Edwards: “…And if you can slip it in, it wouldn’t hurt you to mention bunnies a few times. Ducklings, either.”
September 2004
September 29, 2004
Reuters : Switzerland :: Teresa Heinz Kerry : Taco Bell
Reuters: “Bush seen with debate edge over Kerry” U.S. President George W. Bush’s ability to stick to a simple, Rove-generated script of his policies on Iraq and terrorism should give the monosyllabic chimp an edge over his nuanced, cultured, Democratic rival Senator John Kerry in Thursday’s presidential debate, analysts say. […] The keen-minded and intellectually superior Kerry will likely showcase new hard-hitting language about chaos and casualties in Iraq by
September 29, 2004
Kerry: “It just was a very inarticulate way of saying something, and I had one of those inarticulate moments late in the evening* when I was dead tired in the primaries and I didn’t say something very clearly.”
9 more articulate ways John Kerry might have said, “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it” “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I recognized that to have any chance at winning the Democratic nomination I was going to have to appeal to the anti-war crowd that was threatening to throw its weight behind Howard Dean. The truncated mini-tyrant. “As a rule,
September 29, 2004
All things being equal, I’d Rather be in Skokie
RatherBiased keeps watching CBS News so I don’t have to, bless them. Unfortunately, their server is down at the moment, so I’m going to post their latest bit o’ CBS punking here, in its entirety: “CBS Does It Again: Network Touts Phony Emails Alleging Return of Military Draft” For months now, left-leaning interest groups have been trying to scare America’s young people into believing that the Bush Administration is eager
September 28, 2004
2004: The Year of Bill INDC
Go vote Bill’s INDC Journal the “Best Inside the Beltway” blog in the Washington Post’s Best Blogs contest. And while you’re there, vote protein wisdom for…uh, nothing. Because I wasn’t nominated. For anything. At all. Nada. Which, thanks for that. protein wisdom: achieving mediocrity since going on always. **** update: fafblog!
September 28, 2004
Another moment of unabashed pragmatism
I don’t care, whichever. Fish is fish. Cook the trout if that’s easiest for you.
September 28, 2004
In the loop
To answer Cranky Neocon’s question, yes. Yes I did. And we’re not yet done wrecking electoral havoc, Karl Rove and I… protein wisdom: don’t hate the player, hate the player’s right-wing friends.
September 28, 2004
Kerry Edwards 2004: Because Parliament Loves a Well-Behaved John John!
Based on his reading of the “Transatlantic Trends 2004” poll results, Daniel Twining, director of the German Marshall Fund and former foreign policy adviser to Senator John McCain, concludes that, “when it comes to America’s role in the world, Democrats are hard to distinguish from Europeans” (Weekly Standard, Sept. 20; subscription only) The America of many Democratic voters is distinctly European in its preference for multilateral solutions, its desire to
September 28, 2004
Ted Kennedy talks in his sleep
Kennedy: “…water, water everywhere, and not a drop to—beg pardon? Well of course I’ll have another Scotch. You must be new…”
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on protein wisdom’s exclusion from the Washington Post’s “Best of the Blogs” competition
Garrett: “Not to harsh your mellow or anything, brother, but c’mon. Fafblog! That’s like, a different league… “Tell you what. Let’s go get us a couple cranberry muffins, my treat. Because trust me, it ain’t even possible to stay bummed with a cranberry muffin in your head…”