More bumper-sticker silliness
I observe some interesting fates befalling Bush-Cheney bumper-stickers, especially in the vicinity of college campuses. While the prize for ultimate defilement should probably go to the treatment of a...
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Parents Television Council: FCC finally on to it?
Parents Television Council (PTC) is the online wingnut organization infamous for providing online complaint forms redirected to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). They take credit for the FCC...
View ArticleFirsthand account from Biloxi...
This letter, appearing in a somewhat strange place (a World of Warcraft forum), comes from a person whom I know and respect. It  provides some insight into the situation in Biloxi, which may be as bad...
View ArticleWaPo readers rebuke Richard Cohen
Washington Post published several letters to the editor discussing Richard Cohen's column "So not funny." To remind you (like you need reminding), it dealt with Stephen Colbert's scathing monologue...
View ArticleBUSBY-BILBRAY vote challenged in court
Remember the California congressional race in which Francine Busby lost to Brian Bilbray with a narrow margin of about 7,000 votes, thus leaving the district of "Duke" Cunningham under Republican...
View ArticleHow should we react to Air America "restructuring"?
First they fired Mike Malloy, then I'm hearing that they're firing Jerry Springer, and now they are about to declare bankruptcy??? The news have been picked up by several news agencies and blogs, some...
View ArticleNew evidence of a campaign against The Golden Compass
Below is a quote from a letter sent out to parents of children attending a very academically respectable and fairly mellow Catholic school by the school's ermm... spiritual advisor, regarding Philip...
View ArticleMyspace SUCKS: atheist community shut down (with UPDATE)
Myspace is a popular social networking site. About two years ago, it was bought by Rupert Murdoch's media empire. I don't know if it sucked before that (probably it did), but this acquisition sort of...
View ArticleDeveloping: Iran cut off the Internet? (updated)
Not a candidate or super Tuesday diary.News just came in that a fifth fiberoptic undersea cable has been severed in the Middle East.The cable problems started on January 23, when the Flag Telecoms...
View ArticleTrouble brewing in Europe: Kosovo, Abkhazia... ?
Not a candidate diary.Kosovo, formerly a province in former Yugoslavia (and subsequently in Serbia), just declared its independence in defiance (at least according to the inevitable statement of the...
View ArticleA skirmish in the war against reason...
Not a candidate diary.In one of the West Texas school districts (Ector County), since 2005, students were taught "the story of the creation, the life of Noah and his ark" according to the Bible as...
View ArticleTrouble brewing in the Caucasus: Abkhazia... (updated x 2)
Georgia has announced that a Russian MiG-29 fighter shot down a Georgian Hermes 450 unmanned surveillance drone over Abkhazia, a Georgian province that proclaimed independence from Georgia a few years...
View ArticleTrouble in the Caucasus: sanity? too much to hope for (updated x 2)
In one of my previous diaries, I described an earlier confrontation involving Russia, Georgia, and Abkhazia (a breakaway republic that tries to secede from Georgia). Now, that one, over a Georgian...
View ArticleWar in South Ossetia - massive destruction in Tskhinvali (updated)
After a false hope of yesterday's ceasefire, the war in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia has flared up, with Georgia bombarding South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali and a column of Russian...
View ArticleWar in South Ossetia: a glimmer of hope? (updated)
Reuters and lenta.ru report that Georgia is withdrawing troops from the war-devastated South Ossetia. This also just got reported by France 24. I cannot get to any Georgian news sites for another...
View ArticleBush statement on Georgia: WTF? (updated)
He mispronounced Saakashvili. No surprise. He mispronounced Sarkozy. Duh. He's sending Condi to France (to eat cheese and discuss surrender?). He mispronounced Tbilisi. He's sending the Secretary of...
View ArticleRecycled Wolves, or 2004 Revisited...
The new "wolves"ad from McCain campaign is remarkably similar to the now-historic "wolves"ad from the 2004 Bush campaign - to the extent that I begin suspecting both ads use the same stock footage (or,...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly's website haXX0r3d
Billoreilly.com got hacked - allegedly in retaliation for comments Billo made after the hack of Sarah Palin's Yahoo account. The proof of the hack has been posted on wikileaks.com: The file provides...
View ArticleGibsonville, NC: "Obama sticker? NO PARKING!"
Some parking lot owner in Gibsonville, NC put a sign saying... Obama supporter? Obama bumper sticker? NO PARKING!It was reported on the local news. Quotes, video, and a little story of how this...
View ArticleStealth coup in North Korea?
Something fishy is going on in North Korea. According to Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese center-right newspaper of record), North Korea is calling upon its diplomats to stay near their embassies and to wait...
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