In res Pontifex Maximus et Chimpulus Bushii: This unctuous moralizing about family life and sexuality is pretty rich coming from a gang that has presided over the most widespread, elaborately concealed child abuse scandal in the history of religion. But then, rank hypocrisy has never been a bar to militant self-righteousness. Witness John Paul’s fellow public scold in Washington. Not content with the pope’s merely rhetorical flourishes, Bush takes a more pre-emptive approach to inconvenient women — condemning thousands of them to gruesome, entirely preventable deaths with a simple stroke of his pen. Now that is a mighty thundering from…
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As per Wonkette: Affleck and Bush Go Head to Head. She calls photos of pols and wonks holding up young sproggen “baby-eating contests.” Makes sense. However, we childfree types have been eating babies for years. And trading recipes. Ah, the good old days, I remember reading that when it was fresh and new.
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The appearance of Bloglines Plumber page means that Bloglines go sleepy for a while, be all better later. The image is pretty cute – it’s a good take on the traditional “404 error” page. Dang, I depend on Bloglines, now I’ll have to obsessively check international and domestic news the hard way.
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A California lawyer has filed a potential class action lawsuit against the internet search company Yahoo. Stephen Galton says he was subject to a “barrage of harassing, defamatory and abusive messages” from anonymous users on a Yahoo message board. Let’s see – is this guy nuts for attempting to take on trolls and actually sue them, rather than threatening to do so as so many have done before? Being threatened with cartooneys is one of the Internet’s oldest jokes; next oldest is claiming to be one. In this case, it happens to be true. Or is he crazy like a…
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…you should be. See A View from A Broad for a look into the life of a US soldier in Iraq with a point of view that’s as sharp as Captain Comic Book’s knives. Read it from as early as you can – at least go back to April and read between the lines. This blog/journal needs to be collated and published in book form. It’s that good.
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Something you need to know about Alan Keyes: he’s pro-life, he’s not modest about his achievements, and he probably shouldn’t write his own ad copy. And this is the guy the Illinois GOP thinks they might throw against Barak Obama? Is widely considered the most formidable defender of America’s founding principles in today’s political arena. Is generally conceded to be the winner of the 2000 Republican Presidential Debates, due to his remarkable eloquence and persuasiveness. Is capable of leading our country to widespread moral and political renewal, once all of America has a chance to see and hear, first-hand, his…
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way. Also, Pakistan is claiming bragging rights or whatever that the prisoner they recently surrendered to our authorities (you know, the conveniently timed, big breaking news story surrender) provided a lot of the detail for the…
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I finally got around to seeing what Subservient Chicken is all about. Suffice to say, I got him to do some pretty freakin’ weird things, such as “impersonate Elvis,” “impersonate Michael Jackson (ooh! that chicken can moonwalk!)” and “hop from one foot to another.” However, the weirdest response thus far was to “do housework.” I was unsuccessful in commanding him to hump the furniture – he approached the camera and gave an imperious “no-no-no” gesture. However, he did oblige me on “molt” and “order fried chicken.”
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What is Capitol Hill Blue, and why are their news stories so different from the usual corporate-newsmedia fare? Well, here’s the “Blue” FAQ
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U.S. Highway 40 is one of the initial Greyhound route casualties, taking out a string of Utah cities that includes Vernal, Roosevelt, Myton, Duchesne and Heber, along with Echo and Park City (along Interstate 80), and Logan (U.S. 89). Altogether, Greyhound is eliminating service to 260 U.S. cities and towns between Chicago and Seattle in its first round of cuts, effective Aug. 18. Long ago, after Pop died, my mom became the defacto “family fixer.” Her brother, my Uncle Charlie, would give her money for a plane ticket to Steamboat Springs, CO now and then to look after their oldest…