Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Blogosphere on Jul 2nd, 2009
I really love the names of some of the towns that turn up in my stats. This one caught my eye: Howey In The Hills, Florida. God only knows if the reader actually lives there (since ISP addresses can be off by hundreds of miles), but I like to think so.
I’m also partial to whoever [...]
Posted in American Empire, Blogosphere, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Stories on Jun 26th, 2009
This is his second-to-last post for the WashPo:
It says a lot about this presidency that there is so much else going on that the public has almost forgotten that our troops are still fighting two wars.
And yet, there is big trouble on both fronts. In Iraq, where our troops are at least in the process [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 22nd, 2009
This crap from the has-been Powerline blog is what the GOPers like John Cornyn are now clinging to in their attempts to undercut the NYTimes health care reform poll:
Since Obama won the election by a 53%-46% margin, the poll obviously skews left. That is reflected in the relative proportions of Democrats and Republicans as well. [...]
Posted in Blogosphere on Jun 22nd, 2009
Honestly, I don’t know when this woman sleeps! Carolyn Kay, prolific blogger/editor of Make Them Accountable, has a new blog that’s dedicated to aging well. Lots of good stuff, you should bookmark it.
Posted in Blogosphere, My So-Called Life, Politics As Usual on Jun 19th, 2009
Okay, so it wasn’t exactly earth shattering, but it sure was informative. Bill Clinton invited a group of bloggers (including yours truly, in the blue jacket) to meet with him this past Monday at the Clinton Foundation offices in Harlem.
Many of the bloggers who were there already wrote about it in great detail here, here, [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on Jun 18th, 2009
I still haven’t had a chance to write about the meeting (real life stuff keeps getting in the way) but in the meantime, many of the bloggers who were there wrote about it in great detail here, here, here, here, here and here.
Posted in Blogosphere, My So-Called Life, Politics As Usual on Jun 17th, 2009
I just haven’t had the time or energy to write about the blogger meeting with My New Best Friend Bill Clinton© , but I should get to it before the end of the week.
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on Jun 16th, 2009
Big Tent Democrat on why we don’t need a goddamned supermajority, we just need Dems to do their jobs:
George Bush LOST the 2000 election and barely won the 2004 election. His agenda was disfavored by the American People. And yet he got his agenda through the Congress.
Yglesias has this wrong. The American Presidency is only [...]
Posted in Blogosphere on Jun 15th, 2009
To Crooks & Liars’ John Amato, whose father died last night.
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on Jun 4th, 2009
What Jane said.
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Media, My So-Called Life on May 28th, 2009
I forgot to mention that Will Bunch, after doing a radio interview with Brian Tierney (publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News), responded to Tierney’s suggestion that he recommend some liberal writers for the paper.
I was one of them.
It would be kind of cool if some of you would send letters to [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on May 24th, 2009
Via Firedoglake:
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, Politics As Usual on May 23rd, 2009
The publisher has very nicely offered me a copy of Eric Boehlert’s new book, “Bloggers on the Bus” to give away to some lucky reader. The book is a really fun read with lots of personal information about your favorite bloggers. You won’t be able to put it down.
So here’s the deal: using the comments, [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, My So-Called Life on May 21st, 2009
Hey kids, you know I’m funny; I know I’m funny. But somehow, I just can’t find any of my funny stuff to submit for a freelance gig. Anyone remember anything particularly funny that I wrote? If so, could you track it down? I can’t think of anything.
Thanks!
Posted in Blogosphere on May 19th, 2009
I wish I was David Sirota.
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, Politics As Usual on May 17th, 2009
MoDo thinks by pretending she doesn’t read blogs that she can get away with stealing from one of them. She’s been hanging around the Beltway too long.
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, Power to the People on May 13th, 2009
To Firedoglake’s Marcy Wheeler, who received the Hillman Foundation’s journalism award. Marcy falls into that rare group of journalists whose work I peruse and say, “How the hell did she see that?” She’s amazing.
A really good way to congratulate her is to donate money so she can do this full-time.
Posted in Arts & Music, Blogosphere, Media, Politics As Usual on May 11th, 2009
I was reading this critique of Eric Boehlert’s new book by Anglachel, and it reminded me of something I’d thought earlier today: I can’t believe that only a few bloggers have reviewed the book to date.
I mean, this is Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, author of the very popular “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, My So-Called Life, Politics As Usual on Apr 30th, 2009
A certain foul-mouthed female blogger you may know is quoted at length in Eric Boehlert’s new book.
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on Apr 30th, 2009
Because he does things like this!
Posted in Arts & Music, Blogosphere, Higher Ground on Apr 19th, 2009
66 million YouTube hits and counting. Wow. I thought this was interesting:
Indeed, the Internet is her stage, and the 47-year-old who has said she’s never heard of YouTube is the Web’s hottest entertainer. “She’s really the world’s singer right now,” said Julie Supan, a YouTube spokesperson who in her four years at the company cannot [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, War Crimes on Apr 17th, 2009
Attaturk:
Since the right-wing blogs likely will not revisit and the press certainly will not.
The coda of the Beauchamp Affair:
A senior enlisted Army soldier was convicted on Wednesday of killing four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi men with pistol shots to the backs of their heads shortly after arresting them in Baghdad two years ago, The Associated [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Politics As Usual on Apr 9th, 2009
I’ve been saying this for years: Why don’t progressive groups give financial support to blogs?
This isn’t just blogs - it’s the progressive Dem mindset, that you should work for free. (When I worked the mayoral campaign two years ago, my candidate was constantly attacked by local liberals who said he wasn’t progressive. My response? “I’m [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Politics As Usual on Mar 26th, 2009
Bloggers to moderate a VA gubernatorial debate. Perfect use of the blogger mindset! No more boring debates, either.
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, Politics As Usual on Mar 24th, 2009
The Politico says Obama is going to meet with liberal bloggers.
I suppose I’m in a distinct minority if I point out it presents a credibility problem. It’s always harder to be critical about someone you like (or his Secretary of the Treasury), and when the POTUS wants to meet you, well, it’s hard to knock [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Blogosphere on Mar 18th, 2009
My buddy J.C. Duffy has been doing an off-beat comic strip called “The Fusco Brothers” for… well, decades. Since before I was born, even. One of the main characters is a wolverine named Axel.
Or is he? Hmm. You make the call.
Posted in Blogosphere, Friday Fun on Mar 6th, 2009
Here’s another one:
Posted in Blogosphere, Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Mar 4th, 2009
Oh, boo fucking hoo. And by the way: her district is considerably more liberal than this “business friendly” Dem. She’s more interested in wielding obstructionist power as a minority DINO.
Posted in Blogosphere, Humor on Mar 2nd, 2009
Oh yes. I stole this from Noz:
Posted in Blogosphere, My So-Called Life on Feb 24th, 2009
I’m playing hooky today, so talk amongst yourselves until I get back.
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