Submitted by lambert on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 1:26pm
[I started with the more, erm, fair and balanced headline "Texas royalty and the rules of the game." But I think the headline I ultimately used is more accurate.]
Sidney Blumenthal (Salon is on fire today) has a terrific piece on the Armstrong family of Texs (or should I say, "the Armstrong's fiefdom in Texas"): Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 1:21pm
You know, the ones that can be shown on Australian TV but not in this country? Salon. Definitely get the day pass--think of it as voting for coverage (via Susie) Read below the fold...
Submitted by tresy on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 1:20pm
I know it's hard to keep track of all the things wingnuts are outraged about, so most corrente readers may have forgotten about this one if it ever crossed their radars in the first place. But back in 2004, this was briefly a very big deal: a bunch of peaceniks in Nelson, BC actually had the unmitigated gall to announce plans for a "draft resister memorial" honoring the Americans who took refuge in Canada rather than kill for LBJ and Nixon in Vietnam. O'Reilly called for a boycott of this sleepy (some would say stoned) little ski town of 10,000 inhabitants, and the 101st Fighting Keyboarders did their patriotic duty by carpet bombing the town's website with angry emails pledging never to visit this place they'd never heard of before. More seriously, some veterans groups took offense and pledged to protest the gathering if it ever survived the Keyboarders' fearsome firepower. I blogged about it at the time here. Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 1:10pm
Forget all the leaks done on purpose, like that whole complicated Plame thing, and Bush outing a double agent in place during campaign 2004. This is an accident! LA Times:
Federal officials in Dallas mistakenly disclosed classified counter-terrorism information in a breach of national security that could also threaten one of the country's biggest terrorism prosecution cases, newly unsealed court records show.
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Submitted by chicago dyke on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 9:16am
Perhaps it's just the excitment of coming travel, but I'm just giddy this morning from the comments over at Jane's place. Seriously funny stuff. I'm also going to steal, as this is the best haiku comment to understand the times we live in I've come across in a long while. Kudos, EP. This is brilliant: Read below the fold...
Submitted by MJS on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 2:03am
Neil Shakespeare has been on a VP Bender of late: he has an entire series of collages and text that pay special attention to the single most fucked-up symbol of arrogant, chickenhawk depravity the blessed west has known. Scroll around and check out his entire series. Heck, bring the kids! Read below the fold...
Submitted by lambert on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 10:58pm
Submitted by lambert on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 9:37pm
Cheney still can't explain his delay in telling the country he shot a 78-year-old man in the face. Follow the twists of his logic if you can. AP:
"We really didn't know until Sunday morning that Harry [Whittington] was probably going to be OK, that it looked like there hadn't been any serious damage to any vital organ," [Cheney] said. "And that's when we began the process of notifying the press."
But I'm still left with some questions: Read below the fold...
Submitted by chicago dyke on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 7:29pm
Just a quick couple of thoughts about the Cheney shooting. Redd and Digby and probably everyone else are reporting that Cheney has something to drink the day of the shooting. And what he said about drinking makes no sense: Read below the fold...
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Submitted by captain nemo (not verified) on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 11:08am
People (i.e., me) who rarely watch the late-night jokesters will often tune in right around the half-hour mark to see Letterman's Top Ten list. Like any long-running feature it's tended to get weaker over the years, and the solution is usually to hire new writers. I've got a suggestion for 'em....Juan Cole:
1. Cheney attacked secular Iraq, mistaking it for an ally of Usamah Bin Laden. Cheney attacked Harry Whittington, mistaking him for a small bird.
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Submitted by shystee on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 1:36am
Neither is unquestioning allegiance to a Political Party.
Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Harry Reid of Nevada, the same party leaders who he said persuaded him last August to enter the Senate race, had pushed him to step aside so that Representative Sherrod Brown, a longtime member of Congress, could take on Senator Mike DeWine, the Republican incumbent.
- NYT
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