When Erich “Mancow” Muller decided to be waterboarded he thought it would give him authority to condone it. What he got was a traumatic epiphany against the use of waterboarding. He now regards it as torture.
When Erich “Mancow” Muller decided to be waterboarded he thought it would give him authority to condone it. What he got was a traumatic epiphany against the use of waterboarding. He now regards it as torture.
Ever the rabble-rouser in life, George Carlin’s rants still echo in the ears of many Liberals and cynics. But, with all the mud-slinging by both sides, one of his performances rings bi-partisan and true. I’m sure Carlin would resent me saying that on some level.
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Whether you want to express your discontent with the bailouts, win $27,599, or even both, you may want to check out Right.org’s new video contest. The bailouts, unpopular with people on both sides of the aisle, should spawn some very interesting contest videos. This video contest is even popular enough to be featured on the front page of the GOP official blog.
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So whether you believe Nancy Pelosi or not, the fact is that the CIA has admitted to similar activities in the past. A Washington Post article from 2008 wrote “that agency officials deliberately misled Congress, the White House and federal prosecutors.” That isn’t just Washington Post speculation. That’s the conclusion drawn by the internal CIA investigation.
Politico’s Ben Smith just ran an interesting piece on conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. Smith describes Krauthammer as “a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president.” Here’s Krauthammer in an interview on Fox.
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While this isn’t political in the least, I figured I’d put it up.
Modern authors (authors of the Modernist movement, which is now hella old) struggled with the implications of being born into a world where pretty much everything that could have been written the fuck about was, in fact, the fuck written about. This frightened and angered many creative persons of the day, who seemed locked in a struggle to leap screaming from the shoulders of the giants they were horrified to find they were standing on. Walt Whitman implored his readers to stop looking “through the eyes of the dead” and showed us his vision of utopia, every man and woman with a sun to themselves. Virginia Woolf speaks at length of the “constraining” forces of “convention” in her essay Modern Fiction, transforming the authors of the past into what may very well be seen as a tyrannous cabal of snooty zombies. “If the writer were a free man and not a slave,” she writes, “if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, not a single button sewn on as the tailors would have it.” Read the rest of this entry »
In this piece Keith Olbermann seems to intentionally erase the line between investigative journalism and privacy invasion. Now, granted, that line can get blurry all on its own. But Olbermann may be jumping the gun a bit on this one.
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In the interest of fairness, I present to you the Democrat response to the latest Republican web video. It’s a doozy. Check it out after the jump.
The Republican National Committee just released a new video on the internet yesterday (May 18th). I’ll get out of the way on this one. Watch the video after the jump.
