Posted by Fitz I am not particularly surprised that Teresa Heinz Kerry told the editorial page editor of the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to “Shove it”. I have a low tolerance level for self-serving jerks who try to twist my own words out of context – and I am not a foreign born billionaire. What does […]
Posted by Fitz One of the recurring mantras of the Bush administration in response to the September 11th Commission Report has been, “we have been moving ahead”. I heard Condi Rice utter these exact words on Friday and heard them repeated by various pundits over the weekend. The basic argument seems to be that a) […]
Posted by PWalker In case you missed it, President Bush was a big winner at the 2004 World Stupidity Awards. Bush was a dominating presence at the second edition of the awards presented at the Just for Laughs comedy festival. Host Lewis Black, whose biting satire is a highlight of TV’s The Daily Show, took […]
Posted by PWalker Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” topped $100M at the box office this weekend. Which according to The Washington Post puts it at number 273 all time. It’s reported that the film cost only $6M to make, which means a lot of profits lost by Disney. How does Michael Eisner feel about it? According […]
Posted by SamFelder On the brink of resolution, the George W. Bush AWOL story spiraled out of control when we learned two weeks ago that Bush’s personnel files had been “inadvertently destroyed” in a freak microfilm preservation accident. The accident, to have taken place eight years prior, had not come up before in the ten […]
I have good news and bad news. The bad news is I have a family commitment that will keep me away from my desk through Wednesday. That means, obviously, that I won’t be able to post anything. The good news is I have lured three capable Carpetbagger readers into helping out while I’m away. Their […]
It’s time for my every-Friday feature — your favorite and mine — Poll Day. As always, these state-by-state presidential poll results were released within the last seven days. Pay particular attention to Arizona, Missouri, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, where there’s some very encouraging news. Arizona (10 electoral votes) KAET/Arizona State — Kerry 42, Bush 41 The […]
You’ve almost certainly already read about this elsewhere, but since I’ve been obsessing over the court–stripping issue for months, I figured I should wrap the story up with an exclamation point. Now that the conservatives have been denied the opportunity to ban gay marriage, Congress’ loony right has decided it’ll pass a law to take […]
This is getting embarrassing. A few months ago, we learned that the Christian Coalition was having trouble paying its bills and is facing a lawsuit from a Virginia firm that helped the group struggle through a series of self-inflicted scandals. A local law firm has asked a judge to garnishee the assets of the Christian […]
Doonesbury just gets better and better. This week’s series on Fox News has been terrific, especially today’s.