tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90386602011-09-05T04:12:53.561-04:00Embrace the ki of the DHP... DHPnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1125678443965988862005-09-02T12:15:00.000-04:002005-09-02T12:27:23.970-04:00

Kevin Drum educates hereMore here, and what the dillholes in charge thought of their efforts here

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Josh covers it here...One might note as an aside that the administration is putting a lot of weight on the claim that it simply wasn't foreseeable how bad things were going to be, even though people knew there was going to be a major storm. And yet a similar lack of foresight apparently leaves many of the victims with primary responsibility for their own deaths.---But more specifically, and going

DHPnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1125676644784280162005-09-02T11:53:00.000-04:002005-09-02T11:57:32.993-04:00

Geez...The White House on Thursday made available top Corps officials to assure reporters that cuts to the agency's budget did not cause the Katrina disaster. Even though the administration has chronically cut back on the Corps' own requests for funding -- including two key New Orleans-area projects -- White House officials trumpeted the administration's support for the Corps."Flood control has

DHPnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1125599760889011712005-09-01T14:34:00.000-04:002005-09-01T14:36:00.890-04:00

This sounds an awful lot like Condi's "Nobody ever thought someone could fly a plane into the WTC" quote... I mean, come on...

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Seriously... CNN is down there at the Convention Center, which is rapidly becoming a symbol of this horrid tragedy, and yet... nothing.Where is the National Guard? Where are the Blackhawks? Where is the relief effort?When will someone start to ask if the slow response is due to all the troops being in Iraq?It is fine to hold your nose at his speech, but damn... how about a little more on

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And so it begins:FORMAL NOTICE: Fuel Restrictions at UNC Service StationsTo meet the Governor’s directive to suspend all non-essential state government traffic, the UNC at Chapel Hill Service Stations has begun restricting the issuance of fuel to essential service vehicles only.Fuel transactions for essential state vehicles will be limited to 10 gallons per week to ensure that all essential

DHPnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1125597376365098352005-09-01T13:54:00.000-04:002005-09-01T13:56:16.373-04:00

Here.You know... *wink wink* *knudge knudge* say no more...

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I understand they were dealt a major blow, but knock off the tsunami comparisons... 54 deaths is horrible, and I truly feel for the families, but get a grip: the tsunami took out some quarter of a million people.

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There should be a special circle in Hell for people like this...

DHPnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1125405166977440882005-08-30T08:30:00.000-04:002005-08-30T08:39:35.443-04:00

I don't know which is more retarded: that a 22 year old man would get married to a 14 year old girl (with the blessings of the parents, no less) or that the state of Nebraska would go after him for statutory rape now that they have a child, thereby creating a fatherless child in the hands of a mother who can't even drive yet.Update: Oooh... I just finished the article... it's like watching a

DHPnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1125365041772765582005-08-29T21:22:00.000-04:002005-08-29T21:24:01.783-04:00

Here:A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the past several years had been the chief overseer of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency

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Buried in a long post, Digby related this old joke and compares it to the timidity that the Democrats are currently displaying on Iraq:Howard and Joe are facing the firing squad. The executioner comes forward to place the blindfold on them. Howard disdainfully and proudly refuses, tearing the thing from his face. Joe turns to him and pleads: "Please Howard, don't make trouble!Such a nice summary.

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I understand that people will try to paint their political foes in certain ways, but this is simply retarded:Meeting briefly with reporters Monday aboard Air Force One, Trent Duffy, a WhiteHouse spokesman subbing for Scott McClellan, said that President Bush believesthat those who want the U.S. to begin to change course in Iraq do not wantAmerica to win the overall "war on terror."Yeah... we

DHPnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1124829848948155532005-08-23T16:40:00.000-04:002005-08-23T16:44:08.953-04:00

