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Harry Potter and the Pile of Drivel

By Gavin Chait on July 19, 2007 • ( 45 Comments )

Once upon a time there were great children’s books If you’ve never read Neverending Story, or the Narnia series, or the Tripods series by John Christopher, or anything by Terry Pratchett (most […]

Has anyone told Henry Waxman and John Conyers about this?

By Mike Sheehan on July 18, 2007 • ( 7 Comments )

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 […]

Happy Birthday, Hunter…

By winterSmith on July 18, 2007 • ( 8 Comments )

[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 […]

It’s 130 degrees in Baghdad: A White House weather report

By Dr. Denny Wilkins on July 18, 2007 • ( 5 Comments )

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 […]

Microsoft again earns the moniker “Micro$haft”

By Brian Angliss on July 18, 2007 • ( 9 Comments )

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” […]

Joss Whedon on “honor killing”

By winterSmith on July 18, 2007

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 […]

“On The Road” at fifty…goring a Boomer sacred cow….

By Jim Booth on July 18, 2007 • ( 20 Comments )

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 […]

Vick indicted; your turn, Misters Goodell and Blanks…

By winterSmith on July 17, 2007 • ( 6 Comments )

Michael Vick has been indicted for dogfighting. NFL Star Sacked in Dogfight Probe – Grand Jury Indicted Falcons QB Mike Vick in Dogfighting Investigation Michael Vick has been indicted by a federal […]

Edwards gets hate from the right AND left

By Former Scrogue on July 17, 2007 • ( 30 Comments )

By Martin Bosworth If the saying that a man is judged by the enemies he makes is true, then John Edwards is a helluva man indeed. Yesterday Sam led an excellent counterattack […]

Sen. Vitter, take II: Is the media missing the real story?

By Dr. Denny Wilkins on July 17, 2007 • ( 17 Comments )

I repeat: Forget Sen. David Vitter’s penis. I’ve already pontificated about following his money. Now let’s focus on his ability to do his job under the cloud caused by his wandering wanker. […]

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