Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on Apr 30th, 2008
FYI - Women’s Voices, Women’s votes is NOT a Hillary front. I know those of you in the advanced stages of Clinton Derangement Syndrome would like to believe it, but when the fever goes down, try checking the facts.
I know people who worked for it. It’s funded by Working Assets, among others. You can [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life on Apr 30th, 2008
One of my readers emailed me last week to ask if I wanted his old Strat.
As longtime readers know, I’ve been mourning the loss of my lovely black Fender Stratocaster since it was sold during the Great Recession of Post-9/11. So I jumped at the chance.
It arrived today and I’m already in love [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 30th, 2008
He’ll be preaching at a church in the Overbrook section of the city:
[Episcopal News Service] For the third consecutive year, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright will serve as revivalist for the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 28 and 29.
Wright is former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 30th, 2008
Eric Boehlert on the unprecedented drive by the media to decide the Democratic primary.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 30th, 2008
A reader sent me this forwarded email just as I was reading this story. She’s finally gone:
Subject: Leaving GSA
Dear Friends and Colleagues at GSA,
Early this evening I was asked to submit my resignation, and I have just done so. It has been a great privilege to serve with all of you and to [...]
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Disastrous, Fuck the Poor on Apr 30th, 2008
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
John Maxwell from the Jamaica Observer on where the world financial system has now focused their “expertise”:
The food supplies of [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 30th, 2008
It is horribly unfair that Obama will still be judged by his affiliation with Rev. Wright. It is also understandable that people will have questions about that affiliation. He did his best to lay the issue to rest yesterday, but God only knows how successful he was.
In a nation where many people still believe [...]
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2008
This Times story describes the chain reaction in the world’s food chain due to the high cost of chemical fertilizers. Anyone have some information on whether organic farming can be a viable alternative in terms of speed and quantity?
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Apr 30th, 2008
Well, it’s sort of like a health care plan. I mean, it involves health, and it’s a plan - albeit a shitty, half-assed sort of plan. But I’m sure it comes in a very nice folder!
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on Apr 30th, 2008
If she won’t quit, she needs to be killed. I’ll leave it to you to decide if that statement is metaphorical.
Posted in Politics As Usual on Apr 29th, 2008
Posted in Politics As Usual on Apr 29th, 2008
I think Obama’s right on this one.
Posted in Blind Justice on Apr 29th, 2008
He should be sentenced to work on a help desk:
DENVER - A Colorado man accused of sending hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and falsifying e-mail headers.
Thirty-five-year-old Edward “Eddie” Davidson of Louisville was also ordered to pay nearly $715,000 to the [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual on Apr 29th, 2008
The one the GOP doesn’t want you to see:
Posted in Recession Depression on Apr 29th, 2008
Finally!
Posted in Recession Depression on Apr 29th, 2008
Or half full? Depends on who you ask, I guess:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The share of vacant U.S. homes rose to a record level in the first quarter, the government reported on Monday, with homeowners finding it increasingly difficult to find buyers in a collapsed market and more homes in foreclosure.
The percentage of owner-occupied homes now [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Apr 29th, 2008
Who needs enemies? Rev. Wright isn’t a stupid man, so I have to assume he wants to punish Obama. Oy.
UPDATE: The same person tried to invite Wright to speak before the National Press Club two years ago, was told he wasn’t newsworthy. Guess he is now!
Posted in Geek Stuff, The Body Electric on Apr 29th, 2008
Fascinating:
TOKYO (AFP) - The monthly discomfort many women see as a curse could pay off someday as Japanese researchers say menstrual blood can be used to repair heart damage.
Scientists obtained menstrual blood from nine women and cultivated it for about a month, focusing on a kind of cell that can act like stem cells.
Some [...]
Posted in Arts & Music on Apr 28th, 2008
John & Yoko:
Lots of controversy when the song came out in 1972, with several black leaders coming to their defense.
Posted in Politics As Usual on Apr 28th, 2008
This is how Democrats should act:
GRAHAM, North Carolina (CNN) — Hillary Clinton criticized John McCain Monday for not doing enough to stop Republican ads running in North Carolina and Mississippi featuring the infamous comments made by Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright.
“I believe that if Sen. McCain were serious he would do more than send [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Not too many bloggers have been writing about this, which is a shame. This is an absolutely shameless partisan ruling, and if I believed in hell, I would think that Tony Scalia and his little SCOTUS friends will burn there for eternity:
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding Indiana’s vote ID law was unable to secure 5 [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Politics As Usual, Power to the People, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
The U.S. v. Jocko Lennon:
Posted in Humor on Apr 28th, 2008
Samantha Bee:
Posted in Just Plain Crazy on Apr 28th, 2008
Via Watertiger, a children’s book about Mommy’s plastic surgery.
“Well you see, dear, Mommy went into cardiac arrest while Mommy was getting her boobs done…”
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Apr 28th, 2008
Industry analysts predict it in a few years:
“Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.
That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more [...]
Posted in Geek Stuff, Higher Ground on Apr 28th, 2008
An interview with Ken Wilber.
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Apr 28th, 2008
Molly Ivors lets MoDo have it.
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Daniel Pipes.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression on Apr 28th, 2008
They just can’t seem to help themselves:
WASHINGTON — The mortgage industry, facing the prospect of tougher regulations for its central role in the housing crisis, has begun an intensive campaign to fight back.
As the Federal Reserve completes work on rules to root out abuses by lenders, its plan has run into a buzz saw of [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Class War, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Apr 28th, 2008
Here we go again:
Eight years after the debacle of “hanging chads,” Florida once again seems to be courting electoral trouble. A handful of laws have been passed since the 2000 presidential recount, with state officials saying they bring order to a chaotic system.
“Some say we err on the side of caution,” said Joe Pickens, a [...]
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