drat fink

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.