This sums it up:In brief remarks outside the exclusive resort where he is vacationing, Bushgave no indication that he would change his mind and meet with Sheehan, who losta son in Iraq and has emerged as a harsh critic of the war there, when hereturns to his Texas ranch Wednesday evening.---Bush said most military families have a different viewpoint than Sheehan."She doesn't represent the view of

DHPnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1124811326110850662005-08-23T11:33:00.000-04:002005-08-23T11:41:43.463-04:00

Robertson calls for the assassination of ChavezI can understand it... it is, after all, a very Christian thing to do.And let's not forget that Robertson has called on more than one occasion for God to create some openings on the Supreme Court so Roe v. Wade can be overturned.Update: Atrios points out why Robertson wants to off Chavez... but I can take that better than "I have to one-up my Daddy

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Some sketchy views on minorities and women... a product of privilege?Remember: Roberts is Dubya with better grades

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We'll see how this plays out... I would love to see some footage!

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Hmmm... I wonder what the Heston-ite nutcases think of this:Researchers at the University of North Carolina have shown that killings are five times more likely to occur at workplaces where guns are allowed as where they’re prohibited. But... But...Guns don't kill people! People kill people! My worldview is crumbling and I must hang on to my tired slogan for dear life!

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Frist can't bring himself to say that HIV can't be spread by tears, and now he thinks ID should be taught along side evolution.

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Here's a good post to start getting an idea... the "George Bush but with better grades" line is a pretty good summation.

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Hmmm... it has been over two weeks since my last post. I have been amazingly busy with my dissertation data collection, and things will continue to be slow for at least another month. However, I did want to pop in and note that I just paid $45 for a fill-up (and I wasn't exactly running on fumes). That's obscene for our culture... I would love to have even higher prices (from taxes, etc.) but

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Insert asian food joke here

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O'Reilly wants to execute the Gitmo prisoners

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Dude, what is this crap doing in the Op-Ed section of the Times?!? Kristof is writing about North Korea, Rich about the Plame Scandal, Specter about the confirmation hearings, and all Brooks can manage is some poorly written diatribe about kids and parents on airplanes. Doesn't he have anything better to write about in today's world?I hate unruly kids and crappy parents just as much (ok, more)

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This is pretty cool (and funny... be sure to zoom in all the way)

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From the American Progess Action Fund:Commenting on the left's opposition to President Bush's Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) observed, "It's a little bit like biblical Pharisees, you know, who basically are always trying to undermine Jesus Christ."

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Herbert has a good column on education, but not due to anything he writes... rather, some rep from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has some very clear, succinct, and true words:"It may sound like hyperbole," said Mr. Vander Ark, "but this is the economic development issue for our society, and it is the social justice issue of our times. It is the most important long-term issue for the civic

DHPnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1121952595675477402005-07-21T09:29:00.000-04:002005-07-21T09:29:55.676-04:00

You gotta be kiddin' me...

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...don't forget to cup the balls.

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Democracy is on the march!

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RIP

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Republicans... such reasonable and rationale folk.

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Roberts? Who?Exactly.When I heard the news on CNN last night, I knew what was up... the Bushies chose a blank slate so they can more easily color him in moderate tones and hews as most folks have expected for the heir to O'Connor (although I don't know what they are going to do about the genitalia).In the Big Issue, Roberts seems to be pro-life, but with some plausible refutation on that score.

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Random blogs have been all a-flurry with posts on a NY Times article in which a working mother and her husband fire a nanny blogger.As in most situations, the bloggers rally around their own... but while I myself have no big delusions about the state of my blog and blogging in general, I have to admit that Olen's article was pretty surprising in, as many have said, how self-serving it was. She

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I think the lede for this article should just be your basic assumption, shouldn't it?As Alterman says:Sy Hersh demonstrates, once again, that only fools and knaves take the Bush administration’s word seriously about anything at all, but never more so than when it comes to its rhetoric about democracy in Iraq. (They do not take democracy seriously in this country, why would you expect them to do

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Here."No one really knows what's going on in the investigation of the Valerie Plame incident," Klein said during CNN's Q&A session at Summer TV Press Tour 2005, in response to the very first question: "Why does Robert Novak continue to be employed by CNN?" "It would be awfully presumptuous of us to take steps againsta guy and his career based on second, third, fourth-hand reporting."How about

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I saw this on CNN and knew someone else had already posted on it, so here are some links.

