Month: January 2007
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At the Heart of the Libby Trial
I haven’t been following the Libby trial as tightly as I should be. Here’s the main thing to know: “[Former press secretary Ari] Fleischer said the conversation happened July 7, 2003, days before Libby told investigators he was surprised to learn about the CIA operative from a reporter. That discrepancy is at the heart of […]
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CBS Blocks Broadcast of Baghdad Report
CBS won’t air their correspondent Laura Logan’s report since it diverges from the official narrative of Iraq: The segment in question — “Battle for Haifa Street” — is a piece of first-rate journalism but one that appears only on the CBS News website — and has never been broadcast. It is a gritty, realistic look […]
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Soldiers Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan Primarily from Rural America
“the death rate “for rural soldiers (24 per million adults aged 18 to 59) is 60 percent higher than the death rate for those soldiers from cities and suburbs (15 deaths per million).” Of rural areas, Vermont has the highest rate of casualties, followed by Delaware, South Dakota, and Arizona. Only 8 of our states […]
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How Mel Gibson Became Anti-Semitic
Mel Gibson has his own traditionalist house of worship near Los Angeles — a church, funded entirely by him, that is not recognized by the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese. It is unclear what is said in the hallowed halls of the Holy Family Chapel, since, unlike virtually all other Catholic churches, it is closed […]
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Video: Arlen Specter Asks Alberto Gonzalez About Habeas Corpus
Wanted to post the video for this as well:
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Angry Flight Attendant Nicoderm Commercial
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Blitzer Gives Cheney's Heart a Stress Test
Yeek. Blitzer still held back a bit too much.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez: Habeas Corpus Not in Constitution
Don’t read this if you’re eating: Responding to questions from Sen. Arlen Specter at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 18, Gonzales argued that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bestow habeas corpus rights; it merely says when the so-called Great Writ can be suspended. “There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution; there’s […]
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CNN's Glenn Beck Says Faggot Isn't a Dirty Word
CNN douchelord and Good Morning America pundit Glenn Beck was babbling about the recent dust-up on the set of Grey’s Anatomy where the black actor called the closeted white actor a faggot on set. Glenn says this slur is only a ‘naughty name.’
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Where Penises Come From
Continuing the theme of the previous post: So I was just browsing through some fun journals (Integrative and Comparative Biology, always good for some unusual stuff) and ran across a paper with a wonderful title: “The Functional Morphology of Penile Erection: Tissue Designs for Increasing and Maintaining Stiffness.” If that kind of thing will sell […]