This one's for Dr. Rammer.

Stupid Reaganites

Jewrnalism

Apparently we should learn more about semitism in Journalism school.

At least according to William Hern, a prominent Boulder doctor made famous by his attacks on Colorado's gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter for his pro-life stance.

Yep, apparently there's some Jew named Golden who fled New York sometime in the last century and began a newspaper in one of the Carolinas (I don't remember which). He was a big crazy liberal beneath the mason-dixon line, and according to Hern, he was a Great Man.

Why do I know this? Because according to Hern, "You're a reporter. You should know about Golden." The implication being that if I don't know who this guy was, I'm not worth the paper my stories are printed on.

Very simple. Very easy.

I love absolutism.

Today it's turkey club, extra mayo. Gotta load up for that state of the union, baby. Tonights' one of those nights when the shrub gets to tell everyone he's a tree. Yippie ki yay, motherfucker.

A Spoonful of Tahini

Here's the funniest thing I've seen in a while:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/30/alzawahiri.tape/index.html

Zawahiri called shrub a loser! A LOSER! No serious insults, no death threats (per se), he just kicks the world's most famous Republican in the shins and spits on his polo shirt.

Expected soon from Al-Jazeera are follow-up tapes from Tehran, with Iran's Ahmadinejad calling Rumsfeld a poopface.

Take that, you dirty neocons.

Hey Bill, get your own soup

If it isn't abundantly clear to anyone reading this already, I'm a twisted left winger who loathes everything the current administration has come to stand for.

That having been said, here's a story (that, of course, is not getting much play in the mainstream media) about a recent poll that claims a majority of Americans now favor impeachment for shrub IF it's proven that his wiretapping scheme was really illegal in the first place:

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/13705324.htm

It ran on Knight Ridder, which I've come to suspect is one of the last bastions of good solid reporting in this fucked-up country. A few others, for those of you who might be lacking (as it is very easy to be, unless you spend an obscene amount of time doing research), are listed in my links.

52%. ha. Fuck you, George W. The people of this country aren't quite as dumb as you'd like to think. And fuck you too, O'Reilly.

****

Other interesting stories right now:

CNN's Aaron Brown laments the state of journalism in this country: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/news/brown0126.html

That reminds me; fuck every single one of you idiots who pump their veins full of Kobe Bryant's rape story, the Laci Peterson murder, the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba, and their ilk. Your shallow taste for sensationalism is ruining the fact-based news machines in this country and driving them towards dollar-making headlines and stupid bullshit stories. Grow some taste buds and a social conscience.

Another interesting story, this one about the ridiculously immoral tactics our military applies today: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060127/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_leveraging_wives

Cheers.

You! You with the balloons! Can I have a red one, please?

The bouillabaisse is rotten

Incidentally, the entire population of Denver is only 554,000.

Oy...

Cheers to Robert Greenwald.

Tuna with sprouts, extra sauce

The legislative building in Denver yesterday was full of legislative aides. Hm. Not legislators. No, the vast majority of Colorado's state legislature wasn't interested in the Colorado Health Institute's presentation on Colorado's 770,000 uninsured citizens.

That's right, I said 770,000. Over a quarter million. No health care. Except what they can get through non-profit clinics, which have to turn away the vast majority of those who NEED help, simply because the clinics can't handle the volume.

Fucked up, you say? Indeed it is. But of course socialized universal health care is still not being looked at as a real option. To my knowledge, it's not being considered anywhere in the country.

And we call ourselves civilized. Hmmmm....

I think this calls for some fish. I'll have the tuna, please. Extra sauce.