Pudding Time! Archives: politics
So said President Bush when informed of John Kerry's choice of John Edwards as running mate, and so says he anytime anyone asks him...
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the civil court case demanding that Dick Cheney reveal the energy-industry leaders with whom he sat...
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A Saturday night with a martini and my boss's discarded WSJs... The Wall Street Journal; June 17, 2004; pg 1, col 6: The [9/11]...
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Billmon: And, assuming the "transition" goes off more or less as planned, what will have been gained--other than a couple of marginally useful 30-second...
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I admire the filmmaking of Michael Moore. But give him a mic or a keyb, and he can be counted on to go a...
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Which apocalyptic zealots trouble you more? The ones with knives in a desert somewhere? Or the ones who get meetings with the White House?...
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Overheard on CNN this morning in a "man on the street" piece about the prisoner torture (let's lay "abuse" to rest, shall we?) scandal: "Well...
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You've probably seen or heard about this by now; I had, but I hadn't seen the pictures. I'm sure there are more, but I...
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From the latest voter's pamphlet: Scott (Extremo the Clown) Campbell for Mayor...
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I was pleased to note that John Derbyshire won the Wonkette "Honorariest Homo" contest, which leaves me wondering if that means a new competition is...
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Hey, hawk, feelin' sort of down? Just remember to tell yourself: I'll still have my wife, my house, and my job. My neighborhood, my city,...
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In his column today, David Brooks is talking about one person. But make a few words generic--OK, and delete just a couple--and he could be...
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Hmmm... Curumo, Curunír, Sharkey, yes, but I don't think Saruman went by the name "Yassin," so I'm assuming he's one of the people in...
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Tonight, 60 Minutes is airing an interview with Richard Clarke, who has been the top shaper of anti-terrorism policy since the Reagan administration, retained...
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If you have access to Salon, I found this article very instructive in putting into perspective the terrorist event and subsequent political event that...
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The Massachusetts legislature has gone ahead with approval of a "separate but equal" amendment to its constitution, making same-sex marriage forbidden, but same-sex civil...
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"Get the state out of marriage" says the Libertarian Party of Oregon: "Under the Libertarian approach, the government would stop issuing marriage licenses, replacing...
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Pleasant to get a ping from b!X this afternoon that directed me to one of his latest entries on the queer marriage issue as...
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Oh for God's sake, Josh, quit dithering about it: The state has no business discussing marriage or any other "spiritual matter." It has some...
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Here's a heavily linked Claim/Fact breakdown of Bush's appearance on Meet the Press Sunday, from the Center for American Progress (via Salon). In terms...
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Bush Expected to Endorse Amendment on Marriage If this discriminatory amendment is ever tacked onto the U.S. Constitution, I think I'll talk to my...
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You may have spent some time wondering about the heightened state of terror alertedness we were all at over the holidays. You may have decided,...
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Finally, some campaign reportage I can enjoy: "Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean today accepted the endorsement of the Workers World Party, declaring that the...
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It's good for George W. Bush's 2004 candidacy that revelations about his administration's perfidy in taking us to war in Iraq have been gradual...
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There's a distressed squawk from Jim Henley re: Hesiod's comments calling Colin Powell a "Stepin Fetchit" who "dances for his massah." "Will some liberal...
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Jesse Walker notes that Robert Anton Wilson seems to get it best: These days, choosing your politics is a matter of choosing who you’re...
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Anyone else remember the obnoxious SNL Billy Crystal character "Willy the Masochist"? Each week featured five minutes of increasingly horrible recollections like "Have you ever...
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The right wing of the Democratic Party... er... I mean, the credible, open, inclusive, hard-working, imaginative, progressive, persuasive, rational, energized, idea-based, and positive wing of...
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Like Ed, I had more fun thinking there was some poetic justice involved in Saddam's apprehension. But Josh Marshall has picked at enough nits...
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Ed's got some linkage about whether or not Saddam was sent special delivery from the Kurds. More plausible than the "unseasonal dates" story me-fi...
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Yesterday, Billmon, with help from Josh Marshall, looped together an interesting analysis of what's at stake with Jim Baker's new mission. (If Baker's going...
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Two nice pieces in the Village Voice: an essay on "how the rich rule the stupid," and a story on how Republicans are losing...
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Josh Marshall dissects the White House team's sudden interest in truths "people know" as opposed to the literal kind I prefer when our country's...
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Salon rounds up rightist reactions to the Massachussets marriage decision, including one from the president: The question, though, is just how far George W. Bush...
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Sympathetic lurch of nausea this morning as I listened to John Kerry on NPR (Real or Windows Media) earnestly telling reporters "I am feisty."...
