The House has folded like an ten-high broken straight, now only the Senate can save us from an imperial telecommunications industry, serving as Bush’s bulwark in the fight to eliminate individual privacy once and for all.
How can the government possibly fight the terrorisms if they don’t know what you said to your buddy on the phone last night?
Steny Hoyer, the best leadership money can buy.
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Digby says it’s time for Obama to demonstrate his leadership by reversing himself on a key Georgia race. That’s fine, but I’d rather see him clog dancing on Steny Hoyer’s face.
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Republican women, a sorry lot at best, are not exactly flocking to McCain’s banner.
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Seems like no one nowhere believed a word Rafid Ahmed Alwan had to say. No one except Dick Cheney and George Bush.
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Norm and Laurie “Blo and Go” Coleman spend so little time together, they had to use special effects to jimmy her into one of Norm’s TV commercials. Next time she’s interviewed, someone should ask her what color her kitchen curtains are. I’ve got five bucks that says she doesn’t have a clue.
And I’ll leave it at that. (I’m sure she knows what color her kids’ eyes are. Pretty sure, anyway.)
See also Rachel Stassen-Berger, who apparently didn’t notice anything hinky about Norm’s cut and paste marriage being bluescreened into the commercial.
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Draft Ciresi! has a new Facebook member. You tell me, but I think the new guy’s avatar is of a naked man with his legs (pants?) on fire.
Hard to say, but if he is indeed nekkid, that’s one hell of a pubic thatch he’s got there.
I still cannot find a single DFLer or Independent who thinks Draft Ciresi! is anything but some more of Michael Brodkorb’s asshole buddies doing yet another web fraud in the time-dishonored tradition of Nixonian ratfucking.
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Brian Lambert has more on that new MPR acquisition and the membership flogging that goes with it.
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Bob Collins eulogizes Janet Christine Dietrich, who, were it not for sexist knuckleheads at NASA, would have been the first woman in space.
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The Curmudgeon rips on Russert coverage, Franken, and Bush, in that order. [print, not audio]
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Turns out the “porno judge” seems to have gotten a phony rap from unscrupulous media who radically distorted a few key facts.
The L.A. Times owes a HUGE apology to this judge. Let’s see if they have enough pride in their product to actually correct the record. So far, only a few bloggers and their readers even know there’s another side to this story.
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Crazed morons at Worldnutdaily link to Ed Brayton but only after staying up all night typing one-handed love letters to the Bush administration.
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If you’re using Firefox 3, try typing “about:robots” (no quote marks) into your browser URL selector.
And yes, I mean you Denny. This one is worth the download.
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Brian Eno and friends made some predictions about the future back in ‘93. How accurate were they?
KEVIN KELLY:
* Nobody wants to be a doctor. It becomes an over-whelming bureaucratic job with low status. Women and minorities become working doctors; men do medical research.
* People begin leaving the U.S. Many arrivals to the US keep resident status but choose not to adopt citizenship. The world sees more people without allegiance.
* It costs half a day’s pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city, and a day’s wages to park.
* No more employees. Everybody is hired as a consultant, each negotiates a deal with various goodies (benefits, insurance, perks). Even factory workers are treated as “consultants.”
BRIAN ENO:
* Video phones inspire a new sexual revolution whereby everybody sits at home doing rude things electronically with everyone else. Productivity slumps; video screens get bigger and bigger.
* 2010 AD: California elects the first transsexual governor. All public toilets are redesigned at great expense.
* A new kind of holiday becomes popular: you are dropped by helicopter in an unknown place, with two weeks’ supply of food and water. You are assured that you will not see anyone else in this time. There is a panic button just in case.
* A new profession, meme-inspector, comes into being.
* A highly successful new magazine — Ordinary People, edited by the nonagenarian Studs Terkel — focuses only on people who have never done anything in particular to deserve attention.
* News is understood to be a creation of our attention and interests (rather than “the truth”) and news shows are redesigned as “thinktanks,” where four interesting minds from different disciplines are asked the question, “So what do YOU think happened today?”
* Later, four uninteresting minds (chosen from the pages of Ordinary People magazine) are asked the same questions.
There are scads more, but these are the only ones that even came close to being right.
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[...] by Senator Coleman’s campaign yesterday. Blue man in a Red district, MN Blue, MN Publius, The Mississippifarian, and Minnesota Independent to name a few, all strongly raised the possibility that Mrs. Coleman [...]
A sad post, actually. Team Coleman says no, both parents were actually in that kitchen. They cleverly avoid saying they were in that kitchen at the same time, however, and go out of their way to avoid denying the use of a greenscreen.
And I’m sympathetic. Daddy lives in DC, mommy’s in L.A., and the kids are here in St. Paul. No campaign ever had greater need for a greenscreen.