SanFran Gate: Keith Olbermann just needed to find his voice. He’d been a droll sportscaster, a serious news anchor and a bickering critic of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. But none of those personas really clicked. Then he found one. A little over a year ago, as the White House fumbled and botched the Hurricane Katrina recovery, Olbermann finally blew … Read More
Why I Won’t Be Shopping At WalMart
Because, according to this survey, 89% of you will be shopping at WalMart this season. 89 percent. Yikes. Britt Beemer, head of America’s Research Group, said he was "a little flabbergasted" by the high number of people who said they planned to shop at Wal-Mart. He had expected a figure closer to 70 percent, which is about how many have … Read More
Srry, Bt Ths Is Nt Eng
Very strange: WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s high school students will be able to use "text-speak" — the mobile phone text message language beloved of teenagers — in national exams this year, officials said. Text-speak, a second language for thousands of teens, uses abbreviated words and phrases such as "txt" for "text", "lol" for "laughing out loud" or … Read More
Newsweek Cover
Oh, this picture isn’t going to help the father-son relationship one bit: Flashback to better times: With his parents back in Washington, Bush went to stay with them for the holidays and was involved in one of the most notorious incidents of his "nomadic" years. He took his 16-year-old brother Marvin out drinking, ran over a neighbor’s garbage cans on … Read More
What Failure Looks Like
This says it all: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Baghdad’s morgues are full. With no space to store bodies, some victims of the sectarian slaughter are not being kept for relatives to claim, but photographed, numbered and quickly interred in government cemeteries. Men fearful of an anonymous burial are tattooing their thighs with names and phone numbers. In October, a particularly … Read More
Doug Feith On His Homage To Rumsfeld
WaPo editorial: Rumsfeld’s drive to overhaul the Pentagon — to drop outdated practices and modes of thought — antagonized many senior military officers and civilian officials in the department. He pushed for doing more with less. Less troops than needed, less body armor, less oversight….. REMINDER: It bears repeating that the author, Doug Feith, was in charge of the Office … Read More
Rumsfeld — International War Criminal?
Bad way to start his retirement: New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at … Read More
Conservative Talk Show Hosts And Water Carrying
I’m glad that people like Andrew Sullivan are making the point I made a few days ago: So if I have this straight, Limbaugh knowingly supported people he actually believed were indefensible, who were not conservatives. He is saying loud and clear that he deliberately misled his listeners – because he couldn’t bring himself to back "the left," whatever that … Read More
We Read The Headline; We Turn The Page
Naked Man Arrested For Carrying Concealed Weapon Nope. I don’t want to know….
The Shift
Who voted Democratic this year? Seems like everybody. Below is a chart listing the shifts in all sorts of demographic groups (compared to how those groups voted in 2004): GenderWomen: +15Men: +11 EthnicityWhites: +14African-Americans: +1Latinos: +30Asian: +13Other: -1 Age18-29: +1330-44: +1545-59: +1060 and over: +10 IncomeUnder $15K: +10$15K-$30K: +10$30K-$50K: +12$50K-$75K: +15$75K-$100K: +10$100K-$150K: +10$150K-$200K: +12$200K and over: +20 Union membershipUnion members: … Read More
Anagrams Of People I Know, Etc.
DUAL JIM OUT SPY: HIT ANY VICE LOBSTER CHERRY MYLAR MIKE YEAH, HARM BETH HARD HEN, SOFT KEN OLE JAM, I SWAN SWANK TEEN MYTH CRACK EEL CRAB Here’s a few shows I’ve been in: BIBLE DAD DOES SEAL ODD LEVIS, SIR ONE OFF, SIS HER THIN TIT, EDWIN LONDON GOD PEN BITCH US A LOT. MAYBE. Yup. I’ve been … Read More
Yeah, You Do That
You know, I’m a little burnt out by post-election fallout and analysis, but I have to admit, this blurb at The Corner set my toes a-tappin’: It’s time for conservatives to seize the Republican Party back from the moderate/establishment Republicans. It already appears Tuesday’s election results have been lost on the Bush White House. This is our 1976 moment. That’s … Read More
Blogging Tool
People who use Blogger, WordPress and other popular blogging websites might be interested in this. BlogMailr is a free service that allows you to post to your blog by email. Simply email your post, and it shows up on your blog. I’m not sure how good it works — and if there’s functionality for pictures, etc. It’s a new service, … Read More
Friday iPod Random Ten
It’s Time To Change – The Brady Bunch Grace and Pride – Capercaillie Voices Carry – Aimee Mann A Blast – Natalie MacMaster I Can Do Better Than That – The Last 5 Years (Original Cast Recording) Everybody Wants To Rule The World – Tears For Fears Everyday Is A Winding Road – Sheryl Crow The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s … Read More
The Movie Meme
1. Popcorn or candy? Gotta say "candy". Popcorn’s good, but then I get thirsty. And so I have to drink. And then I have to pee. What? TMI? 2. Name a movie you’ve been meaning to see forever. Wow. There are so many movie classics that I’ve never really seen: Lawrence of Arabia, All About Eve, North By Northwest, All … Read More