I'm late to the party, but

-- Paul Rosenberg

PermalinkTuesday, March 27, 2007 11:40:01 AM

pretty well sums it up for me.

'zatchoo Michael?

Senate just vtoed NAY 50-48 Yea, against the Cochran amedment to the supp. spending bill.

IOW, the deadline for troop withdrawal stays IN.

Not sure how "expected" it was... I did hear Hagel vote "Nay". Otherwise, it was strictly party-line as far as I could determine. Just FYI, my typing skills STINK, so I'm virtually incapable of any substantive back/forth.

Best.

Pryor(D)voted Yea, (R's)Hagel and Smith (Ore.) Nay.

Catherine, minor point - I believe it is, more properly, "pwn3d". 8')

Meanwhile this thread seems to have degenerated into a battle over who can be most inane with the english language.

-- shooter242

N/T

Scott Horton's post @ Balkinization

http://balkin.blogspot.com/

(cited by sysprog) is well worth the read.

Scott Horton's post @ Balkinization (cited by sysprog)

http://balkin.blogspot.com/

is well worth the read.

Believe it or not, most people who know me in "real life" consider me to be pretty intelligent (Ivy-league grad, top of my B-school class), but every day I come here, read the comments, and just feel...

stupid.

This place rocks!

Thanks. Ratbert luvs him some LGF, methinks...

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/03/time-to-admit-oversight.php#more

Re: NO (that's apparently zero, zip, nada) coverage of Gonezopurge in TIME this week.

Link (favorably) cites GG

N/T

w/ this quote - " So apparently one of News Corp's specialties is polluting neutral and credible information systems with their own bad version based on bullshit that makes them more money."

Seriously, though, consider the implications of Stoller's story, coupled w/ GG's post re: neoconservatism's effect on reshaping the political spectrum, It exemplifies Chomsky's point about the extremely narrow range of "acceptable" policy discussion. That's the reason I'd very much like to see an "insurgent" candidate.

...about this place being a de facto chat room for [GG groupies, I guess]. They might have a valid point, because it's SATURDAY fer chris'sake!

You people (and you know who you are) are like, blognerds or somethin'. I think I might have coined that phrase, just now. Blognerds.

I'm off to a birthday party w/ my kid. Enjoy.

Obama says Congress will fund the war after Bush's veto...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070401-1013-obama-interview.html

Damn!

Hey, moron - I read this
" I mean, just look at you, sitting there staring at me, with your head to big for your body. And your long head with your long nose ... "
and now I have to clean a mouthful of iced tea off of my monitor!

I'm still laughing.

Today, Drudge accused CNN reporter Michael Ware of "heckling" McCain during his post-stroll presser in Baghdad. There's video proof this did NOT happen (Video of the presser, Ware was silent until the end, raised his hand to ask a question, presser curtailed). Macht nix. The wingers have their story, and they're stickin' to it!

that to [ABC News], GG is just a dirty f*ckin' hippie? How dare he/we question their pronouncements? They win PEABODY's fer chris'sake!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1604931.ece

PR - enjoyed your posts @ MyDD. Sorry if I've missed the reference to it, but do you have an url for self-assessment on Altemeyer's scale?

Paul R was good enough to repost the link:

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

Read it. His style's a bit breezy for me, but it's an easy read. I scored a "40"...

PR are you REALLY a -11, -11? WOW!

(-6.25, -7.13)

In the studio w/ Seder or via telephone?

Is that more work for Glenn, or do we have someone else to thank/blame?

Where is the "proper" place to follow up on a previous day's post? F'rinstance, I'd like to know if yesterday's post was sent to ABC, and if it generated any reply. I'm assuming there was nothing substantive, otherwise GG would've posted it. But if one were inclined to ask, should one do it HERE, or THERE?

(I should not ask it here or there, I should not ask it anywhere...)

...against getting a response from Brian Ross, as opposed to Jeff Schneider?

"no wonder I swing by here first thing in the morning."

The cabal has internalized the belief that PEOPLE VOTED FOR THE SURGE! The Nov. election showed the people wanted GWB to change course. He did. We surged. All True Americans support Dear Leader in these efforts.

I've heard some version of this thesis any number of times. And I think they actually believe their own B.S., which is part of what makes them so dangerous.

PLEASE stop feeding "Sh*t, uh, SHOOTER fer brains"!

I'd just composed my longest leTter ever, only to have it disappear on the preview. 8'(

To recap: I'm a convert to the media criticism. It's important and helpful.

Glenn, watch yesterday's Democracy Now! Michael Albert (Z mag founder) had a msg. that reminded me of you. Sounds odd, but the essence of it was - there is hope.

My old college roomate sent me this to cheer me up. Thought I'd share.

Check out this prose from Tagore's "The Gardener"...

The Gardener (Verse 84)

-- Rabindranath Tagore--

Over the green and yellow rice fields

sweep the shadows of autumn clouds

The bees forget to sip their honey;

drunken with light they foolishly hover and hum

The ducks in the islands of the river

clamour in joy for mere nothing

Let none go back home, brothers

this morning let none go to work

Let us take the blue sky by storm

and plunder space as we run

Laughter floats in the air like foam on the flood

Brothers, let us squander our morning in futile song.

W/ apologies to Arne, Cheers, everybody!

"If that isn't warmongering I don't know what is."

Are you literally unaware of the existence of dictionaries?

i.e "books containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their form, pronunciation, functions, etymologies and meanings"?