From Powerline (via Allah*): Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake? Bill INDC contacts a forensics specialist, who thinks they are. The verdict: Dr. Bouffard called me again, and after further analysis, he says that he’s pretty certain that it’s a fake. Here’s why: * He looked through old papers he’s written, and noted that he’s come up against the inconsistency of the “4” several previous times with forgeries that
September 9, 2004
Swift Boat vets 4, the unholy alliance of Kitty Kelley and Oliver Willis, 0
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post: President Bush’s former sister-in-law denied yesterday that she had given author Kitty Kelley any information about allegations of past drug use by Bush. Sharon Bush is quoted in Kelley’s forthcoming book about the Bush family as making one of the allegations, and Kelley’s editor said in an interview Tuesday that she had provided “confirmation” for the information. But Sharon Bush, who is divorced from the president’s
September 9, 2004
Words that just sound funny, #202: lederhosen
eg. “Are those your lederhosen?” “Yes, those lederhosen belong to me.”* *Worn as part of a Halloween costume, 1988. I dressed as the St. Pauli Girl and got hit on by at least 3 of my fraternity brothers, one of whom dressed as Cleavon Little in Vanishing Point. Which, that was really freaky, man.
September 8, 2004
The Grey Lady’s little helper
Ever one to lend a hand, John Cole offers his services to the New York Times. thematic update: Liberal media bias? The hell you say!
September 8, 2004
Kerry: “I voted FOR extra war funding…before I began bashing the funding I used to be in favor of increasing”
First this, from the front page of John Kerry’s campaign website, September 8, 2004: George Bush has made the wrong choices for four years – including choosing to go it alone in Iraq without a plan to win the peace. This choice has cost us $200 billion and moved America in the wrong direction. John Kerry and John Edwards will move America in a new direction with a better plan
September 8, 2004
The ‘John Edwards is upset with the Vice President’ haiku
“I think the name Dick says all that needs saying, don’t you, swing voters…?”*
September 8, 2004
My eighth brief conversation with a McIntosh apple
apple: “So, how was New York…?” me: “Fine.” apple: ”Fine, eh? You get a chance to talk to my friend Big Apple?” me: “Briefly, yes.” apple: “He’s one enormous fucking apple, isn’t he?” me: “Yeah, I suppose.” apple: “Huge. Powerful. Sinister, even…” me: apple: “Not to be trifled with, wouldn’t you say…” me: apple: “No sir. Not my friend the Big Apple. Wouldn’t want to piss him off –” me:
September 8, 2004
Eighteenth in a series of real-time empirical observations
As you read this, 60s folkrocker David Crosby is leading a crowd of 33 UC Irvine students in a modest protest of Bush’s Iraq policy, having gathering the group into a cozy roadside “love circle,” where he regales them with stories of Judy Collins’ “well-traveled cootch” while bumming hits off some Asian chick’s “really killer weed. “No, seriously, man—this is some great shit.”
September 7, 2004
The pot calling the kettle fat and drunk on squeeze butter
In a post titled “Someone’s Gettin’ Huffy,” paid Donk shitflinger Oliver Willis puts down his mayonnaise spoon long enough to point a greasy finger at Glenn Reynolds: Check out the indignation in this [Reynold’s] post after Jeff Jarvis (rightly) called him out for amplifying right-wing trash like Scaife’s Pittsburgh paper. As one of Jeff’s commenters says of Reynolds: “He’s nothing but a whore for Bush who continues to lie about