tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63324932012-01-02T13:22:54.196-05:00"Power has a way of undermining judgment, of planting delusions of grandeur in the minds of otherwise sensible people and otherwise sensible nations." - Senator J. William Fulbright, 1966lifeintheGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178676226827107425noreply@blogger.comBlogger10011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332493.post-47677229233091257752008-11-05T13:59:00.001-05:002008-11-05T14:00:56.506-05:00

What can I say that hasn't already been said? Last night was probably the most amazing political event any of us has witnessed. It happened exactly four years after this blog was established as a protest to the idiots who re-elected Bush – clearly my work here is done.Don't worry, I'll still be around. But for now, we get to look forward to Obama establishing his cabinet. Finally – a group of

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Let me start by saying that I know very little about economics. Only slightly more than John McCain. I admit I do enjoy when the latest James Surowiecki column comes out, who is a much better person from whom to get your financial advice than Phil “Nation of Whiners” Gramm. But I digress… I just want to briefly state that on principle, I am against this bailout. Bush’s speech last night, you

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By the way, DoGgers, that last post about McCain not caring about you so he can play president for a day – that was our 1000th post. I know that it’s an arbitrary number that seems important because humans have 10 digits on their hands, but hell, people like the zeros. It feels a little anti-climactic though, you know? I think perhaps it needed more unnecessary cursing and juvenile fart jokes

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John McCain dropped a few points in the polls yesterday and all of a sudden found religion on the economy. As such, he is “suspending campaign activities” and he wants to cancel Friday’s debate. Why? Because this economic crisis is too important to the future of our nation. Once again, he is putting “Country First.”One problem – campaigning, debating, and speaking to one’s constituents is not

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Some time has passed since my uncharacteristic outburst of optimism last month. And what a fortnight it’s been, huh? With all of their hysterical outrage, you’d think that something real actually happened to the Republicans. Something as bad as being ignored and then left for dead by a criminally negligent government after an extremely destructive hurricane. Or something…Moving on, I’m really

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Congratulations, President Obama! We just won this thing. I’m not typically prone to fits of confidence, or even small twangs of optimism. But shit, by choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Johnny GetOffMyLawn just sealed his own fate.She’s younger than Obama and been governor for less than one term. Obama’s so-called lack of experience is pretty much off the table.She’s governor of Alaska. Look

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The shocking news on Friday was that Tim Russert died suddenly of a heart attack at age 58. This happened roughly a month from when Clinton advisor and certifiable loon Terry McAuliffe prematurely declared Tim's dad to be dead. I don't know what that means, but all I'm saying is that if Terry starts talking about your dad, I'd do whatever I could to get him to stop. I've had some complex

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In case you were of the delusional belief that the mainstream right wing institutions were going to cover the presidential campaign with dignity and without stoking the racism of their supporters, guess again:

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Remember Pastor John Hagee, the dude who is like super-happy God sent Hitler to totally help out the Jews? And then McCain finally said enough is enough with this douchebag?It turns out that ex-veep candidate, ex-Democrat, ex-reasonable human being, and renowned Jew, Joe Lieberman is still BFF with Hagee.But, as Max Blumenthal reported on Tuesday, Lieberman -- a strong supporter of Israel -- is

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I’m told this weekend is the eagerly anticipated arranged marriage between the Rove employee and the president’s daughter so that the two evil dynasties can merge into a singular unholy union. Talk about doing it old-school… Speaking of which, do you think they’ll display the blood-stained wedding sheets as it requires in the Bible? If so, you better go get your fancy stoning rocks, cuz Lord

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Well, you fucked me again, Texas. God, I hate you, Texas. Hillary “won” three of four primaries last night. I put “won” in quotes because she inched like maybe 10 delegates closer and still has roughly no chance to win the nomination democratically. But because the American people have the attention span of a three-year-old child, and the press that of the three-year-old’s pet bug, it now

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Today, King Kaufman hits the nail on the head. If you’ll allow me to crudely paraphrase his point - “What the fuck is Congress doing spending all day with Roger Clemens?” Although I am loathe to speak for one of my favorite writers:Whether McNamee's specific statements about Clemens are true or not is, as one committee member pointed out, important to Clemens and McNamee, but not so important

