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"Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail."

-- scott mcconnell / american conservative magazine


- bill 10-24-2004 7:53 pm [link] [2 comments]

changes in military law


- bill 10-24-2004 4:58 pm [link] [add a comment]

Alex, maybe you are working for the wrong arm of the government...

Bird traffic controller

The Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem is no ordinary twitcher. An expert in bird migration patterns across the Middle East, he has turned his passion into a small industry responsible for saving the Israeli air force more than half a billion dollars in hardware - and, no doubt, the lives of several pilots. Fred Pearce hears how he has even turned migrating birds into unlikely emissaries for peace.

- jim 10-23-2004 8:46 pm [link] [3 comments]

Addendum to a post on my page (see indented text):
Atrios thinks William Gibson is a "techno-conservatarian," or their patron saint, and that it's somehow weirdly out of character that he'd contribute to Media Matters for America. Guess he hasn't read much Gibson--maybe he's confusing him with Jerry Pournelle?

UPDATE: Gibson replied:

The puzzling thing about this for me being: Do I have a hundred thousand politically conservative fans, and if so, *can't they read*? Most likely Atrios is referring to that sub-species of tragic mouthbreather so mesmerized by my effortless proliferation of imaginary Starck-slick gizmos that he never even notices the characterization, let alone the socio-political implications. I have always found those guys, like the ones who ask if I've read Ayn Rand, to be a distinct minority.

- tom moody 10-23-2004 1:08 am [link] [add a comment]

glass hoo ha


- bill 10-22-2004 7:40 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

the office bbc tonight


- bill 10-22-2004 4:21 am [link] [2 comments]

list of songs whose title appears more than 20 times in the lyrics
- tom moody 10-21-2004 4:31 am [link] [4 comments]

NYC to Fort Lauderdale Update:

We now have 50+ folks flying to Ft. Lauderdale to work for ACT at election time.

Flights are $129 R/T and hotel rooms are $99.

Anyone who's interested in joining, email us at

nyc2fla2004@excite.com

Broward County, baby!!!!
- big jimmy 10-18-2004 11:46 pm [link] [2 comments]

William Gibson started blogging again. He's mad about Bush and the war.
- tom moody 10-17-2004 7:34 am [link] [add a comment]

anybody try google desktop? pretty cool search tool for your harddrive. welcome, google overlords!
- dave 10-16-2004 7:29 pm [link] [2 comments]

im sending this out to all my digmedtre friends. respek


- bill 10-15-2004 12:22 am [link] [1 comment]

Here's the clip of Bush "freaking on Charlie Gibson," as trios puts it. It's Windows Media Player, unfortunately. It's pretty unbelievable--the Dems should run it over and over. Oh, well, it looks like the site is overrun. trios is the kiss of death.
- tom moody 10-10-2004 12:07 am [link] [add a comment]

Billmon returned from the dead and posted something in the wee hours about how the Dems should make more of Bush's anger issues. Now he's pulled the post. I know he's well liked around here, but he's such a sulking primadonna. "How dare you love me?"
- tom moody 10-09-2004 9:07 pm [link] [3 comments]

not nearly as funny as rodney but just as dead.
- dave 10-09-2004 8:48 pm [link] [16 comments]

if anyone's interested in going to florida for the election (to bring elderly kerry voters to the polls in Ft. lauderdale), i'm organizing a trip. email me. we're having an event monday night, the details of which are below:

NYC to FLA Mon Oct 11, 6:30PM 274 W. 12th St, #5 (w4th)

nbutterworth - at - mac.com
- big jimmy 10-07-2004 9:12 pm [link] [1 comment]

just in case you havent seen the George W Bush drunk at an August 29th 1992 Lubbock wedding video


- bill 10-07-2004 5:30 pm [link] [add a comment]

give the man some respect.
- dave 10-06-2004 7:30 am [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]

on the outside chance anyone missed : NYT How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence By DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD and JEFF GERTH


- bill 10-05-2004 3:05 am [link] [3 comments]

2nd annual black label bike kill


- bill 10-03-2004 8:08 am [link] [2 comments]

Interesting (and random?) list of MacArthur 'Genius' Award recipients announced today.
- selma 9-29-2004 1:19 am [link] [2 comments]

Plans for a draft-dodger monument in Canada.
- alex 9-26-2004 10:28 pm [link] [add a comment]

It's Banned Books Week.
- alex 9-26-2004 10:12 pm [link] [add a comment]

notice the back spin


- bill 9-25-2004 1:52 pm [link] [2 comments]

tom ran into this once posting about the young turds on the fmu message board. the censorship script changes bad words (even if the are contained within other not bad words like shelly) to what ever they want. for instance hell = flint michigan and fuck = nina totenberg. here are some retards having fun with it.


- bill 9-24-2004 8:27 pm [link] [7 comments]

This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor

Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?
We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown

This town, is coming like a ghost town
Why must the youth fight against themselves?
Government leaving the youth on the shelf
This place, is coming like a ghost town
No job to be found in this country
Can't go on no more
The people getting angry

This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town
This town, is coming like a ghost town


- bill 9-22-2004 10:40 pm [link] [add a comment]