drat fink

la kings

poor little tv execs lost an opportunity today to exploit the rich careless black athlete and the poor confused little white girl. youd think msnbc could pay her off to keep up the charade. if she understood it was for the sake of ratings maybe shed relent. now all we have to look forward to is the new season of The OC. dawg.

fallow the leader

"[T]he biggest question... whether [the Bush] response to 9/11 has made [America] safer or more vulnerable.... Over the past two years I have been talking with a group of people at the working level of America's anti-terrorism efforts... no partisan ax to grind with the Administration... they have so far been proved right. In the year before combat started in Iraq, they warned that occupying the country would be far harder than conquering it.... [A]mong national-security professionals there is surprisingly little controversy... America's response to 9/11 [was] a catastrophe. I have sat through arguments among soldiers and scholars about whether the invasion of Iraq should be considered the worst strategic error in American history—or only the worst since Vietnam.... "Let me tell you my gut feeling," a senior figure at one of America's military-sponsored think tanks told me recently, after we had talked for twenty minutes about details of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. "If I can be blunt, the Administration is full of shit. In my view we are much, much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. That is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys. But I think they are incompetent, and I have had a very close perspective on what is happening. Certainly in the long run we have harmed ourselves. We are playing to the enemy's political advantage. Whatever tactical victories we may gain along the way, this will prove to be a strategic blunder.".."

dig deeper

"Jim Lobe argues that the FBI investigation that caught up Pentagon Iran expert Lawrence Franklin is much wider than initially thought, and focuses on the unauthorized transfer to Israel of highly sophisticated military software and designs."

not equal too

"The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand.' This is a lie. What's happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us." -- Bill Moyers, Keynote speech, June 3, 2004"

not it

id like to nominate jenna and her giggly twin to the drat fink - not terribly serious (apparently) hall of something for their spirited takedown of the republican agenda.

larrys kid

notorious met killer atlanta braves thirdbaseman chipper jones names newborn son shea (as in stadium).

also, not surprisingly, dumb (white) jocks with lots of money trend republican. actually, theyre the ones that are considered bright. one player, carlos delgado of the toronto blue jays did take some heat for being demonstratively anti-war. so, maybe theres still hope for the dominicans.

counter topics

counterspin flip-flops on blogging issue, reenters fray

i love the leader

that is just one painfully absurd question.

remote control

maybe its my recent viewings of pink panther movies but i think john mccain had a minor stroke while praising the clouseau-esque leadership qualities of dick cheney last night. either that or he was fighting off the republican mind control device they had implanted. or maybe the republican mind control device was in a death struggle with the vietcong mind control device for predominance in his addled mind. regardless, it was an entertaining twitch. though, id tell mccain to steer clear of all celebrity poker matches with that kind of tell.

release the floodgates

"It appears to be the case that someone in the Pentagon got wind that Larry Franklin had been flipped, and was terrified that the investigation might go on up the ladder at the Pentagon, in AIPAC, and with the Israelis. So they leaked news of the investigation to make sure that everybody clammed up and shredded everything."