In a Kos comments thread on her speech today in DC, Cindy Sheehan shows up to complain that she’s being pushed out of the news cycle by Hurricane Rita coverage: rita (4.00 / 2) i am watching cnn and it is 100 percent rita…even though it is a little wind and a little rain…it is bad, but there are other things going on in this country today…and in the world!!!!

Relying on International ANSWER’s numbers, Reuters is reporting that the anti-war protests today in DC drew 100K people, though an aerial photograph seems to shows fewer people [see caption]. Then there’s this: The 2005 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by first lady Laura Bush, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and

From the AP’s Jennifer Kerr, “Anti-War Protesters March in Washington:  Thousands of Anti-War Demonstrators March in Washington, London; Rallies Planned in L.A., Rome”: Opponents of the war in Iraq rallied by the thousands Saturday to demand the return of U.S. troops, staging a day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead in marches through Washington and other American and European cities. More than 2,000 people gathered on the Ellipse

To Jeremy Olson for Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man—considered by many to be Hitch’s most “realistic” film (based on a true story).  I watched it the other night and quite enjoyed it.  A strange departure for Hitchcock, and but for the exception of a few signature touches could very well have been a Kazan film. Thanks also to David Hutchins for The End and Quadrophenia. Believe it or not, I’d never

—Can’t help you, I’m afraid. Woke up yesterday to a note from the little guy stuck to my monitor letting me know he’d lit out early for Port Arthur with a couple of militia dudes we met at the local shooting range.  From what I can gather, all he took with him—besides his modified Romanian PSL sniper rifle—is a pocket GPS system, some Gortex socks, a couple of Power Bars,

Me: “Well, it could be worse.  I mean, at least Shepard Smith is in Texas this time…” Long:  “I hear you. Which, that reminds me.  Any truth to the rumor he had flippers grafted to his feet in preparation for this one?  Because even though I ain’t one to root for wholesale flooding, I think it’d be kinda cool to see ol’ Shep reporting from deep inside the storm surge

Don’t know about all of you, but I, for one, am completely at ease knowing that George Bush has put away the guitar and the cowboy hat, and that this time he really really cares. Although, judging from this latest round of flooding, the streets of New Orleans don’t seem to appreciate the effort.  Ungrateful, hard-hearted streets.

In a typically defeatist AP article on Iraq (suicide bombers, US deaths, factional strife, etc.), the 12th paragraph finally yields this bit of good news, buried about midway through the piece: Less than a month before a national referendum on Iraq’s new constitution, the government’s campaign to win support for the charter has won the critical backing of the most influential Shiite religious leader. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, meeting with

From CBS5: The presence of the supernatural and the influence of voodoo long have been synonymous with New Orleans. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the U.S. military are saying that there’s something spooky going on and it’s not just images of death and destruction that’s haunting them. By all accounts, the Sophie B. Wright Middle School in New Orleans sits empty and evacuated except for military personnel

protein wisdom is BlogPulse’s Blog of the Week—which, so far as I can tell, is an honor that brings with it no attendant prize money, and is quite unlikely to attract the kind of hot teenaged blog groupies that, say, Hewitt or “Hindrocket” routinely reel in. The sexists.