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
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
February 16, 2005
I’ll admit it: [with Howard Kurtz update]
I get a little tingle in my bad place when Glenn takes time out to poke some overmatched Kossack with the irony stick. **** update: A NATION CAN’T TRULY BE FREE UNTIL PICTURES OF “JEFF GANNON” GOING PEE PEE HAVE BEEN PLASTERED ALL OVER THE INTERNET! **** update 2: BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!* **** update 3: Intrepid Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz, the man who went out of his
February 16, 2005
Eason Jordan shares an amusing anecdote with some of his former big media colleagues
Jordan: “…and then, just as I’m about to pay my little Iraqi ‘escort’ her 4000 dinars –” Howell Raines: “— let me guess: a US Marine sniper takes a shot at you and misses, but manages to kill 2 German reporters and an Al-Jazeera camera man.” Jordan: “No. The little bitch grabs my Pentax Optio S5i and takes off running. And that wasn’t very funny, Howell.” Dan Rather: “Oh, c’mon,