Trenchant analysis regarding Washoe/Helen Thomas: Lately it seems it’s not a complete post unless I include some of the ugliness coming out of the hard right, and ugly is exactly the word for this misogynist post from Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom. I can understand not liking reporters who make your favorite politicians look like the chumps they are, but Helen Thomas isn’t a grandstanding ass like Russert or Matthews,

This is the first in a series of posts discussing common misconceptions.  However, since I only have one other misconception in mind to discuss, this may be a very short series. How often does one hear the phrase, “Doing the jobs Americans won’t do,” bandied about in the MSM?  How many people out there believe that is a correct statement?  Show of hands?  Those of you with your hands up,

Stephen Rittenberg has a wonderful post up at Horsefeathers in which he discusses the dangers posed by “wordsmith intellectuals,” as he calls them. He draws a line from the intellectuals of the 19th Century, through Stalin/Hitler apologist H.G. Wells, right up to today’s apologists for muslim fanatics. Here are a couple of particularly trenchant passages: Our wordsmith utopians disavow their own aggression. They feel, they care, they empathize, they are

OMAHA, Neb. – A female teacher and a 13-year-old boy believed to be on the run may have crossed the California border into Mexico, a police investigator said Friday.Paul Schwarz of the Lexington Police Department in Nebraska said the white Pontiac owned by 25-year-old Kelsey Peterson crossed into Mexico around 11 p.m. on Tuesday.Peterson, a sixth-grade math teacher and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School, fled with the boy after

Ewwww:  Blue Shield screws Kos.  Kos of the DailyKos blog lets fly at Blue Shield for the nightmarish, deceptive way that they’ve dealt with him. After lying to him and to the Anesthesiologist who helped his wife give birth for months on end Give that woman a medal! about payment of a claim, they’ve invented a new lie and used it as the basis for not paying the claim, even

Juan Cole: I don’t try to start an internet campaign very often, because the blogosphere has its own priorities and logic that are democratic and should not be forced. But here is a plea for everyone in the blogging world to help force congress to save our diplomats. Bush is trying to Shanghai several hundred foreign service officers and force them to go to Iraq. They are protesting. Now is

Has further thoughts on marriage (of men and women), at Eternity Road.

I know these scabs, see (they won’t pick it, har har har). Jeff Goldstein and IowaHawk and Ace and Ott and Treacher and Frank J, for starters. These guys are great, they’re fast, they’re desperately broke, and they’re certain to remain true to your artistic vision. Whaddya say? I mean, how wrong could you go, right? Breaking: Boylan apologizes to Gleen(s) (h/t dittybopper) Hosejob. Protein Wisdom out of 2007 Weblog