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E.J. Dionne asks "Is Dean Goldwater?" It is the Goldwater campaign, not George McGovern's 1972 antiwar crusade, that Dean's movement most resembles. Goldwater was not...
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You'll never hear it from the White House, but at least Slate's Fred Kaplan acknowledges that the war isn't over: The latest lesson of...
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Tardy and vis-à-vis last weekend's "Dean gaffe": Maybe I've completely misunderstood the reasons for the hubbub, but since when is the South all sensitive about being pegged with the Stars'n'Bars?
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:tpm: now has a real RSS feed all its own. Works great in :nnw:, but the plugin I use to parse feeds for the sidebar...
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There's now an Official Bush/Cheney '04 Blog. Not one but four RSS feeds, and entries by George W. Bush, er, GeorgeWBush.com him... itself. Having...
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What follows is an e-mail I sent to David Brooks in response to this column in today's New York Times. He's sad because politics...
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Kevin Drum has a useful roundup and takedown of the obfuscation and fallacy being tossed into the mix from administration apologists desperately trying to...
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Many will have already come across this, but this needs airing on every street corner. Josh Marshall has details on New Bridge Strategies, a...
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I was feeling so certain this morning, but the fly in my certitude ointment has to be Ahmed Chalabi, whom TAPPED mauls as grossly...
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I read MoveOn's side project, The Daily Mislead, like a good little liberal. It's a newsletter focused on "mis-representations, distortions and downright misleading statements by...
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Frustrated by a lack of public will to kill people because of growing awareness of human fallibility, the governor of Massachussetts is out to...
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Slate's Fred Kaplan says "Bush's message can be summarized as follows: The U.S.-led occupation authority is doing good work in Iraq; you should come help...
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One of Salon's senior news editors argues Iraq is also the responsibility of the American left, not in the sense that we caused the...
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You'll note a few qualifiers and exit strategies in my post yesterday about Wesley Clark. I hope I'll stay comfortable with it as a...
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Republicans hate Clark. Quelle surprise.
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I said I was swearing off political writing, which I'm not very good at, but that doesn't mean I have to swear off the...
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Update (9/8/03): Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes graciously admitted to her error and apologized to Michael Moore. I continue to hope that Snopes will adopt a...
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A new political season arrives after a record-breakingly soggy weekend where I live. I've been out for awhile. (I was actually surprised when I...
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We saw an ad for a Labor Day sale on the television today. Alison's first question was "What the hell is up with all the...
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b!X has a roundup on Portland Police Chief Kroeker's resignation. At least, I suppose, he can look forward to his garbage being left in...
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. . . and tell me it's raining: Halliburton's [post-war Iraq] Deals Greater Than Thought (washingtonpost.com)...
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Some interesting things float to the top at Technorati sometimes, including this 63-year-old report on the assassination of Leon Trotsky: "According to the police...
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Along with my luggage, following the Communique fell victim to my jaunt to Michigan. Here's an oldish entry from b!X regarding Mike Hawash's recent...
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I wonder if there are better uses for 30 million American dollars than paying Iraqi gangsters to turn rat. This won't be good for...
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I'm not of a mind to debate the Yellowcakegate issue much if only because I thought even the neocon war cheerleaders had already slid into...
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I suppose we should commend the Greens for having the courage to live out their convictions as they agree to support the Bush reelection...
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Hey, thanks, glad to be back. It's almost more depressing than exhilerating that now, NOW the media have jumped on this single shred of...
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Those politicians sure say some krazy things! "[T]there's no doubt in my mind, when it's all said and done, the facts will show the...
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CRUEL MEDIA HOAX! UPDATE FOLLOWS ORIGINAL POST! POSTED 7/9: Make what you will of this, but Capitol Hill Blue has an on-the-record quote and...
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Sticking with the Wall Street Journal--and why not; if they say it, it must be true--here's a piece on how the White House has...
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Hey! Even the Wall Street Journal slams the new Ann Coulter jeremiad. Strengthening the blow, they assure us they haven't gone soft on "liberals"...
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As reports of rock-bottom morale roll in, military service is clearly not the attractive option it used to be--and not just because the odds...
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Maureen Farrell unlocks a veritable arsenal of smoking guns in a long piece bristling with excellent links at BuzzFlash.com: Intelligence President Bush ignored in...
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A BBC account (6/28/03) of a hit-and-run incident in which an 11-year-old Iraqi boy was apparently killed by a vehicle in an American convoy....
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Another speech by Senator Robert Byrd. Go, read it....
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Good piece by Eric Boehlert on Salon this morning, detailing the pro-Bush media tilt as it continues into another election year. Boehlert and the...
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Re: Supremes/Sodomy: Let the backlash begin. Or whatever you care to call all the grunting and squawking that'll get 'em whipped up in Nashville....
