Bierce is no philosopher but only because he had little use for most of them, not unlike Lewis Wolpert from Salon's post today "Manufacturing Belief". Wolpert favors Hume. Bierce was quite well read. Our generation's Bierce was probably Gus Hasford, but he died too young to finish his work.

He clucked approvingly at my collection of hard-boiled titles, and pulled out a volume of Ambrose Bierce's short stories. He read aloud a favorite passage from "Chickamauga" and said he was planning to write a biography of Bierce, plus a multivolume saga on the Civil War. Plus a novel about an American woman president, which he was presently working on. Plus a sequel to "Shorty" called The Phantom Blooper. Plus a series of six LA private-eye novels. His notebook was color-indexed to various ongoing research projects, including Mark Twain, anarchy, the Alamo, Van Gogh, screenwriting and Abraham Lincoln -- all subjects about which he expected to write books eventually.

--Grover Lewis

The Killing of Gus Hasford

http://www.gustavhasford.com/killing.htm

"that GWB really was elected: 5 to 4. (courtesy of SCOTUS)"

Where someone like Jake could matriculate in revisionist history.

Hillsdale College, Grove City College, Liberty University...etc.

Where can we read your dissertation and Post doc work? They are all online someplace. The good ones get published.

Or The Elephant Media?

The MSM did a recount of their own validating that Bush did indeed win by vote.

Of little old defeatocrat tree hugging hippies

Would that be this MSM?

Heard just now on MSNBC, as they carry on about Jerry Falwell (my transcription),

Contessa Brewer (speaking to Chris Matthews):

“You’re looking at a guy - Jerry Falwell - who had a lot of influence on the current President, even now. One of my producers, Chris, just pulled up a page from whitehouse.org where they say “Jerry Falwell has earned his role as the de facto executive director of domestic and global policy for the White House.” How much influence did he have on George W. Bush?”

Of course, apparently unbeknownst to the crack detective staff at MSNBC, whitehouse.org is a satire site… the actual web address of the White House is whitehouse.gov. It’s nice to see the mainstream media snatching satire from the jaws of the serious here.

[UPDATE: TPM has posted the video here.]

http://article19.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html#7619876256141291231

If I really gave a rat's ass about either of you, you'd already have had a free pizza delivered to your door, on me.

Anchovies?

This is how they play it, but they don't like it when they can't hide under the rocks themselves. I give you the recent case of real internet stalking and intimidation of columnist Christian Trejbal just before the VT shootings:

http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/trejbal/wb/wb/xp-108160

After Malkin and Misha and these real cowardly "digital brownshirts" published his home address, he was inundated with hate mail, threats and an actual bomb threat/suspicious package.

I bet Trejbal has a CCW now. You need one with these people. I shoot back.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007050.htm

http://www.nicedoggie.net/2007/?p=301

Don't suspend your disbelief yet... it's far too early.

This is off topic but it will kill you quicker. "Dirty Bomb at the dump"

Out of Control – On Purpose:

DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into

Landfills and Consumer Products

Principal Authors:

Diane D’Arrigo

Mary Olson

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

Contributors

Dr. Marvin Resnikoff

Dan Guttman

Cynthia Folkers

Michael H. Gibson

May 14, 2007

Produced thanks to a grant from the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund

http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/outofcontrol/outofcontrolreport.pdf

H/T to TeamBIO

http://www.teambio.org/2007/05/new-report-finds-nuclear-weapons-materials-released-to-landfills/

I don't see any value in treating these "people" as reasonable conversational partners. They are propagandists, and by treating them as anything else, their speech is legitimized.

-- jojo++

Shoots his mouth off is terrified of me, or so he says.

Mona... Among other things, he is so stoopid he thinks *I* am a Democrat.

Everyone has their limits.

Playing with Tony Snow's band. I caught a glimpse of that stache. How sad.

http://beatsworkinvirginia.com/_wsn/page2.html

He's also really friendly with Crazy Curt Weldon. A high IQ will not protect you from neocoprophilia.

stevkar...What changed? Domestic spying program had been going for about two years already. It seems like Ashcroft and Cromey had not objected for the first two years of the program. Had they been signing of on approvals previously? Certainly had not been threatening to resign over it previously. So what changed?

Glenn's Update II re: JaO's comment:

Note that nowhere in Comey's story are NSA officials mentioned. But FBI Director Robert Mueller was a central player in the drama -- he even met personally with President Bush -- and also was one who threatened resignation. This indicates that, whatever was going on before the program was modified, those activities were being conducted by the FBI, not just the NSA. That could mean purely domestic unwarranted wiretaps, unwarranted black-bag jobs, or similar misconduct.

And Update III:

UPDATE III: As Peter Swire over at Think Progress notes, Gonzales testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee last year that "there has not been any serious disagreement about the program" and "to my knowledge, none of the reservations dealt with the program that we are talking about today."

They were talking about eavesdropping, which the NSA would do, not warrantless "Sneak and Peaks" allowed under the Patriot Act, which the FBI would do...

And I guess the House amended that to prohibit those in July of 2003.

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/h072203.html

I wonder if there is a connection...The DoJ and FBI could have been concerned that such an activity was now prohibited yet they may still have been pressured to engage in that type of surveillance.