Hearing this on the radio certainly cleared the cobwebs from my brain this morning.

For all her flaws, this is very bad news for pretty much everyone. Real bad.

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As most of you already know, Bush has tapped former Director of Central Intelligence, Robert Gates, to replace Donald Rumsfeld ( Read more... )

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Both aijoskobi and moonandserpent have already posted this, but what the hell, here it is again:

"You want to know about voting. I'm here to tell you about voting ( Read more... )

The local CBS affiliate in New York seems to be the first news organization to stumble upon the obvious person to interview for commentary on the Mark Foley scandal: Jessica Cutler, aka Washingtonienne, (in)famous for blogging about her sex life as a Capitol Hill staffer. She caused a minor scandal back in 2004 by talking frankly about fucking ( Read more... )

There's a quiz here which posts a list of quotes and makes you guess who said them, Ann Coulter or Adolf Hitler? It's about as hard as you'd think, but it would be a lot harder if it weren't for the period-and-country specific giveaways in some of them.

Thanks to Liger Null on Barbelith for the link.

What blows my mind in the illegal immigration debate is that no one seems to mention what seems to me to be the obvious, glaring issue: epidemic diseaseOne of the most important factors in dealing with an outbreak of disease is finding out it's happening as soon as is humanly possible, which allows you to take measures to contain the spread of the ( Read more... )

So, when I heard that Warren Ellis was starting yet another web forum (this one apparently devoted to futurist theory) and recycling the name Die Puny Humans for it, of course I signed up for it, at the same time that I kicked myself for reflexively jumping on the Ellis bandwagon when it came jingling around the corner like I always do. I nearly ( Read more... )

As you may know, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau recently won Pulitzers for exposing the Bush Administration's illegal NSA wiretapping scheme.

William Bennett, author of the Book of Virtues, former Reagan and Bush (George HW) Administration Cabinet official, and Republican pundit and talk show host, has recently called for their arrest for ( Read more... )