And they barely showed the clothes. One reason was ad time. In the early episodes, there were at least 30 minutes of ads in an hour show. No time left for sewing, sniping & staring at seams.

The other time issue was when it ran. The big fan at my house has a 9pm bedtime, and it was almost impossible to find the show. First, for half the season, they didn't replay the current (10pm) episode at all, then they ran it on Friday at 8 for a few weeks. Then suddenly (without notice) they flipped that with Diet Tribe & ran it at 9 & 10 for the rest of the season.

Total network failure.

I see no reason to reject the notion that Bush accomplished exactly what he intended with Iran : The continuation of public mutual demonization & private cooperation that has worked to the mutual advantage of Mullahs & Republicans for 30 years.

Why assume Bush had anything against repressive fundamentalist patriarchal theocrats?

it should be called "I am aware of all journalist traditions"

I haven't seen a link here yet, but Webb has a 2 page spread in Parade today - http://www.parade.com/news/2009/03/why-we-must-fix-our-prisons.html

Kinds taking things right to the middle.

On its best night of the week NBC is the #3 network. The only reason Zucker has a job is that the rest of GE is doing so bad (stock under $10, down about 75%) that they can't spare the time to find a replacement.

All he can hope is that they stay ahead of Univision for #4.

The only one I remember was Linda Chavez for Labor Secretary.

High comedy! She had a Guatemalen refugee working under an arrangement that appeared to violate the 13th amendment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010109/aponline172303_000.htm

Good times.

Hiatt is quoting the Dragon Scroll from Kung Fu Panda

Will we finally find out where Aafia Siddiqui was for 5 years?

There are about 200 left at Guantanamo. Many many more around the world, needing to be named.

I'm going to be watching everything but Guantanamo, just because.

big time journalists still follow Jon Swift's Rules of Journalism, especially 2 & 3 (It's not objective to say an offical is lying)

http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/11/journalism-101.html

Never having read Douthat, after following the link I read his more recent posts, too. They were just as empty & shallow.

Pundits filling space hemming and hawing on issues they don't understand are not neutral. As Phil Dick pointed out in 1954s The Mold of Yancy, they're driving home the point: Big issues are beyond you. Trust in leaders.

Douthat's little-old-me routine,quavering in the face of supposed Life & Death Decisions Protecting Us, is straight down the middle of how the Yancemen prepared their audience for the war they were planning to launch.

Back in the mid 1980s he was a pretty nice, energetic guy who ran the local runners club in Amherst, MA. His half hearted defense of the indefensible here is a warning about the dangers of becoming a flack.

Using pragmatism as a shorthand for immediate consequences and narrow self interest would really offend the Prangmatists. Did William James ever overlook ethics, and embrace ends justifying meeans? No. A good Pragmatist takes a much deeper view of consequences. Outcomes are always uncertain; actions can be judged in themselves.

Geez, you people are terrible at speculating about medical records. STDs, mental illness, domestic violence - endless possibilities & you haven't touched any of the obvious possibilities from her seedy gigantic home.

as this game is, the (likely) reality is even funnier:

The market took off when the Republican "buy trash" plan was dumped in favor of the Gordon Brown/Paul Krugman "eat the banks" plan.

How can you top the triumph of Socialism on Wall Street?

All the Nazis are long gone. Obama got a wonderful reception in Germany.

The ugliness of the McCain/Palin hate train has thoroughly American roots - you shouldn't drag the Germans into this.

The only relief from idiotic coverage in 2004 was Wimblehack -

• http://www.nypress.com/17/40/news&columns/feature.cfm

Sadly, this year offers no similar relief.

It sounds like these are a few houses full of people who have never done anything worth noticing, yet somebody, probably the FBI, has them all watched.

That this is an illustration, maybe a trial run, of putting to use all the illegally collected spy data from the last 7 years, seems more than likely, & a connection that really needs following up. Because there is just no legitimate way that all these people could have come to the attention of the sheriffs department.

Who's next?

While you're on the subject of FBI misinvestigations, there's the arrest of Aafia Siddiqui under totally bogus cirumstances. Was she held at Bagram for 5 years? Could the story of her arrest be any lamer? Where are her children?

I tried to find out more, and Google led to an incredible number of very angry stories from Pakistan. Cooperating with her arrest seems to have been what pushed Musharraf out of office today.

From the US media? Crickets.

Most of what the readers at the Post say about this is exactly what Glenn says. (The rest is from a Russian disagreeing with what it says about Russia)

Which is the norm at the Post. They only read their comments to see if there's something rude they can get the vapors about.

Its over 6 years old. I'm not sure that

a)There were any of the major Guantanamo abuses underway at that point

or

b) Whether Joe was lied to by sources, or just pulled the column whole from thin air.

This might not be the best example of Klein getting taken in.