(airport wi-fi blogging is cool) I overheard a couple of people talking at the airport about how Stephen [tag]Colbert[/tag] killed at the White House Correspondents’ Association [tag]Dinner[/tag] over the weekend. I caught a snippet here and there, and thought it was a fairly typical roast-like stand-up routine. But after seeing the whole thing, and then […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Kevin Drum has posted on the NBC story about the Pentagon’s plans, just months after 9/11, “to hit the camp of Abu Musab Zarqawi” in northern Iraq. According to the story, Bush “refused to authorize a military strike”. The story, from star correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, “was based on anonymous […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings A new CNN poll reveals that “Americans have strong doubts that the United States will fulfill the promise of President Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ backdrop”: The CNN poll, conducted April 21-23 by Opinion Research Corporation, found that only 9 percent thought the U.S. mission in Iraq had been accomplished, while […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings They both lost their mojo. But let’s be more precise: Austin Powers (in The Spy Who Shagged Me) had his mojo stolen by his archnemesis Dr. Evil. Powers returns to 1969, and he and partner Felicity Shagwell recover it. And all is well, Fat Bastard and Mini-Me notwithstanding, until […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Needless to say, I and almost every other sensible person in the world have been rather critical of Iranian President Mahmoud “Madman of Tehran” Ahmadinejad’s incendiary rhetoric, both with respect to Iran’s budding nuclear program and to Israel and the Holocaust. See my post from yesterday here (as well […]
It’s a terribly long story, but I was supposed to be back home from a quick weekend trip by Sunday afternoon. It didn’t happen. Not even close. Long story short, I won’t be back at my desk today and won’t be able to post until tomorrow. I asked The Reaction’s Michael J.W. Stickings, who had […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Yesterday witnessed the Rally to Stop Genocide, a significant if relatively small protest held on the Mall in Washington. The Post reports: Clutching signs that read “Never Again,” thousands of protesters from across religious and political divides descended on the Mall yesterday along with celebrities and politicians to urge […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings The Boston Globe is reporting that “[s]ince taking office in 2001, President Bush has issued signing statements on more than 750 new laws, declaring that he has the power to set aside the laws when they conflict with his legal interpretation of the Constitution”. The Globe lists ten truly […]