Category: Miscellany

  • Another satellite

    My heart is taken it’s not lost in space And I don’t want to see your mooney mooney face I say why on earth do you revolve around me Aren’t you aware of the gravity Don’t need another satellite I’m happy standing on my feet of clay I have no wish to swim your milky…

  • Lies, lies, lies, yeah

    I’m looking forward to reading Al Franken’s new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Here’s the BuzzFlash interview that whetted my appetite.

  • Will Ferrell's class day speech

    Those Harvard schmucks, they get the best graduation speakers. This year Will Ferrell serenaded them as \”shiny little very smart pieces of dust.\”

  • Give 'em hell, Johnny!

    Senator (and Democratic presidential candidate) John Edwards takes the incumbent administration to task for its oligarchic, anticapitalistic policies (On Rewarding Work And Creating Opportunity).

  • DeLaygate gathering steam

    Joshua Marshall is doing his usual bang-up job of covering every angle of the ongoing Tom DeLay scandal dealing with misuse of Homeland Security resources in the Texas redistricting conflict, and subsequent attempts to cover tracks.

  • Water man down

    I find myself standing in my room, narrating out loud to no one the fact that I am thirsty, instead of going and getting myself the glass of water I’ve been wanting for the last hour at least. The day is not going like it was supposed to. The day is going well. Hot, is…