Top Abramoff investigator at Justice resigns in wake of scrutiny over … Abramoff ties
You simply must be kidding me. Justice Dept official resigns over investigation connected with Abramoff
Read moreYour thought for the weekend: Why can’t CNN.com tell the difference between a candidate and non-candidate?
You know, if you’re CNN, you could at least try to get it right. Go to CNN.com’s Politics page and scroll down a little. In the right column there’s a box that says WHO’S IN THE RACE? Click on the gallery right under it. There you have “a look at who’s running for president, who might get in the race
Read more“Thou shalt always kill”
Go. Watch. This. Now.
Read moreCondi’s way-back machine
At first I was tempted to take Condoleezza Rice’s “no thanks” to a Congressional subpoena as yet another example of executive branch arrogance. But then I realized that’s she’s actually very busy … resurrecting the Cold War? OSLO, April 26 — Brusquely dismissing protests by Russian officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here on Thursday that a missile-defense system
Read moreMelamine: It’s what’s for dinner!
It started out as a pet food contamination crisis – dozens of dog and cat food brands associated with Menu Foods were recalled because pets were dying. An investigation was launched, and as these things so often go, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and scarier and scarier. The latest bit – has melamine entered the human food chain?
Read moreFood contamination investigation expands: how trustworthy is the fox guarding the henhouse?
UPDATE: Now the FDA is investigating whether melamine may have gotten into … wait for it … baby food. It started out as a pet food contamination crisis – dozens of dog and cat food brands associated with Menu Foods were recalled because pets were dying. An investigation was launched, and as these things so often go, it just keeps
Read moreTesting, testing….
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Read moreOf Virginia Tech and video games: will somebody please do the math?
Video games killed those kids at Virginia Tech!!! So said self-credentialed media scholar Jack Thompson, whose uninformed hissy fit commenced roughly eight seconds after the shooting ended. Of course, FAUX News was happy to hand him a mic and point a camera at him. If only they’d taught math at Jack Thompson’s school.
Read morePelosi comment on War Powers: somebody help me out here
In talking about the new war funding authorization bill today, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi offered some comments on how Congress (specifically the Dem Congress) is trying to rein in and narrow Bush’s war-making powers. In the process, she made a comment that worries me a little. I don’t think I’m bothered so much that she said it, exactly,
Read morePelosi “totally opposed” to impeachment; emotionally unsatisfying, but the right call
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a blogger call this afternoon to discuss the reconciled House/Senate Iraq spending bill. Bob Geiger’s post on the passage this morning seems to capture the thrust of Pelosi’s message today – Dem leadership have worked to set goals and are going to force Bush to “differentiate himself” on the issue with the American public. Perhaps
Read moreThe moral high ground
Once upon a time, Republican moral high-grounders turned a blowjob and land deal-gone-wrong into the end of the world. If you didn’t buy those arguments at the time, you’re probably fairly annoyed at how things have gone with the current administration. If you were convinced that the Clinton “scandals” merited special prosecutors and articles of impeachment, then I imagine you’re
Read moreBoris Yeltsin dead
This just in from the Beeb: Russian ex-president Yeltsin dies Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died, the Kremlin says. Mr Yeltsin was 76. The cause of death has not yet been announced. He had a history of heart trouble. (Story.)
Read moreIntroducing Scholars & Rogues
If you’ve been watching this space over the last week you’ve perhaps noticed that there’s a new shop open on your Internets. We’ve been working to build some content in advance of the official grand opening, and that happened this morning. Yay! Scholars & Rogues is a team effort involving – well, since most of us aren’t widely known, I
Read moreOur first Scholar/Rogue
Mrs. Miggins, there’s nothing intellectual wandering around Italy in a big shirt, trying to get laid. – Edmund Blackadder That dashing, slightly dangerous character gracing the masthead above is none other than George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). We have selected him as the coverboy for our first masthead, and if from this you deduce that other personages will feature on
Read moreScholars (& Poets) & Rogues
Well, Robert has shamed me into it. Of course, it’s National Poetry Month, a festival that’s celebrated by literally dozens of versionados across America. And here I am, an actual poet (and you thought I was only a scholar and rogue), and I’ve said nothing. The folks over at Poetry Daily have been running a series of “poem of the
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