Site Presented By
Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
olesage
Published Letters: 182 Editor's Choice: 8
Once again Joe Conason has shown us what real journalism is. He makes his outrage clear, then backs it up with facts, links and accountable truths. The research he does is obvious, and nothing he does, he does without giving his readers the opportunity and means by which to fact check him.
I was hesistant about seeing this movie. I am a Cash fan. The previews gave me the impression that Phoenix was doing a caricature of Johnny Cash.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
This was an amazing movie.
It begins slow. The music of Johnny Cash is fed to us in bits, but as the movie progresses we get more and more.
Just one of those movies that grab you and hold you throughout.
This is why this is the only online news I subscribe to.
The Oscars are always boring ... except for a few moments. Just like last night. Cintra, you need to lighten up, you take the night and yourself way too serious.
Your logic in the question you pose to Andrew Wilkow is airtight. If right to lifers agree that life begins at conception, it supposes that there is no difference between born and unborn children.
Here's another question for him.
You are on a jury charging a man with negligent homicide because he saved the petri dish and let the child die. How would you vote? Guilty or not. The accused, unlike Wilkow stands behind his beliefs and truly feels that he saved the five lives by sacrificing one.
My neck is sore from doing double takes. I can not believe the lengths these folks go to in order to somehow justify their immorality.
Letterman does this bit he calls, "The George W. Bush What Moment," or something like that. He plays a clip of Bush making no sense whatsoever, then as the camera goes back to Dave, he does a double take and says, "What?!?".
More and more "What's" happening every day!
Had me. The first time through.
Great piece of editing.
Very funny.
Your Freudian slip in the last paragraph is great. Although we WISH the calls were for Bush to resign, Rummy would be a nice start.
I think what is most disconcerting is that the administration acts as if it's original plan had actually succeeded.
They behave as if the underfunded, underequiped, undermanned force that was sent in at the start of the war acheived it's mission. Rummy's folly, which was to go light and have the war paid for by Iraqi oil has been a miserable failure. The Bush administation appears to be the only ones who can't see this.
If someone was a supporter of the war due to ignorance, and they've come around, then I welcome them. It just takes some people longer to realize things. So many Americans are uniformed, or worse, misinformed. As the media catches on, and more and more outlets report what is going on, and what has been going on, then people wise up.
However. When someone like Gingrich comes around. I turn my back to him. He is a politcal animal who does what he sees as necessary to further his own cause. He is on the bandwagon now. His voice of dissent would have meant something two years, or even a year ago. Now? It just makes me sick.
This is hysterical. But, there is no way it's not staged. Very creative!
I've been thinking lately as I watch and listen to various talking heads that some of us are optimists and some are pessimists. Maybe it's an over simplification, but the responses to this article especially TK's prove it.
It's suggested that he lighten up. Not possible. His psyche is such that he is unable to see the possibility and reality that exists simultaneously in taking something seriously, and enjoying life.
Garrison Keillor is a gift to us all. Pure and simple. His writing, his sensibilities touch a chord in us.
TK misses the point. Keillor is dead serious. He is worried and pissed and disgusted with the current administration. However, his optimism, his very survival depends on his ability to fall back on, if only briefly that which is makes him feel good.
The Bush team and all their surrogates are striking out like madmen and hoping that they'll make contact.
Blame Foleygate on gays. Blame failures clearly to due to lack of diplomacy on Clinton. Blame the number of dead Iraqi civilians on flawed, liberal studies.
Just keep doing it guys and hope you hit pay dirt, because time is running out. With each desperate swing and a miss the poll numbers sink, and the amount of Americans talking politics goes up.
Judgment day is a comin' George, and it ain't the kind you were hoping for.
The bro of Nash bit a Shaq.
Ain't it obvious? Graham Nash's brother bit Shaq. Probably because Rush Limbaugh told Nash's bro that Shaq supported Michael Fox's heroic battle against Parkinsons.
This is a great repsponse by Kerry. Given his reaction, along with Clinton's response to Chris Wallace, it actually appears that Dems ARE fighting back. Love it.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
