Here’s the video: …which serves as the launching point for this great comment by Amanda Marcotte: Watching videos of representatives of organizations like the Abstinence Clearinghouse, the CWA, and the IWF always makes me tense, and I finally realized that it’s the women themselves (and women are the official faces of all these misogynist groups) that make me nervous. The … Read More
Arming The Enemy
Stunning incompetence: The report details a massive failure in government procurement revealing little accountability for the billions of dollars spent purchasing military hardware for the Iraqi security forces. For example, according to the report, the military could not account for 12,712 out of 13,508 weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and machine guns. Let’s be clear about … Read More
Tramps Like Me
I scored some tickets to see The Boss. Twenty-five years ago, that would have been a major coup. It would have required having major connections or an all-night sleepout in front of Ticketron or something. Now all it requires is an Internet connection.
Say What?
Senate Minority Mitch McConnell (R-KY), on U.S. casualties in Iraq: "Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers." Oh, well. That makes it okay, I guess.
Arbuckle
Arbuckle is a comic strip that intentionally rips off Garfield. In fact, "Arbuckle" is just "Garfield" comic strips redrawn with the thought bubbles (from Garfield) removed. The result? "Garfield" changes from being a comic about a sassy, corpulent feline, and becomes a compelling picture of a lonely, pathetic, delusional man who talks to his pets. Here, for example, is the … Read More
More Guns Make Everything Better
I read this at InstaPundit: I HEARD NEAL BOORTZ holding forth on the Omaha mall shooting this morning on the way to work, and I realized I haven’t posted on it. I don’t really have anything to say that I haven’t said before. But it’s worth noting — since apparently most of the media reports haven’t — that this was … Read More
Do Military Families Support The War?
Nope: Nearly six out of every 10 military families disapprove of Bush’s job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does. And among those families with soldiers, sailors and Marines who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 60% say that the war in Iraq was not worth the cost, … Read More
WaPo Editorial On Romney’s “Faith” Speech
Well said: RELIGIOUS liberty is, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared yesterday, "fundamental to America’s greatness." With religious division inciting violence across the globe, he is right to celebrate America’s tradition of religious tolerance. He’s right, too, that no one should vote against him, or for him, because he is a Mormon. We only wish his empathy for religious … Read More
What Sully Says
We live in a banana republic: What defines such a republic? How about an executive that ignores the rule of law, commits war-crimes and then destroys the actual evidence? Today’s bombshell is that the CIA has done just that with respect to tapes made recording the torture of enemy combatants. Read the whole story. We live in a country where … Read More
Can’t Even Do This Right
Embarrassing: Harried homeowners seeking mortgage relief from a new Bush administration hotline Thursday had to contend with a bit of temporary misdirection from the president himself. As he announced his plan to ease the mortgage crisis for consumers, President Bush accidentally gave out the wrong phone number for the new “Hope Now Hotline” set up by his administration. This is … Read More
Huckabee Claims Jesus Endorses Huckabee
What he said: STUDENT: Recent polls show you surging… What do you attribute this surge to? HUCKABEE: There’s only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one. It’s the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people. (Applause) That’s the only way that our campaign can … Read More
Twenty-First-Century Computing, as Explained by My Mother
Actually, it’s by the mother of McSweeney’s List writer Pasha Malla, but it could just as well be my mother: the Internet: "Where people mess around with words." e-mail: "A way of communicating with people. You plug in and go for it." website: "Where you post information about a topic. Any topic. It could be anything. Therein lies the freedom." … Read More
Questions For Huckabee
In his GQ interview, Huckabee says: I don’t think the issue’s about being against gay marriage. It’s about being for traditional marriage and articulating the reason that’s important. You have to have a basic family structure. There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. So there is a sense in which, you know, … Read More
Shorter Mitt Romney Speech
Put bluntly: "America loves all Gods; hates everyone who is secular". Kevin Drum explains why… When Kennedy, as a presidential candidate went to the voters and spoke of his Catholicism, he assured them that no religion, even his own, will govern his presidency. Romney, on the other hand, said today that all religion, including his own, will govern his presidency. … Read More
Right Wing Blogs Mindlessly Parrot White House Talking Points
So says Dan Bartlett, former Bush White House Director of Communications: That’s what I mean by influential. I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It’s a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we’ve cultivated and have really … Read More