Published January 31, 2007
in Movies.
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. (Rock, who is a great standup has made some awful movies. I wonder if this one will break the curse?) The temptation in question is Kerry Washington, who was quite good in The Last King of Scotland.
For a long time, before the blogs and such, she was one of the few liberal voices outside of the DC establishment who occasionally cracked through to the mainstream press.
Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as “Shrub,” died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.
Former Reagan administration official and CNBC host Larry Kudlow writes in the National Review about cheers and applause for Bush on the floor of the NYSE. Kudlow takes this to mean somehow that everyone else is wrong on Bush’s poor economic record and horrid job performance.
What kind of world is it you inhabit when the beyond very well to do traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange share anything remotely in common with the average American beyond living in the same country and breathing the same air?
Kudlow further says that Bush got applause because of 9/11. Okay, tell him to go to Harlem or even Manhattan and see if the response is the same as it is from very very rich stockbrokers.
His presidential campaign is the Titanic. His idiot mouth has killed it.
UPDATE: The audio of Biden’s comments are out and they don’t change a thing. What he said was racist, offensive, and not representing any of the qualities of the Democratic party or America.
Published January 31, 2007
in Iran.
Fox: “Officials: White House Holding Back Report Detailing Iran’s Meddling in Iraq”
CNN: “Iran involvement suspected in Karbala compound attack”
I heard these things (or allegations similar to them) about Iraq in the Summer of 2002 and throughout the campaign leading up to the war in March of 2003. They were not true. The intelligence was cooked. I was skeptical then, and one thousand times more so now.
I do not believe this.
So I have a family history of diabetes. A strong - in a bad way - history. My mother has it, as do my grandparents on her side, as well as one of my cousins. So it was no surprise when I recently went to the doctor that he said I too was diabetic, and pretty badly so.
I take medicine for it now and after I started taking the pills I realized I was having trouble reading text. I’m nearsighted, so the fact that I was having trouble reading a book just a couple inches away from my face scared me. One of the known side effects of diabetes, of course, is loss of vision. I worried that either that was the case or that my contact lenses needed a change in prescription.
My blood sugar was still too high, according to my doctor, so he increased my dosage of medicine. So yesterday I went to work and when I get there I can’t even read my monitor properly it’s so blurry. I figure I have to go to get my prescription fixed ASAP.
Then it dawns on me. Something weird is going on here. I take out my contacts when I get home.
I can see. In fact, the contacts were having the effect of putting on someone’s way too strong prescription glasses on and distorting everything. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was about 9 years old - 20 years - and for the first time in a long time I can see things properly without them. I can see the tv. I can see the computer monitor. I can read relatively small type over several feet away (it’s not Superman-level telescopic vision but it’s better than looking at letters in blobs).
I realize now that this is a side effect of my now-lowered blood sugar level, and I still need my vision corrected but I’ve had about 70% improvement in my eyesight over a three week or so period.
This, friends, is pretty freaking cool.
Clearly the next step is super powers of some sort. Perhaps I’m having an origin.
Those wacky religious right morons. Now they’re worried that gays are taking over social networks.
Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera devotes his efforts to monitoring the influence of the homosexual agenda on American culture. He says a recent study of social network website usage is proof that technology has been one of the primary tools used by the homosexual community to organize and to promote its immoral lifestyle.
Be afraid, all your MySpace friends might give you “teh ghey”.
Barack Obama calls for an end to the Iraq mess by March ‘08.
The Obama plan offers a responsible yet effective alternative to the President’s failed policy of escalation. Realizing there can be no military solution in Iraq, it focuses instead on reaching a political solution in Iraq, protecting our interests in the region, and bringing this war to a responsible end. The legislation commences redeployment of U.S. forces no later than May 1, 2007 with the goal of removing all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31, 2008, a date that is consistent with the expectation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.
That tagline looks mighty familiar.
