Mad to the Max

Max Blumenthal is one brave hombre. Would it were that we all had his courage.

Beware, at about the 5:55 mark in the clip there's a

Phyllis Schlafly siting. I'd advise you to look away before she comes on the screen in order to prevent yourself from turning into a pillar of salt, a gingerbread man or some kind of a wart covered toad.

I'm not kidding either, she's entirely capable of such tricks with her Xtian "dark arts".

Ooooohhhh...scary

Tom Tomorrow takes the cake.

Green, Green Grass of Home

Porter Wagoner dead at 80. I wonder what the radioactive shelf life of those suits is believed to be?...

Balloon Juice

That's right, John. Not, Juan Cole.

Mad about Mahmoud

Morning everyone.

Oh, and my favorite quote from the piece?...

President Vladimir Putin last week compared Bush's behaviour towards Iran with that of a madman "running about with a razor blade in his hand".

Ring Toss

Get a ringer, win a giant purple monkey.

Funny...as the right side of the page fills up, the disconnect between named candidate and Bob grows substantially. Huh. Whouda thunk it? And even stranger, the only person I'm in agreement with on Iraq is Sam Brownback. WTF?

My results are as follows...

Dennis Kucinich Score: 45	Agree Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Abortion
Chris Dodd Score: 40 Video	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Abortion
John Edwards Score: 37 Video	Agree Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Energy Marriage	Disagree Iraq Abortion Line-Item Veto Death Penalty
Barack Obama Score: 35 Video	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Abortion Death Penalty
Hillary Clinton Score: 35	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Abortion Death Penalty
Mike Gravel Score: 34	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Abortion Line-Item Veto Energy
Bill Richardson Score: 34 Video	Agree Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Marriage	Disagree Iraq Abortion Line-Item Veto Energy Death Penalty
Joe Biden Score: 25	Agree Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Energy Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Death Penalty
Ron Paul Score: 21	Agree Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Death Penalty	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Energy
Rudy Giuliani Score: 19	Agree Immigration Stem-Cell Research Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage	Disagree Iraq Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Death Penalty
Sam Brownback Score: 18	Agree Iraq Abortion Energy Death Penalty	Disagree Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage
Mitt Romney Score: 8	Agree Stem-Cell Research Energy	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Death Penalty
Mike Huckabee Score: 8 Video	Agree Immigration Abortion	Disagree Iraq Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty
John McCain Score: 6	Agree Abortion Marriage	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Death Penalty
Duncan Hunter Score: 6	Agree Abortion Energy	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Death Penalty
Jim Gilmore Score: 3	Agree Energy	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Abortion Social Security Line-Item Veto Marriage Death Penalty
Tom Tancredo Score: 3	Agree Abortion	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty
Fred Thompson Score: 3	Agree Abortion	Disagree Iraq Immigration Taxes Stem-Cell Research Health Care Social Security Line-Item Veto Energy Marriage Death Penalty

Go Green

Harnessing alternate sources of energy isn't just the right thing to do, it turns out it's also a very humanitarian act as well...

Go here for proof.

The truth hurts

Especially when it's coming from the brain of this guy.

Ladies and Germs, I give you Paul Craig Roberts.

We should all print this and hand it out to the sleepy strangers that inhabit our nation. Now if I can only figure out a way to tear them away from their CinnaBons and cell phones.

Friday Random Ten

No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D'you know that you can use it?

Wake Up Dead Man--U2
Intimate Secretary--The Raconteurs
Time Is On My Side--Rolling Stones
Staring At The Board--Spoon
Audio Delite At Low Fidelity--Black Eyed Peas
Let's Get Out OF This Country--Camera Obscura
The False Contender--Camera Obscura
Hey Baby--No Doubt
The Soldiering Life--The Decemberists
Gideon--My Morning Jacket

Uno mas:

Clampdown--The Clash

TED

Ted Rall continues to tilt at windmills.

Return of BB

Just a short note to announce that Baghdad Burning is back on line.

She's such a brave girl and a fine writer to boot. Go back and read some of her accounts over the past few years and help to hope for her and of those innocents that their lives may now be measurably more tolerable now that they've fled from the sovereign nation we so blindly invaded.

How's that for a run on sentence?...

Just one more

Sorry. I couldn't resist this story. I'm done. I promise. No more Tribe stuff.

Last Tribe reference for the year

Now that the Indians are done for the season, I can go back to my former most active pastime of hating on the Cheney Administration.

Armageddon is all the rage this season.

Scott Ritter has all the reasons why Bush is the "new black" this Fall.

Oh, and by the way...

...Go Red Sox!

But Bob, why should I cheer for the Red Sox when they just gutted your homeboys? Here's why. The Colorado Rockies believe themselves to be touched by G-D hisself.

Christ on toast, what a world.

Crestfallen

Hey, wasn't "Crestfallen" one of those night time soap operas with Blake Carrington or something?

Never mind.

No, I'm talking about the Tribe here. Words fail me. So did C.C. and Carmona. And so with pain comes wisdom and insight. They're a really good team that defied gravity most of the year. They unfortunately collapsed under the strain I think. They'll examine what they did and improve on it. Tribe will be back and stronger for it.

Think about it Cleveland, we've got two outstanding contenders for the next few years in both basketball and baseball. Something has got to give right? Right?

Hooray for Sports.

Thanks for the fun season. Go Tribe. Sniff.

Wolcott

Nice link from Big Jim on the memorial service last week for Hilly Kristal. The author of the piece is Mary Harron who has made three films.

Personally, I think Christian Bales' performance in American Psycho should be awarded every accolade imaginable. Go rent that movie.

