Archives for September 2005

the world is one big blog, God may become a blogger, too. That’s not a certainty, of course, we’re merely speculating. But at the very least He’s about to get his own first-ever God Blog Convention two weeks from now in southern California. GodBlogCon, as it’s being called, will feature keynote speaker Vestal Virigins, like […]

Leave it to Broussard on NBC’s Meet the Press three weeks ago, “angrily lamenting the failure of the national government to act in a timely manner in the face of Katrina” — the name tickled a “sense memory” in his brain, and he recalled buying a vinyl LP, right, which had been released by “the […]

Notice anything peculiar? We do. If you don’t, we’re not going to tell you what it is. But we’ll give you a hint, Mr. Jones. It has to do with news judgment (i.e. how the breaking story of DeLay’s indictment was headlined on the MSNBC.com cover). It also makes you wonder how the Web’s most […]

Playing catch-up on this, but only by hours, and it’s never too late for such news. Here’s UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge’s Speculation about his drinking — like this this is no rumor, we’re glad to say. — Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Jeb Eddy, the email exchange with a critic, John Armor, who claims Eddy is just a Democrat in disguise. critics like him is that they’re making Eddy’s own case for him. By arguing that Eddy is not really G.O.P. ilk — mainly because he has given contributions to Democrats and doesn’t believe in the current […]

Something else for Christopher Hitchens to chew on, the phoney peacenik. Fishback is a West Point graduate from Michigan and son of a Vietnam War veteran, according to

Christopher Hitchens (who Wizbang!, Shock & Blog, but rather “a big, fat, liberal phony — but that’s being redundant, isn’t it?”) both make the case that the press can’t be trusted to clarify the issues or even to lay out the facts because it’s biased, stupid, easily fooled and, not least, amnesiac. In answer to […]

Press inquiries keep coming about Samuel Thompson, the lone violinist who played Bach for fellow refugees at the Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center. The latest arrived a few days ago from Li Chen, a reporter in China who saw our items about Thompson, and asked to be put in touch with him for […]

“Fallujah is the Guernica of our time,” former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has said over and over. He said it again at the antiwar protest in Washington, where he once more termed the current occupant of the White House a The Nuremberg judgment calls the war of aggression the supreme international crime. It’s the […]

Morning round-up: “US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan — an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed — that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand,” We know Christopher Hitchens insists it’s a lie — see his debate with George Galloway (scroll down for the video) — but the British medical […]

Norman Mailer, where are you? An estimated 300,000 people turned out, protest organizers said, which was “triple their original target.” A mere 200 counter-demonstrators or so showed up outside the FBI building, the Post reports. The Bullshitter-in-Chief was out of town. Out to lunch, too, where he usually is. donor to peace causes, environmental causes […]

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Here’s a must-read report: Jeremy Scahill’s “Overkill” about the deployment of privatized paramilitary mercenaries in New Orleans, like those pictured below, as noted Cahill quotes one of the roughly “150 heavily armed Get thee to Washington. — Tireless Staff of Thousands EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

As much as we love literature, we feel it’s more important to confront the Bullshitter-in-Chief’s regime. So it’s no contest for us. We’d rather participate in the National Book Festival, which begins there at the same time. (Vide Wouldn’t you rather attend the Operation Ceasefire Concert, than listen to book fest host Laura Bush extoll […]

We’re back from Chicago, the most underrated city in the country. One of the things we noticed on a cool, sunny day: Michigan Avenue, brimming with tourists and shoppers from the Tribune Tower, made New York’s Fifth Avenue look like a cheap alleyway. Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University Library (just […]

As you probably know by now, the poet Sharon Olds has turned down Laura Bush’s invitation to this weekend’s National Book Festival in Washington and — “more better” (in the mortal words of the Bullshitter-in-Chief) — a chance to dine with the bullshitter’s wife-in-chief. Olds writes, protesting the war in Iraq and the regime’s attack […]