Reality: It’s Why Torture Issue Hasn’t Had Political Traction

Yes, I’m just getting cught up on my reading… Hospitals tend to foul my timing bigtime, since I can’t hit the net from inside them.

In today’s catch-up reading, I find a blubr that backs everything I’ve said about this

OxBlog notes Krugman (…who, I admit, I don’t read, anymore) … making the case that Howard Dean is at the center of the Democratic party.

This is actually the first time he and I have agreed on anything in about

NY Metro.com. this morning::

“After Iraq’s vote, New York liberals are in a serious moral-ideological-emotional bind. And the only way out is to root for Bush’s victory.
…

Seriously: The success of the elections poses a major intellectual-moral-political problem

You may not have noticed… There’s a picture of a van along the right-side column in my static links. It’s new… I just put it up the last day or so. It’s for a CarDomain site I’ve had for a

Neil Cavuto ;

“Let me ask you something, do you think you’re stupid?

The reason I ask is that I head a caller on a radio show blasting this whole private account thing on Social Security.He said Americans couldn’t handle

The Pissburg Trib-review has a bit up called Dean no ‘moderate’ … which suggests among other things that the DNC is in damage control mode, following Dean’s election as DNC chair. Apparently, they already know the damage they’ve done to

I don’t think I need to add much in commentary to a Bozel write-up called Attack of the blogs, do I/

Excellent as usual.

It’s so unusual for the local fishwrapper… the Democrat and Chronicle.. (Know hereabouts as the Chronic Democrat) to get something right, that I stopped taking the paper over 10 years ago and never regretted it.

But, You Big Mouth,

Accuracy in Media

WASHINGTON — Accuracy in Media charged today that a liberal activist and associate of Ralph Nader has been obtaining access to White House press briefings while claiming to be a legitimate news reporter.

Russell Mokhiber, who sells

My mother in law is still in the Hospital. Apparently the setback was a minor one; Basicly an infection casued it. She’s more stable and looking better. She’ll be moving back to rehab soon enough.

The dog as of this

For the first time since I’ve been on Blogger, it’s ticking me off.
I’ve had several problems logging in today and more problems once I did manage to get in, where quickie posts I managed to fire off ended up

Techdirt has an interesting article up today about lawsuits against those Spammers promising “Natural male enhancement’, etc. Says Techdirt:

Of course, what some folks probably don’t know is that the Wall Street Journal (of all places) checked out a bunch

The newspapers are saying Jacko is down with the flu.
Doctor Bithead to the rescue with just the cure:
St. Joseph’s Asprin for Children.

Ed at the Captain’s Quarters notes a NY Observer story…(They hardly being a bastion of right-wing philosophy) that makes it look like Moonves isn’t out of this jam yet, and given the coniditons, I doubt he will be before he

SI is reporting that the NHL season will be cancelled on Wednesday.

I think a larger news story would be SI finding someone outside of the NHL who actually cared.