01/16/2008
Reagan Republican Congressman charged as terrorist (in politics)
Just another good religious Republican, going for the bucks. Who can blame him? Excerpt from today's AP: Mark Deli Siljander, a Michigan Republican when he was in the House, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing ju ... Read More
01/15/2008
Borowitz on Bloomberg, Monica on Oprah (in politics)
Andy Borowitz reviews the balance sheet on Michael Bloomberg's upcoming investments . WFMU's DJ Monica gazes into the heavens and discovers Oprah's latest latest branding effort. Thanks to Jon R. for the heads up on Borowitz. Read More
01/10/2008
Let's laugh while we still can (in politics)
Thanks to Drummersome for the tip. Read More
12/18/2007
Accumulation Creep, Pt. 4 (in politics)
I'm trying to keep most of the negative, cynical stuff from overwhelming the normally sunny character of my posts (cough), so I'm continuing with the lumping of this material in a single post unless it's something huge or important. With that ... Read More
12/17/2007
FCC turning up the pressure to enlarge corporate media by Xmas (UPDATE) (and yet a further UPDATE) (in politics)
This time I'll put the update first: the Republicans are moving on this TODAY (Tues., Dec. 18th); please take action if you can. Thanks. Stop Big Media is one of the organizations attempting to stop FCC chairman Kevin Martin's rush top give ... Read More
11/08/2007
What would happen if torture was, um, torture? (in politics)
Editor & Publisher has an excellent column by Joe Galloway, a Bronze Star medal winner and a journalist 40 years ago in Vietnam. Galloway writes about witnessing waterboarding, and muses on why the Republican scum are so determined to perve ... Read More
11/07/2007
Only slightly more subtle than Fox News (updated with a sense of embarassment) (in politics)
The Washington Post today features a story about Dennis Kucinich's attempt to start impeachment proceedings against VP Dick Cheney. The Republicans and the Democrats are engaging in some sort of parliamentary ballet about this measure; it's ... Read More
11/06/2007
Video analysis by my paranoid self (file under propaganda) (in politics)
While I was away, Jon Stewart posted a clip from The Daily Show dealing loosely with the California wildfires, and media coverage thereof. It's quite funny: Arnold Schwarznegger is quite a schmuck, no? However, I would draw your attent ... Read More
10/16/2007
A few fact$ that probably will have no effect what$oever on the legal $ituation of the telecom$ caught $pying illegally for Bu$h on their cu$tomer$ (UPDATE) (in politics)
From the new book Digital Destiny by Jeff Chester of The Center For Digital Democracy: [...] federal candidates since 1990 have been given more than $183 million in campaign contributions by the communications lobby - $115 million of that sin ... Read More
10/14/2007
Man here says the Bush administration was spying on phone calls 6 months before September 11 (in politics)
The Washington Post and the NY Times both carried stories yesterday about allegations by Joseph Nacchio, former head of a telecom giant called Qwest Communications, former head of Bush's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, f ... Read More