drat fink

the post i half wrote this morning but then erased for excessive shrillity. i called timmy some bad names, too.

ghooliani uber alles

word to the wise

conclusion - blogging promotes verbosity.

blogwatching2

bartholomew's notes on religion

blogwatching

pharyngula

spree for all

polyphonic spree/kennedy center/streaming video

jacoby and mired

lets hope these sites dont become too popular next week.

new moon on monday

john peel has died.

why dont we sing this song all together

mp3 blog aggregator

show me the way

i tell you, i tell you, i tell you we must die.

the ize have it

mp3s aplenty - *6ize

place to be

nick drake cache

strange brew

daily kos has been rightfully lauded for its excellence but it could receive no greater honor than a tom delay smear.

blogworthy

collision detection

complaints desk

ziggy is getting too political for me these days.

pass the syrup

"Forgive me for shouting, but this stuff burns my waffles."

weekly!

blogging impacts journalism in japan

whos got two?

at least i hope he is planning on taking his wife to the game.

hour time

jon stewart to be on 60 minutes. wonder what he thinks of their brand of journalism.

table talk

potential kerry kabniteers

lawyers in love

"The Kerry campaign is preparing to deploy at least 10,000 lawyers across election battleground states on 2 November to defend their candidate's right to take the White House in the event that the outcome of any count is called into question."

in the hunt

Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004

melo nugs

i swear, i always let my friends put my hundreds of millions of dollars of potential earnings at risk so they can get high. who wouldnt?

link hearthrob

im sure ed helms belated spin alley piece from the daily show is out there somewhere but triumphs triumph is locked and loaded. (took me a minute to recover from the oprah winfrey joke.)

criminal minded

whats losing a billion here, a billion there. dont you know theres a war on?

immigrant song

the allen street mall is the median strip that runs down the center of allen st. usually it is peopled by members of the underclass who are without homes but today there are five rows of crisp white chairs and a makeshift dais replete with backdrop and microphone. professional looking types mill around as microphone tests are performed.

a sign is pinned to the backdrop. it says Avenue of Immigrants. my local representative who ive only known through mailers at election time is speaking now about the sacrifice that immigrants are making for their country. so this whole thing is a pointless naming ceremony. yawn. so nice of them to come earlier this week to spruce up the corridor for the local dignitaries. actually, the speaker just said theyve put in a $15 million request with the lower manhattan redevelopment corp to upgrade the allen and pike street malls. "streetscapes" is the buzzword.

fakebook

"But sin is crucial to Christianity. To be born again, a seeker must painfully acknowledge his or her innate sinfulness, and then turn away from it completely. And though today Bush is sober, he does not live and govern like a man who “walks” with God, using the Bible as a moral compass for his decision making. Twice in the past year -- once during an April press conference and most recently at a presidential debate -- the president was unable to name any mistake he has made during his term. His steadfast unwillingness to fess up to a single error betrays a strikingly un-Christian lack of attention to the importance of self-criticism, the pervasiveness of sin, and the centrality of humility, repentance, and redemption. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine George W. Bush delivering an address like Jimmy Carter’s legendary “malaise” speech (in which he did not actually say the word “malaise”) in 1979. Carter sermonized to a dispirited nation in the language of confession, sacrifice, and spiritual restoration. Though it didn’t do him a lick of good politically, it was consonant with a Christian theology of atonement: Carter admitted his mistakes to make right with God and the American people, politics be damned. Bush, for whom politics is everything, can’t even admit that he’s done anything wrong."

two in the bush

you know a nation is in trouble when pornstars have greater moral authority than presidents.

shark bites

jon stewart rrrrips into carlson and begala on crossfire and their culture of hackery as entertainment. as a devoted republican spinmeister ill be sure to focus my outrage on stewarts gratuitous sartorial attacks.

reporting for duty

as has been noted elsewhere, jay rosens post about the nature of the sinclair beast is well worth reading.

cigars anyone?

couldnt have happened to a nicer guy.

about to oil

"Fortunately, Michael Klare, our preeminent expert on "resource wars," has come out with his new book, Blood and Oil, The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum, in the nick of time. If you want to grasp the geopolitics of oil, or the future oil wars we're heading for, or what reaching American oil "autonomy" (Klare's more modest term for it) and unwinding ourselves from despotic regimes like the Saudis might actually involve, don't miss this indispensable book. Below he describes how, under the pressure of Bush administration energy geopolitics (and under the guise of anti-terrorism), the U.S. military is being remolded into an oil-protection force."

