This isn’t one of those “here’s what I did yesterday” type blogs, but yesterday was an important day, so I have no problem breaking with tradition.
In a show of solidarity with my downtrodden brethren in Iraq, and a tip of the hat to the administration that has provided me with so many good times, I […]
Headline of the week.
No word on whether Google News put that picture of Jacques Chirac there on purpose.
While the NYT and Google went for “cheeky,” The Boston Globe got it right: Bush notes US cultural excesses.
“There is nothing incompatible between democratic values and high standards of decency.”
Note to prospective Middle Eastern politicians: “There ought […]
It’s bad enough that people can’t tell the difference between editorials and straight news reporting, but now we’re getting sweated by 16 yr olds. Hopefully this punk is getting his opinions from an unbiased source. Unlike you people.
I don’t know about you, but I think it’s fair to say that Morrissey won’t be visiting this restaurant on any upcoming tour dates.
Too bad, because everybody knows that salad’s got nothin’ on this mutton.
(photo found by Mitch)
“The Iraqi people have their country back”, proclaimed George W. Bush in response to yesterday’s transfer of sovereignty to Iraq’s interim government. Well, not really. While it’s true that Paul Bremer is no longer calling the shots, it’s hard to call Iraq truly “sovereign” when we are still pulling so many strings:
• The multinational force […]
From a Rolling Stone roundtable:
Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware): I was in the Oval Office the other day, and the president asked me what I would do about resignations. I said, “Look, Mr. President, would I keep Rumsfeld? Absolutely not.” And I turned to Vice President Cheney, who was there, and I said, “Mr. Vice […]
Bill O’Reilly compared him to Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbles. Ann Coulter said he was a traitor. Joe Scarborough even called him a Canadian. Yet after the debut of his new film Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore seems to be having the last laugh. Initial reports indicate that the movie’s weekend take was a staggering $21.8 million, […]
If you guessed “fuck,” wrong again.
By now, you’ve seen reports of “Big Time” Dick Cheney dropping an F-bomb on the Senate floor:
“Fuck yourself.” - Dick Cheney to Senator Patrick Leahy, 6/22/04
Seems Leahy had the temerity to question Cheney’s involvement in Haliburton winning no-bid contracts in Iraq. The horror.
Luckily Leahy didn’t mention Cheney’s […]
From an interview with Irish TV:
Carole Coleman: But, Mr. President, the world is a more dangerous place today. I don’t know whether you can see that or not.
The President: Why do you say that?
Carole Coleman: There are terrorist bombings every single day. It’s now a daily event. It wasn’t like that two years ago.
The President: […]
I have incredibly mixed feelings about Michael Moore. While I enjoyed Roger and Me and Bowling for Columbine, the liberties that he took with the truth still bother me.
The subjects that he covered in those films (corporate greed and gun violence) plus Fahrenheit 9/11’s look at the administration’s reaction to terrorist attacks are all […]
