Category: long story short

Daniel Gross writes in Slate What Bush Learned From Enron – How to hide an $87 billion debt by pretending it’s off the books. Of course the point here is not so much that we shouldn’t spend the (now) necessary money in Iraq but that the full, or growing, pricetag was hidden off the books…

So does this ruling go to the U.S. Supreme Court next? I love it when they adjudicate our elections.

Interesting referrer at one of my sites today: True dirt on Howard Dean. Someone is looking for dirt on Dean, it seems to me. I hope they have a good opposition research team. I’m available! (The search only found me because I have links to a gardening blog called True Dirt and because lately I’ve…

Heard it here first. Halliburton is to Bush as Teapot Dome is to Harding. Pass it on.

OK, if this works, it will appear to have been posted by my Dad. Word: this message will self-destruct. No warranties implied or cetera.

The first time Bush pronounced it that way in Sunday’s speech I figured he had ellided it by mistake with the word ‘and’ that followed, but the second time he said ‘Afghanistand’ I had to wonder if he really thinks that’s how it’s pronounced.

I’ve never been a big fan of Gray Davis, who doesn’t seem to stand for anything but himself, but I also find this recall process to be misguided and suspicious in its funding and in the way it makes a scapegoat of Davis for issues that are either beyond his control or that were actively…

I’ve been following Daniel Weintraub’s excellent California Insider weblog recently, because he posts California Recall updates several times a day. His reportage is very good, but lately it seems to me that he’s been going easy on Schwarzenegger (bending over backward to be evenhanded, if you ask me) while lambasting Davis, Bustamante, and now Dean.…

The California Insider quotes two Republicans on Arnold’s strengths and weaknesses.

I’m feeling groggy today because I stayed up half the night reading most of Al Franken’s new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. I expected it to be funny, and it is, but it is also infuriating and uplifting. I’ve seen the attacks on…

Michael Watkins suggests that some heads will have to roll. But isn’t everything working out just as planned, haven’t we got them right where we want them, isn’t our hat-in-hand approach to the UN just a continuation of our previous efforts? Inquiring minds and all that.

The Edwards campaign has gone public with their Slashcode-based blog, with categories for each state.

So I attended the Oakland Dean 2004 meetup at the Box Theatre last night. Here’s a good shot of my emerging bald spot. You know, I’ve always voted, and usually for Democrats, but I’ve never before volunteered for a candidate or become in any way involved aside from passively following campaigns and then voting (and,…

Michele at A Small Victory finds that she is neither a leftist nor a rightist, but rather “just right” (with apologies to Golidlocks).

The story about an Iraqi contractor estimating $300,000 to repair a bridge and an American contractor getting the job with a bid of $50,000,000 has now made it from an Iraqi blog to US blogs to mainstream journalist Jon Carroll and back into the blogosphere. OK, so it wasn’t about ooooooil, after all. It was…

LiberalOasis interviews Paul Krugman.

Just noticed Sullivan’s second thoughts re the mess in Iraq. For the most part, though, he’s still got his ideological blinders on when it’s not his axe being gored (for example, gay marriage). Further up the page he sides with Somerby on promiscuous accusations of lying, but doesn’t see the irony of “gets it right…

The drumbeat continues. Will Will fess up to his misleading cut ‘n’ paste job? Not half likely.

While it’s nice – in a way – to see O’Reilly thoroughly fisked like this, isn’t it really a waste of energy? Does the guy really matter? Isn’t it about time he vanished up his own digestive tract?

Michael Watkins is calling for Wolfowitz’s head.

David Neiwert has ably deconstructed the equivalency argument that equates opposition to Bush with the rabid Clinton-hating of the last decade.