Friday Random Ten

Long as I Can See The Light--Creedence Clearwater
Slow Hands--Interpol
In This House That I Call Home--X
On Top--The Killers
The Deepest Blues Are Black--Foo Fighters
Everything Is Everything--Lauryn Hill
Steam Engenius--Modest Mouse
Roads--Portishead
Taking Up Space--Cave Dogs
Why Don't You Love Me--Hank Williams

A'hm too sexy for my...

...rubberized wet suits?

Yeah, that's right, wet suits. Y'all may or may not have heard about this one already.
Check out yet another fethishized overly righteous Repugnican. Words fail me. Then again, all you have to do is check out the web site and it becomes terribly apparent what makes these Alabammy X-tians swoon.

Surprise Random Guest Appearance Tuesday Ten

Some samplin' from cuz'n Jeff in North Ridgeville...

Erin McKeown--To The Stars

Gomez--Up On Cripple Creek

Al Kooper--My Hands Are Tied

Ben Harper--Blessed To Be A Witness

Diana Krall--I’m An Errand Girl For Rhythm

Sloan--Who Taught You To Live Like That?

Kirsty MacColl--Titanic Days

Nick Lowe--Hope For Us All

Matthew Sweet--The Ocean In Between

NRBQ--Things We Like To Do

Friday Random Ten

Ashes of American Flags--Wilco
Final Grade--Bon Savants
Gentle Hum--The Finn Brothers
Ruby Tuesday--Rolling Stones
Wondering--Dirty Pretty Things
P Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)--Parliament
Beat Surrender--The Jam
Give 'Em Hell Kid--My Chemical Romance
Yellow--Petra Hayden
EMI--Sex Pistols

They Say it's Your Birthday

John would be 67 today.

Say what you will about Yoko, she loved him very much. How else to explain her push to complete this very cool project.

Dennis Kucinich is even on the Peace Tower website.

Yoko still looks damn good by the way.

She's 74 herself.

The Other, Other White Meat

This wouldn't be quite so alarming if it weren't posted on his own website. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you....

America's Favorite Junkie

Hell, yeah.

I tell ya, I looked high and low for evidence that the NY Yankees were actually beaten by a better professional baseball team. But alas, no.

Seriously, scroll down the Daily News site and find one sportswriter giving the Tribe their due. Standard NYC media fare where they're the victim of bad management and dumb luck and somehow, unbelievably, the rubes from the hinterlands lucked out and stole a win.

I also love that the headline of the whole event is Joe fuckin' Torre. I mean, really...who cares? Feh.

Maybe they'll be just as inflated with themselves in Boston where I believe the Indians will have a considerably more challenging task in front of them.

7:00 Friday night @ Fenway. Let's go.

Here's the only article I could find that where the crux of the piece wasn't Joe Torre leaving or A-Rod's collapse. It's from Turkey, folks. Turkey. Rodney Dangerfield ain't got nuthin' on us.


Anyhoo, I think this picture effectively conveys my inner 12 year old this morning. Grady Sizemore is a great baseball player.

This one's pretty good too...

The little Jesus that could

Hey, check out the little spitfire from North Olmsted that wants to take Dennis' 10th Congressional District seat.

He's a real go-getter. And go click on the MySpace link if you really want to git 'er dumb.

Mostly I hate MySpace because of the .wav files that blast at you at inopportune times. Praise be to Vonnegut that none of his musical favorites (Country, classical, some contemporary Christian, Kenny G, Celine Dion) engage when the site comes up.

Same as it ever was

Paul Krugman brings his big brain to the party today. It's nice that the NY Times finally dropped their paid for subscriber service to read the Op-Ed stuff on the website.

It's even nicer when one of their premier smart guys channels David Byrne.

Monkey poo

Dr. Juan Cole shines his Monday morning flashlight. Today he trains it on our feces flinging Corrupter in Chief.

What a world...

Phun with Photos

Here are the pictures of the phront pages of both the Daily News and the NY Times, Har-dee-frickin' har.

Friday Random Ten and bonus editorial comments

Well, that was a helluva lot of fun to watch last night wasn't it sports fans? The PD referred to it as a pummeling on the front page this morning. Nice.

Fausto on the hill tonight. He's 23 years old. 5:07 start. Get home early. Another must win.

And with that, I give you the ten*. Oh, and by the way, fuck you too LeBron.


This Drinkin' Will Kill Me--Dwight Yoakam
The Somnambulist--XTC
The Jet Set Life Is Gonna Kill You--My Chemical Romance
Biko--Peter Gabriel
The Gymnast, High Above The Ground--The Decemberists
People As Places As People--Modest Mouse
Killermont Street--Fountains Of Wayne
Cool--Gwen Stefani
Your Algebra--The Shins
Don't Pass Me By--The Beatles

*Lot's of weird "kill" references in there, huh? Just sayin'.

I hate the Yankees

Somehow it appears that the only true Yankee haters have to be Boston Red Sox fans. Au contraire, mon freres. There are plenty of Cleveland fans with just as much venom.

Go Tribe and C.C. Destroy those goddamn pinstriped motherfuckers.

Sy Hersh

Just in case you didn't already have a sickened and queasy feeling in your stomach today, I'm here to provide you with your daily dose of upchuck.

Or at least I can point you in the right direction. Seymour is in the building.

Comix

Here's a good one from local boy, Derf. If you click on it, it'll get bigger, (that's what she said).

Good one

I've read this guy before and he's never been better than this post. He's just gotten back to the States this past month.

Army of Dude lets loose on El-Rushbo!