Who’ll Stand Up To Wal-Mart?

12:07 am EST July 26th, 2005 | Media | 30 Comments

The retailer is banning newspapers that are critical of the corporation… you have to wonder what other kind of stories have been squashed out of fear of this kind of reprisal.

Unlike many of the company’s critics, I’ve shopped at Wal-Mart and on occasion found what I needed at a good price. But in the era after Sam Walton’s death and the company’s growth into an international juggernaut I believe the worm has truly turned. Wal-Mart is a company that trades on its All-America image to trample on American consumers and workers — and the excuse that such behavior is the price of doing business just does not match up with the evidence at hand.

Not Fonda

5:07 pm EST July 25th, 2005 | Politics | 89 Comments

I’m quite liberal, and as against this war in Iraq as much as the next left-winger… but when I see that Jane Fonda is going to go around in a van powered by vegetable oil protesting I sort of throw up in my mouth a little.

Some of these celebrities need to shut up.

A Place For Your Stuff

9:07 am EST July 25th, 2005 | Politics | 1 Comment

The folks at Box.net set me up with an account on their service, and you should really check it out. Basically it’s a file folder in the sky, where you can upload your files and keep them at your fingertips as long as you’ve got a net connection. Comes in real handy.

14 Innings Is Too Much

12:07 am EST July 25th, 2005 | Sports | 4 Comments

So I went to my first Nationals game Sunday, and it wasn’t pretty.

I’m far from any sort of expert on baseball (though I did read Moneyball) but unless the Nationals get somebody who can hit a little better than a blooper shot to right field, thy’re going to drop out of first place quickly.

Jarvis Gets It Right (For Once)

5:07 pm EST July 22nd, 2005 | Politics | 10 Comments

Check out this clip of Bernie Goldberg flipping out on The Big Story.

CBS Gets White House Approval For Their Anchor

2:07 pm EST July 22nd, 2005 | News | 25 Comments

Your so-called liberal media marches on. CBS is pleased because their anchorman gets White House plaudits

“That’s not the end-all, be-all, but obviously the White House doesn’t hate CBS anymore with Schieffer in the chair,” Moonves said in an interview Wednesday at the TV critics’ summer meetings here.

Topic: Liberal Media

Another Whining Reporter

1:07 am EST July 22nd, 2005 | Media | 8 Comments

Does anyone think Andrea Mitchell’s annoyance at being roughed up in Sudan would ring a bit less hollow if our media didn’t need the excuse of a state visit to cover something that’s been going on in Sudan… like genocide?

Priorities.

Perjury?

11:07 pm EST July 21st, 2005 | Politics | 46 Comments

Sort of ironic, when you consider the GOP’s past “anger” towards those they considered to be lying under oath…

Bloomberg Reporting That Rove, Libby May Be Subject To Perjury Charges

Two top White House aides have given accounts to the special prosecutor about how reporters told them the identity of a CIA agent that are at odds with what the reporters have said, according to persons familiar with the case.

Lewis Scooter’ Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney s chief of staff, told special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that he first learned from NBC News reporter Tim Russert of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, the wife of former ambassador and Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson. Russert has testified before a federal grand jury that he didn t tell Libby of Plame s identity.

The America Show #003

7:07 pm EST July 21st, 2005 | Politics | 1 Comment

Episode 003

Topics: The Supreme court nomination, the problem with persuasion, random observations on the political universe

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Plame Leaker (Rove, Libby, Etc.) Knew Plame Was Secret

1:07 am EST July 21st, 2005 | Politics | 112 Comments

Plame’s Identity Marked As Secret

A classified State Department memorandum central to a federal leak investigation contained information about CIA officer Valerie Plame in a paragraph marked “(S)” for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former government officials.

Plame — who is referred to by her married name, Valerie Wilson, in the memo — is mentioned in the second paragraph of the three-page document, which was written on June 10, 2003, by an analyst in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), according to a source who described the memo to The Washington Post.

I wonder when McClellan will talk about previous statements being inoperative?