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Check this out... lots more Santorum/Clergy/Liberals stuff on that site as well.

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This is what drives me mad about the NY Times... they have a jackass like Safire write for them for years under the supposed label of "part libertarian" and then get the same to replace him in Tierney. But they both betray the label they trumpet so often at the drop of a hat in order to carry the water of the powers that be in the Republican Party.But because of several exceptions in the 1982 law

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As one of those "talents that you have that don't do you any good," I am a pretty good judge of ability in the major league sports. I was only about 13 or 14 years old when the Cubs decided to trade away Rafael Palmeiro for a bunch of nothing, and I remember lamenting it for weeks... I knew that the latest "Lou Brock" trade in our team's history had just occurred.And so Raffy became the 4th

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You gotta check this out...I think the two most important issues here are "How much does it cost?" and "How does it taste?" Beyond that, it's probably all dressing...

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Link here... via Alterman:After surviving the chaos of Iraq, thousands of soldiers have become casualties of a fight they were poorly trained for: keeping control of their family lives during the separation of war. Men and women who feel lucky their units suffered few fatalities say they can name dozens who returned to empty houses, squandered bank accounts, divorce papers and restraining

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Beware the Lime Cat...

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This is kinda amusing... Hillary is creating some noise over a GTA:San Andreas mod that allows "simulated sex" in the game.Hillary is pretty obviously using this as an opportunity to position herself towards the center/right with soccer moms, fans of Weepin' Joe Liebermann, etc. in 2008, but I can't imagine anything ever coming of this."Mods," or modifications of the regular game material, are

DHPnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1121432726560800502005-07-15T08:54:00.000-04:002005-07-15T09:05:26.570-04:00

Once again, Krugman shows us why he is The Man... better than any op-ed columnist out there, hands down.Unfortunately, I don't really have an answer to his question at the end of his column. In part, I would cite the Republican Noise Machine that has been built up over the past 25 years. It is so effective and such a hegemony that I imagine folks on the right cannot stop themselves from abusing

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BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!Woman gets $74000 water bill... the result of a broken water meter!Tonight on Aaron Brown: Is this the Year of the Broken Water Meter? Analysis by Anderson Cooper: Is your family is at risk?Kylie Brown: Could al Qaeda be behind the outbreak?Seriously... I don't even think this story would have gotten noticed by the local 10 page daily where I was growing up... WTF?

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Eric Alterman puts two and two together in a way that was obvious but nobody has mentioned before:Did John Bolton play a role in blowing Plame’s cover? Is that why theadministration refuses to release the transcripts of the intercepts he requestedto the senators from whom it is demanding his confirmation?There has been some discussion about how pro-war items out of State, the most delibrate,

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When I first saw the title of this article, I immediately thought "Was it gonoccocal? Maybe Maddox isn't getting a Daddy after all..."Then I was immediately alarmed that I knew Maddox's name... the Wife's E! Hollywood lifestyle is rubbing off on me. Gack!BTW, doesn't Brad look kinda like a middle-aged Robert Redford in that pic?Aaaargh! Stop it! Stop it!

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Watch yer cornhole, dude...

