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2009-08-05T22:38:00.000-06:00

You, you shithole, shall be known as Freeno. Thank you.

2006-07-22T00:46:00.000-06:00

Lamont v. Lieberman - Bigger than CT David Sirota OTM: link

Glad to be in the majority

2006-04-21T11:00:00.000-06:00

It's official -- at least according to Fox News -- 33% of Americans are still stupid as shit. Even Rolling Stone magazine devotes it's current cover to exploring the question of whether Bush II will go down in history as the Worst Ever. Is it even in doubt? You'll be glad to know that we called it here over 5 years ago. It wasn't really that cloudy of a crystal ball, even back then. But

2006-04-14T14:40:00.000-06:00

Meet Mr. Republican: Jack AbramoffRequired reading. I won't spoil all the good stuff by posting a lot of quotes here. Suffice it to say that it's worth reading the whole thing. Pretty much sums up the Modern GOP. An idiot might call a scheme like this clever. But that's only true if you don't consider what really happened here: Dozens of people conspiring to reduce the U.S. Congress to the

Test

2006-04-11T10:26:00.000-06:00

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2006-02-19T17:29:00.000-07:00

Fucking cowards. You know who you are, tuning in from home.

2006-02-19T17:27:00.000-07:00

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2005-07-14T06:21:00.000-06:00

Talking Point: Karl Rove, Whistleblower Counterpoint: Wilson's Iraq Assertions Hold Up Under Fire From Rove Backers

The more things change, the more they stay the same

2005-06-13T10:20:00.000-06:00

Frank Rich's latest

2005-06-10T09:51:00.000-06:00

The internet is so 1999. Thanks for reading.P.S. Americablog's been killing lately.

2005-03-16T23:10:00.000-07:00

Bill Maher: shark, jumped.

Irony Pt. II

2005-03-16T14:19:00.000-07:00

Say, aren't Republicans for LESS government??(Part ad naseum)Florida and Gov. Bush are still trying to legislate Terri Schiavo's life(GOP = Compassionate Conservativism = Keep 'em alive, Let 'em Suffer!)

Mudhead

2005-03-16T14:07:00.000-07:00

Medved on the 'suddenly chic' act of taking your own lifeConsider the pathetic death of acclaimed "gonzo"journalist Hunter S. Thompson. It provoked wildly inflated estimations of his artistry — Tom Wolfe anointed him the past century's "greatest comic writer in english" — as well as mostly admiring remarks from his family about his decision to shoot a bullet into his head at age 67.Dude, you're a

2005-01-27T19:46:00.000-07:00

New Big Red Hats! Compare v. old logo (the greatest in all of pro sports, btw):

2005-01-13T09:06:00.000-07:00

Oops, yeah... Hey, sorry about all them dead guys U.S. ends search for Iraq's 'weapons' [insert archival commentary from Bush, Cheney, Rummy, et al. saying 'they will be found' here]

2005-01-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

Iraqi insurgents are literally taunting the Shrub "George W. Bush; you have asked us to 'bring it on'. And so help me, (we will) like you never expected. Do you have another challenge?," asked the narrator before the video showed explosions around a U.S. military Humvee vehicle. Story

2005-01-11T09:18:00.000-07:00

When Worlds Collide... Now this is funny. Seems the Clan Conservative heard that Mel Gibson feels a 'kinship' with Michael Moore. The Free Republic board is up in arms like a pack of rabid wolverines devouring the weakest of the litter. Classic. Link (via atrios)

Troops confront Rummy

2004-12-08T13:17:00.000-07:00

This guy is my insubordinate hero: Iraq-Bound Troops Confront Rumsfeld Over Lack of Armor

2004-12-07T13:05:00.000-07:00

na-na-na-na na-na-na-na na-na-na-na na-na-na-na Lea-der. I Love the Leader!! As seen in Florida... Chilling. You know, like those giant homage to the dictator paintings on the sides of buildings in Iraq? According to Salon, these are Clear Channel billboards, and the message on the signs say that it's sponsored by Clear Channel. CC's response is that local offices are operated independently,

Market Gamble

2004-11-30T22:57:00.000-07:00

Market Gamble Cuban's decided to start a gambling hedge fund. Unlike the stockmarket, you know the rules exactly. You know without question, the house is going to play by the rules. The gaming commission appears to actually enforce rules of play, unlike the SEC. And then there are sports bets. Like any other investment or bet, the question always come down to whether there is good information

