Hammer Of The Blogs

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Loose Change

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Perhaps it's just the way the light falls, but everything looks like a target to me....Come on, motherfucker, let's throw down. -- C...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Oil's Well That Ends Well

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I guess Fredo, a creature of instinct if ever there were one, just gets the urge to kick sand for no reason every now and then. It's al...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

They Write Letters

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An Alterman commenter pens (to use the archaism) thusly: I have a sneaking suspicion that [Granny Glasses] Gibson has pushed the $200,000 to...
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Play the Game

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To the extent it cropped up on my radar, I found the notion of Bush appearing on a "game" show to be more than a little odd, and D...

It's Getting Drafty

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Today's the latest holiday in the now year-round NFL calendar, and with the Raiders' measly five picks and epic dysfunction, I'...

Ghoul

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Oh goody, this asshole has crawled out of the woodwork: The online weapons dealer who sold one of the guns used in the Virginia Tech shooti...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Perfect Storm

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In which Poor Ol' Straight Talk commences extricating himself from Mister Man's alimentary canal: Republican presidential candidate...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Repelled

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Ben Stein is a personable enough sort, especially when passionately talking about directing more money and effort -- even the sacred taxpay...
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Philadelphia Freedom

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I think this episode further reiterates every unpleasant assumption most of us have ever had about Hillary Clinton. Recall how MoveOn was f...
Friday, April 18, 2008

The Platypus Defense

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The Reiser case has been in the Bay Area media for some time, and is distinguishable from the usual domestic violence deaths primarily by t...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Master Debaters

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Surely one of the greatest things about having a democratic process and a free press is knowing that at any time, a former Clinton hack coul...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Bitter Suite

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Some questions for Rosen: Will there be any haphazard sandbagging of the other two candidates, just to level the playing field? If so, when?...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Friends Like These

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Speaking of ratfucking, how 'bout that Lieberman ? He's supposedly the closest thing Obama has had to a mentor in the Senate, and wa...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Niche Empires

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Not to unfairly disparage the feel-good aspect of your typical Bart's People stories, but it's hard to escape the notion that maybe...
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Metatardia

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Full disclosure: even though Heidi Klum gives me a boner that's, as Richard Pryor used to say, harder than Chinese arithmetic, it would...
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Oh, the Places You'll Go

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Apropos of nothing, I find it a bit peculiar to stumble across the factoid that torture apologist John Yoo is a couple of weeks younger tha...

Prose and Cons

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One of the things I've always loved about the internets is how the varied content serves as such a great complement to more conventional...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Going Postal

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I know it's the silly season and all, as the paid poli-monkeys wait for the homestretch before the Pennsylvania primary so's they ca...
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Sox Type Thing

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When it comes to being superstititous, baseball fans are practically in a league of their own, compared to other sports: A construction wor...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Clintonism and Its Discontents

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The revelation that the Clintons have finally gotten their cut from the public-service trough is less distressing than it should be, I supp...
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