Ferraro and the race comment. I’m beginning to think these things are planned. She’s not really this stupid, is she?
The Obama campaign just ratcheted up the pressure on the Clinton campaign, calling on Hillary Clinton to give Geraldine Ferraro the boot for her recent remarks about Obama. Ferraro—a former member of Congress and history-making Democratic vice presidential candidate—has been drawing a stream of criticism since she told the Daily Breeze, [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
We’re just not smart, no matter how much we want to believe that we are. Need some examples? Prepare to be amazed. And ashamed.
Embarrassingly Stupid Americans — One in Five Believes Sun Revolves Around Earth
The title of this article, that an embarrassingly high number of Americans believe that the sun revolves around the Earth, is only one point argued by the Washington Post’s Susan Jacoby, in her attempt to prove that Americans are in serious intellectual trouble, facing a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and [...]
Categories: Education
Sexist. Like there’s absolutely no way a woman would ever do something immoral, unethical or illegal. There may be a shred of truth in the analysis, but the broad paintbrush used to cover the theory is not working.
How the Spitzer Sex Scandal Could Help Hillary
Voters may look to a woman for freedom from sex scandals [...]
Or, did I just REALLY miss the point? By the way, isn’t this just as ridiculous?
Dr. Laura blames Spitzer’s wife for scandal.
Today, right-wing radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger appeared on NBC’s Today Show in a segment called “Why do men cheat?” Schlessinger argued that Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) cheated because his wife failed “make him feel like a man”: When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings — sexually, personally — to [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Sex
These numbers are just too high. Tragically high, if accurate. Would it be any different if we talked more about the possibility (and probability) that you just might catch something? And HOW you might catch it?
1 in 4 teen girls has sexually transmitted disease
At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group. A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in [...]
Categories: Health Care · Sex
It’s our tax dollars, people! They’re supposed to be managed. WELL managed. Not wasted! Amazing arrogance, straight ahead.
KBR forces its towels on U.S. troops.
In a hearing today on waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) said the defense contractor KBR, formerly of Halliburton, has been stamping its logo on towels given to U.S. troops. Dorgan said a contractor told him that he ordered plain white towels for troops, but the “superviser” said the towels must [...]
Categories: Halliburton · Iraq War
Great work by the McClatchy newspaper group, getting the scoop on a big report due for release later this week. The White House ain’t gonna be happy…
Exhaustive Review Finds No Link Between Saddam and al Qaida
An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida terrorist network. The Pentagon-sponsored study, [...]
Categories: Iraq War · Middle East · Terrorism
It’s all about torture. Straight from the mouth of a longtime FBI terrorist interrogator.
Jack Cloonan talks about his experience as a terrorist interrogator: “I worked as a special agent for the FBI’s Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 2002. During that time, my colleagues and I had the chance to [...]
Categories: Terrorism · Torture
Get the noisemakers ready! It’s birthday party time!
The first MP3 player celebrates its 10th birthday
Odds are, you take your iPod or Zune for granted. You probably don’t think about the crazy technological advancements we’ve made, but take a ten-year look back at the world’s first MP3 player — the MPMan F10 — and you’ll get a sense of just how far we’ve come. Manufactured by Korea’s Saehan Information Systems, the device was launched in [...]
Categories: Entertainment · Music
It’s your tax dollars.
GAO Comptroller: ‘Significant’ Amount Of U.S. Funds For Iraq Funneled To Sunni And Shiite Militias
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing today on waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq, GAO Comptroller David Walker said that “the Iraqis have a budget surplus” which “is not being spent.” He added that oil “revenues are going up” and therefore “one of the questions” regarding Iraq reconstruction is “who should be paying?” Citing Iraq’s [...]
Tags: Iraq War
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
The campaigns. It’s like a breath of warm, spring, air.
Has the Clinton team gone stark raving mad?
For the life of me I just don’t understand the thinking inside the Clinton campaign (and inside the heads of surrogates). Strong supporters of Clinton — please clue me in; I don’t know how the following developments make any sense in terms of political strategy that’s helpful to the candidate: * Bill and Hillary continuing to [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Just catching up. In case you didn’t get the word…
While We Were Being Disappointed
In the past few hours, eight U.S. soldiers died in Iraq. This brings the total to just over 3,900, I believe. Eugene Robinson writes in today’s Washington Post: “Has anyone noticed that Iraq, supposedly transformed into an oasis of peace and tranquility by George W. Bush’s troop surge, is growing less peaceful and tranquil by the day? [...]
Categories: Iraq War
This is 2008, people! Not 1908! There is absolutely no excuse for designing and implementing a caucus system that allows delays like these. Shame on you, Texas!
Who Won The Texas Caucuses? Who Knows?
Looks like the chaos and utter lack of planning I experienced on election day was a state-wide problem. A week after Texas Democrats trooped to nighttime caucuses to choose between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Texans don’t know which presidential candidate won the town-hallish events — and might not for [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
One week the top dog says he doesn’t really agree with the Bush Administration on the Iraq War. Today, he’s out. “Retired”
Breaking: Fallon resigns as Mideast military chief
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that Admiral William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East, is resigning. Gates said Fallon had asked Gates for permission to retire and that Gates agreed. Fallon was the subject of an article published [...]
CENTCOM Chief Admiral Fallon “Retires”
And, Larry Johnson says that means…
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War · Military
It seems the world is more interested in the Spitzer scandal than in the Iraq War, the economy, or anything else today. Heck, the stock market even went up. I know, I know, there’s no connection. Not really. So, we’ll get it out of the way first, then see what else we can dig up.
What are the political implications of the Spitzer scandal? Are there any?
Within a few hours of the Spitzer scandal breaking, the comically desperate National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) hoped to connect the New York governor’s scandal to some of New York’s House Democrats. The NRCC, which is broke and in danger of sustaining more House losses, is grabbing at the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal like a lifeline, [...]
Over at AlterNet, Jane Hamsher makes some interesting points:
Spitzer’s Scandal: Some Things Don’t Pass the Smell Test
How did Spitzer’s name get leaked to the media, and who did it? Didn’t happen to Dave Vitter [...]
Newspaper headlines and life in the Spitzer apartment, after the jump.
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