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As a loyal -- some might say religious -- reader, I’m sure you are aware of my disdain for the cable news programs. However, on certain days, I like to get a quick update on things. And with Obamamentum(© 2008) kicking into high gear, I couldn’t wait, you know? Naturally, I tuned to MSNBC where my man Keith is employed. The problem with Keith is that on these special nights his partner is

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Some idle thoughts on yesterday’s activities:I titled my post from yesterday Super Duper Tuesday. You might not know this unless you’ve read DoG at least one other time, but I despise cable news and avoid it at all costs. However, I did watch the returns last night. It was there that I was horrified to discover that they have actually been calling it Super Duper Tuesday for some time now. You

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Listen, I’m not going to tell you how to vote today, if you get to vote today, as I do. I’m just going to say that the hard-core Republicans have to hold their noses to vote for McCain or for Mittens. You can see by the turnout numbers in the primaries so far that they’re not so much excited about this year’s election.It’s conceivable that with either one of those candidates a large number of

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Rudy 9iu11ani’s campaign has crumbled to earth after being struck by the twin engines of Huck and Mittens. As Rudy leaps off the side of the campaign trail and plummets to his political death, we are left with the lingering stench of a hard fought battle he was ultimately destined to lose.The brutality of this tragedy will one day be seen as a turning point in history, but for now we can look

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What’s that? Oh… OH! Hey! Is that you? Wow! It’s so weird, running into you like this. But, hey, you look great! Have you been working out? Well, I don’t know, you look fabulous! Are those new shoes? They’re very nice. Yeah, yeah, I’ve been keeping busy, you know how it goes… Yeah, no the orphans aren’t gonna feed themselves, you know? Nah, I’m no hero. It just keeps me sane, what

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I haven't written in almost a month. I guess there are like voting stuff thingees happening or something. So, I'm jumping in here to talk for a spell……about hockey.The boys at Melt Your Face Off be talkin' smack about your Detroit Red Wings, particularly in reference to the Wings' complete and total domination of the 2008 all-star roster.Before I go any further, I first came across the MYFO

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The best argument yet for kids to stay away from performance "enhancing" drugs: the just-released list of names from the Mitchell Report. Yeah, Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte are on there (which could explain Clemens' penchant for fits of rage). But for every Clemens there are 10 Nook Logans and Cody McKays. And on a side note, someone should have told Mo Vaughn that you're supposed to lift

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A Feministing reader came across the item pictured below at her local Wal-Mart. In case the scale is out of whack, it is a pair of panties from the junior department that says, “Who needs credit cards…” I suppose we can presume the … to be short for, “when you have a pussy.” So at first I thought to myself, this is Wal-Mart, the savior of moral values; the place where you can’t buy Eminem and

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If you liked Hostel, then you’ll love Canada’s new PSAs about preventing workplace accidents. I’m told (by Will at Deadspin) that they’re actually being run on the Ceeb during Hockey Night in Canada. Jesus. And there’s too much violence in hockey?But wait, there’s more. Then you have to go to the PSAs’ website. Click on Enter Now, and you’ll be greeted by a cartoon severed hand squirting

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Julie Myers, assistant secretary overseeing Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division -- herself a recess appointed, grossly unqualified nepotism case -- was part of a three-person panel selected to judge Halloween costumes at the Homeland Security Department office Halloween party. As an aside - a three-judge panel for a Halloween party? Can DHS do anything without

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In case you don’t watch TV (yeah, you’re so cool), or just don’t pay attention, the Writers Guild of America, aka - the writers union has gone on strike. What does that mean? It means The Daily Show and Colbert are not on tonight. Damn.But the interesting thing to me about this is it seems to be the very last union left in the United States that gets the support of the people. Why is that?

