Please see Ken’s comments here.
Money quote: “I do not say the VA system is perfect but it is certainly being run better on a $39B budget than the Pentagon is running on $494B.”
If you’re interested in the real inside view of issues affecting the military, his blog is a good resource. There’s a link there to his SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) website as well.
LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN EXPLAINS WHY SHE TURNED DOWN THE EDWARDS-BLOGGING JOB THAT BROUGHT DOWN THE WRATH OF THE PATRIARCHY ON AMANDA MARCOTTE
But how was the baklava?
Wonder what victim of “right-wing smear machine” Marcotte thinks about this?
Desperately Seeking Jamilli Vanilli
Save the Earth, beginning with Cranky’s yard
Here we heap scorn, and there, it seems, they pour it, but is there enough?
How to kick yourself in the goracles.
Lindsey’s description of Marcotte being the best writer of a feminist blog was like saying that Amanda’s the finest opera singer in Finland.
Noteworthy.
In Finland.
“Scalping”? You guys have been playing a game called “scalping” and nobody told me? This really pisses me off, I thought we were friends.
Ask scalpuccino, B Moe
It’s true.
I call it ‘scalping’.
Notice, though, that Lindsay says that the Netroots Left is capable of more kinds of collective political action than the right.
Lindssay does not claim that the Netroots does not use ‘scalping’ too. As Messers Domenech and Guckert can attest.
They,
That’s kind of the least of her special pleading in that piece, though it did make me raise an eyebrow the first time through.
wow, so that’s what reality looks like. huh. I think I’ll pass, thanks.
It is a pretty amazing article, you could spend a week studying it. The thing that amuses me about the whole deal, is the idea that a Democrat campaign knuckled under to someone considered extreme even by most Republicans. Why the hell do they care whether they have Donahue’s support? Given what little bit I know of him, I would wear his disdain as a badge of honor.
I also think it is hilarious that after years of ridiculing Michelle, they scurry back home like frightened little girls after getting just a taste of the vitriol she has been dealing with her entire careet. Speak truth to power my ass.
A careet is almost exactly like a career, by the way.
B Moe, my favorite/most amusing aspect to it is that the “left side of the blogosphere” isn’t as well organized or financed. for some reason the name George Soros kept popping into my head. also, we need to come up with a name as snazzy as Drink Liberally.
Snort Conservatively?
maggie, the terms Eschacon and Yearly Kos just popped into my head. Coinkydink?
I almost made another comment to mention those Pablo. so, um, I guess if we find a third, then no, no coinkydink. is there a righty parallel?
How about the PW Pie Fest? On second thought, that sounds kinda gross.
Drink Responsibly?
also, we need to come up with a name as snazzy as Drink Liberally.
Shit faced?
I’m thinking something with “imbibe”. righteously?
The Obliterighties.
“Imbibe Impeccably.”
Or, at the end of the evening, “Impeck Imbibeably.”
I’m sorry, but Amanda is old news to me.
What I want to know is, how does the poster boy for Downe’s Syndrome win an Academy Award? (If that’s what he won).
The major award there should be for having long enough arms to pat yourself on the back. I did enough Hollywood in the 70’s to know that there is nothing but horrifically fucked up children drowning in major pain there.
That said, Michelle Trachtenberg(?) has been known to get the ancient juices flowing…
Uh Dan?
I’ve been a little late to the party, and in deference to JeffG I didn’t post ‘em here (I know he wants the issues with the two characters to die)
but I created a couple of photoshops here … one being the second in the Please Drink Irresponsibly series.
:-D
Drink (hic) Period.
Quaff Righteously!
Not to be confused with queef, NTTAWWT.
Wasn’t there something about a “townhouse”?