(re)gifting

i bought someone a canvasser for their birthday.

vote or die

to call certain rethugs shameless would be a gross understatement. their efforts to subvert our democratic process are breathtaking. so a hale and hearty fuck you to our infantile breatheren. im really starting to hope there is a hell. my only concern is that we already may be there.

paternity leave

just watching the yankees - redsox game now. another tivo success story. had to comment on the "whos your daddy?" chant reverberating through the bronx which i thought was clever (yaknow, for yankee fans. could it turn my stomach more to see pataki at ringside?). its a reference to a pedro martinez quote where he laments his recent performances versus the yankees. pedro wasnt pitching tonight but it was apt nonetheless. me, im rooting for boston. but i think part of the allure of boston is that theyre forever coming up just short. if they win, theyll just be a bunch of guys paid to represent a city that is known for its chowder and for a very expensive hole in the ground.

security blanket statement

security scholars for a sensible foreign policy

prehensile dementia

amateur neurology is the new black!

pan-a-che

havent seen the movie and i dont have an opinion about guevara but that wont be stopping me from calling someone(s) an idiot. i just wont say who.

rit of assurance

"The answer to the first point is that Blix and his team of inspectors were saddled with a complicated list of "cluster issues", ironically assembled by Duelfer during his tenure as head of the UN weapons inspectors, that would have needed to be rectified for any finding of compliance to be made. These "clusters" postulated the need for Iraq to prove the negative, something that is virtually impossible to do. We now know that Iraq's WMD were destroyed in 1991. The problem wasn't the weapons, but verification of Iraq's declarations. The standards of verification set by Duelfer-Blix were impossible for Iraq to meet, thus making closure on the "cluster" issues also an unattainable goal. This situation answers the second point as well. Since the inspection process was pre-programmed to fail, there would be no way the US or the UK would accept any finding of compliance from the UN weapons inspectors. The inspection process was rigged to create uncertainty regarding Iraq's WMD, which was used by the US and the UK to bolster their case for war."

anti anti

""The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie 'mirror' of ordinary matter -- in future weapons," the San Francisco Chronicle reports."

of gasbagatology

whos going to piss me off today?

derridean derivatives

orcinus v. strict constructionism

bai bye

tristero slices and dices the ny times mag kerry profile.

drat dink

some dink ::: opinion maker

mon overbored

have to admit, i lost interest in wonkette. much like my initial enthusiasm for gawker, the snark to content ratio was too high. although i still suspect shes very likely to become the gen x maureen dowd. i did not see the cover of the ny times magazine but it wouldnt surprise me if that spurned her recent appearances on msnbc and nbc, neither of which ive seen. didnt take long for her to be howled at for being inconsequential. but really, hes mad at the nets for their breeding inconsequence. shes merely a supplicant, or at worst, a fallen angel. and i know you are asking yourself this very question -- what would billmon do? hes our very own blogger messiah.

grave and gathering

""Saddam Hussein ended the nuclear program in 1991 following the gulf war,'' Mr. Duelfer said in the report. It said American inspectors in Iraq had "found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the program.''"

dead enders

cnn hearts blogospherics.

matthews metier

in those fevered few moments at the end of the vp debate it was incumbent upon me to select a victor and a vanquished. so long as truth was not a determining factor, i called it a draw. i thought cheneys non responses were his biggest detriment. edwards likes to be expansive and work a room so i thought the time constraints cut into his strengths.

just saw chris matthews on msnbc say he was sticking by his post debate spin, which was a cheney landslide. he said this with an embarrassed look on his face as he now knows his panel does not represent the conventional wisdom. that his subsequent analysis did not meet with his initial findings is nothing unusual for chris, he lives in a state of dissonance between what he believes and what he mau maus daily.

the truly sad moment came when matthews lauded nbc for actually questioning the veracity of cheneys statements. it was like a revelation to him. they could actually see if what was said was true. matthews obviously has come down with some sort of disease if he thinks that people would like to hear the truth. wed much prefer his incisive debate analysis. "Cheney didnt scowl. Hes the clear winner!"

business end

"What Susan Milligan and her Globe researchers do in this report that is so helpful is actually collate data on procedures like closed rules, floor debate time, and conference committee riders and offer the appropriate comparisons to congressional practice in the past. Their findings should finally put to rest the claim that Democrats were just as ruthless when they were in charge and are now just whining out of sour grapes. What's going on now really is unprecedented (or it's at least without precedent since the days of "Czar Joe" Cannon, Speaker of the House in the early 1900s)."

billionairings

george soros is blogging. how long before hes infusing money into the blogosphere?