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Not for nothing, but if you ever set out for a short boat ride, a two or three hour tour say, do yourself a favor and keep an extra can of gasoline on board. That’s all I’m sayin’…So what’s new?FEMA has learned the lesson of Katrina. That lesson? If you hold phony scripted press conferences, you won’t get any liberal media types like Anderson Cooper asking nosy questions.Looks like Jin is

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The Right Wing is a big tent, don't you know. Any and all are welcome. From your run of the mill "straight" guys who suck dick in airport bathrooms, to guys who rape their daughters, your attracted to 5-year-old girls types, and on down the line to the dirty, dirty BDSM bitches. And I don't just mean those who would "surprise" his wife with a trip to the slave club, bark out some orders and

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First off, I told you a while ago that I wouldn't have as much time for you as I used to. We appreciate that you miss us, but can you call off the attack dogs? I'm busy enough as it is trying to sort out the scam Nigerian princes from the real ones, and now I have to deal with what can only be described as a coordinated effort to make me write more. We at DoG love getting your emails at

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What’s going on over at radioheadlp7.com?They’re counting down to something happening tomorrow morning. We are all aware of a forthcoming Radiohead (greatest band ever) album, but what’s going on tomorrow? Pitchfork tells me that this site has nothing to do with the band, so it’s probably a big scam. Or is it? I Might Be Wrong, but… I Will remain… Optimistic. If we’re… Lucky, they won’t

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Aren't Republicans supposed to be the tough guy father figures? Aren't they supposed to be able to keep their shit together when the going gets tough? Doesn't look like it from my point of view. First, they curled up in a fetal ball and cried their eyes out because MoveOn.org called General Petreus "General Betray-Us" (Get it? Get it??). Now, people are positively apoplectic because Iranian

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From Bill Maher on The Huffington Post the other day:Republicans sex scandals are getting to be like Iraqi car bombings. By the time you hear about one, there's been another. Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Bob Allen, Vitter, Craig... It's like "Clue" only the answer is always "A Republican... in the washroom... with his cock."Oh, Lord, won’t You please stop sitting around reading blogs and grant me a

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Wonkette made a nice catch, seen above, of President Bush once again pledging his undying support (and eternal soul) to the Devil at a 9/11 ceremony yesterday. I have a simpler, more benign explanation. I think he thinks he's planning a quick escape as his alter-ego, Spider-Man.

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As I'm sure you've heard by now, the trainwreck that is Britney Spears made a stop at the MTV Video Music Awards over the weekend, and it was everything you'd expect and worse.As her life has slowly unravelled before our eyes and millions of cameras, I've quickly found myself in the camp of just feeling sorry for her. I'm not typically one who pities those who are given everything and piss it

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You know, I write these articles about the Family Values Republicans and their perverted private lives with a touch of tongue-in-cheek, primarily because were it not for their own religious fanaticism and hypocritical homophobia-mongering to win elections, their so-called perversions would be perfectly fine and dandy. They could blow whomever they wanted, and in the public eye (metaphorically),

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Larry Craig is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s standing by his story that he’s not gay -- as if -- that by random coincidence he simply had to take a shit in that world-renowned gay hotspot, and dammit, he’s got a wide stance and likes tappin’ his feet while he’s pinching one out. To add to the fun, today he’s actually going to try to withdraw his guilty plea from before, on the grounds

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In honor of Fashion Week coming soon to Midtown, I present to you my friend and yours and erstwhile contributor to these pages, Thomas Crowley, competing for the title of Esquire Magazine's best dressed “real man” in the United States. As a finalist, he appeared on the Today Show yesterday morning. Enjoy:thomas crowley esquireUploaded by paddockt

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I gotta say, I love John Edwards' new proposal:Edwards Proposes "Brownie's Law" — Has Nothing To Do With Girl ScoutsJohn Edwards announced yesterday that as president he would have a policy dubbed "Brownie's Law," named in "honor" of former FEMA head Michael Brown. "Edwards will enact a new requirement — 'Brownie's Law' — ensuring that senior political appointees actually are qualified to perform

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Another day, another anti-gay Republican caught in the men’s room soliciting blow jobs. This time it’s U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R - ID). Hey, at least this one didn’t want to cram cock in his mouth because he’s afraid of all the black people. Nope. Senator Craig just likes him some dick. He just doesn’t like it when other people like dick. Hypocrisy and homosexuality are a way of life in

