Remember when Jerry Kilgore claimed that Virginia gangs were working with Al-Qaeda? That was awesome. I love recalling these things a year or two later, once the partisan reality distortion field has disappeared, so the insanity of the matter can wash over me anew.
Category Archives: Politics
Time’s Man of the Year: You…and Sidarth.
Time Magazine has copped out on Man of the Year, which it seems they do at least half of the time, but one of their example people is…S.R. Sidarth. Time describes him as “an intensely private person” — he declined to answer many of the magazine’s questions.
Siddarth’s #1, Siddarth’s #1.
Salon’s man of the year: Shekar Ramanuja Siddarth.
Border fence built by immigrants.
That latest from The Onion Imitates Real Life files: A company that’s working on building the border fence just got nailed for employing undocumented workers.
Crichton concedes the case for global climate change.
Early this year, Washington journalist and Yale alum Michael Crowley wrote an article explaining why Michael Crichton’s global warming denials were inaccurate. Crichton was left without any counterarguments, so he threw a tantrum: Crichton includes a Yale educated Washington journalist of the same name and same age as a character in his new book, describing …
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662 commendations.
Out of curiosity, I just did the math: 16% of all bills in last year’s regular General Assembly session were commending somebody or something. That’s actually more bills than Congress passed naming buildings after people in the past two years, though 25% of all of the 109th Congress’ output, as a percentage of bills passed, …
Webb campaign claims credit for “macaca” video.
Wired: Bloggers didn’t break the “macaca” story — the Webb campaign did, by carefully managing the promotion of the video by working with the media and feeding talking points to bloggers.
I hope Sen. Deeds was one of them.
Johnny Camacho: Only three people showed up at the Bath County Democratic Party’s meeting Monday night. Ouch. 2:40pm Update: Check out Johnny’s account of the day he spent campaigning with Sen. Deeds. It’s well-written, funny, and interesting. Campaigning on that level sure sounds exhausting.
Rummy sticks it to Bush.
Rumsfeld on the war on terror: “it is not a ‘war on terror.’” Declaring a war on terror after September 11th would have been like declaring a war on airplanes after Pearl Harbor. It’s just dumb.
Soy makes kidz teh gay!!1!1!
Some of my far-right friends claim to be mystified when I point out that WorldNetDaily is by and for batshit insane Republicans who have gone far off the deep end. Exhibit A: “Soy…commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality.”