagon.

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From the insightful Natasha at Pacific Views, writing on the recent attempt by four congressman to live on the typical food stamp allotment:

Someone once said that the poor would always be with us. It’s probably true. Some people just aren’t very good at capitalism. Some people don’t know how to make powerful friends and grease [...]

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Al Gore on Charlie Rose.

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And did this to herself.

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Martha and the Vandellas with “Heat Wave”:

The Fifth Dimension with a medley of their hits:

It’s A Beautiful Day with “White Bird”:

Blood Sweat & Tears do “And When I Die”:

Glenn Campbell with Jimmy Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”:

Click to see more…

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I’m just the patient.

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Al Gore with Jon Stewart:

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I’d had far too much to drink; in those days, that was my way. I’d sidle up to the horseshoe bar with the boys and toss back one shot after another; that year, I believe, it was tequila that was all the rage. Lick the hand, shake the salt. Lick the salt, gulp the shot, [...]

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Thirty years late. I dropped out of art school when I was pregnant with my oldest son, because I figured working with lead paint and solvents had to be bad for the baby.
But it was such a new idea, that a pregnant woman still wanted to paint, that they didn’t know what to do with [...]

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This is nice to hear:
Likewise, I was at the event earlier today in New York City. Somewhere between 500 and 750 fans crammed into a Barnes and Noble to hear him speak and get his signature…during a workday at 12:30 PM. Unfortunately, those in charge of the bookstore wouldn’t allow us to conduct [...]

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Okay, here’s a weird one - can anyone help?
When I shut off my headlights, one of them stays on. I tried playing with the light switch but nothing helps. Any ideas? I’m assuming I’ll wake tomorrow to a dead battery…

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Here’s the UMass student protest today in response to former White House chief of staff Andy Card’s being awarded an honorary degree:

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Sly & the Family Stone:

Lovin’ Spoonful:

Martha and the Vandellas:

To save bandwidth for the readers still on dialup, click to see the rest. Tell me - what songs say summer to you?

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On the Iraq supplemental vote. Go read.

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Something pertinent lost in the discussion:
Thursday, May 24 the US Congress voted to continue the war on Iraq. They called it “supporting the troops.” I call it stealing Iraq’s oil-the second largest oil reserves in the world. The “benchmark” or goal the Bush administration has been working on furiously since the US invaded Iraq is [...]

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BushCo takes a stand. And as you might expect, it’s a stupid one:
The US has rejected any prospect of a deal on climate change at the G8 summit in Germany next month, according to a leaked document.
Despite Tony Blair’s declaration on Thursday that Washington would sign up to “at least the beginnings” of action to [...]

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In Klein vs. Greenwald, CJR declares Klein the winner:
Contrary to the overblown claims of journalistic malpractice that Greenwald is leveling, what Klein is actually guilty of doing is taking a story that has been reported elsewhere, and sexing it up with some anonymous sources to make it sound like he’s onto something that no one [...]

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Jeff Buckley:

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This takes place at the big outlet mall on the fringes of the Hellmouth, and it’s pure comedy gold.

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Wall St. Journal article (subscription only):
American men in their 30s today are worse off than their fathers’ generation, a reversal from just a decade ago, when sons generally were better off than their fathers, a new study finds… The findings suggest “the up escalator that has historically ensured that each generation would do better than [...]

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Steve Clemons details how hard Dick Cheney is working to prevent Bush from seeking a diplomatic solution in Iran. He concludes:
The zinger of this information is the admission by this Cheney aide that Cheney himself is frustrated with President Bush and believes, much like Richard Perle, that Bush is making a disastrous mistake by aligning [...]

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