Ever one to lend a hand, John Cole offers his services to the New York Times. thematic update: Liberal media bias? The hell you say!
September 8, 2004
September 8, 2004
Kerry: “I voted FOR extra war funding…before I began bashing the funding I used to be in favor of increasing”
First this, from the front page of John Kerry’s campaign website, September 8, 2004: George Bush has made the wrong choices for four years – including choosing to go it alone in Iraq without a plan to win the peace. This choice has cost us $200 billion and moved America in the wrong direction. John Kerry and John Edwards will move America in a new direction with a better plan
September 8, 2004
The ‘John Edwards is upset with the Vice President’ haiku
“I think the name Dick says all that needs saying, don’t you, swing voters…?”*
September 8, 2004
My eighth brief conversation with a McIntosh apple
apple: “So, how was New York…?” me: “Fine.” apple: ”Fine, eh? You get a chance to talk to my friend Big Apple?” me: “Briefly, yes.” apple: “He’s one enormous fucking apple, isn’t he?” me: “Yeah, I suppose.” apple: “Huge. Powerful. Sinister, even…” me: apple: “Not to be trifled with, wouldn’t you say…” me: apple: “No sir. Not my friend the Big Apple. Wouldn’t want to piss him off –” me:
September 8, 2004
Eighteenth in a series of real-time empirical observations
As you read this, 60s folkrocker David Crosby is leading a crowd of 33 UC Irvine students in a modest protest of Bush’s Iraq policy, having gathering the group into a cozy roadside “love circle,” where he regales them with stories of Judy Collins’ “well-traveled cootch” while bumming hits off some Asian chick’s “really killer weed. “No, seriously, man—this is some great shit.”