From the Associated Press : WASHINGTON - If matching presidential candidates to their positions on basic issues were like a "Jeopardy!" category, most Americans wouldn't earn a single dollar. Importing drugs from Canada? That's a Kerry issue,
From Reuters : MONTREAL (Reuters) - Fans of the Montreal Expos prepared to bid adieu on Wednesday, as Canada's first big league baseball team appeared set to move to Washington. I feel for Montreal, but after living in DC for five years (go Adams
From the San Francisco Chronicle : Washington -- President Bush portrays his position on Iraq as steady and unwavering as he represents Sen. John Kerry's stance as ambiguous and vacillating. "Mixed signals are the wrong signals,'' Bush said last week during a cam
From Toasted Pixel : Many voters are unhappy with this year's impending elections. Perhaps it's because we're faced with two of the most dismal Presidential choices since Andrew Jackson was elected on the "Kill All Native Americans" platform. To help voters, we've assembled
From Online Washingtonian : Members of Congress work hard on creating a positive image, so we usually know little about them that they don’t want us to know. But their aides know a lot—who’s smart and who’s dumb, who’s gutsy and who’s a blowhard. There's some surpr
From the Weekly World News : Here are some foolproof ways to tell if your wife is making dirty movies behind your back: -- Every couple of weeks she has to fly to California to care for a "sick aunt." -- When in bed, she just lies there until you yell "Action!" -- Just as you're about to make love, she asks, "W
From Yahoo News : NEW YORK (AFP) - An incident this week in which former pop star Cat Stevens was deported from the United States to London as a "no-fly" terrorist risk was caused by a spelling error. Stevens, 57, gave up his suc
First of all, this is really offensive. Probably one of the most offensive things I've ever read. If you're going to be bothered by that, do both of us a favor and turn off your computer. Right now. Then walk away. Just walk away. From whitehouse.org Because if zere vaz one zing zat my
From the Associated Press : PARKFIELD, Calif. - A strong earthquake struck Central California on Tuesday, and it was felt from San Francisco to the Los Angeles area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There was no immediate report of injuries.
Surrounded by yellow banners and flowing blue writing, they're the Falun Gong, who claim a thousands year old mystical tradition, but seem to be some kind of offshoot of Buddhism. All over the city, they've set up cages with horribly bruised young women -- faces swollen, caked with blood -- with stolid guards seated nearby, swing their billy clubs. They say -- and I
Updated 12:24 AM, 9/28/04 I've changed the Chillinois (what a great blog name) link to point to the blog page, not the specific post, since Chillinois has now posted a number of informative entries on the topic. Here's what Daily Kos had to say on the matter: But really, neither I, nor other blogs, have "outed" Maya. She's out. She brags about wearing he
Updated 11:15PM, 9/27/04 Sensibly Eclectic supplies more evidence, working photo links, and other info.
From Chillinois : Modern Vertebrate has discovered a blog that appears to be written by Alan Keyes' daughter, Maya Keyes, who also appears to be a lesbian. I stopped by the blog and was astounded. And then I did a little more checking and now I'm just floored. Follow the link for evidence and h0t-L3sb
From the Ice Planet Hoth : Supposedly he was a great warrior and a mighty leader. Yet his sole contribution to the almost disastrous attack on the second death star was to spin round in his chair, waving his flabby hands about, shrieking "It's a twap! It's a twap!". Yet, contrary to popular belief
From Slate : "Nevermind, Hamdi Wasn't So Bad After All" by Dahlia Lithwick If you've followed the government's claims in the Yaser Esam Hamdi case, you would think the guy was some unstoppable, lethal killing machine, the Taliban's own Hannibal Lecter -- a man so evil, he requires perma
From the New York Times : The Republican Party acknowledged yesterday sending mass mailings to residents of two states warning that "liberals" seek to ban the Bible. It said the mailings were part of its effort to mobilize religious voters for President Bush. The mailing
People took this post more seriously than I had expected. You realize this is a joke, right? Do you really think that God sends storms based on how people vote? Anyway, Snopes discredits the idea that Democratic areas were left untouched by the hurricanes. A more general observation about the whole country: While more people voted Democratic than Republican in the l
From Fuck the Vote : SEXY LIBERALS OF THE U.S. UNITE in taking back the government from the sexually repressed, right-wing, zealots in control! Everyone knows liberals are hotter than conservatives - we look hotter, we dress hotter, our ideas are hotter, and we are infinitely hotter in the sack. We must use our
This is a little old, but awfully relevant. From CNN : The decision of Sinclair Broadcast Group, which ordered its seven ABC stations not to broadcast Friday's "Nightline," has received criticism from U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona). Friday's show will air the names
From the San Francisco Chronicle : No argument is more central to the Republican attack on Sen. John Kerry than the assertion that the Democrat has flip-flopped on Iraq. Yet an examination of Kerry's words in more than 200 speeches and statements, comments du
This is a transcript from the Daily Show (via Salon): JON STEWART: Well Stephen, what do you think is going to happen now at CBS News? STEPHEN COLBERT, Daily Show Senior Media Correspondent: Jon, there's got to be some accounta
From Bartcop : Elsewhere in the news, George Bush claimed it was actually a terrorist scheme. UPDATED 12:59 PM, 9/24/04 People took this post more seriously than I had expected. You reali
From the Willamette Week Online : Even as John Kerry struggles to establish national-security credentials nationally, an exclusive WW straw poll shows his campaign dominating one skeptical, warlike demographic: Klingons. "A good war is based on honor, not deception," says K'tok (Earth name: C
Okay, I know one thing you've all been wondering about is what music blogic listens to, when he's not spewing hate about Republicans. You might be surprised. Oh sure, I spend my weekends listening to Moaist Cultural Revolution Music, and blogging wouldn't be the same without inspiring Brezhnev's Music of the Vanguard in the background, but none of that wor
From the Associated Press : WASHINGTON - A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine when it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam — formerly known as singer Cat Stevens — was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country. Unite
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