Somehow this new plot development doesn’t quite ring quite so true 43 years after Stan Lee wrote and Jack Kirby drew this story about Iron Man in Vietnam.
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Amazing Tales of Yesteryear
Whole lotta news
Way, way, way too much information out there today. Here are some catch-up links:
The big news was a Bush-appointed judge telling the administration that their claims of executive privilege were bullshit. Glenn Greenwald does his usual detailed examination of the ruling, David Kurtz has some quotes from the judge’s ruling, and Steve Benen looks at [...]
Debunking myself (& then cutting myself some slack)
It’s really dark outside this morning. I blame global warming.
I hope you detected a hint of bitterness there. Yesterday I had to spend some time with a young guy who doesn’t believe in global warming, elections or much of anything at all. Where, I asked him, did he get his information? Talk radio he replied.
The [...]
Lies, and the lying liars
However much Al Franken’s wit has gotten him into trouble, he’s also given us the tagline for the Bush administration’s wrap-up of the last quarter-century of so-called conservative politics. They lied. They lied and lied and lied. Our news has been dominated by the lies told by lying liars and now, John McCain is clearly [...]
NY media looks at Al
Via Rachel Stassen-Berger at the Pi-Press, I just read a NY Observer article on Al Franken.
It’s refreshing to see a NY-based publication that’s mature enough to look past the hype to the WTF? aspect of the Franken campaign, which I’m coming to see as the ultimate expression of DFL incompetence.
No excerpt as this is a [...]
Readers, links; links, readers
Finally Congress joins the rest of American in holding Karl Rove in contempt. Maybe that will generate some news so the networks won’t feel obliged to keep running McCain’s lies about Landstuhl.
For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a [...]
More muddled thinking from a mud person
Shorter Katherine Kersten: Who the fuck knows what she’s trying to say today, other than some mud she’s throwing that seems to imply that the continued white on black racism at the top in the Minneapolis Police Department somehow proves that the old “black guard’s” day has passed and it’s time for younger, more conciliatory [...]
For the sake of freedom everywhere
“But for the sake of freedom everywhere, I dare not lose!”
I saw this and kept getting a psychic flash that this is the mantra Commander Codpiece recited to himself each morning of the 2004 campaign.
And that Pepper, gosh, what a gal. “NO!! My life doesn’t matter! Defeat him — you must!” Aside from the strange [...]
Ted Stevens indicted on 7 criminal counts!
No details yet but the spin has already started.
I suspect the Alaska GOP is better off with a new candidate, ideally some pro-marijuana iconoclast with a libertarian streak to match Alaskan attitudes.
UPDATE: More spin from brownsox.
Links n stuff (light on stuff, heavy on links)
I was a jerk to some guy on the phone this morning. He called and asked me if I took credit cards. I told him no, that I was no longer a business and that he was working from old turf. He said no, he got the number from the new Yellow Book.
After I hung [...]
