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Thursday, August 23, 2001

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall "...it seems the Bush NSC changed the rules because the folks there thought they could embarrass the previous administration. In so doing, they also potentially created a terrible precedent for the ability of this and future administrations to conduct foreign policy, by breaching the confidentiality of the president's conversations with foreign heads of state."

Dubya just gets worse every day, doesn't he?

12:18 PM
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Tuesday, August 21, 2001

Helms Plans to Announce Retirement Is it snowing in hell or something? Y'know, I wasn't really sure I'd live to see this day...

2:56 PM
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Tuesday, July 31, 2001

The Return of the Puritans; or, The Further In The Sand You Stick Your Head, The Icky Truths Just Go Away.

"Since taking office, President George W. Bush and his top aides have refused to allow two states to expand family planning services for poor women, reimposed a ban on abortion counseling at health clinics abroad, released a report questioning the effectiveness of condoms and proposed eliminating contraceptive coverage for federal workers.
At the same time, administration officials are considering plans to consolidate women's health offices and have moved swiftly to boost funding for "abstinence-only" sexual education programs, with the money often going to evangelical Christian groups."

OH YEAH. Christian evangelicals are quite the EXPERTS on sexuality, and sexual health, aren't they? First there was "Just Say No" to drugs - and we see how well THAT worked. (NOT!) Now we get "Just say no" to SEX. This is gonna turn out even worse. Not just in the sense that uninformed kids having sex could spread diseases and raise teen pregnancy rates, but also in that we'll have a generation of kids taught to hate their bodies and their natural desires.

When Bush and his cronies pulled off their coup d'etat last fall, the nation crossed its fingers that maybe he wouldn't turn out that bad after all. Guess what - he IS that bad.

10:01 AM
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Friday, July 27, 2001

Is Dick Cheney Dead Yet??? Dick Cheney had a routine checkup on his pacemaker earlier today. Doctors grew concerned when they discovered that the pacemaker was not attached to anything and that, in fact, Dick Cheney did not even actually have a heart. The concern of the Doctors waned when they realized that that was perfectly normal for a Republican. Still not dead.

4:02 PM
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Wednesday, June 20, 2001

Allow me to share my newest musical discovery: Chicane. He's a British dance/ambient/techno musician and I'm just totally diggin' him. I first hear a couple tunes included in the 2-disc mix collection "Chilled Euphoria." Then I heard another one on a mix at a record store the other day and decided to go ahead and pick up the new album "Behind The Sun." Beautiful stuff - dance beats, often, but also very airy, melodic and ambient. Very much the kind of thing I'm hoping to be doing myself soon, once I learn the intricacies of my new keyboard.

4:02 PM
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Thursday, June 14, 2001

Homer Simpson's "Doh!" added to online Oxford Dictionary. Don't have a cow, man.

9:52 PM
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Wednesday, June 13, 2001

The Economist says: Free Jenna! "Let Jenna Bush party on. And let America rise up in revolt against all the petty princelings of puritanism, before every aspect of social life is criminalised, pathologised, regulated or legislated out of existence."

Can I get an Amen?

10:58 AM

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