New York Times Steals from TPM Muckraker
My my. Now the Gray Lady is openly stealing from blogs.
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One Marine on the Iraq mercenaries
Interesting chat on mercenaries with Steve Fainaru in WaPo today:
Aliso Viejo, Calif. Steve, thank you for reporting on this. I am an active-duty Marine Officer. I have done one tour in Ramadi. The private security contractors make me and my friends sick. Without getting into a philosophical discussion, I do believe that killing in the name of profit is murder (as a Marine I do understand that some think any form of killing in murder -- I however do not). Profit and war are two things that never should coexist. Anyway, please keep the public informed on what really is going on in Iraq. Thanks.
Well, there's a lot of that going around. Fainaru's rather lame response:
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One Last Time on Why Impeachment, etc. Are "Worth it."
(I'll come back and clean this up later, but I have to go cook now)
Although I don't live in the Beltway anymore, I still correspond with friends and progressives there regularly. It's frustrating, because I never quite adopted that Beltway mindset; too much about it reminded me of the Queer Clubbing circuit to make me comfortable (that is, clubbing drama is fine in a club, but not in national politics). But in the spirit of "never give in, never surrender," let me see if I can recap the major points in the argument/perspective that I hold as a progressive.
1. The purpose of electing Democrats and keeping them in the majority is not so that elected Democrats can stay in their jobs forever.
The Beltway 500: They Have To Be Taught, They Have To Be Carefully Taught...
To be this dumb.
Ruth Marcus has at it regarding the on-going saga of our Attorney-General, and if I tell you that she carves out a idiosyncratic place for herself from the rocky heights of beltway profundity, (using a tooth pick because this is the only experience of tool-using folks like Marcus ever get), you could probably come pretty close to sketching out the column without ever reading it.
Here's her opening:
I find myself in an unaccustomed and unexpected position: defending Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Gonzales fans, if there are Gonzales fans left, except for the only fan who counts: Don't take any comfort from my assessment.
Unaccustomed and unexpected only because she doesn't remember any of her previous columns; that's part of the curriculum in that secret class, "How to Become A Consumate Media Asshole," I am now convinced has to exist out there somewhere.
Her caution to Gonzales fans is given because Marcus is willing to concede the undeniable; that Gonzales is a fool and a knave, a deceiver and a dissembler in his sworn testimony before the Senate, and he deserved the brutal treatment he got from both sides of the aisle.
However, ah, yes, the inevitable "however," the inescapable "but,"...you knew it was coming, but can you guess what "the but" is?
Daily Kos Launches Western Offensive
Ah, Bill O'Reilly. Daily Kos wants to lynch all those Uppity Negroes as well, yes?
Daily Kos Occupies the Sudetenland
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What Duncan the Grey said
What's amazing how simple it is, how willing our media--universally--are willing to catapult George Bush's propaganda. I do not believe they are all that stupid, so they are willing accomplices in this disgusting game which perpetuates misery, death, and destruction. If our grand poobahs in the mainstream media want to know why us dirty fucking hippie bloggers hate them, this is why.
Bingo.
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How can I tell when a cucumber is ready to pick?
I've got some small (two or three inches [down CD]) cukes, and I'm wondering if I can pick them.
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