Thursday, April 14, 2005

DeLay's Toupée; Or, Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean There's Not Really Someone Out To Get You

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The slow-motion demise of Tom DeLay's political career is a thing to behold, for several reasons. The obvious one is that sending this c...
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Monday, April 11, 2005

MBA: Millions of Broke Americans

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Moon of Alabama makes a damn good point here, one that has floated around the periphery of this administration since the get-go. The second...
Sunday, April 10, 2005

The Mob Rules

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In the midst of worldwide month-long contemplation of papal navels and feeding tube minutiae, this story slips under the media radar, much ...
Saturday, April 09, 2005

Fear Is The Key

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Back in a more innocent era -- 1992, to be specific -- Iron Maiden, of all bands, did a great song called Fear Is The Key . One lyric from t...
Friday, April 08, 2005

Scenes From The Culture Of Life

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I don't know about you, but when I saw the requisite overhead shot of the mourning throng at the Vatican, all I could think was, "S...
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Thursday, April 07, 2005

Juche 5: Bad Year For Dear Leader

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Were it not for the week-long mourning of the pope, this would have been an even worse stretch of time for Dear Leader than it has been. The...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Stupor Nanny

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Let's take a brief detour from the freeway of politics and contemporary current-events, and take a look at where the rubber meets the ro...
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Monday, April 04, 2005

Nothing Rhymes With "Feeding Tube"

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Perhaps you caught Jesse Jackson's brief video spot on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher the other night. If not, you should, if only...
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Sunday, April 03, 2005

Circus Of Morons

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Via Atrios we are directed to an op-ed piece re Terri Schiavo. As the cliché goes, it'll really make ya think. Check it out. Funny how...

Pimpology: A Treatise, A Confessional, An Apology

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Is everybody in? Comfy? Good. Grab a beer, or whatever suits you (I have a Samuel Adams Black Lager, from Costco's Samuel Adams Brewmast...
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Saturday, April 02, 2005

April Foolishness

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As if waiting for nothing more than to wrap up Easter services and for Terri Schiavo to pass, the Pope lurches headlong into his own homestr...
Friday, April 01, 2005

Err America

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I'm still trying to figure this one out. Let's see -- I'm liberal (socially, anyway), and I enjoy documentaries a lot more than ...
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Thursday, March 31, 2005

Political Song Of The Day

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This one's actually been out for a while, and it's a cover to boot, but it's excellent. A Perfect Circle's cover of Devo...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

It's A Gas Gas Gas

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Enjoying your gas prices lately? Starting to regret buying that second Hummer? Getting into the office pool on when it'll hit $3.00 a ga...

People Power

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So the Kyrgyz government has been toppled by a bloodless popular coup. This has been cautiously billed as good news, though at first blush i...
Sunday, March 27, 2005

Tom DeLay Is Going To Hell

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Tom DeLay compares his self-imposed persecution to that of Jesus Christ. Yes, seriously. PERRspectives kindly points out some other similar...

One More For The Road

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Hopefully this will be final time we refer to the Terri Schiavo case. Indeed, we've endeavored to scrupulously avoid the whole mess for ...
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Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

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Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle featured the odd juxtaposition of two articles which, in a rational universe, would come to symboliz...
Friday, March 25, 2005

How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away?

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It would be tremendously difficult, if not literally impossible, to recall the last time a crybaby of Barry Bonds' magnitude lit up the ...