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Not at the Carlyle Group, cause the guys who really run shit don't have to conspire--they just plan and implement. Got a link to...
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This has been out there awhile--since September 11, 2001, in fact, when you might have been wondering about it yourself--but a lot of strange...
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Reflexive bile? Subjectivist fallacies? Outrageous positions staked out to rise above the din of ten thousand others chattering about the same topic? Ann Coulter...
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Ed asks: "Why has PuddingTime never taken a stand on the issue of Cascadian independence?" Good question. Probably because the second we secede, all the...
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Pat Buchanan practices some tentative doomsaying, attempting to carve some daylight between neocons and the rest of the right, and identify some high ground...
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Paul Krugman has a piece on this administration's "dereliction of duty." As he inflames world opinion and uses the war on terror to excuse...
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Bob Harris, Tom Tomorrow's co-blogger at This Modern World, pulls together some interesting stories about just how not-stable Afghanistan is. So unstable, in fact,...
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On June 4 in Washington, Bill Moyers gave this amazing speech to the Take Back America conference, sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future....
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All together now: Saddam was a murderous tyrant whom his people are well rid of. But how does the world, and history, judge a...
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The Consortium features a long piece by Robert Parry describing "America's Matrix"--the world of deception and illusion conjured by those presently in political power....
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No, not the handful of media conglomerates that will soon set the political and cultural agenda for the nation--ME...well, and Mike, and all the...
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Fire posted by
mph, 05/30/03, 05:38 AM
Jim Henley is on fire: ". . . God damn George W. Bush for accepting the advice of knaves and dreamers. God damn Tony...
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"Pretty Please"....
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On a quiet night, you can hear the dominoes tumble. Andrew Sullivan establishes the utter reliability of neocon hawks....
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b!X has the goods on the clash of the recall campaigns, a pair of ideologically opposed attempts to send Portland Mayor Vera Katz packing....
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Since several of us on a Memorial Day camping trip have recently lived or are from states that call themselves "commonwealths" (Virginia and Kentucky,...
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Redneck nation is on its own: Ford Trucks and Toby Keith, the ass-kickin' empty hat who brought us "Courtesy of the Red, White &...
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At least Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) isn't afraid to take the gloves off: "Making the Military a Prop in Presidential Politics" "The Truth Will...
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Although the protests against CBS's "The Real Beverly Hillbillies" have me thinking I probably ought to come up with a PC term for rednecks...
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New This Modern World:...
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Given the necessity of having our nation's current Terror Alert Level uppermost in mind at all times, it concerns me that the color codes for...
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The Pentagon has figured out that "Terrorist Information Awareness" sounds less objectionable than the alternative "Total Information Awareness." What with the retirement of their sinister...
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I was at home watching the "Buffy" series finale, but b!X was at the "Yes on 26-48" Party and has some commentary, some links,...
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Although, for his speech in Indianapolis last week, President Bush did not arrive in a race car, dressed like a race-car driver, his professionals...
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As much as it's fun to write about blogs, googlewashing, and all that, there's also a pressing local matter, which is Measure 26-48, which...
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The headline (Hyperventilating Press Forces County to Nix Klingon's Inclusion On List) pretty much sums up b!X's post mortem on the whole matter of...
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I really like The American Prospect's blog, but when they offer up arguments that end with "there's not a truck driver or stockroom clerk...
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I found a link to this piece on Southern Nationalism on Reason's blog. It tackles the question of southern nationalism and the roots of the...
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The National Review has had its say about the Grokster ruling (in which file sharing software was let off the hook): "By legalizing Internet file-trading...
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I'm assuming this doesn't entail a white sale....
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b!X reports that our state legislature continues to hold the line against self-serve gas in Oregon....
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The Guardian looks at that segregated prom (and recounts other instances of segregation in the South). One of the teens who supported a desegregated prom...
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Oh. Well nobody told me Bennett was going to comment: looks like he's giving up gambling because it sets a bad example. On your way...
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David Duke's both still alive and big in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union....
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Michael Kinsley can't contain his glee. (Last item on the Bennett thing, unless, of course, it somehow gets better/worse)....
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mph, 05/05/03, 08:34 AM
The Washington Dispatch offers budding logicians a "find the fallacy" easter egg hunt (with emu-sized eggs)....
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posted by
mph, 05/05/03, 12:19 AM
I'm curious about Andrew Sullivan's take on anything approximately once every six to nine months....
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Some ideas to pass along to "support the troops" hawks during the afterglow....
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Gingrich's attack on Powell vetted by Pentagon? Did the White House call the dogs off afterwards?...
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Hitchens on the opening of the wall in Cyprus...
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