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Yes, Alberto Gonzales has resigned. You know how I know? Because I've gotten no less than 15 spams from the Democratic party during the course of the day bragging about how they washed that man right out of our hair. Yeah, right. The Democratic party was as effective at changing Bush's mind about cabinet members as I am at throwing a 98 mile per hour fastball. If they want to boast about how

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Please make note of and click on our latest What We're, Like, Totally Into Right Now&trade resident, "The Faith Between Us" blog. As background, friend of DoG Scott Korb and his partner (in business, not in life), Peter Bebergal, have a forthcoming new book entitled The Faith Between Us: A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God. It promises to be an interesting book, one which I am

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To follow up on my Nuke the Others post of the other day, there’s a recent column from a right-wing think tank called Family Security Matters that advocates -- this is real -- that Bush nuke the whole of the Middle East and declare himself Emperor of the World. Democracy (i.e. - you) is what’s wrong with America.Read for yourself.As I say, this is a real organization with the likes of James

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"You always have these oddballs in a group and somebody says, 'Ah, we should drop a nuke over Iraq.' The stupid jerk doesn't even know what a nuke is. If he do, he wouldn't say that." - Theodore Van Kirk, Navigator on the Enola GayI just finished watching white light/black rain, an HBO documentary about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just from hearing the one sentence description I

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Rove resigns. Wow.Well, Bush said that if anyone in his administration was found to be responsible for leaking the name of Valerie Plame that person would no longer work for him. And I'll be damned if he's not a man of his word. Cheney had better watch his back. My prediction - Cheney will be ousted from office Januaryish, 2009.

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You support a team that tacitly encourages cheating and overtly celebrates a farce of a broken record. Therefore the Fates will step in and in the one place where people actually support the chemically enhanced robot freak that is Barry Bonds in huge numbers, a Mets fan on a brief layover will go home with the record breaking baseball. I don’t even give a shit about this record, or any other for

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Chief Justice Roberts had a bit of a spill and I hope he’s ok. I guess in a perfect world, I would hope that he’s well enough not to die, but not well enough to go back to work, but well enough that he wouldn’t feel compelled to step down until 2009 when his sick days ran out.Oh, no wait! In a perfect world his little seizure would have scrambled his brain just enough such that he kept all his

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The Tigers are my team. I just wanted to say that up front. However, years ago I moved from Detroit to New York and you know how it is when you’re in a new town, you start following the local sports as well. Needless to say, the Yankees are evil personified and represent all that is wrong with baseball (even more than Barry Bonds!), so I started going to Mets games. As such, they have become

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Giuliani is becoming a bigger and bigger douchebag. Things come flying out of his mouth lately with no sense of rhyme or reason. Take today for example. Generalissimo Rudy says that the Democrats want a nanny government. That Democrats think the government knows better than you do how to live your life.Ironic coming from a man who banned dancing in New York City and worked his ass off to

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The Bush administration subpoenas Michael Moore for bringing sick people to Cuba, (the law in question being a relic of the Cold War, and an illogical one at that).Honoring the subpoenas issued by the United States Congress? Not so much.

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In an interview for Business Week, Condoleezza Rice says,I don't know what I'll do long-term. I'm a terrible long-term planner.It’s a good thing her job in the State Department only requires her to wing it...

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I don’t even know where to begin with David Brooks’ Tuesday column. Actually, I do. You see, he begins his column with lyrics from some current pop songs by Avril Lavigne, Pink, and some American Idol chickee. Whatever, I’m old too, and I’ve only heard one of the songs. But these songs are about young women who go out without escorts, enjoy getting drunk and generally act unladylike. Brooks

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Oops! Is there something worse than NC-17? Ah, well… As I said, today we have Bob Allen, another hypocrite Republican who votes yea on penisbreath despite consistently voting nay on gay rights. And, oh yes, he works for the rapidly imploding McCain campaign.And, uh, if you were curious - he offered an undercover cop $20 to be allowed to suck the cop’s dick. You need it bad when you pay to