...with the Ohio recount paid for and teed up

2004-11-19T10:28:00.000-07:00

...with the Ohio recount paid for and teed up.Congratulations, You Did It! TheOhio Recount is Going Forward.OhioRecount Must Start NowPerhaps not shocking, Olbermann and Wired are about the only"mainstream" outlets covering this story. Nice work, liberal media.Other resources:BlackboxvotingVerifiedvotingVotergateMediamattersTom Paine:Kerry won"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I

...as soon as we hear from New Hampshire

2004-11-19T10:15:00.000-07:00

...as soon as we hear from New HampshireVoteRecount to Settle Doubts?

Florida will be next...

2004-11-19T09:52:00.000-07:00

Florida will be next...Researchers:Florida Vote Fishy

Grilled Cheese

2004-11-17T23:48:00.000-07:00

Grilled Cheese Platter: $69,000 I dunno, kind of looks like a Marlene Dietrich sandwich to me...

Tanks in LA

2004-11-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

Where's the so-called Liberal Media when you need 'em - Part Ad Naseum They deployed two f***ing TANKS to counter an anti-war protest in LA LOS ANGELES, November 9, 2004 - At 7:50 PM two armored tanks showed up at an anti-war protest in front of the federal building in Westwood. The tanks circled the block twice, the second time parking themselves in the street and directly in front of the area

Global warming

2004-11-16T22:57:00.000-07:00

Who needs science when we got God?! You probably saw this just before the election and chose to ignore it as "junk science" before you pulled your lever for the man-child. But those ice cubes formerly known as ice caps belie your staunch faith in those who would decry fact: Global warming 'will leave Arctic ice-free'. No shock, then, that the Boy Wonder Administration has tried to (is trying

Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bush

2004-11-16T22:40:00.000-07:00

Ashcroft: Who needs that third branch of government? Ashcroft Condemns Judges Who Question Bush (via boingboing) "The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial oversight and second-guessing of presidential determinations in these critical areas can put at risk the very security of our nation in a time of war," Ashcroft said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers group.

The Bush-DeLay-Indian Casinos Trail of Mirrors Campaign Money Laundering Operation

2004-11-16T22:32:00.000-07:00

More on DeLay (moron delay?) The Bush-DeLay-Indian Casinos Trail of Mirrors Campaign Money Laundering Operation Just follow the money.

Frank Rich

2004-11-16T22:29:00.000-07:00

Marnie points out that Frank Rich and I were speaking the same post-election language: On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide Maybe by 2008 some Democrat will figure out how to persuade him that it might be a higher moral value to worry about the future of his own family than some gay family he hasn't even met.

Change the Rules

2004-11-16T22:20:00.000-07:00

When things don't go right for the right, they like to change the rules... House GOP prepares for DeLay indictment (...and they like to be prepared...) AmendforArnold (...but don't forget the grandaddy of recent memory...) Bush v. Gore

Digestion and, eventually, optimism

2004-11-04T22:10:00.000-07:00

Digestion and, eventually, optimism. But in the meantime… As we are now well aware, “moral values” decided the election. (Not the quagmire in Irag, the shitty economy, the record deficits, the corporate favoritism, etc.) No less a high-and-mighty authority than Bill Bennett has declared this a mandate for a more virtuous America. (Yes, the same Bill Bennett who decries moral relativism but

That Mandate

2004-11-04T22:06:00.000-07:00

That "Mandate" Equal parts arrogance and cliché.

Catalog of Bush's flip-flops

2004-11-02T05:12:00.000-07:00

Who's the Flip-Flopper? (aka "These Flip Flops are Made for Talking") Aaron Eisman's "catalog" of Bush flip flops. (via boingboing)

Administration's own actions fuel rumors of draft

2004-10-31T09:32:00.000-07:00

Administration's own actions fuel rumors of draft The GOP says that John Kerry is using scare tactics in bringing up the possibility of a military draft. It seems the Pentagon floated this scenario itself back in early 2003, despite Rumsfeld's denial that these discussions ever occurred. Fucking liars! (and why doesn't it surprise me that no one, yet anyway, has picked up this story?)

There's an Old Poster Out West...

2004-10-30T23:39:00.000-06:00

There's an Old Poster Out West... How exactly, Bush guy, does the re-emergence of Public Enemy #1 help the White House?

