Archive for February, 2005
It’s Official: Children Are Being Left Behind
We’re just as shocked as you are. Concluding a yearlong study on the effectiveness of President Bush’s sweeping education law, No Child Left Behind, a bipartisan panel of lawmakers drawn from many states yesterday pronounced it a flawed, convoluted and unconstitutional education reform initiative that had usurped state and local control of public schools. Quick, [...]
Bring Me the Head of John Wells…
…on a fucking pike. Was it necessary to fuck up The West Wing this badly? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Take CNN off the Air
Or at least Inside Politics. It’s bad enough that their little “we read the blogs to you” segment makes me embarrassed to even write on the internet, but on Wednesday (much like a child who is told not to stare at the sun) I returned to the scene of the crimes. The topic was the [...]
Cristal is What Brings Us Together
Dr Dre – Nas is Coming 1996 Let’s get paid Sit back and watch all these motherfuckin clowns out here riffin and beefin about this BULLSHIT Yo, heh While they doin all that we just gon’ kick back with these honies, this Cristal Hah, and party to the year 2G Related: President Bush and German [...]
Swimming With the Sharks
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” – Gordon Gekko, 1987 The following disclaimer or one like it runs on just about every bond offering, mutual fund prospectus, and investment house advertisement: “Past performance is not necessarily an indication of future returns.” Yet despite the Bush Administration’s insistence on privatizing Social Security by [...]
Paging Leatherface to the White Courtesy Phone
When flying in or out of San Francisco International Airport, there are certain things to be expected—flight delays, third-rate facilities, meager shops and the ever-present stench of bad hotdogs wafting in from the USAir concourse. But no one said anything about the chain saws. Bencomo, who formerly worked as a flight attendant, said during his [...]
Covering All The Bases
“This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table.” —President George W. Bush, going way out on a limb. Audio here, via Forager Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
What Are People From Connecticut Called Anyway?
More to the point, do we have any readers from Connecticut who would like to help us out with something? Email address is on the right. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
CNN: STFU!
(If you dislike reading about blogs as much as I dislike writing about them, feel free to skip this piece.) I’m really surprised that I haven’t learned my lesson by now. Each passing White House lie, scandal, reversal, coverup and revision should have demonstrated that the mainstream media (MSM) isn’t interested in doing real journalism, [...]
These Jobs Don’t Fill Themselves
Catch-22 (1970): Colonel Cathcart: What’s your name? Captain Major: Major, sir. Colonel Cathcart: I didn’t ask your rank, I asked your name. Captain Major: No..ah..no, sir. I’m a Captain. My..uh…my name is Major. Captain Major. Colonel Cathcart: (to Colonel Korn) Just about as clear as mud, isn’t it. Colonel Korn: (to Colonel Cathcart) That’s what [...]