by matt
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, someone ask […]
by matt
…on a fucking pike.
Was it necessary to fuck up The West Wing this badly?
by matt
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 […]
by matt
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 Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder sit back, riff and beef about […]
by matt
“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 diverting payroll taxes […]
by Jason
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 two years […]
by Jason
“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
by matt
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.
by matt
(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, […]
by matt
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 it’s […]