Thursday, March 23, 2006
Bloggity Blog
Nora Ephron has a good post up at HuffPo about why blogging is a good outlet for anyone, including celebrities who could probably get their voices heard in other ways.
I was rather skeptical off HuffPo when it started for a variety of reasons, but one thing I like about it is that it's been very egalitarian. Celebrities do write for them, but so do lots of other people, and their stuff all goes up together.
I was rather skeptical off HuffPo when it started for a variety of reasons, but one thing I like about it is that it's been very egalitarian. Celebrities do write for them, but so do lots of other people, and their stuff all goes up together.
Nedrenaline!
Colin McEnroe continues down the path of discovery of the unbearable wankery of Lieberman.
193 of you have donated to Ned Lamont through this site (well, 192+me). How about we give it just a little more cowbell and get that number up to 225 today.
For inspiration, here's the transcript of Sam Seder's interview with Lamont.
The quote, he said, came from a speech. Read the whole speech, he said angrily, several times on the air. Several times, also, he urged me to notice that he encouraged the Republicans to adopt a similar sense of forgiveness in the very next line.
So I did read the speech. And what did I find?
The speech, overall, is an exercise in self-massage disguised as bipartisanship. It congratulates Lieberman for being Lieberman. It urges everone else to be ...more Lieberman. Lieberman is right. Everyone should read this speech, so they know what he really means when he calls for bipartisanship. He's really calling for an uncritical endorsement of his own behavior.
193 of you have donated to Ned Lamont through this site (well, 192+me). How about we give it just a little more cowbell and get that number up to 225 today.
For inspiration, here's the transcript of Sam Seder's interview with Lamont.
I’m a Democrat because we believe that power starts with the people. We build from the ground level up, we don’t trickle down,we don’t start at the top. And I think that’s been our basis since Jacksonian democracy. We believe in opportunity for everybody regardless of race, gender, ethnicity. That’s been part of our credo since the beginning of the Democratic Party. And I think that Sen. Lieberman and George Bush have sort of lost their moorings in terms of what’s been important for Democrats and what’s been important for this country over the last five years. That’s why I’m in this race.
Regulating the Internets
The FEC has briefly postponed its decisionmaking yet again. Bob Bauer explains where we are.
Pay It All Back!
The pressing question is whether Box Turtle Ben has paid back his scholarship, as promised.
Dixie Chicked
Just a reminder of the climate we lived in. The Dixie Chicks "controversy" was caused by this comment made at a London concert:
That was it. That was all it took.
We were all Dixie Chicked then.
Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.
That was it. That was all it took.
We were all Dixie Chicked then.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
TV Funnies
Just caught last week's Veronica Mars on Tivo. Plot involved someone blackmailing gay students. At one point the fake name used by the blackmailer was "Rick Santorum."
Speaking of Republican Affection for Animal Sex
How could we forget Scooter Libby's contribution to the genre?
It took Libby more than twenty years to write “The Apprentice,” which is set in a remote Japanese province in the winter of 1903. The book is brimming with quasi-political intrigue and antique locutions—“The girl who wore the cloak of yellow fur”; “one wore backward a European hat”—that make the phrase a “former Hill staffer,” by comparison, seem straightforward.
Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, “turds,” armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, “At length he walked around to the deer’s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer’s nostrils.”
Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the “mound” of a little girl. The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a “pink underlip,” arm muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers). The cast includes a dwarf, and an “assistant headman” who comes to restore order after a crime at the inn. (Might this character be autobiographical? And, if so, would that have made Libby the assistant headman or the assistant headman’s assistant?)
When it comes to depicting scenes of romance, however, Libby can evoke a sort of musty sweetness; while one critic deemed “The Apprentice” “reminiscent of Rembrandt,” certain passages can better be described as reminiscent of Penthouse Forum. There is, for example, Yukiko’s seduction of the inexperienced apprentice:
He could feel her heart beneath his hands. He moved his hands slowly lower still and she arched her back to help him and her lower leg came against his. He held her breasts in his hands. Oddly, he thought, the lower one might be larger. . . . One of her breasts now hung loosely in his hand near his face and he knew not how best to touch her.
Other sex scenes are less conventional. Where his Republican predecessors can seem embarrassingly awkward—the written equivalent of trying to cop a feel while pinning on a corsage—Libby is unabashed:
At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.
And, finally:
He asked if they should fuck the deer.
The answer, reader, is yes.
Hot Bestiality
Jeff Goldstein probably should turn his site over entirely to Lassie porn fiction, it's really where he does his best writing, odd as it is.
Deep Thoughts From Augustine
Link:
(thanks to reader b)
Dan Froomkin is without question a lying weasel-faced Democrat shill.
...
I just have this specific and deep-rooted dislike for everything Dan Froomkin says and does. He's one of the dozen or so people in the world that I just detest - along with Noam Chomsky, Eric Alterman, Louis Farrakhan, Barbra Streisand, Kate Michelman, Mitch Albom, Michael Irvin, David Duke, Peter Singer, and Rick Reilly.
(thanks to reader b)
Aw, Crap
I knew I should've saved the damn picture. Box Turtle Ben deleted the "Marine Sniper - you can run but you'll die tired" or whatever mug from his cafepress site.
...Ntodd and QrazyQat to the rescue from the google cache:
...Ntodd and QrazyQat to the rescue from the google cache:
They Write Letters
Pete Stark writes a letter to the Washington Post:
I noted with interest that WashingtonPost.com has just hired a former Bush Administration official to write a conservative blog entitled “Red America.”
Balanced coverage and ideologically diverse editorials have long been hallmarks of responsible journalism. If the Post would like to appear evenhanded, I strongly suggest the website launch a similarly partisan liberal blog, “Blue America.”
I recognize that the Post has come under fire for its supposed “liberal bias.” I only wish that were true. The Post’s editorial board has taken numerous positions – in support of a misguided Iraq war, for example – that suggest a conservative tilt.
For years, the right has worked to undermine media objectivity and bias coverage in conservatives’ favor. The Post’s new blog is the latest evidence that the Republican effort is working.
PETE STARK
U.S. Representative (D-CA, 13th)
Washington
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