October 28, 2005
Meanwhile, in Space...
Sulu comes out.
October 26, 2005
Get to the end!
Time's a wastin' (via Mefi, but try not to cheat!)
October 19, 2005
Quote of the Day
QUESTION: Is it true that the President slapped Karl Rove upside the head a couple of years ago over the CIA leak?
SCOTT McCLELLAN: Are you referring to, what, a New York Daily News report? Two things: One, we're not commenting on an ongoing investigation; two, and I would challenge the overall accuracy of that news account.
QUESTION: That's a comment.
-From the transcript of today's White House press briefing, as quoted by TPM
October 17, 2005
Quote of the Day
"I just couldn't get them to do anything."
-Shelby County Mayor A. C. Wharton on Wendy's employees' novel firefighting technique.
October 14, 2005
At the risk of editorializing...
This morning, I sent this email (sans hyperlinks) to the New York TImes Public Editor:
Subject : re: Jitters at the White House...
The Times lead article today, "Jitters at the White
House Over the CIA Leak Inquiry" (reg req.) continues the
disgraceful way the Paper of Record has covered this
issue and, by extension, the issue of the lies told in
the lead-up to the Iraq war, which were duitifully
reported by Judith Miller. There is no mention in the
"Jitters" article of the Times involvement in the
scandal, Miller's recent testimony to the grand jury,
or anything else but sympathetic words for an
administration that, according to your article,
bravely soldiers on the face of adversity. These are
the people who, with the aid of your reporter Miller,
exposed a CIA agent for petty political revenge when
her husband dared to point out the lies that Judith
Miller was disseminating on the pages of your
newspaper. Where is the story on Miller's testimony
before the grand jury? Where is the story on how
Miller's falsehoods were allowed on your front page?
You are not looking out for your readers, many of whom
have children facing death every day in Iraq partially
because of the falsehoods published in your paper by a
reporter who still works there.
The Times credibility is in tatters. My favorite
newspaper is a rotten shell of its former self. You
must immediately come clean about everything you know
or surrender your title as "The Paper of Record." I
hear the Post is hiring.
Sincerely hoping you will do the right thing,
(XX)
Memphis, TN
The email bounced back a few minutes ago with these words of explaination (bolding mine) from postmaster@nytimes.com
Your message
Subject: re: Jitters at the White House...
was not delivered to:
Public/NYT/NYTIMES@notes-vip.nytimes.com
because:
Error transferring to ML02NYT/NYT/NYTIMES mail.box; Database is
corrupt -- Cannot allocate space
October 12, 2005
Where Should You Be Living?
Find out here.
Apparently, "Hi, I'm in Delaware" should be a major part of my lexicon.
October 11, 2005
Mood: Oxymornonic
I'm not into Livejournal, but I find the Livejournal Moodgrapher strangely fascinating. Especially on days like today, where the "What's Hot" mood is Cold and the "What's Not" mood is Hot.
October 10, 2005
Breakfast with Harry
I'm feeling manic eggsessive.
October 09, 2005
Studio 360 does Strangelove
The radio show Studio 360 presented an excellent episode this weekend on "The Bomb". Pulitzer prize winner Richard Rhodes was in studio to talk about the atomic age. The show does a great feature on Dr. Strangelove that re-introduces us to our old pals General Curtis LeMay and Herman Kahn. Amazingly, some of Dr. Strangelove's dialogue iin the movie are teh actual, unaltered words of Herman Kahn. However, we do learn that Kahn lsuggested a Doomsday Machine sarcastically. It was the military that--apparently lacking sarcasm--thought it was a great idea. And we learn that LeMay was every bit as crazy as we thought.
October 05, 2005
Quote of the Day
"And then one day, a smart young political consultant turned to an older elected official and succinctly described a new reality in America's public discourse: 'If it's not on television, it doesn't exist.'"
-Al Gore in yet another great must-read speech. via TPM Cafe
October 01, 2005
Love in Action in Court
Love in Action, the Memphis facility that says its not OK to be gay and will imprision and brainwash you until you agree, has filed a lawsuit against the state after they were ordered to either get a license or shut down. "LIA's purpose and practice has absolutely nothing to do with mental health services," says their spokesman in an unusually, and probably inadvertently honest press release. The suit claims that the groups First Amendment right to free expression of religion includes the right to lock up teenagers against their will and use coercive tactics to change their sexual orientation and scar them for life. But if the Rastafarians can't smoke pot, surely Love in Action can't brainwash gay kids.
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