“What can I do to end this war if I’m willing to go to jail for it?”
Discuss.

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Lambert on Broder’s latest loss of bladder control - in this case, over Bloomberg.

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Pam Spaulding on anti-gay forces in the black churches.

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The insurance industry is mobilizing, but they’re kidding themselves if they think they can fool people the way they did the last time. There’s simply too much real-life experience with (and anger at) insurance companies out there for them to pull it off:
“I think it will be like ‘Bowling for Columbine,’ ” said Michael F. [...]

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So you know how bad Cheney must be…
WASHINGTON - It’s hard to imagine how Dick Cheney could get more dastardly, unless J. K. Rowling has him knock off Harry Potter next month.
Harry’s cloak of invisibility would be no match for Vice’s culture of invisibility.
I’ve always thought Cheney was way out there — the most Voldemort-like [...]

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Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson has a comprehensive look at how George Bush turned over anything having to do with energy and climate change to Dick Cheney - and how he actively obstructed any change, however minute.
I guess we’re getting awfully used to this sort of thing, but maybe we should remind ourselves what’s at stake:
“If [...]

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Why were we giving money to people who already had so much, anyway?
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US House of Representatives has voted to deny all aid to Saudi Arabia, despite repeated assurances by the administration the desert kingdom was cooperating with the United States in the war on terror.
The ban is contained in a little-publicized [...]

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Del Amitri with another song I used to cover:

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Sonia Dada with one of my favorite songs. “You had to leave/Because you said/You never came.” How do you argue with that?

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Why do I never get an answer? - Moody Blues
Josh has the right ones.

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Very good explanation of just how the healthcare industry attacks “Sicko.”

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I never thought I’d say this, but I heart Rahm Emanuel!

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Damn you, Brendan:
1. My feet are big, Peggy Hill big. Unlike men, this has no correlation with anything good.
2. A guy I once slept with said, “I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but your breasts are much larger than they appear.” My friends taunted me with this for years: “Well, Susan, your [...]

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Q&A with Rolling Stone political writer Matt Taibbi:
Q. How long will it take for the Democrat hopefuls to realize that they cannot simply pull out of Iraq?
- Burnwad

A. I saw an old episode of “Homicide: Life on the Street” on the Sleuth channel the other night. In it a highly annoying Vince D’Onofrio falls between [...]

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This one’s for all my friends out there who are chemically kicking it through the day (and yes, caffeine and nicotine count, too):

Check out more of Jonathan Coulton’s music here. He’s got that cool Marshall Crenshaw vibe!

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The people who are presently running this country.
My outrage meter just blew up.

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Someone who was on the inside describes how it worked:
WASHINGTON — An Army reserve officer who served on a military panel at Guantanamo Bay that determined whether a detainee should be held indefinitely as an “enemy combatant” has said the process is deeply flawed, relying on vague evidence prepared by poorly trained personnel, and is [...]

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If we ever had any doubt that they’re criminals who think they’re above the law, this clears that right up:
WASHINGTON — The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, President Bush’s office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight [...]

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Well, it looks like the Cheney story is worse than we thought. He’s claiming he’s also a member of the legislative branch, and that’s the basis for his exemption from the records act.
Which will be spun by White House “legal experts” as a valid argument and the corporate media will no doubt go along. Fair [...]

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Another scene from our ongoing national nightmare.

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Oh, come on, you know you want to:
NEW DELHI: Union health minister A Ramadoss has taken a hard line on Hindustan Latex’s vibrating condom, which has got the Madhya Pradesh political class in a tizzy, demanding its ban.
The minister clarified on Friday that the Crezendo condom “has been developed to entice men into using it [...]

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Jimmy Breslin on Bloomberg’s possible run.

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Credit where credit is (over)due. Bad pun, but you get the idea.

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Rick Perlstein on blogs and mainstream media.

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For those of you who, like me, are fans of synchronized silliness:

AmaZing - video powered by Metacafe

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Gee, the rest of us have been holding BushCo in contempt for years:
House Judiciary Committee Democrats warned yesterday they would pursue a contempt of Congress motion if the White House fails respond to subpoenas for testimony and documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys last year.
The deadline for a response is Thursday, June 28. [...]

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A Henry Rollins rant for Mac.

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I was sitting and catching up with a friend in a local cafe yesterday. He’s black, and we often discuss issues of class and race.
He mentioned the speech Digby made at the Take Back America conference, and asked me if I’d noticed what was missing.
“She talked about, you know, habeas corpus and Abu Ghraib [...]

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There is no better example of this rule than the New York Times Page A-1 story about John Edwards this morning.
The same paper that was oh, so reluctant to question the motives of the gang of crooks and liars that have been desecrating the White House and Congress for far too many years now is [...]

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Considering all the problems we have with toxic Chinese imports, this isn’t the most reassuring news. Because we owe China so much money, I can’t even imagine what leverage we could have in getting them to stop sending us crap.

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