Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on May 9th, 2008
I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
- The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
I’d love to have some of whatever Matt Stoller is drinking. Go read the whole thing, it’s a comprehensive look at how Obama is consolidating money/power:
All I’ll add is that it’s time to think through the consequences of a party where there […]
Posted in Full Frontal Feminism, General, Media, Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on May 5th, 2008
Via Lance, I read this Michael Wolff piece in this month’s Vanity Fair:
The Hillary story is—and how could it not be?—largely a sexual one. This is not so much a sexist view as a sexualist view: What’s up here? What’s the unsaid saying? What’s the vibe? Although it’s not discussed in reputable commentary, it’s discussed […]
Posted in General, The Regime, The Shadow Knows on May 1st, 2008
I’m sure there’s nothing behind this story. Nope, nothing to see here, move along. Because I trust my government and I know it’s above reproach:
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - The woman convicted of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring that snagged a senator killed herself Thursday, police said, weeks after she was convicted on charges she […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows, Why I'm Not A Catholic Anymore on Apr 18th, 2008
The Pope meets with abuse victims.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Apr 9th, 2008
That this Obama delegate was asked to resign over this. Show me a parent anywhere who hasn’t referred to their kids as monkeys:
Posted in Just Plain Crazy, The Shadow Knows on Apr 5th, 2008
Bikini waxes for eight-year-olds.
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Apr 4th, 2008
I don’t understand why Obama supporters are so driven to publicly savage, insult and demean Clinton. What is it in themselves that makes them act… well, like Republicans?
It turns out that Randi Rhodes event for which she was suspended was a fundraiser sponsored by local Obama supporters and advertised on his official campaign website.
As she […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Media, Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Apr 4th, 2008
Yeah, here’s another fake email. This one’s comparing Clinton’s and Obama’s legislative record - someone sent it to me, I didn’t have the time or energy to debunk it. How nice of Newsweek to get Factcheck.org do it for me! (Kudos to them, by the way, for fact checking this insidious sort of email. I […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Power to the People, The Shadow Knows on Apr 4th, 2008
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
Posted in The Shadow Knows, War Stories on Mar 29th, 2008
Even when you die in the service of this rotten war, they have to pretend you’re straight?
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Mar 24th, 2008
Obama keeps telling supporters he doesn’t take money from lobbyists, and it’s simply not true. He takes big contributions from law firms that have substantial lobbying practices - under the law, they are listed on the finance reports as law firms, but they are also lobbyists - and they have to register with the feds […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Mar 24th, 2008
One of the things that inevitably happens in campaigns - especially when you’re dealing with legislators - is that they exaggerate things. A recent example was Clinton apparently raising the threat level to actual bullets flying when she went to Kosovo (although of course it’s possible she just confused it with something else).
The Obama campaign […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Paranoia Strikes Deep, The Shadow Knows on Mar 21st, 2008
Welcome to 1984. Not that we weren’t already there, just here’s your proper welcome and your tinfoil hat.
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a […]
Posted in The Regime, The Shadow Knows on Mar 19th, 2008
Link:
Israel’s Jewish community increasingly supports the delegitimization, discrimination and even deportation of Arabs, found a report on racism in Israel, set to be released Wednesday.
The report, to be presented at a press conference in Nazareth by Mossawa, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens of Israel, states that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has clearly impacted public opinion, […]
Posted in Humor, Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Mar 15th, 2008
Via BlogActive, a very funny video that sounds like every political-scandal press conference ever:
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Mar 10th, 2008
It’s so unusual when a Democrat has to pay for it:
(CBS/AP) Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told senior advisers that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, The New York Times reported Monday, citing an anonymous top administration official.
Spitzer, who is married with three daughters, was scheduled to make an announcement Monday afternoon. Spitzer officials […]
Posted in Media, The Shadow Knows on Mar 9th, 2008
I don’t know why I read anything this woman writes, but she’s really disgusting. Really. I’m so sick of her cutesy attack columns on anyone who’s trying to change this enormous mess left by Bush.
You know, the man she helped install.
Once again, I’ll note that she’s the perfect example of the ultimate Beltway insider. It’s […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Feb 20th, 2008
Remember when the Obama partisans were screaming at the very thought of superdelegates voting for Clinton if Obama won their state?
Apparently it’s okay if they vote for Obama when Clinton won the state. (See “New Rules, Jersey.”) This is now called “doing the right thing.”
Cognitive dissonance is so cute!
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Feb 20th, 2008
Once a hound, always a hound:
WASHINGTON — Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship […]
Posted in IOKIYAR, Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Feb 19th, 2008
Dr. S. says maybe it’s time to start making Republicans register as sex offenders.
Posted in The Body Electric, The Shadow Knows, Theocracy on Feb 16th, 2008
So, so sad. This poor kid. And this one.
Posted in Arts & Music, The Shadow Knows on Feb 14th, 2008
Posted in The Shadow Knows on Feb 4th, 2008
I just loved this article:
Of all human activities, creativity comes closest to providing the fulfillment we all hope to get in our lives. Call it full-blast living.
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. Most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the result of creativity. What makes us different […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Shadow Knows on Feb 1st, 2008
This is such an awful story, made even worse by the fact that the perpetrator was abused himself.
I don’t know of any effective program for sexual predators, and that’s why they should be put away for life. I don’t see any other rational decision.
Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Our Booming Economy, Politics As Usual, The Shadow Knows on Jan 30th, 2008
I read the Washington Post so you don’t have to. Michael Gerson, former Bush speechwriter, writes:
Proposals such as No Child Left Behind, the AIDS and malaria initiatives, and the addition of a prescription drug benefit to Medicare would simply not have come from a traditional conservative politician. They became the agenda of a Republican administration […]
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