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Holy shit...Hume admits on air that he his first reaction to the London bombings was that it was time to invest in futures, and now Gibson thinks it was a good thing that a CIA agent got outed.What does it have to take for the Republicans to get just a little upset about stuff like this? What does it have to take for FOX to fire (or at least publically reprimand) one of these assholes?Update: And

DHPnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038660.post-1121257599054423092005-07-13T08:22:00.000-04:002005-07-13T08:26:39.056-04:00

Although I have some quibbles around the edges, Friedman's column today is pretty good... I must admit, I thought that Sharon was as much a barrier to peace as Arafat was, and although I still don't hold him in as high a regard as Friedman for doing what as long been obviously necessary, Sharon has suprised me by gradually altering course. Imagine that... a leader who alters course based on the

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Put all the other reasons why we shouldn't have the death penalty - barbarism, ineffective deterrent, cost ineffectiveness, religion/morality - aside for now... the mere possibility of cases like this is enough to warrent its retirement from use.

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What the hell is with the right wing and their fascination with the death penalty? I realize Tierney's column is part tongue-in-cheek, but not entirely... it is more a mask for him to slip it past his editors so he doesn't come off as too harsh. After listing capital punishment as option "D" for the Sasser worm creator, Tierney says:I'm tempted to say that the correct answer is D, and not just

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I don't think this idea is going places, but to me it would seem to signal that Arlen isn't going to be the administration's poodle as it seemed he would be when he was trying to become the committee chair... otherwise, why tweak the noses of the far right over something that I would imagine is very unlikely to happen?

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Sometimes Coulter is too f'ed up to ignore... via Atrios

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This is like the opening quarter of Phantom of the Opera when the new directors of the theater are getting a deluge of notes from the Phantom... another memo from the Brits shows that the US is calling it a war and would like to start to go home at the end of 2006... TPM makes the call.

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The decline of CNN continues...Quick, we need another missing white girl! That's what we are *really* good at!

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Man charged for stealing Wi-Fi...

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Via TPM, Molly Ivins states:Silverstein reports on earmarks: ''In the past two decades, the pastime has become breathtaking in its profligacy. Even as the federal deficit soars to record heights, the sums of money being diverted from the treasury have grown ever larger. Last year, 15,584 separate earmarks worth a combined $32.7 billion were attached to the appropriations bills - more than twice

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I think Josh is on to something here... if the Dems get squeezed politically and have to let a repugnant candidate through, that will probably allow them to hold firm in order to get a more moderate (and Roe v. Wade supporting) nominee through. Then the balance stays the same and the religious wingers don't get their payday.Obviously I would like to makes some gains here, but you do the best you

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Tommy F. on London:What do I mean? I mean that the greatest restraint on human behavior is never a policeman or a border guard. The greatest restraint on human behavior is what a culture and a religion deem shameful. It is what the village and its religious and political elders say is wrong or not allowed. Many people said Palestinian suicide bombing was the spontaneous reaction of frustrated

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Kevin Drum has the details.Honestly, I am embaressed for my profession... those in my field are pretty smart people, and all they can do on this issue is lash out at the most immediate person (i.e. lawyer) on hand?

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Literally. Via Atrios, we see Fox's John Gibson spewing thusly:All day long people have been saying to me, "Wasn't it great they didn't pick Paris?" And I've been saying, "No, no, no."Paris was exactly the right place to pick and the Olympic committee screwed up.Why? Simple. It would have been a three-week period where we wouldn't have had to worry about terrorism. First, the French think they

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Herbert channels Friedman in his latest column... but Friedman, who never met a taxi cab driver who he wouldn't use as an allegory for globalization or peace in the Middle East, would never make a bush mistake like this:I don't have the statistics to prove it, but black kids would be tremendously better off if the cultural winds changed and more fathers felt the need to come home.Ah, Bob... stick

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Huh... image that: engaging your children on the matter and taking a proactive role may be much more important than virginity pledges.

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Hell, even Google knows...