And Now You Know the Rest of the Story...

2004-10-30T23:30:00.000-06:00

And Now You Know the Rest of the Story... Westword's Michael Roberts tells us why the Denver Post endorsed George Bush. You can read the Post's "backhanded" endorsement here.

This is Your Vice President

2004-10-30T23:25:00.000-06:00

This is Your Vice President. Do you want four more years of this? Whistleblower Says Halliburton Contract Abuse Blatant The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official on Friday called the government's grant of multi-billion dollar contracts to oil services giant Halliburton the worst case of contracting abuse she has ever seen. (Expect a full investigation after the election.)

Bush Gave Terrorists Weapons

2004-10-30T23:21:00.000-06:00

Bush gave terrorists more weapons than Saddam ever would have...

Freedom is Just Another Word for Another Life Lost

2004-10-30T01:59:00.000-06:00

Freedom is Just Another Word for Another Life Lost The Bush Doctrine: You must kill the Iraqi people in order to set them free. Iraq death toll 'soared post-war': make it 100,000, give or take.

American al Qaeda Tape

2004-10-30T01:56:00.000-06:00

American al Qaeda Tape Item The most telling piece to this Tape With Terror Threat Is Broadcast article: ABC executives were frustrated that after holding the tape and working closely with federal officials to authenticate it, Fox News obtained and aired a copy about 20 minutes before it was shown on Peter Jennings's newscast last night. What, the White House ensures Fox News scoops now? (btw,

The Rev. George W. Bush

2004-10-30T01:16:00.000-06:00

The Rev. George W. Bush This is old news now, but well worth the understanding (and 'enlightenment') if you haven't checked it out already. Ron Suskind's NYT story, Without a Doubt. It illustrates, with crystal clarity, the extreme pathology existent in this White House. This is an administration based on so-called faith and utter arrogance rather than fact and honest reflection. Witness:

For Shame

2004-10-30T01:07:00.000-06:00

Krugman expands upon the Administration's Al Qaqaa fuckup: It's Not Just Al Qaqaa Can you believe that after attempting to hammer Kerry about 'undermining our troops', Team Bush has trotted out surrogate Rudi Giuliani to blame the troops for this fiasco? Wait, don't answer that. "No matter how you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops

2004-10-29T22:55:00.000-06:00

You smell that? Do you smell that? The smell... it smells like desperation. The GOP is distributing these flyers in black communities in Milwaukee. The horror. (via thismodernworld) More voter suppression was catalogued by Jack Hitt on This American Life (scroll down). If you're not down with that Real Audio crap, there's a transcript here (via atrios)

2004-10-21T23:34:00.000-06:00

UnSecureFlight.com To the Department of Homeland Security, you are no longer an American, you are a potential terrorist. Unless immediate action is taken by you, anyone who flew on any airline in the United States during the month of June 2004 will have a government dossier opened-up on them. In order to test a new Orwellian airline security program called 'Secure Flight', the Department of

2004-10-15T00:03:00.000-06:00

Could somebody please tell me why Bob Novak isn't the one being thrown in jail?

2004-10-14T23:52:00.000-06:00

Somebody should be ashamed of themselves, and it's not Kerry or Mary. John Kerry's lesbian moment

2004-10-10T23:36:00.000-06:00

Conservative TV Group to Air Anti-Kerry Film The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the

Loose Lips Sink Campaigns

2004-10-05T12:19:00.000-06:00

Loose Lips Sink CampaignsRummy admitted yesterday that there never were any WMDs in Iraq: "Whythe intelligence proved wrong (on WMDs), I'm not in a position tosay..." Blaming it all, of course, on the GOP faultyintelligence talking point (Damn you, George Tenet!). Needless to say the lack of any real intelligence seems to beemanating from the White House and the Pentagon rather than Langley. But

2004-10-01T23:01:00.000-06:00

Anyone with eyes can see your boy got his ass handed to him. Handed to him on a silver platter. Expect nothing less than a debate sweep culminating in another single-term Bush presidency. Just like was predicted here a scant twelve months into this whole mess.

