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Category: U.S. Politics

  • Bill Frist is a Stupid Asshole

    Dunner – who I think is a fellow brother-in-rage – caught a recent swatch of Stephanopolous: STEPHANOPOULOS: […] Do you believe that tears and sweat can transmit HIV? FRIST: I don’t know. I can tell you … STEPHANOPOULOS: You don’t know? FRIST: I can tell you things like, like … STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, wait, let me […]

  • Banning Gay Characters from Public Libraries

    The UCC thing was corporate-censorship – this is plain old home-grown, state-sponsored book-burning censorship – in Alabama (of all places!): Under the bill, literary works with gay characters or written by gay authors would be banned from pubic and school libraries. Textbooks that reference homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle also would not be allowed. Similarly, […]

  • George Lakoff's Blog

    My new intellectual boyfriend George Lakoff has a blog with tons of class notes from his lectures. Read Don’t Think of an Elephant. Read Don’t Think of an Elephant. Read Don’t Think of an Elephant.

  • Don't Think of an Elephant

    If you cringed hearing a relative over turkey blurt out a typical red-state missive – you need to read this book. Don’t Think of an Elephant is one of those books that changes your mind – not your opinions necessarily but your mindset. After the election many of us on the Kerry side were wondering […]

  • Amy Goodman on Hardball with Chris Matthews (video)

    Windows Media clip of Amy Goodman on Hardball – I’m waiting on the transcript to appear on the MSNBC site. http://movies.ziaspace.com/Amy.wmv Previously mentioned here. Thanks James!

  • House Resolution 854: Great job Sox.

    Thank God we spent time in the House and Senate on a bill to congratulate the Red Sox. Now if only we could get those 9-11 intelligence reforms passsed. Idiots. That’s like passing a bill to congratulate the cast of Friends.

  • Completely Unsubstantiated

    Picked this up from Sam who picked if up from Trevor. A completely unsubstantiated, yet elegantly nightmare scenario: you read it here first: i predict that president bush nominates john ashcroft… to join the u.s. supreme court as soon as a vacancy opens. chief justice rehnquist is hanging on to life by only a thread, […]

  • Bill Clinton, Peter Jennings Interview

    Paula Zahn just said: Do you think the press went too far in going with unsubstantiated rumors? TV off.

  • Senate Hearings on Pornography

    Mary Anne Layden, co-director of a sexual trauma program at the University of Pennsylvania, said pornography’s effect on the brain mirrors addiction to heroin or crack cocaine. Bullshit. So is chocolate and caffeine and cigarettes. And Ritalin. She told of one patient, a business executive, who arrived at his office at 9 a.m. each day, […]

  • U. S. Press Keeps Mum on Condi the Liar

    [T]hese reports have generally omitted mention of Rice’s numerous apparently false statements, even when the reviews were conducted by outlets that originally broke the news of the statements in question.