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Lest you find yourself confused as to the status of the prosecutor firings scandal and Bush’s claims of executive privilege, I have three required pieces of reading for you that should clear everything up. Start with Bruce Fein's piece in Slate yesterday. Or at least read this:Executive privilege is a concoction, then, to protect secrecy for the sake of secret government, while transparency is

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A new rating system for blogs is now available. As you can see, DoG is not for kids. My favorite part of this is the reasoning behind it:This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:bomb (5x)ass (4x)fuck (3x)bitch (2x)abortion (1x)Ah... I remember that one. Something about how Bush wanted jumpstart this abortion of an administration by bombing the fuck out of those

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It’s no surprise that Libby goes free; it was coming for sure. (And apparently, Bush even broke the law while he was giving Scooter permission to break the law.) But for some reason, it has me especially upset. I’m used to this sort of thing by now, you’d think I could let it roll off my back. As Americans, we’re like the abused dog who keeps coming back for more and probably thinks he did

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Does that make me qualified to be president? Rudy “Thigh Highs” Giuliani seems to think so. Were you aware that he had a spot on the 10-member Iraq Study Group panel? Did you know that he was kicked off because he skipped all the meetings? Did you know that he skipped the meetings in order to make $1,000,000+ in speaking engagements? Well, it’s true. As Slate’s Fred Kaplan explains, it’s

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Here’s a revelation that we didn’t hear too much about before the 2004 election… Or ever. Remember how that idiot Michael Moore was asking all those questions in Fahrenheit 9/11, wondering why the U.S., when all flights were grounded following the attacks, allowed a charter flight to pick up all these Saudi diplomats and businessmen and whisk them out of the country? Remember when he was

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Look, I'm not coming around on Bloomberg or anything. He's still the guy who invited the Republican Convention to New York City so they could grotesquely capitalize on the deaths of 3,000 New Yorkers. He's still the asshole who locked down the City during said convention and denied New Yorkers their basic civil rights. He's still the prick who stroked the CEO of ConEd while the good people of

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”Yee-haw!”- President George W. Bush, upon hearing of the mob justice administered to a man who was sitting near someone who hurt a kid by accident.AUSTIN, Texas -- A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night.

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Everybody's making a big to do about the Pentagon's admission of research into a gay bomb - a bomb that would render our enemies harmless because they're too busy listening to Madonna, snorting crank and ass fucking. It's pretty funny, I admit. But I think it also provides a disturbing window into the thought process of right-wingers who fear the Gay Invasion. If you read the article, you see

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All you hear about these days is our visionary (and handsome) leader’s success after success (locally) in his Global War on Terror. Most recently, they foiled a “plot” to blow up JFK airport. And looking back, they stopped the carnage at Fort Dix; some whackjobs in a warehouse in Florida who had a, trust me, complete and absolutely foolproof “plan” to destroy the Sears Tower; and let’s not

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A new museum dedicated to the fable of Creationism opened recently. I know I shouldn’t let it bother me when people are so stupid as to willfully disregard science in favor of a storybook, but I just can't help it. My favorite, and the most telling, line is this:"I don't care how long it took to make the Grand Canyon," he tells me. "It's not how old it is that matters to me. What matters is

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Bush still believes in his BFF Alberto despite (because of?) his class-A fuckup status. He goes on to say:"And I, frankly, view what's taking place in Washington today as pure political theater. And it is this kind of political theater that has caused the American people to lose confidence in how Washington operates. "I stand by Al Gonzales, and I would hope that people would be more sober in

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This Comey thing is a real jawdropper, innit. It never ceases to amaze me that every time I get numb to the iron-fisted tyrannical rule of the Bush regime, another story will leak out putting their past transgressions to shame; doing things that would make any brutal despot green with envy. This time, in case you’re unaware, it’s a tale told by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey.

