Sounds like someone needs a hug! At least it wasn’t his blogging finger… Speedy recovery, Major! (h/t Insty.)

Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) is outraged over the fact that AT&T is lobbying for immunity from lawsuits brought by those upset that the telcos cooperated with the government in intercepting international phone calls after 9/11. Perhaps his new hosts at the ACLU will remind Greenwald and his sock-puppets that lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity under the First Amendment, part of the right to

your aphrodisiac toad venom. Ingestion of aphrodisiac toad venom of the genus Bufo can lead to complaints of chest and abdominal pain and even death. That is all. UPDATE:  Hahahahahahahahahahahaha 

Newsweek has a new poll which they believe supports the claim that Barack Obama’s race may well explain his difficulty in winning over white voters. Mind you, the magazine’s claim is based on the poll showing Hillary Clinton doing better with white voters, while being forced to admit that John Kerry and Al Gore did no better than Obama is doing at the moment.  The possibility that Clinton is doing

Hillary Clinton cited the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy to explain why she was still in the persidential race, with the resulting flap getting plastered all over the mediasphere.  She quickly apologized for the implication that she was sticking around in case Obama got shot. The irony here is that in case after case after case after case after case after case after case after case after case, it has been Obama,

Or “The Music of What Didn’t Happen”: narrazione, novella, racconto see also addDerivatives() raccontare (v.) ↘ conversatore, conversatrice, narratore, narratrice ↗ narrazione, novella, racconto synonyms addSynonyms() raccontare contare, descrivere, dire, esporre, menzionare, ridire, riferire, riportare, ritrarre, rivelare, spifferare raccontare (v.) avvitarsi, contare, dire, narrare, nominare Alas, poor York: Last night I watched the new movie Recount, which premieres Sunday night on HBO. I think the plot might best be described

and Dahlia Lithwick’s ridiculous reasoning in comparing it with Guantanamo . . . when so many other, better comparisons might be drawn to other excesses of the Nanny State.  In other words, both are characterized by trumped-up stupidity.

She’s revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women’s rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs – her [hot] daughter, Rebecca, 38. Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she

At The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg briely awakens from his intellectual slumber to notice the tendency among Islamists toward national suicide. Goldberg notes this chiefly in regards to those, like him, “who have a hard time believing that even the most irrational Iranian leader would actually sacrifice Persian civilization on the altar of anti-Zionism.”  He would do well to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reported past as an instructor for teeenage suicide squads during the Iran-Iraq

That is one tidbit to be gleaned from John McCain’s massive medical records dump: John McCain today released 1,173 pages of medical documents to prove that at the age of 71 – having survived war wounds, torture by the Vietnamese and three bouts of melanoma – he is fit to be president. The verdict on the Republican nominee-in-waiting is that he appears to be in good, if not perfect, health.