So you don’t have to.  And watch . . . I’m going to do it really hard! S.F. Mayor Seeks Alcohol Counseling Next time I spend the month’s mortgage on a new computer, I’m checking into rehab, baby! Newsom last week acknowledged a sexual relationship with former secretary Ruby Rippey-Tourk, the wife of his now-former campaign manager, Alex Tourk. Why is that so funny?  I suspect it’s something deeply infantile,

Tom Watson (the blogger, not the golfer) mentions me as a woman hater (h/t Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom) for my characterization of Amanda Marcotte as a “delusional bitch,” which analysis I defend in the comments.  Meanwhile, James Wolcott of Vanity Fair links approvingly to him for comments regarding not Amanda, but Hillary.  As Watson also points out, Danny Glover of Beltway Blogroll took his suppositions about vanished Pandagon material

In David Carr’s “The Media Equation” piece from today’s NYT, he brings scrutiny to bear on Michael Bob Novak, whose blithe article on Niger triggered the Plame debacle.  Carr rightly observes that Washington insiders and journalists are agog at the fact that Novak seems to be waltzing through the fallout unscathed: “He is like Typhoid Mary,” Edward Wasserman, a professor of journalism at Washington and Lee University, said of Mr.

Frequent commenter timmyb (née “neoconsstink”), a persistent “progressive” voice (and so I imagine, a recent convert to the foreign policy realism of Nixon and Kissinger and James Baker and GHW Bush), takes issue with my implied critique of that particular foreign policy posture—a posture, I should point out, that has prevented me, in years past, from supporting Republicans (Reagan, a former Democrat and an idealist being one exception; the other

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Bob Owens emails that the surge strategy is now officially underway in Iraq—even as opportunistic Senators weigh whether or not to undercut any actual attempt to stabilize the security situation by voting for a non-binding resolution meant to express, ostentatiously, their unhappiness with a war they seem to think can’t be won…because of our inability to stabilize the security situation. For more on the surge, see Mudville Gazette, or listen

…provided by “embed” “Bill Ardolino,” who will do anything, it seems, to prop up our imperialist war machine, including the penning of hamhanded “essays” (complete with “pictures”) clearly intended to rehabilitate and “humanize” Iraqis (who we all know by now are simply Mesopotamian barbarians for whom it is fashionable these days to show our liberal “concern” by suggesting we let them tear at each other’s throats like the wild curs

Nostradumbass. Oxfraud. More Stockholm Syndrome. Thank God someone else has picked up on this. Jackie Danicki’s been mugged, after being assaulted on the tube last month.  h/t Jim Treacher, who still blogs here, just in case one of us might like to, y’know, visit him some time. I do believe Danicki’s account in both instances, even though the handbag in question was Prada, but that is likely only because she’s

“Two cars parked on the overpass, Rocks hit the water like broken glass I should have known right then it was too good to last God, its such a drag when youre livin in the past” A life I never lived, a past I never had, yet I miss it. Answer ghosted here->“Even the Losers,” Tom Petty

Da Bears woulda won it if you hadn’t have taken on PW, Christopher Ross of Waking teh Giant! God hates teh Rex Grossman!!11! You are a traitor and an ally to the Flatlanders!  I am running out to Jiffy Mart to buy more rock salt for the wounds!