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Call me a monster if you like, but I’m full-on prepared to say good riddance to Jerry Falwell. Salon reminds us why:In reference to 9/11: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I

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Interesting item of note in Wonkette yesterday.Hey guys, a bunch of breast-feeding women will be breast-feeding on the Cannon Terrace today. It’s a stunt for Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney’s “Breastfeeding Promotion Act,” which would reward employers who provide a breast-feeding area with a suck on the federal teat.Aside from the fact that I just do not get who gets all bent out of shape by seeing

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Deadspin hits it out of the park when they say the Yankees suck!OK, OK… That’s not what it says. It says that God Bless America is a totally overly sentimental, terribly-written song and it is fucking annoying as hell that they still play it during the seventh inning stretch at Yankee Stadium.That said, we kind of can't stand the song "God Bless America." Putting aside the church-vs.-state

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It’s the Detroit Red Wings vs. the Anaheim Ducks. Let’s explore the matchup, shall we?HistoryDetroit: Original Six team, founded in 1926, originally named the Detroit Cougars. They have won 10 Stanley Cups, second in the NHL only to the Montreal Canadiens.Anaheim: Founded in 1993 as a marketing arm of the Walt Disney Corporation. Originally going to be named The Little Mermaids 2 of Anaheim

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Hey, look at me! My latest column is the lead over at The Y. Read it. I like this one.Politics in the Information Age or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet

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With an expected grandiose flourish (not that grandiose in the grand scheme, mind you), Bush vetoed the "emergency" supplemental war funding bill because it places a date that we're going to get out of that hellhole. Didn't see that coming...But you know, it got me to thinking. It has become a standard construct to categorize people into one of two categories. For example, you can either be a

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Boy! It hardly seems like four years have passed since we won the war in Iraq. Wow. I mean, time sure flies when democracy is busy spreading across the Middle East. On the other hand, when I think how long it’s been since I’ve seen the president’s junk,I realize it has been a long time...

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There is a certain form sociopathy in which a person becomes so accustomed to lying that he or she can no longer tell the difference between what's true and what's false.You’d think that at a major “news” organization, there would be too many people to all be affected. Apparently not. Read about how Fox News spent all morning reporting on a parody. The backstory: Last week in the town of

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Congress has passed an “emergency” supplemental spending bill for the Iraq war. The word “emergency” is code for “not in the official budget so that I can pretend to be cutting the deficit” but that’s neither here nor there. Anyway, congress has come up with the funds to keep the boys armed and dressed and fed. Whew! Wait, what’s that? Oh, the president is going to veto it because it

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What makes one a patriot? Is it respecting the “office” of the President? Is it honoring the troops? Is it saluting the flag? Putting a yellow ribbon on your car? Buying a Toby Keith album? Following men in turbans around airports?I would suggest that patriotism comes from respecting the ideals upon which this country was founded. Honoring or even revering the document our Founding Fathers

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Did you hear the news? They may have found another earthlike planet. Sure, its year is 13 days long, and it's 20 light years away, but hell, it's still pretty cool, right?How hot the planet gets, Dr. Udry said, depends on how much light the planet reflects, its albedo. Using the Earth and Venus as two extreme examples, he estimated that temperatures on the surface of the planet should be in the

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As I'm sure you know, these pages have been rather merciless when it comes to attacking Michael Bloomberg, and for good reason. But the editors of DoG are not a closed-minded bunch. So I feel it would be irresponsible if I did not laud Bloomberg for his new proposal for a "greener, greater New York."The one thing about this guy is that when he has an idea, a vision even, he goes for it full

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Did you know that the victims of the VT massacre were at fault for their own deaths? I didn’t. But thankfully, John Derbyshire of the toilet paper substitute esteemed publication National Review, was on the case to set the record straight:As NRO's designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed

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By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the tragic massacre at Virginia Tech yesterday. I thought I might chime in with my thoughts.As callous and cynical as this sounds, my actual first thought was that the media is going to have another feeding frenzy for us to obsess over and pick apart for a week until the next Anna-Nicole Smith revelation or racist DJ incident happens. Frankly, as much as I

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The sound of one hand slapping against the other makes a wonderful welcome for the newest addition to the blogosphere and my good friend Ben Peters as he brings us Bought & Souled, an excellent addition to any living room or den. Now stop that insipid clapping and get your ass over there.I would be remiss if I failed to mention the debt that I owe to Mr. Peters. He may live on that other, quite

