Search






Jeff's Amazon.com Wish List

Archive Calendar

Archives

April 11, 2008

I've Grown Accustomed to Her Farce [Dan Collins]

I’ve grown accustomed to her farce She’s posting when the day begins I’ve grown accustomed to the crap she tosses on my lap Her :-), her :-(, her ups, her downs Are second nature to me now Like breathing out and breathing in I was serenely on the topic And content, before we met Surely I could always be that way again, and yet I’ve grown accustomed to her txt Accustomed to

Waiter! There's Ricin in My Rice [Dan Collins]

The thwarting of an alarming terror plot was cleared for publication on Thursday, almost three weeks after a joint Shin Bet and police operation led to the arrest of two Palestinian employees of the ‘Grill Express’ restaurant in Ramat Gan. The men, Eihab Abu Rial and Anas Salum, both 21-year-old residents of the West Bank city of Nablus, had planned to lace dishes served at the establishment with a powerful

GOP 2008: The McCain disorganization? [Karl]

As someone who has stressed the under-covered role of organization in most campaign coverage, I recommend the latest from Jason Zengerle at TNR, tracing the fall and rise of John McCain’s campaign through the lens of organization and the infighting of his closest advisers, primarily John Weaver and Rick Davis. The quick overview is that Weaver brought Davis into McCain’s 2000 campaign to run the campaign’s administration, while Weaver handled strategy — but

More of the Wright stuff [Karl]

Just to keep up to date, the noxious Rev. Jeremiah Wright will speak at the Detroit branch of the NAACP 53rd Annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner.  I would have jumped on this one yesterday, but given that NAACP chair Julian Bond has compared the GOP to the Taliban, given an award to someone who called Condoleeza Rice a murderer, and engaged in bizarre conspiracy theories about Hurricane Katrina, it is far