The end of May is traditionally the time when we Sidewise Judges have to go through and release our nominations cut of short stories and novels for the award - which means that dreadful dozen stories that you haven't gotten to that look like prime stinkers are mandatory reads - along with the other stuff that 'life its ownself' have caused to be ( Read more... )

Lieberman. This says it all. If he wins, he's beholden to the GOP, and if he loses, they aren't out anything, and it keeps the Democrats busy. And Lamont has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

Here's Molly Ivins on this and the GOP efforts to use the British arrests for political fearmongering. Tom Friedman adds in his ten cents on the ( Read more... )

• So it seems that Tony Snow of Fox News is going to be the new White House Press Secretary, even after calling his new boss all sorts of things. And said that people who complain about Donald Rumsfeld are contributing to the high price of gas.
• One of the reasons that the FDA folks gave as to why they couldn't approve the 'Plan B' medication for sale ( Read more... )

.... most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Then drawing a parallel to the Plame case, Kerry said that with McCarthy, "you have somebody being fired from the CIA for allegedly telling the truth, and you have no one fired from the White House for revealing a CIA agent in order to support a lie. That underscores ( Read more... )

( Karl Rove's fight to save the GOP's butt )

WaPo: "I admire those who have stepped forward, and I agree with the arguments they are making," retired Marine Lt. Gen. Paul K. Van Riper said in an interview yesterday. "I count myself in the same camp."

Van Riper, a lifelong Republican who voted for Bush in 2000 but did not vote in the 2004 election, said Rumsfeld has failed in a number of ways, ( Read more... )

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota Monday that the United States should pull out of Iraq and leave a small force there, just as it did post-war in Korea and Germany.

"It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after ( Read more... )

Midrange Army officers are NOT reinlisting. The hard part is convincing officers to stay in after enduring two and even three combat deployments. Needless to say, this is majorly bad news for a capable military in the long run, but that's another President's problem, n'est ce pas?

A Marine Lieutenant General and the director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Time: The war was a mess set up and operated by a bunch of mindless zealots who need to be replaced.  It was unnecessary, a diversion from the tasks at hand, and manufactured by the Powers that Be.

TIME: Inside the military family, I made no secret of my ( Read more... )

Charges by an investigator in the GAO that the test results of the anti-missile tests (to see if it actually worked) may have been faked and the 'didn't work' parts were deep sixed. I mean, you can't admit that hundreds of millions of dollars were lost on a boondoggle that doesn't work to stop incoming nuclear missiles, can you?The Federal Reserve ( Read more... )