Yep. This is what I do during my lunch break at the Lab. More articles I think everyone should read:
Who needs the Magna Carta anyway?
Tom DeLay is a colossal idiot.
Wherein Ms. Clinton says, “No, fuck *you*”
King Bush: This is the presidency the authors of our Constitution warned us about.
Bush doesn’t give a fuck about our kids.
My mother told me to never commit anything to writing that you don’t want the whole world to see.
Brian just called them my “Pinko Linkos”. I laughed. The link entitled ‘Aw, snap!’ is Brian’s contributions to todays hit list. 😉
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nyad brought this to my attention. Reposting, so you know what else your government is capable of.
Much of the resentment toward Iraqis described to The Nation by veterans was confirmed in a report released May 4 by the Pentagon. According to the survey, conducted by the Office of the Surgeon General of the US Army Medical Command, just 47 percent of soldiers and 38 percent of marines agreed that civilians should be treated with dignity and respect. Only 55 percent of soldiers and 40 percent of marines said they would report a unit member who had killed or injured “an innocent noncombatant.”
Olbermann: Go to Iraq and fight, Mr. President
Bush’s latest choice of scapegoat — Hillary Clinton — boggles the mind
A Special Comment by Keith Olbermann
It is one of the great, dark, evil lessons, of history.
A country — a government — a military machine — can screw up a war seven ways to Sunday. It can get thousands of its people killed. It can risk the safety of its citizens. It can destroy the fabric of its nation.
But as long as it can identify a scapegoat, it can regain or even gain power.
The Bush administration has opened this Pandora’s Box about Iraq. It has found its scapegoats: Hillary Clinton and us.
The lies and terror tactics with which it deluded this country into war — they had nothing to do with the abomination that Iraq has become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The selection of the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong place — the most disastrous geopolitical tactic since Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process — that had nothing to do with the overwhelming crisis Iraq has become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The criminal lack of planning for the war — the total “jump-off-a-bridge-and-hope-you-can-fly” tone to the failure to anticipate what would follow the deposing of Saddam Hussein — that had nothing to do with the chaos in which Iraq has been enveloped. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The utter, blinkered idiocy of “staying the course,” of sending Americans to Iraq and sending them a second time, and a third and a fourth, until they get killed or maimed — the utter de-prioritization of human life, simply so a politician can avoid having to admit a mistake — that had nothing to do with the tens of thousand individual tragedies darkening the lives of American families, forever. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The continuing, relentless, remorseless, corrupt and cynical insistence that this conflict somehow is defeating or containing or just engaging the people who attacked us on 9/11, the total “Alice Through the Looking Glass” quality that ignores that in Iraq, we have made the world safer for al-Qaida — it isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault!
The fault, brought down, as if a sermon from this mount of hypocrisy and slaughter by a nearly anonymous undersecretary of defense, has tonight been laid on the doorstep of… Sen. Hillary Clinton and, by extension, at the doorstep of every American — the now-vast majority of us — who have dared to criticize this war or protest it or merely ask questions about it or simply, plaintively, innocently, honestly, plead, “Don’t take my son; don’t take my daughter.”
Sen. Clinton has been sent — and someone has leaked to The Associated Press — a letter, sent in reply to hers asking if there exists an actual plan for evacuating U.S. troops from Iraq.
This extraordinary document was written by an undersecretary of defense named Eric Edelman.
As an aside, this Edelman character is a career diplomat and was (surprise!) an adviser on national security to Vice President Dick Cheney during the lead up to the war in Iraq.
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And, in case you missed it… judge tosses out ex-spy’s lawsuit against Cheney in CIA leak case.
…but I, for one, am glad that Jon Lovitz socked Andy Dick.
Just a little mid-day gossipy yapping.
I’m such a sucka for VH1’s awful reality shows. Is anyone else watching Rock of Love?
BAD
I accidentally punched myself in the nose (HARD) while pulling on a tank top just now.
GOOD
My Dittos and Kork-Ease arrived.
Before I leave for Vegas (I’m leaving my computer at home), I kinda wanna close the door on the Evan Dorkin incident. Cross-posting this, in part, from a post I made on the forum.
I guess I just don’t see what there was to rant about, is all. We aren’t some faceless corporate conglomerate that made some move to deliberately market to an industry that we are neither a part of, nor understand. I don’t think you *can* get more comic fangirl / fanboy than we are at BPAL. Fer the love of Pete, we’re all but closed during Comic Con! Diamond saw an opportunity to expand product awareness, which can only benefit the CBLDF. It’s a little baffling to me that a charitable venture instigated by a member of the industry and a company that is sympathetic to the industry would warrant a flame. I just think that the angst was a little misplaced, but if that’s how Evan feels, that’s how he feels. I don’t throw stones at glass houses, and I can’t say I’ve never been snarky about something.
With regards to Diamond… Personally, I love going through Previews, but I have a thing for collectibles and such. I’m a Consumer. Plus, they were really nice to us, and nice scores big points.
Neil thought it was funny, I was perplexed, and Evan vented his spleen. All is well. 😉 Like I said before, I’m a fan of Evan’s. Hopefully this incident brought more awareness to the work that the CBLDF does. If that’s the case, all the better, I guess.
Getting on a plane now. =)
I’m a huge fan of Milk & Cheese, so I find it oddly gratifying that my company has been enthusiastically insulted by
This is a boner that no one can diminish. 😉