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Nicky has been ok of late, but apparently he was just saving up for this absolute stinker.Apparently Kristof thinks that staying away from any possibility of averting a genocide is OK because, well, Clinton didn't act appropriately during the one that was on his watch. That sets an awfully low bar, doesn't it? Apparently the only way Kristof would be mad at Bush on Africa is if he let two

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Remember the $400 hammers and $2000 toilet seats that were a part of the 80's (i.e. Reagan Administration) wasteful spending?Well, in this respect, as in many others, Dubya is the true heir to Reagan... not only with independents like Halliburton, but also agencies like Homeland Security. From the American Progess Action Fund:HOMELAND SECURITY – CONTRACTING CORRUPTION: According to a recent

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This is one of the reasons why I groaned for days upon hearing about the deal that was cut between the "moderates." If you let the three worst go through, especially when the public was on your side, then WTF was the point?!?

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Apologies to the American Progress Action Fund as I am going to post their recent summaries on Halliburton whole-cloth. Remember, due to the inanity of these no-bid contracts, the more they spend, the more profit they make... there are literally incentives to be as wasteful as possible.----On Monday, we learned that the many reports of Halliburton's mistreatment of our soldiers and flagrant waste

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Brookings reports that Bush has increased aid to sub-Saharan Africa by 56% (or 33% excluding food and security) rather than by triple as he has claimed...As I pointed out in a recent post related to Darfur, Bush scribbled "Not on my watch" in the margins of a final report on Rwanda that was given to him at the beginning of his term. Well, not only has he let Darfur go on during his watch, he has

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... in the United States.Here's the line that made me the most sick to my stomach:In one case, a 68-year-old physician and U.S. citizen was hauled away in handcuffs after his suspicious neighbors broke into his apartment and discovered literature on flying.Happy Independence Day.

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Conservative anti-abortion groups are already trying to kill a Gonzo nomination...Me? I'm all for it. Some have suggested that Dubya will throw up a softball for the Dems to reject and then nominate the one they really want (a "consensus candidate") in the second round. This would not be unlike their dealings on tax cuts... expect $600 billion, president wants $1.2 trillion, and the Dems cave for

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Just a bit more on Dubya's lack of moral leadership...

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Very funny...

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Phelps' group protesting military funerals...

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I have sat on this link for a couple of days, but ever time I skip by the tab in my browser that has it open, I still get DHP... it really is too much to believe. I have a pretty good imagination, but this outstrips me by a long shot.

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An oldie from MediaWhoresOnline by way of Eric Alterman:VIETNAM 2 PREFLIGHT CHECKCabal of oldsters who won’t listen to outside advice? Check.No understanding of ethnicities of the many locals? Check.Imposing country boundaries drawn in Europe, not by the locals? Check.Unshakeable faith in our superior technology? Check.France secretly hoping we fall on our asses? Check.Russia secretly hoping we

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Kristof talks today about the need to reduce carbon emissions and points to Portland, Oregon as evidence that action in this area can be a boon and not the economic drain that conservatives claim it will be.I am not too high on ancedotal cases, and it is possible that Portland has some other characteristics about it that have made these transitions a bit easier to handle. However, the things that

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Get Your War On has got to be my favorite comic strip... I encourage you to read the entire achives online to get a full appreciation of the snark, but here are a few good ones from the recent past:

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The bill has come due...

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This is an excellent column by the former physician to Bush 41...Our medical code of ethics requires us to oppose torture wherever it is inflicted, for any reason. Guided by this ethic, I served as a volunteer with the international group MEDICO in 1963, taking care of people who had been tortured by the French during Algeria's civil war. I remain deeply affected by that experience today -- by

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There is a large basketball camp going on here, and a labmate of mine was walking by while a team was getting ready to take a court after half-time. It was apparent by the long faces that they were losing, and my buddy heard one of the coaches say:"C'mon girls... we didn't give up when the Germans were bombing Pearl Harbor, did we?!?"In cases like this, I really wonder how we became a superpower.

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I heard about O'Connor earlier in the day, and due to the fact that I was working on some time-sensitive material I didn't get a chance to check out the media and blogs on it right away. I thus decided to make this post "blind," i.e. without seeing the circumstances or any opinions on what will come next, etc.My basic take: get ready for a shitstorm. We all knew that the filibuster deal made

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First Canada, now Spain (actually Belgium and the Netherlands were first, but Canada and Spain happened over the past week... you get the idea).Is the world crumbling around Mullah SpongeDob?!?