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Earlier this week, there was another high profile so-called defection from within the Bush administration. I guess he’d had too much damned Kool-Aid, and it just didn’t taste as sweet anymore.A top strategist for the Texas Democrats who was disappointed by the Bill Clinton years, Mr. Dowd was impressed by the pledge of Mr. Bush, then governor of Texas, to bring a spirit of cooperation to

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This picture of Cheney lurking there in the shadows just cracked me up.If you like, Wonkette has the video in which they dramatically zoom out from a close-up of Vader in the trees and pan directly to the robot he has programmed to tell his lies for him. The symbolism within the camera motion is so hackneyed and on-the-nose, I hear Joel Schumacher is developing a script around it.

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In New York, my fair city, two auxiliary police officers were killed and now the City will spend over $3 million to equip every auxiliary cop with bullet proof vests.Two.How many were dead in Iraq before BushCo started getting body armor to the men and women fighting in the "central front of the defining challenge of our generation"? Do they even have it now?

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What happens when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says homosexuality is immoral and should not be accepted? It encourages our Army recruiters to write to people like this:YOU GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE AND PRACTICE YOUR GAY MORALS OVER THERE THAT'S WHERE YOU BELONG.*breath*

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Breaking news, people. A House Judiciary subcommittee just approved subpoenas for Rove, Miers, and Kyle Sampson. Bush had previously said that he will not acknowledge the subpoenas, in other words, placing himself and his friends above the law. He’s sure to fight for his right to lie (seeing as how he was willing to “talk” just not under oath, sounds to me like they want to lie, right?) so

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If you had any doubt as to who won the cold war, check out Russia’s entry into this year’s Eurovision contest.I disagree with their tactics, but you gotta admit that the Islamic Fundamentalists have a point when they say that American culture spreads like a disease and infects everything it touches.That said, this song may not be Radiohead, but it still beats Gorky Park.

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A strange thing is happening in the nation this week. Strange indeed. About a month ago, I wrote about how Bush was up to his old dirty tricks. Same old dirty tricks, just a different tactic. When I wrote about it, it was from the abused child point of view - there’s nothing we can do to stop it, but it makes me so angry that he can get away with this shit time after time.The weird thing this

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God is a black, sad sack poon-hound who likes to fuck Jews. For some reason, this doesn’t sit well with the Christian Right.Speaking of Jews and sad sacks, Joe Lieberman (Douchebag Party - CT) whole-heartedly endorses the moneyman behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in his nomination for ambassador in exchange for a handful of magic beans and $21,000 despite not being a member of the

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Are you happy now? I said it. This doesn’t sit well with almost all of my friends, but I find them (the band, not my friends) pretentious, repetitive, and most of all boring. And trust me, I tried. Courtesy of The Minority Whip, (who btw - did manage to get to one of the church shows), we find this hilarious short film about the new hipster gods and their to-die-for concert series in New York

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Scooter Libby was found guilty. Interesting, yes. Earth-shattering? No. As far as I’m concerned, the only thing he was found guilty of is being sloppy. Yes, he’s the highest ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since Iran-Contra. But of the crimes perpetrated on the American public by the Bush administration, obstruction of justice is the least of them. If Bush &

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It’s not about politics, but my latest piece to be published elsewhere is out today. Ode to My Canadian GirlfriendA not entirely irrelevant point to note - this was going to have come out on Valentine’s Day. Cute, right? Enjoy!

