drat fink

Friday, March 02, 2001

trivial pursuers

Reassigning Tim Russert: How To Get Washington Reporters to Cover Things That Count

crass warfare

The Smirking Chimp

trivial matters

Hotline Scoop's: The Back Page

show worthy

new show in the works for julia louis dreyfus

naders aiders

"Mention his name in the House Democratic caucus and Ralph Nader draws spontaneous boos. Among party regulars, many assume that the anger and the regrets lingering from Election 2000 effectively put an end to the "Nader moment." Every right turn by George W. Bush reminds people that Nader's Green Party vote of 2.7 percent deprived Albert Gore of a clean victory. Even some erstwhile supporters are grumbling about Nader's postelection silence, depicting a weird recluse who's not even talking to old friends. Representative Richard Gephardt, the House minority leader, had a different idea. He invited Nader in for a friendly chat in early February and began by congratulating him for running "a terrific campaign." According to Nader, Gephardt was especially impressed by the superrallies the Green campaign organized in city after city, filling large arenas with enthusiastic young people who paid $10 or $20 to cheer Nader's dense litany of progressive policy issues. Nobody is paying to hear us talk about policy, Gephardt observed. "

come on, get mappy

Area Accurate Map / The Peters Projection

Fuller Projection Map

PCL Map Collection

fox hunting

O'Reilly Among the Snobs - It takes one to know one.� by Michael Kinsley

anti-fox rupert murdock screed from the nation.

professor al invites rupert to class at columbia.

ballboys

the life of nba officials profiled in the nyt magazine

equal time

sober well reasoned assessment of latest clinton mess

a booming economy

"Trinity Church struck noon. The sidewalks filled with brokers, clerks and receptionists heading for lunch. At 12:01, a bomb of roughly 100 pounds of TNT, resting on the wagon floor above the left rear axle, exploded in "a blinding sheet of saffron-green light." Five hundred pounds of fragmented sash weights piled about the bomb tore into the passersby like shrapnel. A nearby automobile flipped 20 feet into the air. Thousands of plate-glass windows shattered over a half-mile radius, their fragments tinkling from sill to ledge to pavement. A pillar of brownish-lemon smoke soared heavenward. Awnings 12 stories up caught fire. The explosion blasted the fa�ade of J.P. Morgan & Co. The bank�s windows burst inward in a blizzard of razor-sharp shards. Thomas Joyce, the chief clerk, working at a window facing Wall St., died instantly."

word

john strausbaugh on hipster audiences and an audience with a dick.

work it

HowStuffWorks.com - Learn how Everything Works! via ??

hitman

"Welcome to a subgenre of online video games that has emerged as the most successful form of Web entertainment this side of pornography. Among its tight-knit proponents, this type of entertainment is known as -- take a breath -- massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). And in 2000, while DEN.com, Entertaindom.com and other entertainment sites were demonstrating that Hollywood stars and pocket-sized sitcoms are a great way to lose money online, Sony's EverQuest, the genre's leading title, generated an estimated $30 million from subscription fees. While Sony doesn't disclose individual game revenues, EverQuest has likely grossed at least $60 million in subscription fees and sales of CD-ROMs (which players have to buy in order to access the game) since its debut in March 1999. And it's on track to take in another $40 million in subscriptions this year. The game has attracted 330,000 subscribers paying $9.89 a month, who log on at least once a day and usually stay more than an hour. Players have taken to calling the game EverCrack and NeverRest."

from russia with love

reaganomicon

"Is 49 the nuclear anniversary? Ronald and Nancy Reagan will celebrate their 49th wedded year on Sunday by christening the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. Mrs. Reagan herself will travel to Newport News, Va., to crack the traditional bottle of champagne against the ship's hull. Some people go out to dinner. Some people throw parties ..."

reagan legacy project

bob kerrey oped on the need to reform the military, especially our nuclear deterrence, as it is still focused on cold war style engagements.

piece from mojowire

Thursday, March 01, 2001

flap happy

cockburn on the pardon "scandal"

freebird

"But faced with indisputable evidence that, among other things, his brother-in-law Hugh Rodham peddled influence to at least two successful pardon-seekers, the burden of proof is now on Mr. Clinton. While awaiting his responses, a review of the contemporary history of Presidential clemency provides some perspective�especially because the mainstream press has been so derelict in providing context."

under observation

three from the ny observer ---

oped lashing into the clintons

marc rich and the jewish question

snls tina feys got shiksappeal

newspups

salons jake tapper tapped for new cnn talkshow aimed at a younger demographic.

tunnel visions

Drug Runners' Tunnels Test the Agents in a Border Town

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

good waffles

belgium decriminalizes marijuana via dr menlo

holing out

Courtney Love Seeks to Rock Record Labels' Contract Policy via gitm

sports model

age old story -- the jock and the swimsuit model v.2001.

in seine

Author Adam Gopnik goes "american in paris" on npr and in his book Paris to the Moon.

by design

a more nuanced (or deceptive) anti-evolutionary rationale -- intelligent design theory.

sex sells

The Sordid Tale of Sex.com

dogged pursuit

"But the media reports and Ruskin's dogged efforts to pursue the charges fell on deaf ears in Congress. Under a law passed in 1997, it is impossible for civic groups or private citizens to file ethics complaints against congressmen. Under what the somewhat jaded Ruskin refers to as the "Corrupt Politicians Protection Act," all formal ethics complaints must be filed by a member of the House. The upside of the law is that it protects lawmakers from frivolous harassment. The downside is that no ethics charges have been filed, according to Ruskin, since its passage."

puff piece

Kentucky Journal: Fighting Appalachia's Top Cash Crop, Marijuana