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I only have time for a short post today, so I will get to the point: this is total bullshit.None of the reports this morning had Kraft giving it as a gift, and there were even some quotes stating that was not the case. Putin just slipped it in his pocket and jetted, leaving Kraft standing there completely dumbfounded as to what just happened and what he should do next.Of course, the Patriot's

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I am not sure about Kristof's LoJack talk on house's, etc., but I sure agree with this:Sure, some of the crime-fighting ideas being bandied about are pie-in-the-sky.But they show how we can think about crime in systematic ways, rather than just grunting about the need for more prisons.Sadly, that's about all the right like to do... if it doesn't involve easier ways to lock people up or use

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I guess I must be a retard, but this thought had never occured to me... from John Kerry's editiorial in today's Times:He also needs to put the training of Iraqi troops on a true six-month wartime footing and ensure that the Iraqi government has the budget needed to deploy them. The administration and the Iraqi government must stop using the requirement that troops be trained in-country as an

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1) Folks here are nice, but like most European countries I have run into too many people who haven't showered in the past week. Tip to the Norwegians: you aren't *that* nice!2) The subway runs on the honor system. You buy your ticket at a vending machine, get on your train, and get off at your destination without any human or electronic interference... no turnstiles, nothing. However, they do

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Sorry for the lack of posts of late... I have been on the road at conferences a lot of late.In fact, I am writing this post from a cafe down the street from my hotel in Oslo, Norway. A few obervations thus far:1) Norwegains have no idea how to queue... that will take some getting used to...2) I can already tell things are just more laid back here... amazing how good you can feel when everyone

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It's pointed out here that Bush admits that because we've drawn all the terrorists (in the world?) to Iraq, we'll be much safer here in America. I wonder what the Iraqis that we LIBERATED think about that?"Here's your liberation. Sorry about the mess we created. Good luck... Oh yeah, do you mind if we grab a little oil before we go? Thanks so much."

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This via Atrios... a dollar to a donut says the media will either not blink at this or will say something like "some Democrats question the adminstration's previous comments."

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Awesome passage by Billmon:As for morality . . . Well, if you can't see the evil in locking prisoners of war -- some of them held by mistake, others only foot soldiers in the Taliban's army -- in 100 plus degree rooms for 24 hours without food or water, until they shit or piss all over themselves -- then you're truly beyond redemption. Once you've reached that point, you can probably justify

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This is friggin' hilarious:Todd Gitlin is right too, here. Where is the reporting on the crimes of America’s detention? You know you’re in trouble when Tom Friedman is breaking news. That means the cabbies in India already know it.

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Kevin is right... writing for the Daily Show has got to be the second easiest gig in the world right now (next to being a weatherman in San Diego)

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Wow... and I mean WOWAtrios points us to a Hardball transcript on Gitmo that I can hardly believe... bolds are mine:ORIN: I go back to the fact that we need to remember we‘re at war. And it makes it—you know, for some of the people who are on the left on this issue, it gets very easy to say, oh, we need to treat them with proper respect and so on. This is a very complicated question, because, on

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What is up with the last name "Lay" and financial scandels?Also, the Toledo Blade has my support in taking over as the best investigative paper in the country... the Times and Post haven't done shit (with the occasional Walter Pincus and Mike Allen exceptions)

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This is an older item, but I thought I would chuck it onto the ol' blog in case any of my three readers missed it.The rights' response to all this? Probably something along the lines of "Krugman is so shrill."

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Clap louder, damn you!Really, go read the whole thing... the cultural differences boggle the mind.

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Conrad joined, so all that are left are White Christian Southerners...Of course, the fact I pointed that out is bigger than the original story according to the MSM...

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