There’s a really funny series of scenes in the 1994 movie Reality Bites where Winona Ryder’s character Lelaina sabotages her TV host boss by writing off-color lines on his cue cards, including one that prompts him to blurt out: “Personally, I’ve always had an odd preference…for very, very young girls.” Lelaina, of course gets […]
by Matt Stoller at MyDD. I’m organizing my thoughts about ‘08 and will have something as time permits.
Now that Rumsfeld is virtually gone, who will take over the title that falls vacant—the cabinet secretary who regularly spouts the most nonsense? My personal favorite is Michael Chertoff, our much admired and much loved Homeland secretary.
Like Rumsfeld, he commands an admirable range, going effortlessly from gobbledygook (the rightly famous “to enhance and expand […]
Very rarely indeed do I post something where the entire post consists of a newspaper or wire service quote. But this AP story by Andrew O. Selsky truly needs no comment or amplification:
The Pentagon called them “among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth,” sweeping them up after Sept. […]
We have been following the work of author/investigative journalist Peter Lance since the spectacular 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE was released in 2003. If you haven’t read it (or its follow up COVER UP), we highly recommend that you catch up. We’ve previously interviewed Lance upon the publication of 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE here […]
The tragedy of Iraq is perfectly obvious, and perfectly simple, but I just realized that I’ve never actually expressed it in so many words.
The tragedy of Iraq is that the civilians who have been in charge of the war so far (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld) have steadfastly refused to admit – to others certainly, to themselves […]
Could this be why the war on Iraq was so thoroughly buggered up? Donald Rumsfeld, who used to kind of preside over the war, has some really strange notions about this war. Here’s one that he revealed only recently, in a post-termination interview with syndicated columnist Cal Thomas:
CT: With what you know now, […]
Okay, boys and girls, children of all ages. Pick up those pencils. Here’s the question: “How much has the national debt increased under President George W. Bush?”
You can give yourself full marks if you said either “More than three trillion dollars” or “By more than 50%”.
It is now “$8.648 trillion, up from $5.63 trillion […]
Somehow the Bush propaganda machine had everyone convinced that the much ballyhooed New Iraq Policy would be unveiled by the Marketer-in-chief in a Major Speech before Christmas. So today all kinds of bloggers are running stories like this one:
Just last week, Bush administration officials were saying that they “tentatively expected” the president to announce […]
President Bush after his loudly trumpeted meeting with “Senior State Department Officials on Iraq”:
I’m looking forward to continuing my deliberations with the military. There’s no question we’ve got to make sure that the State Department and the Defense Department are — the efforts and their recommendations are closely coordinated so that when I do […]