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I'm lazy and I haven't posted about politics in over a week. However, the last few days I have been engaged in a debate with a charming enough seeming, but unfortunately misguided right-winger, Andy D. I think it's the lack of vitriol in his disagreement with me that encourages me to think I can change his mind, even though it is most likely a lost cause. But it's like seeing a rafter clinging

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In my ever so charming self-deprecating manner, I sort of underestimated our page views for your humorous benefit in my last post. Whatever. I check the DoG stats out every so often just to see what y’all are into, and yes - I know where you live (or work). To wit, flipping through the visitors this last half hour, I noticed something interesting. See if you can find the pattern:Beijing,

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2007 promises to be a good year for me. Why, you ask? This year will produce new albums from three of my favorite bands: Fountains of Wayne, Nine Inch Nails, and Radiohead. In order to start generating the buzz amongst the literally tens of you who frequent the site each day week, I challenge you to listen to the new FoW single here and not ask for its hand in marriage.The album comes out

lifeintheGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178676226827107425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332493.post-67091228311461632452007-02-16T11:15:00.000-05:002007-02-16T11:25:50.945-05:00

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking - Hey, dude! Right now, we’ve got the president doing the exact same thing about Iran as he did a few years back about Iraq. And the press is just as credulous (or complicit) as before. The Democrats have taken over the House and Senate yet remain as feckless as ever, the Senate unable to even allow themselves to debate whether or not they think

lifeintheGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178676226827107425noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332493.post-18668038795180855832007-02-09T10:02:00.000-05:002007-02-08T14:15:50.399-05:00

I think it’s important that you read today’s column by my boy, Joe Conason. It’s a story we’ve heard a little about here and there, but I guess reading it in 1000 word column format really clicked it home. It’s about the recent spate of federal prosecutor firings by the Bush administration. You see, it’s up to the US Attorneys to monitor politicians. And because of that fact, we have, in our

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We’re still talking about how he kicked the kids off the busses and has been making them freeze their asses off waiting for a ride in the sub-zero temperatures this past fortnight. You know how most politicians don’t say what they really think? Not Mikey; he plops his gigantic cantaloupes right out on the table.A visibly angry Bloomberg blasted Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum and City Council

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I don't usually pay attention to stories like the so-called Astro-nut because it's basically the same thing as the Runaway Bride or even the latest Missing White Girl - a media frenzy surrounding an ultimately meaningless story. A happenstance that has no effect on anyone's life but those involved in the events at hand. But somehow this one's different. And you know what? I don't think it's

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New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down.If you want to do anything remotely fun at any time, go fuck yourself and die, we have a million idiot tourists dying to get into the Disney Store so we can do without you, you insignificant little maggot. It’s a hell of a town!Is that how that old tune went? I can’t quite remember… Maybe it’s how our local

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I’m going to be serious very briefly, and then I promise to get back to the ungay and astronauts in diapers. I’m not usually one to be too interested in the latest Missing White Girl frenzy. But this one has an added element of disgust that warrants attention, namely – Bill O’Reilly.I’m sure you’ve heard about that poor kid Shawn Hornbeck who was kidnapped when he was 11 years old and held

lifeintheGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178676226827107425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332493.post-52577453785419846702007-02-06T12:50:00.000-05:002007-02-06T12:51:19.683-05:00

I could sit here all day and never come up with a blurb about Rudi Giuliani’s presidential bid even half as eloquent as Wonkette’s.Opera-Loving Twice-Divorced Manhattan Dandy Announces CandidacyWe love Rudy because he combines the can-do fascism of Mussolini with the personal morals of Caligula. America needs this, now!What else is there to say?

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Good news, Jesus freaks and homophobes! Our favorite gay hypocrite and meth junkie is now all man, baby! Fathers, lock up your daughters!One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual."There’s nothing like five men sitting around behind closed doors for days on end

lifeintheGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178676226827107425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332493.post-25099252460990342042007-02-02T14:10:00.000-05:002007-02-02T14:11:19.937-05:00

No, I’m not gonna let it go so just put that thought out of your mind. Above is the clip of the Boston Terrorists in a press conference. One in which they refuse to answer any questions except those about hair. It’s magnificent. If they don’t get booked on The Daily Show, and possibly their own show, then there is truly no justice in the world.

lifeintheGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178676226827107425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332493.post-77704674071022363602007-02-02T13:18:00.000-05:002007-02-02T13:20:53.589-05:00

I’ve said my piece on the subject, but I wanted to point out that my pal talented actor whom I’ve never met but totally admire, James Urbaniak -- that’s Dr. Venture to you -- is all over the Boston Aqua Teen Day of Terror on his blog. It’s worth a look-see…

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