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pre-yat trivia answer-- this explains why the "winged wheel" but not what the winged wheel means. fucking inscrutable canucks.
- dave 10-14-2005 4:47 pm [link] [5 comments]

times select: good economics or instant blog karma


- bill 10-12-2005 5:57 am [link] [1 comment]

are you easily amused?
- dave 10-10-2005 10:43 pm [link] [1 comment]

yahoo podcasting search.
- dave 10-10-2005 7:55 pm [link] [add a comment]

frank rich oped
- dave 10-09-2005 2:52 pm [link] [1 comment]

"pit bull in size six shoes"


- bill 10-03-2005 6:04 pm [link] [11 comments]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.

The contract with Mr. Williams and the general contours of the public relations campaign had been known for months. The report Friday provided the first definitive ruling on the legality of the activities.

Lawyers from the accountability office, an independent nonpartisan arm of Congress, found that the administration systematically analyzed news articles to see if they carried the message, "The Bush administration/the G.O.P. is committed to education."

The auditors declared: "We see no use for such information except for partisan political purposes. Engaging in a purely political activity such as this is not a proper use of appropriated funds."

The report also sharply criticized the Education Department for telling Ketchum Inc., a public relations company, to pay Mr. Williams for newspaper columns and television appearances praising Mr. Bush's education initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act.
discussed


- bill 10-01-2005 10:03 pm [link] [add a comment]

ny times unselect:

today in krugman
- dave 9-30-2005 4:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

DeLay indicted on criminal conspiracy charges, will step aside as majority leader.

May he be the first in a long line!
- jim 9-28-2005 10:34 pm [link] [5 comments]

first giant squid to be caught on film


- bill 9-28-2005 3:18 am [link] [1 comment]

size of the storm

from here

via the map room


- bill 9-24-2005 5:01 am [link] [add a comment]

trail minotaur blogged blogged

via fmu msg board off topic
- bill 9-23-2005 11:53 pm [link] [add a comment]

per cnn: levee breach at industrial canal in NO

correctiion: officials now calling it an "over topping" and workers are working on it in lower 9th ward - water rose 5-10 inches in 5 min. levee is broken.

-also : problem western side chintillie (sp?) west NO
- bill 9-23-2005 6:29 pm [link] [9 comments]

donahue on oriley like white on rice


- bill 9-23-2005 12:43 pm [link] [add a comment]

19 hours to get from houston to austin by car

my mom in dallas happens to have her sister in town, they were heading out for batteries, water and wine. hope theres someone around for jim louis's mom. tell her to call my mom if need be.
- bill 9-22-2005 11:55 pm [link] [1 ref] [4 comments]

via fmu station manager ken :

From the mouth of Steinski: I dunno whether Kanye was right about George Bush and black people, but I love it that someone turned his interview into a mashup, and someone else turned the mashup into a video, all in like a week.

- bill 9-20-2005 7:11 pm [link] [add a comment]

from todays ny post:

This plan is for the birds.

City officials and NYC Audubon want all lights decorating the outside of buildings above the 40th floor to be turned off by midnight from now until the end of October.

The initiative, called Lights Out New York, is to be announced today and is designed to help hundreds of thousands of migrating birds navigate safely through the Big Apple on their annual route south.
- bill 9-20-2005 4:22 pm [link] [1 comment]

free flags


- bill 9-17-2005 3:47 pm [link] [add a comment]

dmtree tv blog
- dave 9-17-2005 1:49 am [link] [1 comment]

q: what is W's position on roe vs wade
a: he doesnt care how they get out of new orleans

as told by jimb last night


- bill 9-16-2005 4:43 pm [link] [add a comment]

what i want to know is: can bloggers sue really dumfuck idiotwind commenters ?

from dkos
- bill 9-16-2005 12:00 am [link] [add a comment]

browns story


- bill 9-15-2005 7:22 am [link] [add a comment]

google/blogsearch
- dave 9-15-2005 3:55 am [link] [1 ref] [5 comments]

NOAA overflight pics of Katrina damage


- mark 9-15-2005 12:22 am [link] [add a comment]

letter to michael moore : DONT DO IT

Moore is reportedly considering making a documentary about Bush and Katrina. It would be the easiest film he's ever done.

from toms otherwise stellar katrina crono quote post
- bill 9-13-2005 10:55 pm [link] [add a comment]