Archive for November 2005

The monthlies.

• The Continuing Saga Of The Disturbed Public Interest

  Anderson Cooper closed out his (ever-boring) 360 show on CNN last evening with the (delayed) news that the world’s ugliest dog has died (on November 15). Why is this news? Has public interest sunk so low? Image: Yahoo! News, AP Photo/Santa Barbara News-Press, Rafael Maldonado

• The Disturbing Reality Of Public Interest

  The most disturbing item found on the web yesterday was housed at ABC News: the insinuation that Tom Cruise is one of the most fascinating people. Eep. Image: ABC News

• Iraqi Thanksgiving Woes

  How bad is it in Iraq? It is so bad, it is too unsafe for the president of the United States to visit stationed troops in the country. The last time Bush visited Iraq? Thanksgiving 2003. Bush surprised the troops with a visit that holiday weekend and was famously pictured jovially offering a prop turkey [...]

• Gaming Sins

  Great story. I always wondered about the video game industry. It seems to me this is very similar to the issue with television/film ratings. No matter if we provide a ratings system, someone’s parents will purchase the game (either due to maliciousness or ignorance), or a child will find it somehow. The fact is these [...]

• An Example Of "All Employees" Email Abuse

  To: All EmployeesSubject: not sure I am not sure of this is considered abuseof “All Employee” emails, but does anybodyknow of someone having puppies? I am lookingto get one or two around May. Please let meknow. -Jeff

• Don’t Give Me Your 867-5309

  I guess I was one of the last to jump in on the cell phone fad (I finally got a phone in late November 2001); I eventually purchased a Sprint PCS phone from the Radio Shack at the Carousel Mall in Syracuse and my first phone number (Syracuse area code) was 315-491-5736. (I don’t really [...]

• Fratboy Antics

  Doonesbury investigates (and reveals) the hidden truth behind the reasons Bush is down with torture… (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo!

• Eureka, I Have Found It

  This weekend’s road trip included driving five hours north up Highway 101 to Eureka, a stop in Arcata (which I had thought was prounounced Arcata, with a soft ‘a’, not a harsh ‘a’; very dissappointing…), then eastward four hours on rugged Highway 299 through Weaverville to I-5 in Redding, and up north an hour to [...]

• The Beatles JFK Assassination Theory

  Forty-two years following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the nation’s thirty-fifth president (and the nation’s first Catholic president), one question still persists… Did the Beatles have anything to do with it? And I say, yes. I developed this theory in the late nineties (I say that as if it were a long time ago) [...]

• King Kong

  Is it just me, or is the trailer for King King really, really good? And I mean, go see it in the theaters good. Or is it just me? Please tell me. The first time the trailer came on, I immediately said, “Oh, no,” thinking that the producers would be trying to capture the nostalgic [...]

• Bush In China

  While Bush toured the nation of China, he found time to write the following passage in a guestbook at a Protestant church: “God bless the Christians of China.“ Dare I say, perfection. onegoodmove

• House GOP Defines Target

  In what is reported to be a surprising vote on the budget in the House yesterday, the House GOP claimed victory by setting out their targets in budget cuts: “The bill, passed 217-215 after a 25-minute-long roll call, makes modest but politically painful cuts across an array of programs for the poor, students and farmers.” [...]

• Bush: Misleading Us In The Post Cold War Era

  The president’s game plan on the Iraq-war-missing-WMD-quagmire is to make it as if it is our fault that we are in Iraq because we believed what he, the president, was telling us about the weapons capabilities of Iraq, and we should have known he, Bush, was full of shit. Will this plan backfire? (How could [...]

• Again With The Props

  In what has been reported to be a “blistering attack” on war critics who allege that Bush had trumped-up the WMD intelligence in an effort to take the country to (an unncessary and unwinnable) war, Bush purposefully positioned himself behind propped-up military equipment. Image: Associated Press What Bush has to make sure of, however, is [...]

• Hedging Your Theoretical Bets

  Is evolution a theory? Yes, a theory that is backed by scientific evidence. (Just a primer to get the facts on the table.) Toles ponders today how the White House ethics classes are proceeding. Can we get our hands on the syllabus? (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo!

• Between The Lines

  It’s time to play read between the lines… Pro-choice republican senator Susan Collins of Maine (Susan- you chose the wrong party…) met with Bush’s latest appointee to the Supreme Court, Judge Samuel Alito, and afterwards Collins said to the press, “[Alito] assured me that he has tremendous respect for precedent and that his approach is [...]

• The Oil Oligopoly In The Room (That No One Is Mentioning)

  Oil companies are allowed to take chances, at any point, e.g., peak summer driving season, winter heating season, etc., to raise prices arbitrarily to maximize profits. And no one can stop them; well, at least the market can’t. Government can. Oil executives, as a result of oil being an oligopoly, are able to convene and [...]

• Bush Purportedly Personally Tortured Over Apparent Torture

  The president this week exclaimed, “We do not torture,” all the while his vice president, Dick Cheney, lobbied the Congress and Defense and State Departments to not ban torture… (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo!

• Gods of War; Gods of Television

  In spite of what television god Tom Shales believes, and whether or not the blessed Note agrees, the live West Wing debate episode did have substance; in fact, too much. Shales notes that the West Wing failed to discuss “urgent issues of the moment — terrorism, the Patriot Act, politicization of the Supreme Court nominating [...]

• White House Kamikaze

  Dick Cheney has no fear. His top aide, Scooter Libby, has been indicted in the case investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame, and Cheney, himself, has been implicated as a source of Valerie Plame’s name and status. The WMD rationale for the Iraq war has blown-up in the Bush administration’s face (sorry, poor [...]

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