The melamine-spiking story continues to build, and so far nothing about it offers any reason for comfort. HorsesAss offers a mortifying blow-by-blow here, and after reading it you have to wonder not […]
Hello, he lied…
Nothing’s quite as entertaining as watching a politician being flogged to death with his own words. Courtesy of FromtheRoots.org, we have Jim Inhofe (R-OK) then: Our intelligence system has said that we […]
Loyal Dubya is Dem’s best friend
President Bush today said that embattled World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz, currently embroiled in yet another BushCo scandal, “ought to stay” in his position. This comes hot on the heels of Bush’s […]
Bush’s counselor lies about Bush
By Robert Silvey Dan Bartlett is counselor to George Bush. George Tenet was CIA director during the preparations for the Iraq War. In his new book, At the Center of the Storm, […]
The Battle For Better Broadband
By Martin Bosworth A few days ago in my post celebrating the victories of the Save The Internet coalition, a certain fly in the ointment challenged me on a few points in […]
Gravel making some noise
The Dem debate the other night featured first tier candidates and second tier candidates, but a guy that many people never heard of – calling him third-tier is generous – stole the […]
Top Abramoff investigator at Justice resigns in wake of scrutiny over … Abramoff ties
You simply must be kidding me. Justice Dept official resigns over investigation connected with Abramoff
Your thought for the weekend: Why can’t CNN.com tell the difference between a candidate and non-candidate?
You know, if you’re CNN, you could at least try to get it right. Go to CNN.com’s Politics page and scroll down a little. In the right column there’s a box that […]
Our electric grid
Look around you at all the things you use that need electricity to operate. Your lights, coffee maker, radio, television, and computer. Your cell phone may have a battery, but it’s useless […]
The Paris Review Vonnegut Interviews
Kurt Vonnegut’s dead, in case you hadn’t heard…. So it goes. Vonnegut, the author of counter culture classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, books which were considered required […]
