Ifyou remember, the great hope of the Democrats in 2003 to demolish this administration was the Plame ‘scandal.’ Read this Washington Post editorial describing the scandal, which appears to have passed away calmly while sleeping.
Archives for January 2005
Winning HEarts and Minds, Pt. 2
Charming: Mr Thammasaroj says the United States must take some of the blame for the number of casualties. He believes that if the Hawaii-based Pacific tsunami warning centre had acted quickly enough many lives could have been saved. “I’m not angry at them for failing to warn Thailand, because at that time they did not …
Winning Hearts and Minds
Some things you have to read several times in order to make sure you understood what you read. This is one: The aircraft carrier leading the U.S. military’s tsunami relief effort steamed out of Indonesian waters Wednesday because the country declined to let the ship’s fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions. Meanwhile, the …
The Daily Dump
Two new forays into stupid from Adnrew today. Here they are in order. #1.) THE FACE OF REPRESSION: Here’s a photo of an Iranian blogger, one of more than 20 detained by the theo-fascists for freedom of expression. Money quote: “My interrogator punched me in the head and stomach and kicked me in the back …
The ‘Moon’nesota Vikings
So Randy Moss pretended to moon the fans. Big deal. After every Packer victory, their fans actually moon the opposition team busses. The world has not ended. This is not a sign of the apocalypse. Yes, I preferred the way Johnny Unitas and Barry Sanders celebrated touchdowns- handing the ball to the official. But this …
Good Grief
Here we go again. In a previous post, I was jokingly pointing out to Matt that 24 was in fact a fictional series, as he seemed to be waging an argument against torture with the plot of 24 as the other end of the argument (not surprisingly, 24 was providing a pretty shitty argument for …
Armstrong Williams/CBS
I haven’t commented on the whole CBS report/Armstrong Williams affair because, well, I haven’t commented on anything in a few days. My positions: Williams- Stupid all the way around. Stupid for Williams to accept the money, stupid for the administration to offer the money. And probably illegal. This doesn’t outrage me that much, because I …