Archive for: April 2007

From The Rocky Mountain News, “Salazar joins critics of series on WWII”:

Sens. Ken Salazar of Colorado and Robert Menendez of New Jersey have joined Hispanic veterans and others who say that an upcoming PBS documentary on World War II …

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man

Play a song for me,

I’m not sleepy and, of course,

I’d be willing to pay you

the going rate for your services.

Hey, Mr Tambourine Man

Play a song for me,

and if you, sensing my …

From the Denver Post/Bloomberg:

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, accused of running a Washington prostitution ring for 13 years, apologized to a former deputy secretary of state for revealing he was a client and said more names may be disclosed to help …

ABC News, via “Good Morning America,” tried to pass off as “blockbusters” this morning certain revelations made by George Tenet in his book and on Sunday’s “60 Minutes”—charges quickly, effectively, and (more importantly) factually …

Question:  what would happen were an academic to take the actual findings of new AG Cooper’s follow-up report on the Duke “Rape” case and write a dissertation based on those findings?

Or, to put it more provocatively:  would a dissertation …

Evidently, this “fire” superheated the steel undergirding, causing the “collapse”—though Rosie O’Donnell and I know better.  No siree.  You won’t catch us falling for Schwarzenegger’s “official” tale of fire melting steel. 

Two words:  missile strike.

Working theory:  Bush is trying …

Were you aware that the American People are Laurie David and Sheryl Crow?

Crow was more insistent, poking Rove in the chest and pinching his arm. She said Rove worked for her. Rove said he …

Words from 1947 that have come back to reverberate again today.  They are good, sound and relevant.  May God grant I never need to follow them.

Why can’t a woman be more like a man?

Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;

Eternally noble, historically fair.

Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.

Why can’t a woman be like that?

There are times I loathe the extended campaign season. It is reminiscent of retail stores dragging out the Christmas decorations in mid-October in an attempt to artificially whip up the “holiday spirit” and get people to part with more of their money sooner. The money quest drives political campaigns to “officially” start at ever earlier dates (thank you, McCain and Feingold) with the same kind of one-upsmanship. This threatens, if it hasn’t already engendered, a kind of campaign fatigue on voters. “Bah, humbug! I’ll start paying attention in the summer … next summer.”

However, along the way will be written reams of articles, examinations and puff pieces on the putative candidates. Interestingly, some of these columnar inches will reveal more about the mindset of the author then the candidate they are dissecting.

Case in point is Susan J. Douglas’ current article Why Women Hate Hillary

Save the planet! Eat fart-free beef!