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The Outrageous Comparisons Of The Week: A MUST READ now-weekly feature from Steve Donoghue (You’ll love it)
hear a blogger kangaroo who only writes in lower case: you can listen to skippy the bush kangaroo (mentioned by Jon Stewart) by (warning that there is an adult joke) CLICKING HERE.
Teen Drinking: Is this case judicial overkill, or what?
Seeking An Apology From Majority Leader Bill Frist: What happens when a member of the Crooks And Liars blog calls Senator Bill Frist’s office, seeking an apology for Frist’s videonosis of the late Terri Schiavo (it turned out to be a bad medical call by Dr. Frist). Listen to the CALL HERE.
Is Consensus A Good Thing? Scott Kirwin gives us the case against consensus in a nation of “winners and losers.”
How Can You Prepare For the Avian Flu Pandemic? Here’s how.
Is There A Shift In The Way The Media Covers The South? Southern Appeal thinks so.
The Rise And Fall Of The New Jersey Reform Party via Third Party Watch.
Fox’s Chris Wallace Evaluated by the Inimitable James Wolcott. Wolcott’s columns must be read in full but here is a tiny taste 4 U:
I look at Chris Wallace now and, apart from wishing I had never written his name except in execration, wonder how Mike Wallace feels about having produced such a blot of a son to carry on the family name in broadcasting. He must wonder where he went wrong, even perhaps in the dark night of the soul wish he had worn a rubber rather than spawn this disgrace to a once-proud profession.
We take it he doesn’t like him…
California Juries Are Often Lambasted but don’t you think this begs for some of the fire to be aimed at Virginia?
So What Does The U.S. Do Next In Iraq? Phil Carter in his always excellent Intel-Dump has a MUST READ post in which he outlines how he believes the U.S. will get out of Iraq. A small section for you:
Over the next year or two, you are going to see an increasing amount of effort being applied to “Iraqification”. We are going to devote more and more troops to getting their security forces “trained and ready”, such that we can draw down our forces and hand over the country. The building of Iraqi forces is the key task for the U.S. in establishing a new and stable government in Iraq.
Further, I think the U.S. government may subtly and secretly push the Iraqi government to “request” the U.S. draw down its force presence. This will, of course, help the Iraqis establish their sovereignty by letting them flex their muscles a bit; it will also help them appease the Iraqi population would like to see us go soon too. And, of course, it will work to our benefit as well, since our force does not have much the capacity to remain in Iraq beyond 2006. At the extreme end of the spectrum, it’s possible to imagine the Iraqis booting us out of the country in a fit of sovereignty, perhaps just after the new Constitution is adopted. I wouldn’t be surprised if this ejection was engineered by the U.S. behind closed doors. Assuming the Iraqis are ready to their own security when the U.S. leaves, such a move would be win-win for everyone. The Iraqis would get their country back; the U.S. would get “mission accomplishment” — and a way out of Iraq.
That’s probably the most likely prediction we’ve seen so far.
The Downing Street Memos: The Locust Fork believes “The Proof Is In The Memos” and makes its case — giving you lots of links.
Senator Robert Byrd And The KKK: Right Wing News’ John Hawkins examines a Washington Post story on Byrd…and he writes:”Yes, folks, Robert Byrd wasn’t just a member of the KKK, he founded the Klan chapter in his area and talked everybody else into joining! That explains a lot, doesn’t it? I mean, if we have a guy charismatic enough to talk people into joining the Klan, then how much harder could it be to talk a bunch of liberals into voting for him?”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.