The poor chairs of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees have been fruitlessly serving subpoenas on various cretins in the Bush administration and the GOP, but all have come to naught. They’ve been wasting their time. All they need to do to get those tough questions answered is cough up $600 and sign up quickly […]
Archive | July 18, 2007
Happy Birthday, Hunter…
[UPDATE] Hunter’s widow, Anita, has a nice post on Hunter’s birthday at Owl Farm Blog. ———– You may have noticed that Hunter Thompson is back on the masthead. Today would have been The Doctor’s 70th birthday (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005), and we thought it appropriate to honor the memory of a journalist […]
It’s 130 degrees in Baghdad: A White House weather report
From a July 13 White House press briefing by spokesman Tony Snow: Q: Is the Iraqi government and the Iraqi parliament taking the month of August off? MR. SNOW: Probably, yes. Just not – Q: They’re taking the entire month of August off, before the September deadline? MR. SNOW: It looks like they may, yes. […]
Microsoft again earns the moniker “Micro$haft”
Slashdot’s nightly headlines brought this bit of news from Information Week and Ars Technica to my attention last night: Microsoft submitted an adware patent back in 2006 that will use “context data” from your hard drive to select focused advertising for you to view while you’re surfing, reading your email, working on Word and Excel […]
Joss Whedon on “honor killing”
I don’t usually do drive-bys, but Joss Whedon (he of Buffy and Firefly fame) has an impassioned take on the much under-publicized “honor killing” of Dua Khalil, and some of our readers might want to have a look. Also check out the emerging Nothing But Red movement here. Feel free to refer back to this […]
“On The Road” at fifty…goring a Boomer sacred cow….
Old Man: “What are you rebelling against?” Johnny Stabler (Marlon Brando): “What you got?” -The Wild One (1954) 2007 is a year filled with Boomer anniversaries – the 40th anniversary of Monterrey Pop, the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. And there’s an ongoing anniversary celebration this year for a book that […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- “Where Girls Grow Strong” – and Boy Scouts follow
- Atheists in heaven? Vatican spin machine leaps into action
- I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure
- UPDATED: Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie
- Magic Hat vs. West Sixth brewhaha: will MH win the battle that costs them the war?
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
