Maud Newton has a tale of HS keeping us safe from 81 year old ministers: Maud here. Im popping in very briefly on Annies clock to post some outrageous news from novelist Hannah Tinti: I just found out that Edwidge Danticats uncle [Joseph Dantica] who raised her while her parents were in the US, died [...]
Archive for November 19th, 2004
Death at the Hands of Homeland Security
Posted in Politics on November 19, 2004 | 6 Comments »
A Good Start
Posted in Politics on November 19, 2004 | 5 Comments »
John Kerry’s latest message: Dear Supporter, I want to thank you personally for what you did in the election — you rewrote the book on grassroots politics, taking control of campaigns away from big donors. No campaign will ever be the same. You moved voters, helped hold George Bush accountable, and countered the attacks from [...]
The Party of Intellectual Freedom
Posted in Politics on November 19, 2004 | 14 Comments »
Matt asks which way we should go when faced with the inevitable “moralizing gap”: The FCC has apparently gotten bored regulating the airwaves and wants to get into the cable and satellite radio games from which they’ve traditionally been barred on the grounds that, unlike the broadcast spectrum, we’re not talking about a crowded public [...]
The So-Called Liberal Media
Posted in Politics on November 19, 2004 | 36 Comments »
An obscure liberal radio talk show host in Madison, WI uses racial slurs and it national attention. A somewhat less obscure conservative radio talk show host in the larger Milwaukee market does the same thing, and it only gets local attention. Liberal media, my ass. Hat tip: Say Uncle UPDATE: Commenter CalDevil points out that [...]
"Partisan Democratic District Attorney"
Posted in Politics on November 19, 2004 | 5 Comments »
That seems to be the justification the Republicans are using for their voting for the appearance of corruption — that Delay shouldn’t lose his position if he is indicted because the district attorney is partisan. The media, of course, is parroting the line. Except it is not true. Earle, the prosecutor in question, has been [...]