The New York Times has gone ga-ga over anonymous accusations against Iran, and the WaPo has followed suit. They're like that guy from Memento: they can't remember anything that happened more than ten minutes ago, and they need an enemy to pursue. So they will allow themselves to invent one when none exists ( Read more... )

Keith Olberman spanked Bush over Path to 9-11 and sent him to bed without supper:

The documented truths of the last fifteen years are replaced by bald-faced lies; the talking points of the current regime parroted; the whole sorry story blurred, by spin, to make the party out of office seem vacillating and impotent, and the party in office, seem ( Read more... )

NY Times: Human Flu Transfers May Exceed Reports. (BugMeNot NYT logins)

The numbers are still relatively small, and they do not mean that the virus has mutated to pass easily between people - a change that could touch off a worldwide epidemic. All the clusters of cases have been among relatives or in nurses who were in long, close contact with ( Read more... )

* The New York Times has apparently just figured out what the British press knew last May: Bush had made up his mind to invade Iraq, and was willing to manufacture excuses to do so. This puts the lag-time between the NY Times and the British press at what, ten months? The scary part is, that's arguably an improvement. Somebody buy them a ( Read more... )

I try to limit the amount of a blog post I "excerpt" from here, because it's bad blogging manners, but this post from Steve Gilliard & Jen's at The News Blog is just fucking PRICELESS.

First, Steve quotes from the latest bullshit John Tierney editorial, which talks about ScAlito's nomination and asks "What about Men's Abortion Rights?" Oh yes, ( Read more... )

Speigel Online (in English) brings a German and Europe-wide perspective to the riots in France: What's Wrong With Europe?. (My guess, that you can't get a pizza delivered, but that's based solely on the tribulations of a fictional American in England in Douglas Adams.) Clearly government response, at least initially, was part of the problem. One ( Read more... )

I knew this wouldn't take long. From Gawker:
It may not be as fun as “meeting Joyce Purnick,” but cheap liberals can get still their Krugman fix without giving up their hard-earned, welfare-cheating, government-entitlement program dollars - the bootleg copies of TimesSelect material have already appeared. Even better news: once you read today’s ( Read more... )

... for awhile, at least. I'm gonna miss him even more than Maureen Dowd. This is one of his best columns in months, on Bush's exploitation of the very black Americans he allowed to suffer as PR image-repair props.

( The most odious image-mongering, however, has been Mr. Bush's repeated deployment of African-Americans as dress extras to advertise his )

... for a little while, until I find a steady source with a Times Select subscription. Or, you know, someone who's willing to email me scanned copies of her column. ;)

( In a ruined city - still largely without power, stinking with piles of garbage and still 40 percent submerged; where people are foraging in the miasma and muck for food, corpses and the sentimental detritus of their lives; and where unbearably sad stories continue to spill out about hordes of evacuees who lost their homes and patients who died in hospitals without either electricity or rescuers - isn't it rather tasteless, not to mention a waste of energy, to haul in White House generators just to give the president a burnished skin tone and a prettified background? )

So, I'm sure everyone's already heard about this:
Come Monday, Sept. 19, fans of New York Times columnists Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, and David Brooks will have to break out their credit cards. Sept. 19 is the launch date of TimesSelect, a new subscription service designed to diversify the newspaper's revenue stream beyond traditional Web site ( Read more... )