drat fink

bad news

eau town

aquamania: water onthe brain

double dip

as i am cableless, today is my first opportunity to watch the newlook knicks albeit without injured guard allen houston. as a bonus, its my first look at the cavaliers and lebron james.

its hard to complain about what isiah thomas and marbury have brought to the knicks despite my initial misgivings. but it was hard to look bad after what preceded it. the knicks despite a sub .500 record are already well positioned for a playoff spot in the anemic eastern conference.

im sure by 1:30 ill be disinterested but if you want to take a peek the hype begins on abc at 1pm est.

sideshow by the seashore

schwarzenegger and nader on meet the press. its painful to watch the governor governate. california needs a good slap.

an affair to remember

blogwatching --the dreyfuss report

via talking points memo

howards end

WASHINGTON - Howard Dean (news - web sites) will end his campaign for the presidential nomination and oversee a new effort to keep his issues alive and his supporters organized on behalf of Democratic causes, two party officials said Wednesday.

narc narc, whos there?

"The Narcosphere - it appears online at http://narcosphere.narconews.com/ - is a participatory, online, forum, where readers and journalists come together to discuss, correct, add new information and relevant links, and debate the work of the journalists who publish on NarcoNews.com.

The Narcosphere is similar to other forums on the Internet that utilize a software named Scoop (Kuro5hin and The Daily Kos are two of the more popular examples), but with some new twists."

balls and strikes

koufax award winners announced.

really beat

this week in funny.

yank me

i havent checked out the sports page in a few days. lemme see if anything interesting is going on.

blimps over baghdad

anyone think this will go over like a lead zeppelin?

dobb description

"DOBBS: Do you realize there are 3 trillion dollars in IOUs held by foreigners against U.S. assets? Does that trouble you.

GLASSMAN: The United States is the most robust economy in the world.

DOBBS: You can keep doing it.

GLASSMAN: Obviously, we have problems.

DOBBS: You talk like a cult member. There's a mantra, you say market, you say largest and dynamic.

GLASSMAN: I don't think I've said market yet.

DOBBS: And it simply removes the need for rationality.

GLASSMAN: I just wish you would devote your considerable intelligence what I think is the biggest problem with trade, which is alleviating the pain of the people who get caught. Trade definitely has more benefits...

DOBBS: I am trying to stop the pain before it continues and that's what has got to be addressed. And you are too smart to buy in as a sycophantic response to your corporate bosses and say, you know whatever you want to do, whatever the American enterprise needs to do."

via tapped

mon of reason

"But I don't actually get a thrill out of this ... well, a little one, maybe. But I'd much rather see the media go wild about crimes that really matter -- like the outing of Valerie Plame, the fraudulent march to war in Iraq, the White House's axis of Enron, the assault on civil liberties, etc. etc. But at the same time, I'm not even the tiniest bit apologetic about how this is playing out.

Yes, this is the "politics of personal destruction" -- in about its purest form. But it's certainly no purer -- and no more destructive -- than the final battles of the Clinton Wars. What the Republicans did during "Monicagate" was the political equivalent of a nuclear strike. What the Democrats are trying to do now is the equivalent of -- no, it is -- massive retaliation."

kerry is so very.... softporn

big buzz over drudge today. a potential kerry sex scandal. one wonders what the motivation for the timing. is it a desperate attempt to alter the course of anti-bush sentiment reaching as fevered a pitch as has ever been. or do the rovians now fear a potential kerry candidacy and they saw this as their last opportunity to knock him offstride as the frontrunner before his nomination was absolutely certain. one would think if they had a bombshell to unload on kerry theyd hold it until he was nominated and then hit him. this would seem to benefit bush the most unless he was pressed by the contingencies of the two previous suppositions.

sadly, yes

harvard is now the harvard of porn. and its pc, too! decline and fall of western civilization, anyone?

big bopper

chris lydons radio show seems worth a listen tomorrow at 10 est.

false pretenses

i give little credence to the anecdotal but these "reagan republican"soundbites were worth savoring, even if theyre cherry-picked..

curb your bush

first chapter of The Book on Bush by mark green and larry davids new best friend.

cheney gang

"As Defense Secretary, Cheney developed a contempt for Congress, which, a friend said, he came to regard as “a bunch of annoying gnats.” Meanwhile, his affinity for business deepened. “The meetings with businessmen were the ones that really got him pumped,” a former aide said. One company that did exceedingly well was Halliburton. Toward the end of Cheney’s tenure, the Pentagon decided to turn over to a single company the bulk of the business of planning and providing support for military operations abroad—tasks such as preparing food, doing the laundry, and cleaning the latrines. As Singer writes in “Corporate Warriors,” the Pentagon commissioned Halliburton to do a classified study of how this might work. In effect, the company was being asked to create its own market."

talking pointed

funny fake SOTU

lying down

"Only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war."

why did i eat that?

dont forget to watch timmy and the prez tomorrow morning on meet the dent.

epistles of st paul

krugman reviews suskind and phillips in the nyrb.

on the jon

mag wheelies

left guard

"A number of posts in various places lately have raised the question "Who are the Left?". The ambiguity on this point goes all the way back to the origin of the term, when the Jacobins and their allies were seated to the left of the chair in the National Assembly while the conservatives sat on the right. From this beginning the term "Left" has been used to refer both to the more radical half of any political spectrum (arguably the natural interpretation, if the symmetry between left and right is to taken seriously) and to the conscious or unconscious heirs of Jacobinism, that is to revolutionary vanguard groups."

get canuckted

so theres no way to pin this on canada.

anonymosity

whoopsy. salon has a ridiculous article about anonymous blogging in which their idiot reporter who is parody impaired mischaracterizes a post from eschaton and then excises the questionable statement without giving notice. i guess salon wanted to exemplify shoddy reporting so as to prove accountability is a boon.

also, brad delong has an exchange with a washington post reporter that one would think is less than professional. but he can call him a fuck to his (virtual) face so its ok.

personally i dont understand what the problem is. didnt the effete french theorists manage to dissociate authorial intent and textual meaning? (some help here, please.) ones words are only credible if the author is opened up to personal scrutiny?

i suppose if you are maliciously attacking people its seems only fair that you should face up to the accused and that your motives are rendered transparent. but, if that fails to materialize, there is always libel. take them to court if theyre lying. remember how well it worked for richard perle and donald luskin? otherwise, credibility is in the eye of the beholder.

which ones pink?

billmon used 'kerry on' as a post header. i would support kerry if he would adopt kansas' Carry On as his campaign rally song. (do i smell a chance for pyrotechnics?) in fact, i think he should headline the Monsters of Seventies Rock Tour. styx, kansas, boston, bad company and john kerry. i hear hes a menace with a bass in hand. maybe he can do a rippin' number with springsteen or carlos santana. oye como vote for me.

loose your way

david weinberger has a political blog at corrante entitled loose democracy.

chaotic attractive (dread sighs ignite)

(n)income poops

pot parity

"A British company called GW Pharmaceuticals has developed a sublingual spray called Sativex which contains all the psychoactive chemicals in natural cannabis, and that medicine is likely to be approved in Britain for the treatment of MS within months. The rest of Europe and Canada will probably follow quickly, and it’s quite possible that the US won’t be too far behind."

well, at least noones talking about their age or their race

what he said but without words and meaning (and a new interface).

con gas

la agua del dia -- vichy catalan.