Me: “So, did you see where Bob Novak stormed off the set of CNN’s Inside Politics today?” Karl Rove’s breakfast burrito: “Didn’t catch that, no.” Me: “Yep. Cursed at James Carville, took off his mic, and left the soundstage in a bit of a huff.”* Karl Rove’s breakfast burrito: “How unfortunate.”* Me: “CNN suspended him almost immediately. And now, John Aravosis at AmericaBlog is floating the theory that Novak’s meltdown,
August 4, 2005
August 4, 2005
A brief message from John Bolton’s mustache, “Regis”, to the Ambassador from Cameroon, who thinks he’s being tactful but really is not
Stop staring already, would you? Jesus—you’d think you were raised in a barn or something.
August 4, 2005
Amnesty International: “US torturing detainees in secret locations”
From ABC News Online: Amnesty International has accused the United States of complicity in the torture and detention of terrorism suspects in secret locations around the world. In a report to be released later today, Amnesty International details the stories of two Yemeni men who were both tortured for four days in Jordan before spending 18 months in secret detention. Amnesty says the men are still being held in prison
August 4, 2005
Film reviews in five words or less, #28
Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane (1998) Directed by Joe Carnahan. Stars Joe Carnahan, Dan Leis, Ken Rudolph, and Dan Harlan. Film reviews in five words or less: Blood, Guts, Bullets & CompletelyderivativeofTarantinobutneverthelessenjoyableforalowbudgeteffort
August 4, 2005
Cave paintings (or, rhetoric probably DOES matter, but so what? SOLDIERS ARE DYING!)
Anybody else find it curious that Ayman Al-Zawahri, one of the leaders of a medievalist death cult bent on reestablishing the caliphate and spreading Shari’a law at the tip of a sword, is on tape talking about a “war for oil” and likening the US campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq to Vietnam? I mean, you’d think he’d be more interested in, say, Andalusia and the Crusades. Not that I’m suggesting
August 4, 2005
9 OTHER “standard background check” investigations the New York Times is actively pursuing on SCOTUS nominee John Roberts, Jr and his family
The father of Passion of the Christ filmmaker Mel Gibson, Hutton Gibson, famously claimed that the Holocaust was exaggerated—that many of the 6 million Jews supposedly exterminated by the Germans had in actuality simply fled Europe for countries like Australia and the US. Has John Roberts seen the Passion of the Christ? If so, how does he explain his vile anti-semitism? If not, why has he forsaken his God? Conservatives,
August 4, 2005
Happy coincidences
**** Story: Al Qaeda Threatens Britain; see also, “House probes possible perjury”
August 4, 2005
Honestly?
…The title has me a little concerned. But only because I know firsthand what naughty girls Eleanor Clift and Susan Estridge can be after a few drinks.