2004-09-29T13:09:00.000-06:00

The 60 Minutes piece CBS Doesn't Want You to See Salon.com* has released a scene-by-scene description of the scrapped 60 Minutes piece that CBS is now too afraid to run. In light of the missed-the-point-by-a-mile controversy over forged documents, CBS has backed out of running this story about some REAL ACTUAL forged documents (remember the yellowcake purchase that wasn't?) that have led to the

2004-09-15T20:35:00.000-06:00

Got State for Sale Appalled by the thought of the State of Illinois auctioning off the rights to become the "official state beverage" to the highest bidder? Thank those Bush Administration tax cuts for bankrupting our state and local coffers nationwide.

Run this up the flag pole

2004-09-14T09:46:00.000-06:00

One Way or the Other Does coming to the center in a political election mean speaking out of both sides of your mouth? Because if it does, the GOP has mastered the "art". The latest Republican talking point, that the assault weapons ban was merely "feel good legislation" that "doesn't deter crime" and, therefore, its expiration is nothing to get all weepy about sorta flies in the face of the

2004-09-13T22:54:00.000-06:00

Giving the Illini a Bad Name Robert Novak Believes in Revealing Confidential Sources, After All On the CNN panel show, "Capital Gang," Novak expressed grave doubts about the CBS documents, then said: "I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got these documents from. They didn't get them from a CIA agent. I don't believe there was any laws involved. I don't think we'll have a special

2004-09-01T23:28:00.000-06:00

Frame of Reference Here's what Zell Miller had to say three years ago about John Kerry. The genius still has it posted on his website: Speeches (via atrios)

2004-08-30T09:37:00.000-06:00

Heads Up! The new Wes Anderson picture, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou looks absolutely hilarious. Apparently opens Christmas day. Trailer here.

2004-08-21T22:42:00.000-06:00

Man with six-pack habit loses license This is bullshit, and will make you think twice before answering your doctor truthfully. A patient told his doctor that he drinks a six-pack of beer a night. The doctor, under some improbable Pennsylvania law that requires doctors to break confidentiality, turned the guy in to the cops. ''I'm being treated like a criminal, Emerich said. "The only crime I

2004-08-21T21:29:00.000-06:00

Former POW resigns from Bush campaign He appeared in a Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth" ad. The White House and the Bush campaign have denied any direct connection with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which is funded in part by a top GOP donor in Texas. Oops.

2004-08-20T08:25:00.000-06:00

Caught this interesting little article in Sports Illustrated this morning (via Salon.com). Turns out the Iraqi Olympic Soccer Team is not incredibly thrilled to be the poster children for Bush's delusions about Iraq.

2004-08-17T22:41:00.000-06:00

Suppress the Vote? Hebert's column in yesterday's NYT alerts us to a Jeb Bush-sponsored African-American voter investigation in Florida that foreshadows more shenanigans in the hotly contested state come November.

2004-08-10T23:30:00.000-06:00

More Wal-Mart: Study: Wal-Mart hurts taxpayers

2004-08-10T23:20:00.000-06:00

You've all heard of this by now, and probably even seen a clip, but just in case... Bush In Verbal Gaffe

2004-08-03T22:35:00.000-06:00

Bush manipulates the war for his own gain. Again. A nice recap of the past couple of days. In case you're scoring at home. (The day Kerry named Edwards his running mate, they trotted out Tom Ridge too.)

2004-07-27T22:37:00.000-06:00

Slander-ous The USA Today hired Ann Coulter to "report" from the Democratic Convention but had to dump her trash before even one word was published because they got a load of this column that she turned in and refused to edit. (If you feel like sitting through a "day pass", Salon's got it's version of this "story" posted here. Also included in that piece is a reminder to take with a grain of

2004-07-22T23:29:00.000-06:00

Neal Pollack in defense of the teabag (via atrios).

2004-07-22T23:09:00.000-06:00

Just in case you needed another reason to shop at Costco over Wal-Mart/Sam's Club: Costco, Wal-Mart duel in political arena Fuck Wal-Mart.

2004-07-22T23:05:00.000-06:00

PETA TV: Pilgrim's Pride NYT story

2004-07-14T22:52:00.000-06:00

Duly Noted Michael Moore'd be a better spokesman if he weren't such a slouch, I said. Lose the hat and baggies, more folks will take you seriously. Moore'd be a better spokesman if he were less emotional, I said. Calm down, debate intelligently, more people will listen. Moore'd be a better spokesman if he would just back up his claims with hard facts, researched evidence, I said. Footnote

2004-07-13T22:44:00.000-06:00

Senatka Ditka - Illinois Republicans are desperate. Crafty, but desperate.

