…though I have to admit I wouldn’t mind seeing somebody give O’Reilly a good spanking. And not over the phone this time, either.
March 2005
March 3, 2005
University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor and anti-American firebrand Ward Churchill and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss free speech and the pitfalls of being a pseudo-Indian in America today
“200 professors at CU have stood up, Billy. They’ve stood up and been counted and have made clear that they recognize that this whole controversy has never been about anything other than an attempt to chill speech that is unpopular with the criminal right-wing establisment and its soulless lackeys. To try to make this about anything else—my heritage, my scholarship, my art—is yet further proof of the systemic undermining of
March 3, 2005
Junk Activism
From Ronald Bailey’s “Attack of the Killer Crops,” Reason, March 2: Activists are again trying to frighten poor people in developing countries by claiming the U.S. is poisoning them with genetically modified food. Never mind that 280 million Americans have been eating biotech-enhanced crops for nearly a decade with zero evidence that it has caused anyone so much as a sniffle or a bellyache. Friends of the Earth tested samples
March 3, 2005
BREAKING: STILL DEFIANT, FOX NEWS WASHINGTON EDITOR BRIT HUME BRUSHES OFF CONTINUED PRESSURE FROM LEFT-WING MEDIA WATCHDOG GROUPS TO RESIGN AND INSTEAD SPENDS THURSDAY MORNING DRINKING COFFEE AND DOING THE USA TODAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ON THE DUMPER; A FRUSTRATED OLIVER WILLIS DEMANDS TO KNOW IF THERE WERE DONUTS INVOLVED
Meanwhile, in news that really should concern media watchdogs—on both the left AND the right—Redstate’s Mike Krempasky points to this CNET interview with FEC commisioner Bradley Smith, which suggests the FEC may soon attempt to regulate blogging and other internet activity: In just a few months, [Smith] warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign’s Web site. Even
March 3, 2005
Overheard inside a Ramadi bunker, Wednesday, March 2
First militant: “Tell me, Hassan—are we in danger of being on the wrong side of history?—that is, fighting for a way of life that is no longer desired by the vast majority of our own people?” Second militant: “Ah. But it is not for the people to decide how to live, Tamir. It is for Allah to decide.” First militant: “I see. So then what are the chances of Allah
March 2, 2005
My seventh brief conversation with Senator Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) Grand Kleagle hood
me: “You following the latest kerfuffle started by your boy Senator Cracker?”* hood: me: “This time, the esteemed gentleman from West Virginia compared the Republicans’ efforts to circumvent a Democratic-led filibuster of federal judges to the tactics of Hitler and the Nazis…”* hood: me: “…though in his defense, I don’t think he really expects Bill Frist to shove Barney Frank or Joe Lieberman into a large convection oven…” hood: me:
March 2, 2005
Random Alan Colmes fantasy, Wednesday, March 2, 2:49 PM EST
…sure, I can go as many times as you want, Ann. Only this time, instead of screaming my name, I want you to scream, ‘kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity, bitch…!’
March 2, 2005
Wonder Twins power: ACTIVATE…?
Bill INDC examines inherent areas of conflict between social conservatives and Bush foreign policy-supporting centrists and libertarians who have joined, for the time being, in a tenuous voting alliance. Bill’s concern is that social conservatives are interpreting recent Republican electoral successes as a mandate to push their social agenda (which, of course, is natural)—but that in so doing, these social cons are, often quite arrogantly, dismissing and alienating an important
Shannon Elizabeth comments on the potential shift in US policy that would seek to prevent Iran from continuing its Uranium enrichment program by offering economic incentives
Elizabeth: “Well, I don’t know much about that. But I can tell you that a good Persian rug is like, really, really expensive.”* **** update: “Sometimes? I like to lie naked on a rug and just think of myself lying naked on a rug. Is that crazy…?”