Garrett: “I am so down with that. In fact, I’ve been trying to get some friends of mine in Van Nuys to put together a grassroots campaign calling for a ban on the totally un-nice term ‘felony drug offender.’ I’m thinking something like, ‘dudes who are so into living life that they’re willing to defy the Fascist State’—though I’m not married to it. “Plus, I’m having a hard time getting
February 28, 2007
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on efforts by a Florida Democratic legislator to ban the term “alien” to refer to “undocumented immigrants”
Point and Counterpoint [Dan Collins]
Pandagon: Al Gore’s Entitled to His Enormous Eco-Footprint Because of the Good He Does Ecotality: What A Gargantuan Hose Job Forget Gorbacle. It’s Whoracle. WARNING: Reading the comments to the first of these posts can make you dumber Also, a PLEA FOR HELP from this post on Jeff’s HOA: PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!I been having trouble with this old lady because when i fiirst moved in i didnt put my
Academic Freedom?
Writing at Townhall, Mike Adams, a professor of criminology at UNC-Wilmington, reports on an associate professor at Kent State who is admittedly—and actively — supporting the jihadi movement: Yesterday afternoon, I logged on to the “Global War†blog of Associate Professor Julio Pino—a Muslim convert who teaches at Kent State University. The heading for the site used to read “The Worldwide Web of Jihad: Daily News from the Most Dangerous
Important Immediate Urgent Action Alert [Dan Collins]
Today, February 28 at 2 PM eastern time, Heading Left’s Blog Talk Radio show will feature Lindsay Beyerstein (author of the Salon Magazine article, “Why I refused to blog for Edwards”) and yours truly (Lowell Feld, former Webb for Senate netroots coordinator) in a discussion of the role of bloggers on campaigns. Hosts are James Boyce and Nate Wilcox of Heading Left. Check it out! If you’re in NYC, please
Mystery Bloggers Reach Consensus on Substandard Practices [Dan Collins]
At Wuzzadem. One of them looked familiar. I just can’t place my finger on it. NOTE: I’d go after Mystery Blogger(s), too, but I said what I have to say at the moment in previous posts and at the comments to this approving citation of GG at Reason. Here was a discussion of one of my posts regarding Marcotte at Crooked Timber. In the comments you’ll see that I’m taken
Jim Treacher, Media Slut [Dan Collins]
If Boehlert’s comments regarding Malkin, below, were written about someone from the left, undoubtedly we’d see the kinds of dismissal that we did with Marcotte: namely, that any sniping was simply a matter of jealousy, rather than any principled disagreement. Ridiculous. So I hope that you won’t feel that I’m just jealous of Jim Treacher. Although I’d run into Treacher’s writings once or twice while surfing, before, it was his
Boehlert on WaPo’s Crush on Rightie Bloggers [Dan Collins]
Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert has a long, well-written and wrongheaded whine about the WaPo paying attention to the likes of Michelle Malkin, whilst ignoring such luminaries as Glenn Greenwald. So, impeccable timing. Why does the WaPo find rightie bloggers more interesting, apparently? Well, if I were to guess, their fascination may stem from the fact that such people hold positions that are at variance with those commonly held at the
A Quick One Before I Fall Asleep [Karl]
The Bush Administration has agreed to join high-level talks sought by Iraq with Iran and Syria on the future of Iraq. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Armed Service Cmte—last seen pushing an amendment to the AUMF to exclude combat missions in Iraq—wants to know our plan for stopping Iran and Syria from arming terrorists and militias. It’s even on video. Do you think this has anything to do
protein wisdom invites you to end your day with the textual referent to the soothing sounds of crickets
chirp… chirp… chirp… chirp… chirp…