2004-07-01T22:24:00.000-06:00

Dude, Where's That Elite? Barbara Ehrenreich is guesting on the Times' Op-Ed page all month, in place of that sap Tom Friedman. Lucky us. Of course you haven't read Nickel and Dimed yet, have you? What in the world are you waiting for?

2004-06-29T22:11:00.000-06:00

SHOVELING COAL FOR SATAN Christopher Hitchens collects check from Microsoft, calls Moore a coward. (via atrios) Michael Moore may be an ass, and impossible to like as a public figure, and a little loose with the facts, and greedy, and a shameless panderer. But he wouldn't be necessary if even one percent of the rest of us had any balls at all. If even one reporter had stood up during a

2004-06-25T07:39:00.000-06:00

Move over Ronnie, Bill's got a new book out.

2004-06-25T07:38:00.000-06:00

Mental Capacity: 12-Year-Old. Tops. Someone please tell me, again, how smart our president is, because there's just no fucking way. The Daily Show had a clip the other night of Bush referring to the Abu Ghraib prison as "Abu Gar-eff" and nearly slipped even further in mentioning the word "scandal", before he caught himself and said, "situation", but not before sputtering for about five seconds.

2004-06-18T22:44:00.000-06:00

The Adbusters anti-corporation: Taking on Phil Knight and Nike BLACKSPOT SNEAKER

2004-06-17T23:02:00.000-06:00

A White House built of Stone Walls Bush Defends Assertions of Iraq-Al Qaeda Relationship When plainly faced with the simple fact today that there was NO CONNECTION between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, President Bush said: "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda: because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda..." i.e. Don't

2004-06-17T21:42:00.000-06:00

Fox News Two-Fer: 1. The Document Sean Hannity Doesn't Want You To Read 2. O'Reilly: Calling Alterman "Castro confidant" was "just making fun"

2004-06-16T23:59:00.000-06:00

Tom Tomorrow reports on the Fahrenheit 911 premiere. Add: From the Fox News item linked in the TT post above: The most indelible is Bush's reaction to hearing on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, that the first plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Bush was reading to a grade-school class in Florida at that moment. Instead of jumping up and leaving, he instead sat in front of the class,

2004-06-16T23:35:00.000-06:00

Car Dealers Feel Net Effect A subject near and dear to my heart due to my previous days in the biz. And, no, I can't help you buy a car. Great coda to this piece, too: Edmund's Reed said consumers should avoid car dealers without an extensive website. "If they don't understand the Web, then you don't want to deal with them," Reed said. He warned that although it may be cheaper for companies

2004-06-07T22:20:00.000-06:00

Take a load off kids, Uncle Ronnie's worm food: Bush declares federal holiday for Reagan service So Reagan dies and the government (including the markets!) get to shut down for a day? Are you fucking kidding me??!! Call the boys down at the quarry, fellas, it must be time to start chiseling profile #5 on Borglum's masterpiece! P.S. Now that the man is gone, shouldn't the ill-conceived "

2004-05-27T07:30:00.000-06:00

Andy Kaufman Returns

2004-05-05T10:16:00.000-06:00

Outrage of the Week Disney Forbidding Distribution of Film That Criticizes Bush Why read the article when all you need to know is this: Mr. Moore's agent, Ari Emanuel, said Michael D. Eisner, Disney's chief executive, asked him last spring to pull out of the deal with Miramax. Mr. Emanuel said Mr. Eisner expressed particular concern that it would endanger tax breaks Disney receives for its

2004-04-01T23:25:00.000-07:00

What's in those 800 pages? Ladies and gentlemen, start your theories... Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel

2004-04-01T22:58:00.000-07:00

More Miller: Dennis Miller's Bad Air Day: "I Lapsed Into Rude"

2004-03-26T08:00:00.000-07:00

Assessing the Blame for 9/11 (More from the commission...) This man, who the White House is so intent on discrediting, is the ONLY representative of this administration to have the balls -- the fucking balls -- to take the blame for 9-11 when, as the the editorial states, it's becoming quite apparent that the real failure didn't even rest on his shoulders. The government, Mr. Clarke said, had

2004-03-26T07:50:00.000-07:00

Atheist Presents Case for Taking God From Pledge ...Dr. Newdow described "under God" as a divisive addition to the pledge, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist asked him what the vote in Congress had been 50 years ago when the phrase was inserted. The vote was unanimous, Dr. Newdow said. "Well, that doesn't sound divisive," the chief justice observed. Dr. Newdow shot back, "That's only because no

