A while back, I posted an observation about the relative politics of Kevin versus Kevin T. Keith. This post mostly generated an overwhelmingly negative response, most of it complaining about KTK’s openly-acknowledged-by-all-three-of-us tendency to devolve into invective hyperbole. I’ve been known to joke about KTK needing to “stay on his meds,” and claim that when [...]
Archive for January 4th, 2006
Regarding KTK
Posted in Bloggin on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
The Corleone Party (or: Why I Love Maureen Dowd, Again)
Posted in Culture, General, Politics on January 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Dowd nails it again with today’s column on the real costs of GOP sellouts to lobbyists’ bribery (available here, outside the Times‘s firewall): The Post said Mr. Abramoff loved to amuse colleagues by imitating Michael Corleone as he rejected a corrupt politician’s demand for a share of Mafia gambling money: “Senator, you can have my [...]
Do You Really Want to Go There, Falafel Boy?
Posted in Politics on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
Bill O’Reilly threatened to go after the personal lives of Bill Keller and Frank Rich because they,umm, reported things and wrote an opinion column: JUAN WILLIAMS: I was listening to your Talking Points and there you are, threatening Bill Keller and Frank Rich and I thought: What are you gonna do to them if they [...]
The Appearance of Corruption
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
The new person in charge of the people running the Abramoff investigation is Alice Fisher. Ms. Fisher is a Republican operative and apparently known for being close to the defense team of Tom Delay. Even more interesting is the fact that Ms. Fisher was being blocked in the Senate over concerns about her views on [...]
Are Telecoms State Actors?
Posted in Legal Issues on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
Publius has an interesting discussion on this topic, including whether or not said telecoms could be implicated in a class action lawsuit for their role in domestic surveillance. Go check it out.
The Machine
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
The Republicans and that oh so liberal media have been attempting to spin the Abramoff indictment as a problem for both parties. That is, not to put too fine a point on it, crap. Abramoff was a central part of Tom Delay’s fund raising apparatus — an apparatus, by the way, that is looking more [...]
I Feel His Pain
Posted in General, I do too have a life on January 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I should be really angry about, and really jealous of, this column by Joel Stein, in which he devotes his life to sending increasingly-expensive fruit baskets and cases of wine to Maureen Dowd to apologize for an offensive joke, but it’s too funny. It also points up the many reasons why I’m never going to [...]
West Virginia Mine and The De-regulated Paradise
Posted in Economics, Legal Issues, Privacy on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
The mine in West Virginia has been cited for over two hundred safety violations last year, with almost one hundred of those violations being regarded as serious. Scott Shields has a good look at both why such a mine is allowed to continue operation and how the Bush Administration derailed regulations that might have been [...]
Gay Gay Gay-ditty Gay Gay Gay
Posted in Culture, Politics, Privacy on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
Some on the right apparently think that Brokeback Mountain is a nefarious plot to convert all American straights to a life of homosexuality: “This movie sends a very dangerous message to America’s youth – and especially married couples with a struggling spouse. I just spoke with a married man on the telephone who is contemplating [...]
12 [Not] Alive
Posted in General on January 4, 2006 | Comments Off
Twelve of the thirteen West Virginia miners have been found alive. Unfortunately, the last miner has been confirmed dead. UPDATE: This report was erroneous. Actually, only one survived, and he remains in critical condition. — tgirsch
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