So I really had intended to avoid the repugnican convention....only out of fairness...don't wanna watch that sort of thing for either party. seriously ( Read more... )

back in the day i often posted lil bits i pulled off the news showing the erosion of human rights in america, the invasions of privacy, the excesses of corporate greed as well as other bits that bothered or horrified me as i watched this once great nation slide almost inexorably into a fascist nanny police state ( Read more... )

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677

i'm impressed.

gotta get up north and so much to do meanwhile...

sheesh

enniehoo...

Sad news on the first RIAA trial.... She lost. $222,000 please.

Hopefully if she decides to go to work for Blackwater, she should make that back rather quickly. Since they don't care if a guard is fired for killing someone, hopefully they won't mind that you had some crappy ( Read more... )

so lemme show ya some web travails... (no not really pains, but makes  a good pun on travelling since some of the pages are painful to read...)

Remember when we had better relations with Latin America? Thanks, W....

Wow...I didn't know that the place to go to get switched is actually Iran...

Here, we have an article that explains that we don't ( Read more... )

With apologies to timeisahelixtimeisahelix...

This just scares me.  (An article on life inside the Bush Administration called Decadent Perversity...and it's not even sexual!)

But then again, the thought of No Such Agency as America's firewall doesn't make me sleep any better tonight.

You know we're into outsourcing when we outsource one of our many 'wars-on'... ( Read more... )

Only a couple links...

This quickie on Gonzales mainly is notable for his quote on "tyranny, dishonesty, corruption and depravity of types I never thought possible"...

This gives a few numbers on how much "fair use" contributes to the GDP, refuting all the numbers by paranoid RIAA and MIAA lawyers screaming about how every penny they're deprived ( Read more... )

I'll be conventioning (for lack of a better word) over the next few days so my access to some of the google newsfeeds I link here will be curtailed. So Hadda do a few just now ( Read more... )

This isn't so much a story of a "remarkable journey". In fact, I don't even consider it to be a tale of a puppet-sans-master. I see it as a story of pure cronyism and an affirmation of the fact that being a loyal hatchet-man can still take you places ( Read more... )

Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner and populist firebrand Jim Hightower describes Rove’s departure as “a rat jumping off a sinking ship.” But arch-Rove watcher Wayne Slater of The Dallas Morning News knows better. He notes that Rove and his wife have built a house in the Florida Panhandle-the “Republican Riviera”-and that former Florida Gov. Jeb ( Read more... )