Tuesday, March 06, 2007

The resistance is building

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The Queen is not inevitable, folks.
Saturday, March 03, 2007

Ann Coulter, again

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Oh Lord, does this woman never shut up ? I defer to Henry Rollins on what needs to be said about her.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Meltdown on Wall Street

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Oh well. Maybe someone will now realize that borrowing a trillion dollars from overseas isn't a sustainable policy over the long term. N...

Oh god No

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If you want to know why many Democrats view Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Presidency with deep distaste, look no further ...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Conservapedia

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So I've found Conservapedia, the online resource for those who consider Wkipedia to be too liberal. After all, as Steven Colbert once qu...
Friday, December 01, 2006

More evidence...

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...that republican yammering about 'protecting babies' is primarily a means to preserve their dating pool; another one just got caug...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

"The Next Step? Think Vietnam."

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Fareed Zakaria has an interesting piece in the current issue of Newsweek, worth reading several times. Kind of puts all the handwringing ov...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

McCain announces exploratory committee

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If you were looking forward to a peaceful Turkey Day - and God alone knows there is much to give thanks for this year - you will be disappoi...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Garlic

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So it occurs to me that I may have discovered a suitable antidote should I encounter any stray republicans in my travels through the New Yor...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Giuliani's running for what?

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Ain't gonna happen.
Sunday, November 12, 2006

RIP, 1994-2006

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Bringing the troops home, the republican way

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It begins

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There's no need to wait until January to start exercising some adult oversight over the republicans in Congress. The New York Times not...

Veterans Day

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On November 11th, 1918, the Central Powers surrendered to the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne in Northern France, markin...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Goodbye, President Macaca

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Just as a reminder: if you want to run for President, don't be so stupid as to insult a guy who's pointing a video camera at your fa...

What to expect

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Over the last few days, a ton of emails have hit my inbox, mainly expecting immediate resolution and betterment of all the ills brought on t...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Stalin celebrates Democracy

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We did it; Democrats regained the House and the Senate, against long odds and in the face of a withering campaign. Interestingly, the same c...
Monday, October 16, 2006

US Senate up for grabs

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A useful tool for those obsessed with politics is the NYT's race tracker, here . As of today, it shows the U.S. Senate up for grabs by t...
Saturday, October 14, 2006

Baker Commission draft report leaked

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This just in from the worthless fishwrapper that is the New York Sun , our other rightwing "news"paper: Baker's Panel Rules Ou...
Friday, October 13, 2006

Friday night funnies

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Hehe.

Bob Ney pleads guilty - surprise!

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In yet another blow to the party of pedophile enablers, another scandal hits the headlines three weeks before the election. This time, it...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Corey Lidle hits building, dies

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Corey Lidle, a pitcher for the Yankees, was killed today when a plane he was piloting struck an Upper East Side highrise, reports the Times ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

So people ask me how I really feel about republicans

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Simple. Like this: You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the stren...
Monday, October 09, 2006

North Korea tests nukes

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In January 2002, George Bush famously labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea as members of an 'axis of evil'. What was lacking was an op...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Uh-oh

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Huffington Post reports that Denny Hastert lives with his chief of staff. Is that gay cabal inside the party of Bush - or, as I refer to th...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

Another multi-billion dollar vanity project

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The U.S. Navy today christened its newest carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush. There is no USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There is, however,...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Republicans cluster around Hastert

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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first strike with idiocy. By that logic, the gods are hoping for a wipe-out in November, because the rep...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

More Foleys?

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This is interesting. As a rule of thumb, when there's one scandal, there are usually more that explode due to the sudden publicity. The...

The sleaze dividend

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Harold Ford , Democrat of Tennessee: In TN, How does Harold Ford, Jr. beat back an NRSC ad that notes he once partied with Playboy bunnies?...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

"If the term "moral degenerate" has any validity..."

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From Glenn Greenwald : If the term "moral degenerate" has any validity and can be fairly applied to anyone, there are few people ...

Here we go again

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It's instructive to look back over the last five years, especially if you have an interest in the sordid and aberrant, as I do. Mark Fol...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

The newest low

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Every time I think the republicans can't possibly sink any further, they grab the shovels and deepen the gutter still further. Witness t...
Monday, October 02, 2006

Some notes on CA-04

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So I'm noticing from the comments section that some people are still drinking the Doolittle koolaid. Here's a few generic observatio...

Going down in flames

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OK, let's review: A republican Member of the House gets caught writing way sexually explicit IMs and emails to under-age pages. In 2001 ...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

Alrighty, I'm back

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Well, unfortunately, the primary campaign I worked for ended in defeat. Therefore, normal blogging can resume; and I would add that defeat ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Sharking for Congress

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I haven't posted for a while, for a simple reason: I am now engaged in a congressional campaign. Not my own, alas - there are still mis...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

Lieberman defeated - Code red! Code red!

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Yesterday, Kenny Boy Mehlmann goes into hysterics about, and I quote, 'Defeat-ocrats', who will, if given a majority, do liberal th...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Lamont and Lieberman: what's the meaning of it all?

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I haven't really mentioned anything on this blog, but yes, I've been closely following the Connecticut Senate race, and I am thrille...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

LieberWhore

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Defeat Whore Lieberman

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From AmericaBlog : Lieberman said that this race is about whether the Democratic Party “will accept a diversity of opinion” on national secu...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Bigots disrupt funeral; Bush nowhere to be seen

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Corporal Philip Baucus, nephew of Montana's senior Senator and a recent casualty of Bush's war, was laid to rest today amid anti-gay...
Friday, August 04, 2006

NYT: "100,000 March Against U.S. and Israel in Baghdad"

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Ahem: From today's NYT : BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 4 - More than 100,000 followers of the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched today to show ...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

Max Baucus' nephew killed in Iraq

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It was bound to happen sooner or later: a relative of a sitting Member of Congress has been killed in Iraq . Of course, the afflicted family...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

The national interest and calculations of power

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The fundamental truism of foreign policy is that there is always a gap between the desirable and the obtainable. How wide that gap is depend...

Blogging the heatwave

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It is unbearably hot, to the point where I don't even want to go near a keyboard; hence the blogstinence. But here are some thoughts: Pa...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

What they're saying

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Some folks of the R persuasion have slowly awakened, albeit in fits and starts, to the looming November catastrophe that seems set to engu...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

Stupidity piled on ignorance: Iraq

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It's one of those quiet Sundays; the oppressive heat has broken, we have friends in town, now despatched to SoHomo for a glamour fix. So...
Friday, July 21, 2006

Blogging the war

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So what does this whole blogging thing really amount to? I'm not talking about the big examples, like DailyKos or ThinkProgress ; they ...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

Tom DeLay's PAC fined out of existence

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Haha. Following an FEC complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Tom DeLay's ARMPAC - Americans for a Re...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Exodus from Beirut

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Katrina continued : the U.S. government's operations in extracting our citizens from Beirut continue to lag behind those of similarly w...