That's right, you were not explicitly told it was not OK to threaten prisoners with electrocution. Guess you're also the target audience for those "Do Not Drink" stickers on the side of gas pumps.
April 2004 Archives
Your decision to deny your viewers an opportunity to be reminded of war’s terrible costs, in all their heartbreaking detail, is a gross disservice to the public, and to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. It is, in short, sir, unpatriotic. I hope it meets with the public opprobrium it most certainly deserves.
Pretty cool this comes from the Republican side of the fence.
Asked how many American troops have died in Iraq, the Pentagon's No. 2 civilian estimated Thursday the total was about 500 -- more than 200 soldiers short.
Hello? Anyone on the right paying attention? They don't even know how many of your children they've sent to their deaths.
Under the rubric of the war on terrorism, the U.S. armed forces are now conducting operations in more countries around the world than at any time since World War II, though in sheer numbers the current force of 10 active divisions is dwarfed by the 90 divisions of the earlier force.
Robert Schlesinger writes about the dire state of US force strength in the face of the long, hard slog. (@ Salon.com - Day pass or membership required - TOTALLY worth it).
In Dante's "Inferno," deceivers are sentenced to have their souls encased in flames, hypocrites are forced to wear a cloak weighted with lead, and those who use their powers of persuasion for insidious ends are doomed to suffer a continual fever so intense that their body sizzles and smokes like a steak tossed on a George Foreman grill. Maybe Satan will give Powell a three-afflictions-for-the-price-of-one deal.
Words are inadequate to describe how much I LOVE Arianna.
Great jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick! It's stuff like this that makes me wonder whether it's a good thing that the Web is accessible to the masses...
Josh Marshall is, in my opinion, one of the best political strategists in Blog Land. He suggests that Kerry look past W.'s attack dogs and insist the coward fight his own battles.
The issue is not religion - it's religion and politics. As long as religions aren't too coercive of their members, I'm happy for people to do what they want. But, once religion gets involved in politics I have no need to be tolerant or nice about it. I can be tolerant of your religion without being tolerant of your politics. That's the issue.
It should concern us all how easily W. & Co. can convince people that a vote against them is a vote against God, Country, Marriage, blah blah blah. Atrios has an excellent rant.
I'm ashamed of believing that Saddam Hussein was worth the price of this thing we're now caught up in.
And ashamed of my credulity in believing the false reasons given for undertaking it.
I'm ashamed of the suffering our mistakes have cost, and of the way in which we have so cavalierly alienated our friends and allies in the world.
I'm ashamed of having accepted, so willingly, the illusions about how this operation would end, when it is now clear the architects of it themselves had no understanding of the difficulty and no sensible plan.
All this is hindsight now. There's no remedy for the regret. Except as a guide for the future, regret is useless. There's but one constructive thing left to do, and I will do it again when the opportunity presents itself.
I will vote.
Step by step, the light is breaking through. Will it be bright enough, fast enough? Hope springs, eternal.
Before deciding that Bush is the righteous vote in November, Catholic voters should remember that His Holiness wasn't too high on the war in Iraq.
Frank Rich suggests compulsory screenings of "Lawrence of Arabia" should have been regular fixtures in the Ready Room prior to the Iraq invasion.
While enjoying a familiar "Sunday-in-denial-of-the-upcoming-work-week-TV-catatonia-o-rama" today, I was struck by the fact that there were two channels presenting afternoon-long "100(ish)-top" lists. On Comedy Central, it was "100 Top Stand-ups of All Time;" E! TV viewers could enjoy "101 Most Starlicious Makeovers." Both time sinks shared the fetid reek of celebrity self-promotion, and I was prompted to wonder whether the two networks shared the same media parent company.
Any-hoo, a quick Google yielded the Columbia Journalism Review's "Who Owns What" list. Enjoy.
Yet another display of genius satire by Matt Morford.
Thank the Goddess. At least he's finally getting some good advice.
Oh great. Just when you're SURE it's just PhotoShop humor...
"Lie, lie, distortion, half-truth, pander, manipulation, pseudo-intellectual bombast. Dodge, dodge, feint, lie, dodge, avoid, subject change, lie, slander, pretentious generalization, character assassination, bald-faced lie."
Neal Pollack provides a distilled transcript, with commentary, of Condi's morning meeting.
Neal Pollack provides a distilled transcript, with commentary, of Condi's morning meeting.
Sometimes it feels good to say "I told you so." In fact, sometimes it feels REAL good.
Eleanor Clift on last week's "Wizard of Oz" moment for the Administration.
Peter Bergan and Scott Armstrong have some questions they'd like to see the 9/11 Commission ask Condi.
"It's embarrassing to the president of the United States that they won't let him go in without holding the hand of the vice president of the United States,'' Pelosi, the House minority leader, told reporters in her Capitol offices. "I think it speaks to the lack of confidence the administration has in the president going forth alone."
OK. After a week of horrific stories of mob rule and corporate restructuring, I'd say we all need to look at where the real danger is lurking.
This is sorta wrong, but...
OK. So sometimes it's cool that Starbuck's has become a ubiquitous part of the power-professional's routine.
