My buddy at the Pentagon forwarded me yesterday’s NYT op-ed from Thomas Friedman. (Note: neo-cons may now disregard the rest of this blog because we know Friedman to be a bed-wetting liberal al-Qaida-loving traitor to democracy, and hell, for that matter I must be, too.) Friedman’s assessment: we’re in trouble in Iraq. Well, yeah. But it’s a really detailed look

Brian weighs in with a pretty detailed read on the debates.

God I love beast_o_bourbon…

Well, the media guide, anyway. You have to read this insane bullshit to believe it. If I hadn’t already sworn I’d never give another damned penny to CU (for several reasons), this would be the last straw. Today I attended the installation of the new president of St. Bonaventure University, Sister Margaret Carney. While CU’s athletic administration (and the university

First, Jim Booth has posted an excerpt or two from his forthcoming novel about being a rock star. Cool stuff. Go read it. Then there’s this: Siege Exiles tendril through the outlands banished of Eden tearing their hands on the walls of Heaven’s City She is Sodom and Babel and Jericho and New York her streets aflame with vestal song

1: Kerry won, but so what? On the substance of the issues, Kerry won handily. However, in a society like ours, this is the most irrelevant standard imaginable. I’ve said it before and will say it again – if we lived in an educated, engaged culture that put a little effort into understanding the issues that shape their lives, this

I’m wondering why Ivan didn’t double around again to take a whack at Crawford, Tejas…. Cat White says: >Apparently I’m not the only one who had this theory. . . . Yowza….

Solon calls for hearing on TV news If this doesn’t scare the piss out of you, you’re the bravest sumbitch in the country. Rep. Joe Barton (news, bio, voting record) (R-Texas), chair of the House Commerce Committee, told a meeting of the TV engineering trade group MSTV in Washington that broadcast network news divisions “need to have safeguards to prevent

What – no machine gun mounts?

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I’m riffling through the back-mail and find this, which Brian of the Daedalnexus forwarded on some time back. I don’t have too much to add beyond what I said for years, which was that, for all his faults, Reagan was never as conservative as he sometimes pretended to be (or as he was usually perceived to be by both his

Something’s happening, but you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones? http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/28/comedy.politics/index.html

CBS is done. They should just pack up and quit. They got shoddy (and depending on how you feel about conspiracy theory, they may have gotten set up and punked by Karl Rove), and they got blindsided by a pack of neocon bloggers. Now they’ve misplaced their cojones and can no longer in good conscience cover the most important story

This is priceless. Arkansans should worry less about gays getting married and more about siblings getting married.

Then again, who isn’t? Comedy Central defends audience against O’Reilly tease