My First Diary
Pasted below is the letter I wrote today to Daniel Okrent, Public Editor for New Pravda. Atrios finally motivated me to write the prick. Dear Mr. Okrent: I just read your latest and have finally...
View ArticleWaPo Mouths Bushco on Vote Fraud
WaPo did its best today to innoculate the public against any outrage at Republican attempts to steal the election. The thrust was that Democrats are doing it too -- they even registered Mary Poppins!...
View ArticleEl Chimpo Splashes Giant NYC Billboard
Remember the painting of Bush's face made up of monkeys? It closed an art gallery in Chelsea a week or so ago when the owner grew incensed upon seeing what he thought was an insult to, well, Chimpy....
View ArticleBillmon Surfaces in Best Blog Thread Ever
If you want to see one form of how great blogging can be (and in the meantime learn a lot about how perilously close the world economy is to meltdown) check out the parallel and intertwining threads...
View ArticleDelay: The Next Corrupt Shoe Drops
The L.A. Times advances the DeLay story its next sorry step, uncovering yet another cynical scam. The story tells a tale of corruption right out of Mark Twain's The Gilded Age. More below the fold.
View ArticleBringing Sheehan Local: What Experience Means
This is the front page lead story in the local paper about about my assistant taking off on the spur of the moment to visit Camp Casey in Crawford. It's a tale of what the Democratic Party's fearsome...
View ArticleBillmon's Back With Flair
This is a public service announcement. Yes, I know, it's bad form to have a diary just pointing to something someone else posted. But Billmon is special. So sue me; I write about two diaries a year....
View ArticleAn Enron Primer
This is a very lightly edited version of a comment I posted yesterday at TNH. I don't normally write diaries, but thought this might be interesting to a wider audience. The main issue at the Enron...
View ArticleMcNerney Wins
It's over. CNN, the SF Chronicle have both called CA-11 for McNerney. The CA Secretary of State has him winning 53.3 to 47.7 with 90% reporting. Hats off to kid oakland, Land of Enchantment, all the...
View ArticleDeLong on Clinton and Health Care Reform
For those of you who are interested, Brad DeLong has reincarnated an old piece he wrote on the Clinton Administration's attempt to reform health care. Brad worked on that project, so his insights are...
View ArticleFitzgerald Indicts Obama Patron
It's not as if Obama is in the same league as Duke Cunningham, but it doesn't really look good. Chicago real estate connecto Tony Rezko gave Obama some really timely help in buying a fancy, very nice...
View ArticleObama's Bi-Partisanship and Nuclear Power
Barak Obama sold out his constituents to the nation's largest operator of nuclear plants -- and one of his major contributors. The typical Washington cave-in happened when Obama's constituents were...
View ArticleClinton Admin Sold Out Ozone Layer to Pass NAFTA
In 1993 it was questionable whether Bill Clinton would have the votes to get the North American Free Trade Agreement through Congress. So he did something he almost never did for any other cause. He...
View ArticleWill Clinton Denounce Pedophilia's Crooner?
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Hillary Clinton is a "big fan of the Rolling Stones." So am I.
View ArticleJohn Ensign a Resource in Hard Times
The Rachel Maddow Show last night detailed how John Ensign's parents had each written $12,000 checks to Senator Ensign's mistress, to her husband, and to each of two of their children. These were...
View ArticleIs Pelosi Too Effective to be a San Franciscan?
In the wake of Nancy Pelosi's success in getting health insurance reform through Congress, pundits still can't resist punching phantom hippies. Today's Abbreviated Pundit Roundup featured a column by...
View ArticleWI-Senate: Thompson Won't Run Against Feingold
Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson announced today that he will not be running against incumbent senator Russ Feingold. Thompson's announcement appears to put Feingold's seat in...
View ArticleJerry Brown's Great New Ad
It's been gratifying to see that Jerry Brown is pulling away from Meg Whitman in the race for California's governor. Most people seem to focus on what Whitman has done wrong -- her troubles with her...
View ArticleAnother Brilliant Move by Jerry Brown
Jerry and Meg met again this week at a women's conference. Matt Lauer moderated it. Brown punked Whitman in brilliant fashion. He made her look really bad. And that's fun to watch. But the video is...
View ArticleWalker Favors Gun Control
The list of items banned from the Wisconsin Capitol building is somewhat astounding. Easels? Crockpots? Massage Chairs? Vuvuzelas. Easy to understand how things like that would be threatening to...
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