Murrow Lite

KeithO doing his best and self-admittedly pale E.R. Murrow impression, Rummy standing in for Joe McC:

Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann Delivers One Hell Of a Commentary on Rumsfeld

At least someone's saying something.

Fashion Weak

Apparantly we're still free in this country to express our political beliefs on our clothes, but only after a big legal flap:

cbs13.com - Court Sides With Student In Bush T-Shirt Flap

At least that freedom applies at schools, good luck getting said 'offensive' shirt into a Bush rally.

Ted Stevens Pulls Ahead

In the 'worst senator' race:

TPMmuckraker August 30, 2006 03:56 PM

And you've gotta hand it to him, that's a seriously stiff competition.

Sen. Allen Steps (retroactively,) into even deeper macaca.

Not that the guy was ever going to be president anyway:

Political Wire: Allen's Racist Ties Exposed

But maybe this will hurt him enough in VA to give the seat to Webb. That would be a nearly unqualified good for the republic.

The Truth Hurts

Sudan Accuses Pulitzer Winner of Spying
...reads the headline. But then you learn that the guy worked for National Geographic. Not exactly a subversive publication.

Most likely more on this soon.

Politician Gets Subpoena, World Continues Spinning

Well, I suppose Markos put this up because it's good news for Harold Ford and persons hoping for a Dem takeover of the Senate. And good news it is, but let's not burst into gleeful rounds of 'happy days are here again' just yet please, Dems.

There's work to be done all over the rust belt and all over New England and all over the south in both house's races. Our prescription: keep the eyes on the prize and for Gaia's sake don't celebrate until the recounts are over; even then the celebrations should be limited because there will be much work to be done. (The 'prize' here being merely the right to exercise some oversight and restore some accountability, which should be enough to keep the ship of state from running aground.)

Daily Kos: TN-Sen: Corker (R) hit with subpoena

If anyone is keeping tabs, Standing Eight still officially believes that Dems will not take back either house, and that all reports to the contrary are either pie-eyed optimism or Republican efforts to take the wind out of Dem's fundraising sails. However, back in Oct. '05 we put the odds of a one-house takeback at 4 to 1 against, and we would cautiously upgrade that to 2 to 1 against now. Hardly the smart money, but less of a longshot.

SUPER FLASH ALERT BULLETIN!!!!! Cheney a Schmuck

Read all about it:

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Cheney thinks economy sucks

At least we're all hypocrites together

Why, with polling results like this, do we still regard it as convnetional wisdom that terror in the papers helps W?

CNN.com - Poll: 1 in 4 Americans believe U.S. was safer before 9/11 - Aug 23, 2006

And how could any thinking person want to keep in power the guy for whom terrorism provides the biggest boon? It's so far beyond ludicrous that we need a new word.

So the lesson here seems to be don't be gay in Alabama

Consider it learned.

PageOneQ | Election of Alabama lesbian overturned by committee

Heroes never cut and run

But apparantly they do cut themselves into a picture of people running:

Rep. Schmidt's marathon ad questioned - Yahoo! News

This is the woman, let's remind everyone, who, from the house floor, called Marine vet John Murtha a coward, as per this transcript:

Yesterday I stood at Arlington National Cemetery attending the funeral of a young marine in my district. He believed in what we were doing is the right thing and had the courage to lay his life on the line to do it. A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bubp, Ohio Representative from the 88th district in the House of Representatives. He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do. Danny and the rest of America and the world want the assurance from this body - that we will see this through.

And of course as you probably know, Colonel Bupp never said any such thing, Schmidt faked that quote, just liked she faked some degrees on her resume, just like she is undobtedly faking her marathon claims.

Memory Hole Alert!

Sometimes I feel like a stand-up comedian in the Dan Quayle era, in that I don't really have to be a good writer, or have a writerly point when the Headline Says It All:

Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List - New York Times

And of course, just like at the hot clubs, if you're not on the list, you don't exist.

Score one for creationism.

NYT Hates America

How dare they publish factual information that calls the president's truthiness into question?

Poll Shows a Shift in Opinion on Iraq War - New York Times

Last I heard, Iraq was a central front in the war on terror.

No, I'm sorry, I typed that wrong. It should read: Last I heard, "Iraq" was a "central" "front" in the "war on terror"

Yeah, that feels right.

I'll take "Headlines that the right will intentionally misinterpret" for 400, Alex

"Obama to get HIV test"

Yeah, can't think of any way that could backfire.

Marion the non-librarian

Maybe I'm a pie-eyed optimist, or maybe I put top athletes up on an undeserved pedestal, or have some sort of adulatory blind spot, but I am starting to think that there's a urine testing lab somewhere with their equipment all out of whack, (or a lab employee with a destructive anti-American bias.) Landis, Marion Jones and Justin Gatlin can't really all be cheating at the same time with the same chemical and failing the same test, can they?

M. Jones Failed Drug Test in June

And really if those three are doing it, doesn't that all but entail that, as the saying goes, "everybody does it." And is it not then true that, as Stephen Colbert would say, "if everybody's doing it, then nobody's doing it."

Cease with the cease-fire

Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon raid - Yahoo! News