Let’s see what JeffJim would ask today: While I am on hiatus from the White House briefing room, I’m going to post the question I would have asked had I been there. It will be interesting to see if anyone else asks it. March 15, 2005 "Please comment on Monday’s ruling by a California judge that declared that state’s ban … Read More
Excerpts From Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Here are excerpts from San Francisco Judge Richard Kramer’s ruling that California’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional: "It appears that no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners." "The state’s protracted denial of equal protection cannot be justified simply because such constitutional violation has become traditional." "One does not have to be married in … Read More
Halliburton Follies
Are you kidding me? Halliburton charged $27.5 million to get $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel into Iraq? Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Support The Troops
From The Left Coaster: Did his duty – then lost his job Michael Warren, a native of Port Jefferson, L.I., is suing International Business Machines Corp. for firing him because since 9/11 he’s been called up too often by the Army Reserves. And IBM has HOW MANY Pentagon contracts?
Kaye Grogan Outdoes Herself
Kaye Grogan (pictured here) is just plain sassy and scary. A regular columnist for Alan Keye’s Renew America website, her opinion pieces are routinely and savagely lampooned at World O’Crap and Sadly, No. Although, to be frank, her opinion pieces hardly need any satirization — they are unintentionally hysterical to begin with. Take this recent column of Grogan’s on the … Read More
What I Heard About Iraq
Please read in its entirety. It is by Eliot Weinberger, copied from here. What I Heard about Iraq In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern … Read More
JeffJim Journalism du Jour
Hey, maybe I will make this a daily thing. From today’s fake news reporter website: While I am on hiatus from the White House briefing room, I’m going to post the question I would have asked had I been there. It will be interesting to see if anyone else asks it. March 14, 2005 "On Sunday, the New York Times … Read More
Why Jeff Gannon Is A Moron
What JeffJim GannonGuckert would have asked the President, if he could have gotten a day pass to the last White House press briefing: Today’s Briefing Question While I am on hiatus from the White House briefing room, I’m going to post the question I would have asked had I been there. It will be interesting to see if anyone else … Read More
“We Report, You Decide”, My Ass
Not that this is "news", but . . . On Fox News, No Shortage of Opinion, Study Finds By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, March 14, 2005; Page C01 In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on Fox News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists reporting them, a new study says. By … Read More
Love Me Dooce
I just noticed that Dooce.com won the 2005 Bloggie Award for (1) Best American Weblog; (2) Most Humorous Weblog and (3) Best Writing of a Weblog. All well-deserved. Dooce.com is the personal journal of Heather Armstrong, an ex-Mormon and all-around cutie. Her blog has the rare distinction of becoming a generic word — "dooced" means "to be fired from one’s … Read More
Block That Metaphor!
Stupidity from Doug Giles: God designed Christianity to be a 4WD spiritual vehicle with mudders, a truck that brings life to the outback. It is not a sensitive Miata that must be preserved from going offroad and into the bush. I’m just wondering . . . why didn’t God give Christianity bigger cupholders and DVD players for the kiddies in … Read More
Spamming God
Mel Gibson wants us to "hammer God with prayers and hammer him hard." (Source). All this to keep Terry Schiavo alive. Now, I have many thoughts on the Schiavo case, but that’s for another day. My point here is that I don’t think we should be "hammering God" with prayers, the way Viagra companies hammer me with ads for penis … Read More
Freedom on the March
Via Oliver Willis, who reminds us that the Bush Legacy marches on. War notoriously robs parents of their sons, but it also steals husbands and fathers, and increasingly wives and mothers. The Pentagon doesn’t keep these statistics, but using figures compiled by the Scripps-Howard News Service and other sources, NEWSWEEK has calculated that as of last week 1,043 American children … Read More
Revisionist History
From dribbleglass.com: The following are actual excerpts from history reports and tests from America’s finest high schools and colleges. Spelling has been preserved. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of huge triangular cubes. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The French Revolution … Read More
How To Write Like Conservatives
From the Tufts Daily (which I used write for): How to write like conservatives by Steven Ward In honor of Ann Coulter’s visit to Tufts last night, here are some helpful hints for all of you aspiring right-wing pundits out there. Follow these carefully, and soon you too could be a syndicated columnist dumbing down political discourse in the pages … Read More