More nuance from John Kerry: COSTAS: If you had been elected president last November, by this point what would President John Kerry have done in Iraq? KERRY: Well, I laid out — you know, I don’t want to get in — I mean, I think that’s not quite the way to go at it. He …
Archives for June 2005
Damned Liberal Media
Sometimes I read something and I have to re-read it several times to let it sink in. This is one of those times: Several Senate Republicans denounced other lawmakers and the news media on Thursday for unfavorable depictions of the Iraq war and the Pentagon urged members of Congress to talk up military service to …
Mainstream News
Because this is now a respectable web magazine, it is my obligation to keep you as informed as the mainstream media. That is why they have all that privilege stuff, right? At any rate, here goes with the hard hitting news that makes my opinion really count: 1.) Sharks are predatory animals that eat meat. …
Just looking Out For God
My new favorite idiot is in the news again, and he isn’t taking the Supreme Court decisions well: A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that it’s OK for the government to display the Ten Commandments if the intent is secular, but it is unconstitutional if the monument’s purpose is solely religious. Many …
Damnit
Terrible news: Sixteen bodies have been found at the crash site of a US military helicopter in eastern Afghanistan and some were Special Forces, a top US general said. Lieutenant General James Conway told a Defense Department briefing that 16 bodies had been retrieved from the site where the Chinook military helicopter crashed on Tuesday …
Blogger My Ass, I’m Respectable
I regret to inform you that as of right now, Balloon Juice is no longer a weblog. This is now a web magazine: Atrios asks some good questions about the FEC’s proposed regulations on bloggers : Why is somebody who prints up and mails out weekly vanity newsletter entitled to the media exemption but not …
Wrong, Oliver
I am not going to get involved in a long discussion over whether or not this administration is poll-driven or not (all administrations are to some extent, and that is pretty much Rove’s job- or at least it used to be), but Oliver is mistaken about this: The right has had a lot of fun …