Here, at a glance, are the bookmakers’s betting lines. At the moment Paddy Power is giving odds of 4 to 7 for Bush, 5 to 4 for Kerry. The line at Littlewoods betdirect is 4 to 6 for Bush, 11 to 10 for Kerry. At totalbet.com it’s also 4 to 6 for Bush, 11 to […]
RING AROUND THE ROSY
Nine Marines died in Iraq on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the American forces in half a year. Meantime, U.S. officials go around giving upbeat assessments of the situation, while actually believing that it isn’t nearly as rosy as they’ve painted it. For instance, top commanders fear that “Iraq’s expanding security forces, soon […]
CITIZENFLICKS
Have a look at this citizenflick, “Visualize Winning” by Needlenose Productions. I love it, and you will too. Then have a look at the rest of these citizenflicks: “The Song”; “Game Show”; “One Vote”; “Margins”; Vinton, Iowa”; and “Testimony.” Then make Tuesday count.
BELOW THE RADAR
You’d think it was an antiwar liberal who is venting his ideology. But it is not: Tell me there is a connection to 9/11? There’s not. Are there weapons of mass destruction? There’s not. Tell me the war will be over soon? It won’t. It is Lt. Paul Rieckhoff, an Army infantry platoon leader who […]
FRACTIOUS FRIDAY
In case you missed it, here’s another reason to throw the bums out: The Los Angeles Times reports it has obtained documents showing that Halliburton, Bunker Boy’s old company, won a lucrative extension of its no-bid military contract after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did an end-run around its own chief contracting officer, who […]
PLAY THE GAME
Just in time for Election Day: Give the Ignoramus a brain. Is it possible? Karl Rove is supposed to have done it. Can you?
NEED WE SAY MORE?
Yes!!!
THE ONE-FINGER VICTORY SALUTE
Today cannot pass without acknowledging the lead editorial in this morning’s New York Times, which spotlights one of the most important reasons to turn the Ignoramus in Chief and his thuggish minions out of office: When the Abu Ghraib prison scandal first broke, the Bush administration struck a pose of righteous indignation. It assured the […]
MADNESS REIGNS
Now hear this: “A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.” When the Ignoramus in Chief defends himself with those words against John Kerry’s charge that nearly 400 tons of high explosives vanished from an ammo dump near Baghdad because of […]
TAKE A PEEK
Who reads this stuff? (I mean the charts.) … Here’s a scary story. … Let’s hope so.
SIGNS AND PREMONITIONS
The Beantown Boys have taken a commanding lead in the World Series. And, praise be, the Red Sox nation stretches across the sea to Liverpool, England, even across the globe to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A sweep could come
KRISTOF’S WEIRDNESS
Will somebody please explain what’s wrong with Nicholas Kristof? The same guy who writes unequaled columns about the horrors of Darfur can come up with this weirdness about the Ignoramus in Chief: [M]ost liberals have not revised their view that Mr. Bush is a nitwit. In fact, I’m convinced that Mr. Bush is not only […]
FEIRSTEIN LOBS SOME LOL
In the funniest column of the week, Bruce Feirstein imagines the highlights of Election Night 2004. Here’s a sample excerpt from his “Pundits Go Nuts”: 10 p.m., NBC: Andrea Mitchell reports that Mount St. Helen’s has exploded. Tim Russert offers his instant analysis: “Since 1781, no Republican incumbent whose last name begins with a ‘B’ […]
WHY THE BUM’S GOTTA GO
Paul Krugman has been writing about the cover-up culture of the Republican neocons at the White House for as long as the Ignoramus in Chief has been in office. This morning’s column is Krugman’s latest reminder of exactly why the bum’s gotta go. Meantime, the Washington Post reports that after the election, if he’s still […]
NOT A WORK OF FICTION
Nick Nolte’s Diary is no more. It used to be
READING FICTION
The Guardian reports that “Bill Clinton regularly requests early copies of Carl Hiassen’s novels” and Bush the Father “recently wrote asking for some signed bookplates for his wife.” Bush the Son hasn’t yet asked for an autograph, but Hiassen doesn’t expect him to. “I’d be thrilled if he did because it would suggest he has […]
SIMPLY DELICIOUS
“Whenever Howard Fineman strays into the truth,” he’s likely to find James Wolcott laying in wait for him. Adam Nagourney fares no better. Wolcott gives him the back of his hand. He calls him (with an apology for shouting) “the kind of putz people walk away from at cocktail parties!” And how about the Ann […]