Thursday, June 19, 2008
There Will Be Flood
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Olberman on Bush
Friday, May 16, 2008
Sacrifice
Tom Toles via Yahoo
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Bill O'Reilly Meltdown Remix
Monday, April 07, 2008
The "R" Word
Sunday, March 30, 2008
"Day in the Decade" Beatles tribute (1977 Rolling Stone)
Since April Fool's Day is only 2 days from now, we present what is simply one of the most embarrassing things ever to have an affiliation with the Beatles: "Day in the Decade" Beatles tribute segment from 1977 Rolling Stone Anniversary.
Bleccch!
The author of it writes:
Beatles tribute from hell! From the Rolling Stone Magazine 10th Anniversary TV special in 1977, found by me on an unlabled Beta tape at a flea market. Featuring Ted Neeley (the guy who played Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar"), Patti Labelle, Yvonne Elliman and several others. I'm sure most of them would prefer this never be seen again.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Iraq War = 4,000th US Casuality
A terrible loss, and and even greater waste:
Via Yahoo
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Spitzer Poem
From one of the comments on our sister blog:
Get ready for Monica-Bill redux
The Media gorging, raking mucks
Oozing glee from all their ducts
Republicans full of tuts and clucks
Leno and Letterman will use it for yucks
Tabloids making beaucoup bucks
As pundits narrate the jives and shucks
Of another Democratic Boy Wonder Deluxe
Who squandered the world for a few cheap...dates.
Good stuff, Jmay!
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Pres. Bush: Feds Can Open US Mail Without Warrants
Can 1/20/09 please hurry up and arrive?
President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant.
Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after signing legislation that overhauls some postal regulations. He then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open mail under emergency conditions, contrary to existing law and contradicting the bill he had just signed, according to experts who have reviewed it.
A White House spokeswoman disputed claims that the move gives Bush any new powers, saying the Constitution allows such searches.
Still, the move, one year after The New York Times' disclosure of a secret program that allowed warrantless monitoring of Americans' phone calls and e-mail, caught Capitol Hill by surprise.
"Despite the president's statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people's mail without a warrant," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill.
Experts said the new powers could be easily abused and used to vacuum up large amounts of mail.
"The [Bush] signing statement claims authority to open domestic mail without a warrant, and that would be new and quite alarming," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington.
"You have to be concerned," a senior U.S. official agreed. "It takes executive-branch authority beyond anything we've ever known."
A top Senate Intelligence Committee aide promised a review of Bush's move.
"It's something we're going to look into," the aide said.
Source:
Bush says Feds can open mail without warrant
James Gordon Meek
New York Daily News, Thursday, January 4, 2007 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003508676_mail04.html
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Faked China
Who ever would have guessed that the Chinese communist controlled media would fake a photograph?
Earlier this week, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.
The deception -- uncovered by Chinese Internet users who sniffed out a Photoshop scam in the award-winning picture -- has brought on a big debate about media ethics, China's troubled relationship with Tibet, and how pregnant antelope react to noise.
The antelope imbroglio began in the summer of 2006. The Chinese government was celebrating its latest engineering feat, and an enthusiastic wildlife photographer from the Daqing Evening News was camped out on the Tibetan plateau eating energy bars and waiting for antelope to pass.
Front page WSJ:
click for interactive photo
courtesy of WSJ
As published:
courtesy of WSJ
Source:
China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope
They Didn't Truly Run With a Train to Tibet; Xinhua Agency Recants
JANE SPENCER and JULIET YE
WSJ, February 22, 2008; Page A1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120363429707884255.html
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Beat-boxing Bush
Hysterical:
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Shop til you drop?
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Bush Library
The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. You'll want to be the first at your corporation to make a contribution to this great man's legacy.
The Library will include:
The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you can't remember anything.
The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't even have to show up.
The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.
The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room (which no one has been able to find).
The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour.
The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shooting gallery.
The K-Street Project Gift Shop where you can buy (or just steal) an election.
The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Study says many studies suck
Mark Morford, on the proliferation of idiotic surveys:
Question No. 1 (please be as specific as possible): Exactly how much of an idiot are you? More to the point: How arrogant and ignorant and out of touch with your body, your heart, your mind, your divine sense of self do you feel you are on a day to day basis? Are you, in short, a moron? How much of a moron? Too much of a moron to actually understand this paragraph? Please check the little box on the right. No, the other right. Thank you.
From what I have gleaned from glancing through a whole slew of recent studies, these are, apparently, the questions we most need answered. These are the questions that plague us and torment us and, oh my God, if we only had the answers to these questions and the many, many other urgent queries like them, such as: Is sunlight necessary? Is breathing compulsory? Is having a dog around sort of nice? If you eat less crap, will you feel better? Sleep: Who cares? Should humans move? God: WTF? — we might just figure out how to live long enough to, you know, accidentally stab ourselves in the eye with a fork and bleed to death.
Which is perhaps an overly snarky way of saying: Many of these studies are getting dangerously inane. And insulting. And actually harmful. Because if you believe many of these deceptive factoids that fill our newspapers and magazines and universities, if you take them as they're meant to be taken, as helpful guidelines for behavior or even as some sort of serious demarcation of human understanding, well, we are doomed indeed.
Go read the whole thing . . .
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Source:
Study says many studies suck
Mark Morford
SF Gate, Friday, February 1, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/02/01/notes020108.DTL
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Monday, January 28, 2008
SOTU Address
Sources:
Winning the war on
Mike Luckovich
State of the Union
Pat Oliphant
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Thursday, January 03, 2008
2007 Darwin Awards
Whew! We didn't make the list. Might as well shave & shower . . .
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
One More Year . . .
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Most Overlooked Story of the Year
This is my vote for the most overlooked story of the year: Former DOJ Official Tested the Method Himself, in Effort to Form Torture Policy
A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned about the controversial, interrogation technique of waterboarding that he decided to experience it firsthand,sources told ABC News., Daniel Levin, then acting assistant attorney general, went to a military base near Washington and underwent the procedure to inform his analysis of different interrogation techniques.
Keith Olbermann *SPECIAL COMMENT* 11/5/07-
Part 1
Part 2
DoJ Official Declared Waterboarding Torture
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Charge It!
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Friday, November 23, 2007
The Lovely Mistresses of George W. Bush
via boing boing
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac?
source: Health vs. Pork: Congress Debates the Farm Bill
Hat tip kottke
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Legacy
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Penn & Teller and the FCC
Calling it as they see it:
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Iraqi teaser Rates
Tom Toles, via Yahoo!
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Saturday, September 01, 2007
Congressional Family Values
Tom Toles via Yahoo
Ben Sargeant via Yahoo
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
W: "We could have won in Viet Nam"
Ben Sargent via Yahoo!
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Gotta Jet
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Rovian Humor
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Way Too Right of the Target . . .
Tom Toles via Yahoo!
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
Incarcerex
Does your politician suffer from Chronic Re-Election Paranoia (CREEP)? Do you think our nation has an Incarcerex dependence? Tell your elected officials to give up the quick fix and create a new bottom line for the war on drugs.
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Monday, July 09, 2007
Excessive Sentences
Hypocrisy abounds:
Pat Oliphant via Yahoo!
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Friday, July 06, 2007
To Liberty!
Its all about the Liberty!
Tom Toles via Yahoo!
Pat Oliphant via Yahoo!
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