Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show, to Bill Kristol: I have to give you credit. You, I think, and if you go back and you read the essays, certainly about what you were saying about Saddam Hussein in 1997, you were wrong about Iraq way before anyone else, and I just want to say that [...]
Archive for October 24th, 2005
Stewart Hits One Out
Posted in Politics, Satire on October 24, 2005 | 10 Comments »
You Mean They Wanted Their Rights?
Posted in Culture, General, Legal Issues, Politics, Privacy on October 24, 2005 | Comments Off
WorldNet Daily – the National Enquirer of online news – is flogging some nutter former part-time Texas judge who is convinced that the arrest that triggered Lawrence v. Texas – the “sodomy” right-to-privacy case that provided gays some of the protections from legal harassment that straights have taken for granted – was a setup. Their [...]
Madison, WI Builds Community WiFi
Posted in Economics, Politics on October 24, 2005 | Comments Off
The Mayor of Madison is living up t a campaign promise and bringing municipal WiFi to the city: Another U.S. municipality, Madison, Wisconsin, is getting a citywide Wi-Fi rollout, this time led by a firm supplying real-time automated meter reading for the utilities industry. In an announcement Friday, Cellnet Technology said it has begun deploying [...]
Should Plame Leakers be Punished?
Posted in Iraq, Legal Issues, Politics on October 24, 2005 | Comments Off
Nathan Newman is not so sure: I actually care far less about the official government source dance with the prostrate media than the likely chilling of internal dissenters finding themselves scared to death to talk to the press about illegal skullduggery for fear of indictment. Two years ago I said that I thought the Plame [...]
The Memphis Zoo Boo
Posted in Holiday, I do too have a life on October 24, 2005 | Comments Off
Saturday night we took the kids to the Memphis Zoo Boo for the third time in the last four years. The last two times we went, the Zoo Boo was very disappointing. There weren’t very many trick-or-treat stations, there where almost no interesting events for the kids, the place was very poorly lighted, and what [...]
Fair Weather Patriots
Posted in Politics on October 24, 2005 | Comments Off
Recently, two stalwarts of he the GOP foreign policy establishment have spoken out against Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld in pointed, even vicious fashion. One, Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff at State Lawrence Wilkerson, from the inside. One, former National Security advisor to Bush I Brent Scowcroft, form the outside. Both paint pictures of a [...]
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