“Sandee” the escort:  “Listen, pal.  Just because your wee little staffer didn’t, y’know—stand up to vote, doesn’t mean I ‘exaggerated’ my claims or ‘lied’ about the effectiveness of my services.  ”Jesus.  Don’t you people take responsibility for anything…?”*

For those of you interested, Glenn Greenwald has responded to my long post yesterday on patriotism and the Democratic attack on the Bush administration.  I don’t have time today to go through his argument at any length, so I’ll just respond briefly. 1) Greenwald continues to argue that neither Phase I of the Roberts investigation nor the Robb-Silberman investigation proves Bushco didn’t lie (as Howard Dean is publically asserting) or

Via WVLT: The atheist who’s spent years trying to ban recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools says he’ll file a new lawsuit this week. Michael Newdow says he’ll ask a federal court to order removal of the national motto “In God We Trust” from U-S coins and currency. He says it violates the religious rights of atheists who belong to his “First Amendment Church of True Science.”

From the Independent UK: The New York Times has published allegations that Iran is attempting to build a nuclear warhead. The claims come less than two weeks before a decision by the UN nuclear watchdog on whether to report Tehran to the Security Council over its suspected weapons programme. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman dismissed the report as an attempt to step up pressure on Tehran before the International Atomic

Yesterday, in response to a post by Glenn Greenwald seeking to compare GOP attacks on Bill Clinton to the current Democratic charges against President Bush over pre-war intelligence, I offered the following rejoinder in Glenn’s comments: Several things. 1) You forgot to mention that [John] McCain and the

From The Hill, Nov 6 2003:  “Here is the full text of the memo from the office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) on setting a strategy for pursuing an independent investigation of pre-war White House intelligence dealings on Iraq”: We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows: 1) Pull the majority along as far as we

1.  Thanks so much to Donald McEwan for A Fish Called Wanda, Popeye, and The Man from Snowy River on DVD.  Should make for a great weekend. 2.  Mark Moore wants help in finding these Magnificent Seven. 3.  “Liberals are Unpatriotic,” from retired Navy SEAL Matthew Heidt of Froggy Ruminations.  The opening salvo: Oh yeah, you read that correctly. All you liberals out there that would rather score political points

—Yeah, yeah, I know.  But if it’s dancing you want, you should have been here earlier—like, just after the Bush speech this morning, when the little guy fixed himself an ice cold pitcher of gin and juice, dropped an old cardboard refrigerator box in the middle of the living room floor, and breakdanced himself into a whirling, shelled frenzy! Unfortunately, six drinks and a half-hour later, all the poor bastard