“Beginning very soon after the attacks of 9/11, President Bush made a decision to start mentioning Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the same breath in a cynical mantra designed to fuse them together as one in the public’s mind,” Gore said in a speech at Georgetown University Law Center. […] He said Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney continue to argue for a connection between bin Laden’s al
June 24, 2004
Scenes from my driveway, continued x 24
Deadbeat neighbor: “I got no problems with this economy.” Me: “No?” Deadbeat neighbor: “No. No idea what this Kerry fellow is yammering on about.” Me: “Well, good for you.” Deadbeat neighbor: “Yep. Seems those tax cuts really did the trick, eh?” Me: “That’s what they tell me, yeah. So wait…does this mean you’ll be buying your own newspapers from here on out?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Oh, well, I rather doubt that.
June 24, 2004
Cheney: “We’ve unconvered so many Iraq-Al Qaeda connections I’m tempted to call Iraq Al-Qaedaland
Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday [in an exclusive interview with Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes] that suggestions the former Iraqi regime did not have a relationship with al Qaeda are “not accurate,” and said he would like to see the U.S. government declassify some of the intelligence that supports Bush administration claims about an Iraq-al Qaeda connection. “I think we should declassify as much as we can,” Cheney said in
June 24, 2004
Atkins hesitation, 6
Thursday’s menu features bacon-wrapped gristle brushed with melted butter and sprinkled with bacon slivers, served over a bed of wilted spinach, Roquefort cheese, and thick-cut ham spirals. With a side of steamed cauliflower and two lemon wedges. For dessert: Irvine, California. …Which to me sounds a bit heavy for a summer day, but hey, who’s the expert here, right?
June 24, 2004
Misdirection
Al Qaeda terrorists with no connection to Iraq killed at least 85 in Iraq on Thursday, prompting Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) to remark to an aide just outside the Senate chambers, “have one of them little negro boys bring me a tuna salad sandwich, y’hear? On wheat, toasted. And some corn chips. And a sodee-pop with lots of ice.”
June 24, 2004
A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (sixteenth in a series)
The Fever Monument 6′ Submarine Sandwich Monument I walked across the park to the fever monument. I walked across the park to the 6′ submarine sandwich monument. It was in the center of a glass square surrounded by red flowers and fountains. The monument was in the shape of a sea horse and the plaque read We got hot and died. was in the shape of a 6′ submarine sandwich and
June 24, 2004
Had a love child with one of his mistresses, is always threatening to sue big companies for racial d
Jesse who’s this now? Sorry, never heard of the guy.
June 23, 2004
Slouching toward dementia (or, my scissors speak to me)
A Hot Pockets coupon? Dude, you haven’t bought Hot Pockets in, like, ten years. Now quit fucking around and point me toward the fat-free Miracle Whip.
June 23, 2004
From the department of “it must really suck to be Dave Winer right about now”…
…comes this bit of breaking news, courtesy Gerard Van der Leun.
June 23, 2004
Another moment of unabashed pragmatism
I can delete this post any time I want. But I’ll need a good reason.