The updates were getting too long on the other thread. The Washington Post has two experts (including the one I spoke of in the earlier thread) claiming that the documents were fakes: “It would be nearly impossible for all this technology to have existed at that time,” said Flynn, who runs a document authentication company [...]
Archive for September 9th, 2004
Maybe the Memos Were Faked
Posted in Politics on September 9, 2004 | 28 Comments »
The Memos are not faked.
Posted in Politics on September 9, 2004 | 44 Comments »
Man, the desperation on the right over the Guard story is getting to be a bit ridiculous. Apparently, some in the right half of the blogoshere are saying that the new memos are forgeries! Oh, those wily and cunning democrats! Oh , the perfidy of those damnable liberals! Is there anything they won’t stoop too? [...]
More on Bad Media
Posted in Culture on September 9, 2004 | Comments Off
You know, Charles Pierce may just be the best columnist in America: There is a tedious ongoing debate about why the political media behaves the way that it does, but there seems little doubt that modern rightist campaigning and the modern political media share views of their primary audience that are uniquely consonant with each [...]
Unwelcome Meddling: Why the Church Needs to Stay Out of the State (2)
Posted in Church & State, Culture, Politics, Religion on September 9, 2004 | 1 Comment »
There is a ballot measure, up for vote in California in the upcoming election, that would authorize a bond issue to provide funding for grants for stem-cell research that is currently ineligible for funding under the Bush ban. Essentially, the measure asks the citizens if they want to provide state funds (eventually to be paid [...]
Stupid Meddling: Why The Church Needs to Stay Out of the State (1)
Posted in Church & State, Culture, Politics, Religion, Science on September 9, 2004 | Comments Off
Creationism – at one time regarded as an uniquely American Protestant idiocy, has come to Orthodox Catholic Eastern Europe. The rationalist faction is fighting back, but we can expect to see more of this kind of thing, I fear. Charles Darwin’s evolution theory is out of Serb schools. The Bible is in. . . . [...]
Our Next To Worthless Press
Posted in Culture on September 9, 2004 | Comments Off
Jeanne links together several important stories that paint a picture of the uselessness of American press. The American press covered the bizarre press silence that surrounded the hostage crisis, but haven’t mentioned even the arrest, without explanation, of a journalist, who had just returned to Moscow from Beslan. Not that there’s anything unusual in that. [...]
It's a Fair Cop!
Posted in Science on September 9, 2004 | 8 Comments »
“If she weighs the same as a duck, then she’s made of wood, and therefore, a witch!” That little tidbit of logic gone wrong from Monty Python and the Holy Grail has always amused me. It’s a fine example of just how wrong logic alone can go. I used to think it was a highly [...]
Bad News on the Health Care Front
Posted in Health on September 9, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Looks like health care premiums have undergone their fourth consecutive double-digit increase: Health care costs continued to surge this year as family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year of double-digit growth, according to a new study. The cumulative effect of rising health care costs is taking a toll on workers: There [...]
Gays: Worse Than Animals for Some Fortune 500 Firms
Posted in Culture, Health, Legal Issues, Politics on September 9, 2004 | 2 Comments »
A press release from the Human Rights Campaign highlights a problem I had never heard of or imagined: some large companies offer pet insurance as an employee benefit (what the hell is pet insurance?), but do not offer health benefits to domestic partners of gay employees. That’s right: animals qualify for benefits, but gays aren’t [...]
(Goddamn!) Maureen Dowd Rips Cheney a New One
Posted in Politics on September 9, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Maureen Dowd is every liberal’s guilty pleasure. She walks this weird tightrope between pop-cult ditziness and stiletto political insights that is as infuriating as it is invigorating. Today’s column is a classic: non-sequitur and barely coherent, but it rips the heart out of the Bush/Cheney madness in a way we only wish John Kerry would [...]
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