drat fink

pain management

im not going to pretend to know about scalias positions but its widely held that he is part of the "states rights" posse on the court, except, that is, when it inconvenient. if the newshour was correct in their interpretation of one of his statements, he couldnt look more the political hack. in the medical marijuana case curently being heard, scalia embraced his inner liberal activist judge when he considered that the act of growing pot for personal consumption for, in this case, medical purposes was actionable by congress under the guise of interstate commerce because not purchasing it was impacting commerce. id say youd have to be pretty high to buy that argument. interesting to see which way it will go.

stocking up

i was just thinking the other day that since much of advertising isnt about the product so much as about branding that there almost needs to be a collection put together of advertising cliches that are no longer viable. adhacks sees my post modern assessment and raises me thirty. theyve turned the concept into a business plan as well as a public "service."

guess i was stingy with the irony. the entire site is a joke. just another adventure into brand management.

virus goes a branding

the partys over; the pr people have arrived.

pvart

as a card carrying citizen of "tivo nation" you have to love matt haugheys pvrblog.

2020 vision

"This blog is a discussion space for the Constitution in 2020 Conference, which the Yale chapter of the American Constitution Society is sponsoring in April 2005.

Participants in the conference will be able to post to this blog in the months leading up to the conference; these posts will also appear on the Yale ACS blog."

lapsed dog

someones have a hard-on for themselves. blogger ethics committee. thats rich. i cant wait to be censured. how long before were choosing a pope?

are you ready for some seal meat?

"In other NFL news, Thanksgiving has become Throwback Day, with teams to wear old-fashioned uniforms and old logos on the NFL.com home page. TMQ suggests this menu for your own personal Throwback Thanksgiving:

Wild turkey, shot with a musket and hand-plucked.

Dried maize; no corn-on-the-cob.

Ample, overflowing servings of lobster. (The Pilgrims considered lobster tasteless and complained in their diaries of having to eat it so often.)

Seal meat.

Hard apple cider. (Till the early 1800s or so, hard cider was in rural North America considered the only totally safe beverage, because the alcohol killed waterborne pathogens; children often drank diluted hard cider and went through the day slightly tipsy.)

For dessert: plums, grapes and stewed pumpkin. (There is no chance the Pilgrims ate pie at the first Thanksgiving, because they had no refined sugar. Until the 1800s, most Americans rarely tasted anything containing refined sugar.)

As you dig into your turkey, stuffing and pecan pie, washed down with a $10 bottle of wine superior in quality to any wine available to the 17th-century kings of France, remember how hard your ancestors worked, and how they sacrificed, in the dream that someday their descendants would be warm, well-fed and secure against nature. Considering that your forebears just a century ago had an average lifespan of 46 years and often shivered during winters while eating mostly salt-preserved food, try to get through turkey day without complaining about anything, okay? Happy Throwback Thanksgiving!"

cookie puss

had an opportunity for a great proustian "madeleine" moment but in my present mindstate it was all signifier with little signified. still, the cortical stimulation was pleasant enough.

saw through my gauzy windowshade at what looked not unlike some of toms molecule images yet possessing a spatial orientation that had a certain hazy familiarity of a different bent. that the colorful spots were slowly rotating allowed for a more solid recollection to begin to take shape.

(shit. this truck is in another state by now and im just in up to my ankles. fortunately theres another truck parked across the street with a rig which mimics the color of the original truck. so i can use that truck as a memory device to remind me of the other truck which itself was supposed to set off a flood of childhood memories but owing to my sentiment free mindset there was an unwillingness or an inability to venture down those hoary lanes. but, go ahead, finish your untale. i know i was enthralled.)

fim flam

"Which, unfortunately, was what more than a few Capital J Journalists here said after her speech. I had the personal misfortune of sitting next to a former CNN exec who nearly spewed her salad across the room when Ana Marie said "bloggers have succeeded in deprofessionalizing journalism." Here was one highbrow who was taking this deprofessionalizing like a lobotomy -- she squawked that it was "an insult" to have Wonkette speaking to such an Esteemed Group Of Professionals. It was obvious that a few people here don't actually know what Wonkette is."

borscht beltway

"the only politician in america with a man-date is jim mcgreevey." -- carville on meet the tim

squeal like a pig

mccain is a whore. he complained on This Weak that the cia tried to impact the us election by leaking, i assume, the information that the high grade explosives in iraq went unprotected, and then he blamed a compliant media for echoing the charge. if only the truth concerned him half as much protecting his presidential viability.

so vain

vanity fair (conde nast) decides it would like to be a part of the conversation.

new car smell

for an activist liberal lawyer, this post from kos portrays surprisingly little sympathy for certain civil liberties.

surfer girl

"The campaign experience, she said, was a lot like 'getting tubed.'"

red state herring

"As Jeffrey Rosen (a pro-choice but anti-Roe legal analyst) recently argued in The New Republic (subscription-only), abortion is probably a red herring in the Supreme Court battles; Bush and his people seem most preoccupied with stacking the court with proponents of the “Constitution in Exile” movement, which seeks to return American jurisprudence to pre-New Deal interpretations of the interstate Commerce Clause that hugely limit the scope of federal action and policy. Last year, Michael Scherer wrote a terrific piece for Mother Jones that, in a similar vein, focused on the massive corporate underwriting of most of Bush’s controversial judicial nominations in his first term, and argued that media accounts focusing on, say, William H. Pryor’s religious extremism or Priscilla Owen’s anti-choice advocacy miss the more important story of these judges' radical fealty to corporate interests."

red state rover

"This is what decades of voting for conservative politicians has wrought: nothing.

Or, rather, not nothing, in another sense it has wrought a great deal. Tax breaks, subsidies, and regulatory favors to Republican-friendly corporations and campaign contributors have proliferated faster than gay pride parades and pornographic websites. Back in Washington for his victory lap, Bush claimed a mandate from the voters and proceeded to outline his agenda for his second term -- tax cuts for the wealthy, subsidies for energy companies, tax shelters for the wealthy, a massive giveaway to the insurance industry, and a larger giveaway to the financial services industry. The faith-based agenda of his most loyal flock was left on the cutting room floor. Just as it always has been, and just as it always will be. The powers that be in the Republican Party are, as in Andrew Sullivan's memorable phrase, "closet tolerants," uninterested in the values agenda except as a hateful prop to be deployed at campaign time."

the babel code

good frontline tonight about advertising with douglas rushkoff.

stop breathing

pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain (reissue)

wane county

hey you lone staters, whats up in the blue counties in your southerly regions?

we know not what we do

our long national nightmare is over.

feasting on tucker's brain, aka the honeycomb "kidney" pie balderdash

nothing i like more than tossing money away. just noticed im late on my credit card payment but also that i had a phantom payment for my satellite tv. turns out i had scheduled a repair within a 90 day window (after installation), but when i changed the repair date (a repair necessitated by their original shoddy installation) two days later (making the repair date sooner) it fell outside of the 90 day window. so if i happen to slaughter republicans in large numbers tonight should the unthinkable reoccur, id say im perfectly justified. i might take a few down just to elevate my mood. i know the boost will be short-term but ill take what i can get today. at least i didnt get a parking ticket last week for the direction i parked a car in a municipal lot. oh wait, i did. that the sign alerting me to THE PERMISSABLE made no sense just makes it that much more difficult to bear.

nothing i like more than choking down a fistful of rage before breakfast. makes me feel like a good and proper cereal killer. must kill all humans. im coo-coo for cocoa puffs. theyre grrrreat!

pack mentality

an illegal motion penalty may have saved the election.

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