Monday, August 31, 2009

He makes the bullshit run on time

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Saw the cover of Glenn Beck’s forthcoming book on some blog this morning, had to check on Amazon.com that it wasn’t photoshopped. It wasn’t...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Good behaviour

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Muntadar al-Zeidi, the man who threw the shoes at George Bush, will be released next month from prison after serving only 9 months, due to “...

Chris Wallace’s unenhanced interrogation of Dick Cheney

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Headline of the Day (London Sunday Times ): “Blowpipes Thwart Borneo’s Biofuel Kings.” Speaking of things that shoot poison darts, the trans...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Good policy, properly carried out

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In an interview with Fox to be aired Sunday, Cheney says that he’s okay with CIA interrogators having used torture techniques beyond those ...

Sorted

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Today Silvio Berlusconi will take part in a religious ceremony to absolve his sins, the Perdonanza. So that takes care of that. He will be...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Poignant

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Headline of the Day (Misread- Because- I-Need-a- Nap category): “Sen. Kennedy’s Body Begins Final Poignant Tour.” Poignant, it says, not p...

Smell like the future

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The British press notes that in Babaji in Helmand province, where four British soldiers were killed during operations designed to provide s...

It is not hard for us to do the same things they did

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Iraqi PM Maliki demands that Syria hand over people he blames for the recent spate of bombings (it couldn’t be Iraqis, they’re such a peace...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Wherein polite euphemisms piss off your intrepid blogger

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McNeil-Lehrer yesterday: “Another detainee was told his mother and family would be sexually abused in front of him.” Raped. Not “sexually ...
Monday, August 24, 2009

I heard an inference

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Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill is complaining that Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber he ordered released, has sh...

Sight-seeing

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London Times headline : “Berlusconi Defies His Critics to Visit Gadaffi for Independence Day.” Gadaffi has an all-female bodyguard. ‘Nuf sai...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Beware the Death Book... of Death!

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Sarah Palin’s ghost-Facebooker posted a link to a Wall Street Journal article by Bush’s Faith Czar, Jim Towey, about the VA’s “ death boo...

You know what would be nice? If he sent a nice card. That would be thoughtful. Maybe with a picture of a sad-eyed puppy.

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Lt. William Calley this week said that he’s sorry for the My Lai massacre. So that’s all right then. Oddly enough, he made this apology t...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Killer sea slugs would be a great name for a rock band

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New Zealand held a non-binding referendum on whether it was ok for parents to hit their children (“good parental correction” and “a smack” i...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Why didn’t we think of this when I was in college?

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WaPo headline: “U.S Officials Say Colleges Should Suspend Classes if Swine Flu Spreads.” The Centers for Disease Control are “urging schoo...

Is there are any tragedy that insurance companies and the US can’t find a way to make worse?

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LAT : “Armenian Americans descended from victims of the 1915-18 massacre by Ottoman Turks can’t sue foreign insurance companies for unpaid c...

Bush’s HHS sec wanted to pull the plug on granny

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Something I’d forgotten: in May 2005, Health & Human Services Sec. Mike Leavitt suggested that Medicare costs could be reduced by encou...

Poll: America’s Second Smuggest Person

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Smug: irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-righteously complacent. As the nominations show, the US is not short of the smug. And we have...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

War of necessity in an inessential country

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If “co-ops” were a viable model for the provision of health care, we’d already have them. Obama’s speech to the VFW yesterday was more inte...

“Actually” innocent

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The Supreme Court sent the capital murder conviction of Troy Anthony Davis back to federal court to hear his claim of having been innocent ...