Standing Eight Count

Taking it down a notch by ignoring '10 and skipping right to '12.

01 February 2007

RIP Molly

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Everyone will have seen this , but incredibly depressing news for the reality-based community tonite. Molly Ivins dead at 62. It's a ter...
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26 December 2006

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No lengthy appeals process for the likes of Saddam Hussein, his one and only appeal court said he must die within thirty days: See It Now Tw...
25 December 2006

Not a fairy tale, but grim.

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US casualties in Iraq now greater than those incurred on 9-11. If you'd asked Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld in March '03, they'd ha...
23 December 2006

Draft on Tap?

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NYT on the recent "surge" of draft rumors: See It Now Okay, set aside the actual issue of a potential draft for a moment. We all t...
21 December 2006

Inside the Redactors Studio

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The NYT got a hold of one of the CIA's black highlighters: See It Now Half the redactions are pretty guessable, if you know the style of...
13 December 2006

Bush now officially 'worse than nothing'

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The old Tony Snow/ Bush apologist trope about "hey, our guy's numbers are low, but congress' are even worse" is no longer ...
01 December 2006

Getting Blogged Down

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Some dude is running an experiment to see how fast news travels. Read this then link to it if you are a blogger yourself: Acephalous: Measur...
27 November 2006

From the "You can't parody a parody" department:

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Residents of a Colorado "homeowners association" (read: homogeneity association,) demand removal of a peace sign Christmas wreath:...
22 November 2006

And so it begins:

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Romney trashes McCain, and the '08 race is officially underway: Romney: ‘I’m a conservative Republican’ - Examiner.com Here's hoping...

Education Secretary, on Jeopardy, Loses to 'Lenny' but not squiggy.

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No snark necessary. This post writes itself: See It Now In fairness to Sec. Spellings, Mike McKean is pretty smart. In fairness to Mike McKe...
19 November 2006

Suskind on Oversight

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The chronicler of the 1% doctrine tells the new congress how to use their new found authority, and we like how he thinks: Send in the Subpoe...
15 November 2006

The Floyd Void

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Maybe Floyd Landis did win the Tour after all: Landis lab made 'administrative error' - Yahoo! News Then again maybe not.
12 November 2006

RIP Adrienne Shelly

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It's not exactly our beat, but she was an incredible actress, and one of Hal Hartley 's faves, and since he's our fave, we note ...
09 November 2006

The truth will out. As soon as the elections are over.

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It's not our bailiwick but here's the latest on Pat Tillman's death: AP: Startling findings in Tillman probe - Yahoo! News It...
08 November 2006

On Frist Corker and Ford

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Republican Hangs On to Frist’s Senate Seat - New York Times Full disclosure: The Eight gave to McCaskill and Ford in very small amounts this...
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Grad-school drop-out; left-handed; left-leaning; deist-taoist
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