From Jesse Taylor at Pandagon, we learn that conservative Christian blogger LaShawn Barber (pictured at right) is making sure that everybody acts as the no-insult-Barber police: LaShawn Barber has a set of rules for tracking back to her site that have me giggling a little bit. Here are the good ones: 4) Trackbacks leading to offensive, ad hominem-laced, and/or libelous … Read More
Swiftboating Sheehan Fails To Pay Off
Frank Rich: THIS summer in Crawford, the White House went to this playbook once too often. When Mr. Bush’s motorcade left a grieving mother in the dust to speed on to a fund-raiser, that was one fat-cat party too far. The strategy of fighting a war without shared national sacrifice has at last backfired, just as the strategy of Swift … Read More
More Rats
NRO’s Andrew McCarthy, NOT the one from "Weekend at Bernie’s" pictured here, rejects the Iraqi War now, too: For what it’s worth, this is where I get off the bus. The principal mission of the so-called “war on terror” – which is actually a war on militant Islam – is to destroy the capacity of the international network of jihadists … Read More
Like Rats From A Sinking Ship
Militias are on the rise, the Iraqi Constitution is founded in Islamic law (making Iraq a theocracy, not a democracy), and we’re going to be in Iraq until 2009. So much for the quick and easy victory, roses at our feet, etc. Which probably explains why conservative blogger and smart guy Professor Bainbridge writes: It’s time for us conservatives to … Read More
Friday Random Ten
Roam – The B-52s Look Mama – Howard Jones Honeysuckle Rose – A’int Misbehavin’ (Original Cast) Feel Like Makin’ Love – Bad Company Addicted To Love – Robert Palmer Satisfaction – Rolling Stones Time For Livin’ – The Association Adult Afraid Of The Night – Lauren Christy I Never Wanted To Love You – March of the Falsettos (Original Cast) … Read More
Why Is Today Different From Any Other Day?
Bush is #1! Today he passes Reagan’s record for most vacation days! Yaaaay! It took Reagan, who was much older, 8 years to reach his personal best of 355 days. Bush did it in only 4 years, 7 months! And his August vacation isn’t half over yet! [Source] Now watch this drive!
Frist Gets On His Knees And Begs Forgiveness From The Religious Right
From MSNBC: Frist voices support for ‘intelligent design’ Senator encourages teaching of faith-based theory alongside evolution Uh-oh. Someone’s upset he wasn’t invited to Justice Sunday II. Echoing similar comments from President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said “intelligent design” should be taught in public schools alongside evolution. Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, spoke to a Rotary Club meeting Friday … Read More
We, Robots
Shorter John Ponderhatz: "I’ve written 12,000 words on a subject I don’t understand, and for some reason, robots are attacking me and pointing out my errors." I’m not following the Able Danger scandal much, which is why I don’t write about it. If John doesn’t like robots, he should do the same. Robots thrive on ignorance.
Republicans Nervous, And With Good Reason
The NY Times: A stream of bad news out of Iraq, echoed at home by polls that show growing impatience with the war and rising disapproval of President Bush’s Iraq policies, is stirring political concern in Republican circles, party officials said Wednesday. They are referring to Republican party officials, as in: "There is just no enthusiasm for this war,” said … Read More
This Is My 1000th Post On This Blog
The first post was dated January 21, 2004, almost 19 months ago. I guess I should say something profound, or give a retrospective of the blog and how it’s developed, or thank the people who visit (both of them), or something. But instead, I think I will publish one of my favorite photos:
“Let ‘Em Burn!”
That’s what you’re likely to hear from the Christian conservatives, when they read this: An experimental therapy that uses skin cells grown from an aborted fetus successfully healed severe burns in eight children, sparing them the need for skin grafts, according to a study published today. The treatment led to the regrowth of essentially normal skin on second- and third-degree … Read More
So Where Are The Reporters?
On–air admission from Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: What I keep doing here is asking people on and off camera who come on this program, high-ranking officers, enlisted, former officers. I get sometimes, not all the time, two different versions, the version they give me on the air and the version they give me the minute when we’re off the air. The … Read More
Ann Coulter: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I love her: To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush’s Crawford ranch. I don’t think she went to Crawford to "cheer herself up". But note that we’re only one sentence in, and we have more amature psychology from the … Read More
Lessons Not Learned
Paul Begala is talking here about the smears of the right wing against Sheehan (although it is hard to tell). He’s nailed it: It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. The left was right, of course, about Vietnam. Even my CNN colleague Bob Novak, who was extraordinarily hawkish on Vietnam, … Read More
The Chickenhawk Counterargument
TBogg examines one neo-con’s attempt to defuse the chickenhawk meme: Rusty at The Jawa Report attempted a statistical study on chickenhawkedness and didn’t get enough reponses to make a valid judgement…so he went and make a wholly unsupportable one anyway: An oft heard accusation is that of chickenhawk being leveled at supporters of the Iraq War who have no prior … Read More