drat fink

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.

was that wrong?

CBS News: "Individually we may feel okay about our network, but the cumulative effect for viewers with 24-hour cable coverage is -- it may have been overplayed and, in fact, a disservice to Dean and the viewers."
-- Andrew Heyward, President - CBS News

ABC News: "It's always a danger that we'll use good video too much."
-- David Westin, President - ABC News

CNN: "We've all been wrestling with this. If we had it to do over again, we'd probably pull ourselves back."
-- Princell Hair, General Manager - CNN

Fox News: "It got overplayed a bit, and the public clearly thought that, too, and kept him alive for another round."
-- Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO - Fox News

trained bares

“About all we interview any more are professional talkers,” says Bob Schieffer, who tries to squeeze informational tidbits from those talkers every Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. The professional part, of course, stems from who his guests are, mainly public officials. But it also flows from the teachings of media trainers, a branch of public relations that originated at J. Walter Thompson in the mid-1970s. Media training was largely a dual response to the tough questioning of Mike Wallace and others on 60 Minutes and the needs of the new business-media outlets that called for a constant stream of corporate executives to chat on the air. Soon other p.r. firms established media training practices, sensing a lucrative sideline in coaching people to handle tough questions."

burning sensation

heres the (acknowledged) problem with wonkette. i dont ever want to think about james carville and his troll wife having sex.

nor

do i ever again want to examine the creases in john kerrys forehead for sign of life on mars.