This (RealMedia file) is a fragment of a very early television broadcast from the early 1930s which had been recorded off the air waves by amateur enthusiast using a home gramophone recording system. It is popular British singer Betty Bolton. What’s she singing? Who knows — the sound has been lost.
The Heat Rises On News-For-SaleGate
Senators Lautenberg, Kennedy, and Reid write to President Bush about the $240,000 in tax dollars given to a right wing journalist to write news stories in favor of Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy. Excerpt: In addition to the illegality of these actions taken by your Administration, we believe that the act of bribing journalists to bias their news in … Read More
LALALALALALALALALALALALA (I can’t hear you)!
The right wingers over at The Corner are being willfully ignorant about torture. World O’Crap explains it all for you wonderfully.
This Girl Is Sad
The picture doesn’t do her justice. And what’s worse, she’s having a hard 2005 so far. So . . . everyone who is reading this . . . please give a nanosecond of good vibes out to her, and maybe — collectively — the thoughts of everyone will manifest themselves into a ray of sunshine that will turn her 2005 … Read More
Stephen King Shot John Lennon
. . . and Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were co-conspirators. So says this website.
The Torture General and the Commander-in-Chief Override
To me, the most troubling thing about Gonzales is not his understanding (or lack thereof) on the "legal" use of torture, but his apparent lack of understanding on the powers of the Presidency. One thing is for sure: what ever "torture" is — and I am willing to concede that we can have open debates about that — the President … Read More
Desparate Yet?
Matt Yglesius is right to point this out: The recent acts of terrorism, such as the bombing of the U.N. headquarters and the mosque in Najaf, show a couple of things. First, that Iraq is still a dangerous place. They also show, I think, the desperation — the desperation of the adversaries that we face. We’re actively engaged in rooting … Read More
Your Tax Dollars Pay for Illegal Propaganda
The rightwing douchebag pundit of the day award goes to Armstrong Williams: Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same. The campaign, part of an effort to … Read More