I just couldn’t take it anymore. The show is going nowhere and especially coming after the awesome Heroes, it just doesn’t work.
Published January 30, 2007
in Atheism.
Once again atheist folks are demonstrating their superiority by belittling the people who believe in religion. Why is this necessary? What purpose does it serve? It just annoys and doesn’t enlighten anyone.
Everyone rightly bemoans the “my God is better than your God” logic of religious extremists, but coming up right behind is “my non-God is better than your imaginary God” of the atheist crew. Why so much haterade?
See their website here.
Published January 30, 2007
in Media.
I am a pet owner who would risk life and limb if my dog needed me to. But other than his ability at fighting terrorists, there’s no reason C.K. will be written up in the NY Times op-ed. We’ve got a war going on, and numerous other issues of import and the idea that so much ink is being spilt over a horse just kind of appals me.
Published January 30, 2007
in Media.
Is it any wonder why journalists like this have no idea how to write about policies affecting middle and lower class Americans and instead prefer to focus on the superficial?
Conservatives Don Surber and Michelle Malkin are pushing the idea that President Clinton is some kind of liability to Sen. Clinton while also swallowing whole the spin that her comments about evil men were about President Clinton. This is what happens with prolonged exposure to the conservative echo chamber, you start believing that Clinton is unpopular and not looked back at fondly by the American people - when in fact it’s just the opposite. Especially when compared to the current occupant there’s downright Clinton nostalgia. As a liberal I don’t pretend that people aren’t fond of President Reagan, no matter how much of a disaster I may feel he was policy-wise. But then again, I don’t put a lot of stock in echoes.
MORE: The Anti-Clinton Derangement is kicking back into high gear. Someone call VH-1 because the ’90s are back.
But watching the likes of Joe Klein makes me want to reach for a whole bottle of whisky.
(For the record I cannot stand beer and only liked mixed "girlie" drinks like White Russians, Pina Coladas and my favorite - Mudslides)
Published January 30, 2007
in Humor.
Would she be considered that funny or be getting a tv show if she wasn’t a more attractive than average female comedian? I don’t think so. In fact, I’m pretty sure of it. (And please note: she has man hands)
Unlike conservatives, I’m not very good at faking outrage something I don’t have any outrage about. I tend to just not blog about them for lack of a deep and abiding passion for the issue. I write about stuff I really really care about.
That said, just kind of watching this whole ongoing controversy about Jimmy Carter’s new book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” is pretty interesting. The main problem I can see is that Carter has allowed his passion to overwhelm the factual information of what happened and who offered what piece of useless land to who and when for what reason. I see too many of my fellow liberals do this, allowing their sympathy to the Palestinian people to take over everything else.
The problem is, the people on the side of Israel do not make the issue any easier by being insane.
I watched this weekend a Q & A session with Alan Dershowitz at Brandeis University on the Carter book and he just comes across like a little warmonger who sees the spectre of Adolph Hitler behind everything. He reminded me of this profile of ADL’s Abraham Foxman in the NY Times, where his rhetoric of an impending holocaust makes him just look like the boy who cried wolf one time too many. I certainly don’t like the sway that pro-Israel folks have over American politicians, where only those on the fringe dare even mildly question Israel’s actions and everyone else just lines up to kiss ass.
Before 9/11 I wrote a blog post about how I thought the peace process was just a mess and it would be best if we just disengaged. Then 9/11 happened and I figured we needed to be involved. But now I don’t know though I’m erring on the side of just ditching the crazies. Religious extremists are the worst kind of extremists and that’s the two sides to the Israel/Palestine issue. Nobody’s really going to ever move from their base position because to do so would be to allegedly deny their religion. I may live by my own personal Jesus, but he doesn’t really condone blowing up people or launching rockets into neighborhoods over a piece of sorry ass land in the desert.
As someone who would love to see a Democratic president, Sam Brownback is practically talking dirty to me.
When it comes to George Bush, there’s often no way satire can remotely compete with reality.
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