2004-03-24T22:27:00.000-07:00

Duck blind (well, since you already sat through that ad for the Salon day pass...) Did you hear about this one? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Dick Cheney rubbed penises and then took turns smearing each other's fecal matter on their freshly shorn chests whilst on a duck hunting excursion not too long ago. If that isn't the most glaring example of male-bonding ever, I can't imagine

2004-03-24T22:16:00.000-07:00

Bush's war -- against Richard Clarke (well worth sitting through three slides worth of ads to get the free "day pass" to Salon) The Bush Admin's pathetic attempts at discrediting the impeccable rep of Richard Clarke is this term's latest height of pettiness bordering on the third grade.

2004-03-23T07:18:00.000-07:00

Organized pools could save firms money, study indicates Increase productivity? Who knew.

2004-03-22T22:57:00.000-07:00

500 and counting... Boy, I bet you feel pretty stupid now. "But they're a threat," you said. And I didn't completely disagree with you. "You can't go around bombing into oblivion every nation-state you don't care for," I said. And you tried to tell me about the immediacy of said threat. "They have WMDs and probably nukes too," you said. And I didn't think they didn't have some gas, perhaps

2004-03-22T22:41:00.000-07:00

Eric Alterman recently appeared on Dennis Miller's "news" show on CNBC or MSNBC or one of those minor league NBCs. I didn't see it firsthand, but I did check out the video here. I take back anything kind I've said about Miller in the last 10 to 12 years -- since that Black & White HBO-thing he did when I was in college that seems like it was funny if I try really hard to remember. It's obvious

2004-03-22T21:06:00.000-07:00

File Under: Lord Have Mercy Brazilian pastor dies watching "Passion of Christ"

2004-03-18T08:17:00.000-07:00

Rumsfeld Caught on Tape MoveOn.org's new ad is pretty good. It's fun to watch a cocksure man squirm as his own lies are thrown back in his face. And wait...is that who I think it is...doing the grilling....why yes! It's Tom Friedman! What gives? The real charge here is a long overdue movement to censure Bush. And let's face it - the sentiment is hardly new, but if we can censure and impeach

2004-03-17T23:11:00.000-07:00

The Breck I spent (nearly) two glorious years living in Breckenridge choking on champagne powder, overpriced microbrews and, mostly, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It was worth every minute. But it wasn't quite as epic as the ol' winter of '98: 1898 - "The Big Snow" comes to Breckenridge. Snow falls everyday from November through February, forcing residents to dig tunnels to travel

2004-03-17T23:05:00.000-07:00

I realize that the uproar over the Bertuzzi assault has died down, but I found Lincicome's take on the sorry state of the sport of hockey to be pretty spot-on.

2004-03-15T06:21:00.000-07:00

Your tax dollars to fund campaign propaganda Videos with fake journalists lauding Medicare law under scrutiny

2004-03-11T21:55:00.000-07:00

The Pied Piper of the Anecdote I think it's safe to say that Friedman's been going through the motions for quite some time now: Our story so far

2004-03-10T07:16:00.000-07:00

One year - anything less and the NHL ceases to have any relavance as a legitimate professional sports league. Plain and simple.

2004-03-05T12:30:00.000-07:00

And while we're on the subject of courts, religion, politics, and morality... Where Is My Gay Apocalypse? Where is my raging apocalypse? This is what I want to know. Where is the social meltdown? The moral depravity? I was promised an apocalypse, dammit. What am I supposed to do with all these tubs of margarine and confetti and kazoos? After all, gay marriage is supposed to ruin the nation, is

2004-03-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

How Close We Came This week saw the release of the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun's papers. Obviously well aware of the historical significance of his personal and public writing, as well as the most frivolous of notes, he archived everything and ordered them to be released publicly five years after his death. Supreme Court junkies (like me), passionate abortion rights supporters (

2004-03-02T17:20:00.000-07:00

Mars Rover Finds That Site Was 'Drenched' in Water And where there's water, there's life. Perhaps it's just a bit too early to ask all of my god-fearing friends how they're going to recover from this one, but in the meantime, atheists, rejoice!

2004-02-29T23:46:00.000-07:00

After the Gold Rush