“Looks like my fifteen minutes are about up, Billy. Helluva ride, though. Helluva ride. Wish I coulda kept it going, to be honest with you.”* “Sure. But next time? Theme song. Trust me—the consumerist rabble eat that shit up, man.”
February 2005
February 17, 2005
AS A CITIZEN JOURNALIST I DEMAND PIE, GAY PORN, ACCESS TO THE HALLS OF POWER, AND A GLOWING PUBLIC ENDORSEMENT FROM PEGGY NOONAN
Well, it’s a start. But to be honest with you, I was kinda hoping for the pie.
February 17, 2005
Bush names Negroponte Director of National Intelligence
His deputy will be National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden. Negroponte still needs Senate confirmation. Story here. Michelle Malkin provides context for the choice.
February 16, 2005
Odds, ends
1. Kyle sends along this HUD release—yet another example of how the Bushco oligarchy seeks to subjugate the poor by providing them with so-called “largesse”: More than 4,400 local homeless programs across America will receive $1.4 billion in grants announced today by the Department of Housing and Urban Development-the largest single commitment of federal funds designed to provide shelter and care for those without a home of their own. HUD
February 16, 2005
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, abridged 11
Remember: the problem may not reside in the piston itself, but rather with your anxiety over how the piston will perform.
February 16, 2005
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on gay porn and the Jeff Gannon kerfuffle
Garrett: “Actually, I don’t like to judge. The late 80s were a very bad time for me professionally. A very bad time. If you follow my drift.”
February 16, 2005
AS A CITIZEN JOURNALIST I DEMAND ACCESS TO THE HALLS OF POWER
From KJ Lopez: Senator Cornyn’s office tells me he was the first senator to use the word “blog” on the Senate floor, this morning: “The news media is of course the main way people get information about government. The media pushes government entities, and elected officials and bureaucrats and agencies to release information that the people have a right to know, occasionally exposing waste, fraud and abuse. And hopefully, more
February 16, 2005
9 suggested titles for the inevitable CBS biopic on the life of “Jeff Gannon” (starring Adrian Pasdar)
Not Without My Cock Ring: The JD Guckert Story “Look, Everybody—A Gay Republican! Let’s Point and Laugh and Highlight the Hypocrisy”: The Story of Jeff Gannon “8 Inches Cut:” Tales of a White House “Insider” Mr. HairlessGayManWhore Goes to Washington The Falcon and the Snowballer: The Secret Life of Jeff Gannon Baadassss: The Life and Sweet, Sweet Times of JD Guckert Lock, Stock, and Two Voracious Man Tongues Doggie-Style Day
February 16, 2005
BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY, 2
Great piece by the NRO’s Tim Graham examining this sudden desire, on the part of credentialed journalists, to shore up their club’s membership list in the wake of the Gannon dustup: Stunned by the liberal mini-tempest over Talon News reporter “Jeff Gannon” (real name: James Guckert) asking a softball question to President Bush on January 26, leaders of the White House Correspondents Association met with Bush press spokesman Scott McClellan