This is why I have lost all patience with the morons who think Republicans are better at “keeping us safe:”
U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack
The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, […]
One of these days someone will have to explain to me why, in the spokesmanship business, it is a golden rule that when you’re put in a really uncomfortable position, the only permitted course of action is to churn out patently obvious lies.
After Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s unprecedented last-minute refusal to attend Wednesday night’s […]
Presumably there’s a reason why George Bush – despite his abundantly documented inability to fire anyone whom he regards as a friend, no matter how badly they screw up, and no matter how severe the consequences of said screwing up – finally fired Donald Rumsfeld. Presumably the reason was that it was the only […]
Anyone who came in late (say, in the last year or so) will find this hard to credit, but once upon a time, George W. Bush, President of the United States, was also the king of the world, and strutted cockily through life, having his ass kissed dozens of times every single day.
During this phase […]
In America. In 2006. In Five Easy Steps.
Live in sin; don’t get married. If you must get married, don’t have a bachelor party. If you insist on having a bachelor party, don’t do it at a strip club. If you have to do it at a strip club, do it […]
Some of you know that Jamie and I lost our father last year. He was obviously a big influence on us, in every respect. To memorialize and celebrate his life, we’ve put together a gallery show of his photography and mine in Pittsburgh. It opens today and runs through January 7th.
For more […]
…going according to plan?
If so, time for a new plan.
Harry Reid and John Ensign are not gay. Reid thought you should know:
“He‘s a Republican, I‘m a Democrat, we work together on issues that are important to the state of Nevada. And I wish other people had the same nonaggression pact we have,” Reid told reporters. “It‘s not a ‘Brokeback Mountain‘ situation,” he added, […]
If that sounds like a line from a love song, that’s because it is. (To date myself hopelessly: Leaving On A Jet Plane, by John Denver.) The Bush administration, though, is giving meanings to that line that Denver probably never intended.
Here’s the Bush administration’s carefully considered opinion on the consequences of torture: If […]
Seymour Hersh thinks the White House lies for a living, and he’s never been shy about saying so.
In turn, the White House thinks Seymour Hersh lies for a living, and they’re not shy about saying so either. This latest salvo was occasioned by Hersh’s outrageous allegations that a classified CIA report finds “no conclusive […]
