Have a look at this San Francisco Examiner story about a “race” between the Bay Area’s new “express train” (nicknamed the “baby bullet”) and a car: It is a $163 million arterial bypass surgery for Peninsula commuters, a slick new set of train engines and passing tracks that will allow commuters to glide past traffic [...]
Archive for June 8th, 2004
Our Press Sucks
Posted in Writing on June 8, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Special forces free Iraq hostages.
Dems Left Off Funeral Speaker List
Posted in Politics on June 8, 2004 | 25 Comments »
It’s Drudge, so it might not be true, but if it is, the hypocrisy of Republicans knows no bounds. Remember when Wellstone’s memorial service sent Republicans into quivers of anger? Apparently, explicitly designing a funeral to be a political rally is okay. It’s only when the heartfelt emotions of some speakers at a memorial service [...]
Government of Rotting Fish
Posted in Politics on June 8, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Jim Henley thinks he smells something: HOWEVER. President Bush is no one’s idea of a legal mind. He may have initiated the project that became the memo, but he didn’t draft the thing. High-level government lawyers, most of them undoubtedly political appointees, did that. What that means is that there is systemic corruption in the [...]
Ruling With Your Gut: Or "Bush, Giving America IBS"
Posted in Politics on June 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Bush is not a statesman. He is what he always been — an incurious, spoiled brat who has been saved time and time again by his name and his Daddy’s connections. From the WaPo article Digby links: Bush puts a lot of stock in his gut-level assessments of his fellow leaders. The fact that Russian [...]
Off The Kuff Baby
Posted in Bloggin on June 8, 2004 | Comments Off
Go say hello to Charle’s Kuffner’s new baby girl, Olivia.
"It's Not About Patriotism"
Posted in Terrorism on June 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The Coast Guard doesn’t have the money to do its job. That should concern you, because it’s not the Navy that keeps cargo ships full of nuclear weapons and terrorists away form port, it’s the Coast Guard. For instance, the Coast Guard’s budget is up 51 percent from its pre-Sept. 11 numbers. But there remain [...]
Enough of the Good News Brigade.
Posted in Iraq on June 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »
We are failing to provide Baghdad hospitals with the supplies they need to function In the last 48 hours four children in Yasser’s ward have died. Some, perhaps, would have succumbed even with the best treatment available. But doctors say most of them would probably have lived. They have died because of the filthy conditions, [...]
Krugman: The Great Taxer
Posted in Economics on June 8, 2004 | Comments Off
Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Great Taxer” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/opinion/08KRUG.html”>Krugman reminds us of reality We’re also sure to hear that Mr. Reagan presided over an unmatched economic boom. Again, not true: the economy grew slightly faster under President Clinton, and, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, the after-tax income of a typical family, adjusted for inflation, rose [...]
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