I saw "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" today...
It was nicely done. It was flattering without being over the top. I was all of six years old when Saigon fell, and while I've read Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History my grasp of events in SE Asia and...
View ArticleMichael Moore in Ames, IA on 10/17
I just got back from Moore's Ames, IA installment of the Slacker Uprising Tour. I would guesstimate that about 8,000 were there, including a handful of hecklers, Bush/Cheney acolytes, and Michael Moore...
View ArticleMy ? for Ambassador Joe Wilson
[Former] Ambassador Joe Wilson, he of the "What I did not find in Africa"-yellowcake-uranium-from-Niger-bound-for-Iraq-where-it-would-be-refined-into-fissile-material...
View ArticleWe're all Cheeseheads Now!
This week's World Series sweep by John Kerry's beloved Boston Red Sox certainly added a little bit of mojo to the campaign, but Sunday's NFL game between the Washington Redskins and the Green Bay...
View ArticleAnti-Bush Pumpkin Humor
With the help of a Kossack, I found a decent template for my pumpkin, George. I did a whack job on ole George and came up with the following:Darkened Pumpkin It says, "Fear More Years," in case that's...
View ArticleWhat Seymour Hersh has to say about Dubya
Sy Hersh, the author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, spoke at Iowa State last night. He's not on the Bush/Cheney bandwagon to say the least. His talk was apropos, coming as it...
View ArticleTerry Gross smacks down Lynne Cheney on NPR's Fresh Air today!
Check your local listings, people, to find out whether your National Public Radio affiliate carries the program Fresh Air out of WHYY in Philadelphia. Terry is, IMHO, a great interviewer. Kind of like...
View ArticleRecess appointment ties Bush to Plamegate?
So I was reading loudocracy's diary about Wilkerson's latest indictments of the Cheney cabal. I follow the link to Froomkin's White House Briefing in WaPo, and scrolling down, I come across this little...
View ArticleOne Evangelical "Disillusioned" by Buckham, Delay, Abramoff
NPR had a nice, loooong bit (almost nine ever-loving minutes) on Morning Edition this AM that gave the perspective of a Christian Evangelical minister who was "used" by Tom Delay's associate Ed Buckham...
View ArticleFather of Nick Berg reacts to Zarqawi Assassination
Among the many Americans with vested interest in the al-Zarqawi hit are family members of some of his victims. Soledad O'Brien of CNN interviewed Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg. I admire the dad...
View ArticleGriles Gets Target Letter in Abramoff Probe
Sue Schmidt has got the goods in WaPo this morning: Federal prosecutors have notified a former deputy secretary of the interior, J. Steven Griles, that he is a target in the public corruption...
View ArticleHubris and Incompetence Watch, Part 10,469
After reading this article, about how Condi told Cheney (a.k.a. "Shooter," a.k.a. one of the "new crazies") to kiss her grits on Iran policy, I had a brief moment where I thought to myself, "Hmmm....
View ArticleLazy Fred Thompson Takes Campaign Cash From Stupid People
Chris Cillizza, perhaps cribbing from the NY Sun, gives us the names of some notables who have written checks for the Fred Thompson campaign. The one that jumped out at me is Doug Feith, "the fucking...
View ArticleCast Your Vote in the Ames Straw Poll!
Today is a big day for Republican presidential hopefuls, as the sheeple faithful gather in Ames, Iowa for the Iowa Republican Party's straw poll.What are your predictions? What is the conventional...
View ArticleMy ? for Ambassador Joe Wilson
[Former] Ambassador Joe Wilson, he of the "What I did not find in Africa"-yellowcake-uranium-from-Niger-bound-for-Iraq-where-it-would-be-refined-into-fissile-material...
View ArticleWe're all Cheeseheads Now!
This week's World Series sweep by John Kerry's beloved Boston Red Sox certainly added a little bit of mojo to the campaign, but Sunday's NFL game between the Washington Redskins and the Green Bay...
View ArticleAnti-Bush Pumpkin Humor
With the help of a Kossack, I found a decent template for my pumpkin, George. I did a whack job on ole George and came up with the following:Darkened Pumpkin It says, "Fear More Years," in case that's...
View ArticleWhat Seymour Hersh has to say about Dubya
Sy Hersh, the author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, spoke at Iowa State last night. He's not on the Bush/Cheney bandwagon to say the least. His talk was apropos, coming as it...
View ArticleTerry Gross smacks down Lynne Cheney on NPR's Fresh Air today!
Check your local listings, people, to find out whether your National Public Radio affiliate carries the program Fresh Air out of WHYY in Philadelphia. Terry is, IMHO, a great interviewer. Kind of like...
View ArticleRecess appointment ties Bush to Plamegate?
So I was reading loudocracy's diary about Wilkerson's latest indictments of the Cheney cabal. I follow the link to Froomkin's White House Briefing in WaPo, and scrolling down, I come across this little...
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