by Lee Stranahan My piece based on a conversation I had with Steve Hildebrand is up on Huffington Post. I think Bob's criticism was fair, Sirota's not. "Hamfisted" is one thing, "Rant-ish" isn't...
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Another Obama Cabinet Controversy
First, he pisses off some liberal bloggers, and now... anti-beret military personnel.
Abu Ghraib: The Sequel
by Lee Stranahan I'm watching the presser at the Department Of Justice announcing that five Blackwater Guards are being charged with fourteen counts of manslaughter over the massacre of September...
Very Serious Questions
As Aravosis writes, when will Tom Brokaw nag George W. Bush about his recent fall off the drinking wagon -- especially considering Bush is an admitted alcoholic? Has any member of the establishment...
Layoffs Are Bad Management
by Lee Stranahan I highlight this on my new website StopLayoffs.org but there's awesome, true and fun to read article on Trizle.com about why layoffs are bad management. Basically, it's a lazy way to...
Hildebrand Tries To Comfort The Left
And pretty much fails. Barack Obama's Deputy Transition Director Steve Hildebrand wrote a piece for the Huffington Post addressing the progressive netroots, and, honestly, it wasn't good. Now, I get...
Krugman Clarifies
You might've seen the screamer headlines around the interweb suggesting that Krugman said the American auto industry is doomed. Not true. Krugman clarifies: What I actually said was that the...
Misinformation Alert
The Prius does NOT lose money for Toyota. If it does, then Toyota is run by dumb-stupids who have no business running a company. CNBC's Erin Burnett was just on Morning Joe repeating this...
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Real Life Mario Kart
Expelling Ben Stein
by Lee Stranahan Roger Ebert does an absolute humdinger of a takedown on Ben Stein's anti-evolution film Expelled in his piece Win Ben Stein's Mind. Seriously, damn, read it. There's even a great...
Sunday Night Thread in America
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Hearings Petition : Idea Thread
by Lee Stranahan The Congressional Hearings On Layoffs petition is going pretty well, I think. Right now, there's 386 signers and lots of really great comments. My Huffington Post piece has been...
A Big Block of Cheese
"Jackson's Great Cheese Levee" by Benjamin Perley Poore, 1886 Fellow superfans of The West Wing will recognize the headline as Leo McGarry's ongoing pet project to follow in the tradition of Andrew...
The Bush Presidential Portrait
President Bush unveiled his presidential portrait yesterday. The painting after the jump...
It's Been A Long Road
Tiny wooden cabins line the dirt road once known as Slave Street as it winds through Friendfield Plantation. More than 200 slaves lived in the whitewashed shacks in the early 1800s, and some of their...
Contradictions
Filippo Minelli - spray paint on scrap-yard, Bamako - Mali, 2008 "What I want to do by writing the names of anything connected with the 2.0 life... [on] the slums of the third world is to point out...
Lazy Obama
As I predicted a week ago, the Bush dead-enders are griping about President-elect Obama's Hawaii vacation. NRO's Greg Pollowitz wrote a blog entry the other day with the headline "While The Big Three...
Secretary Eric Shinseki
There is justice. General Shinseki has been appointed to Veteran's Affairs. Shinseki is the former Army chief of staff who upset his civilian bosses in 2003 when he testified to Congress that it...
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Panic at the Disco - "Mad as Rabbits"
Montana Legalizes Death With Dignity
It's only the third state to legalize assisted suicide. Here's to hoping the rest of America will soon embrace the idea that some of us prefer to die with dignity, rather than disintigrating in pain...