Nobel Prize Winner Admits to Nazi Past

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Monday August 14, 2006 · 4:55 PM PDT

2006/08/14 · 16:55

A German magazine is going to reveal tomorrow that Gunther Grass, the country's Nobel Prize-winning author who is widely regarded for probing the conscience of post-war German national identity, was a member of the Waffen SS: Read More

MTV Turns 25 (an Intervention)

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Wednesday August 02, 2006 · 8:31 AM PDT

2006/08/02 · 08:31

Oh, hi there, MTV. Rough night, last night? A little bit too much to drink with the old boys, eh? Yeah, I remember my 25th birthday: Jack Daniels, Panama Red, and mortar shells from Charlie in a foxhole in Danang. Helluva time, son, helluva time... Read More

A Douchebag Attacks a Kossack in USA Today

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Monday July 24, 2006 · 9:06 AM PDT

2006/07/24 · 09:06

USA Today gave Michael Medved, the world's least relevant movie critic, some column space this morning which he felt he needed to fill with a pedantic history of American patriotic music and a slam against a member of the DailyKos community.

The commentary is called "Faith and Nationalism: Indivisible in America." I'm going to pause right here just for a second so that the operative word of this title, Nationalism, can sink in. Not "patriotism," Nationalism. I'm for one disturbed that Medved is so anxious to hawk Nationalism, but I'll leave that issue to the reader to infer whatever he or she'd care to from that.
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Bush to NASA: Ignore the Earth

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Sunday July 23, 2006 · 12:44 PM PDT

2006/07/23 · 12:44

You'd think the Bush administration's NASA cronies would have picked up on a few things after the George Deutsch debacle, but then again you really don't hear much about a Lessons Learned Department in the White House.

Of course, if the Deutsch Affair taught them nothing, then they certainly had another opportunity when Bush et al. tried to silence Dr. James Hansen's views on global warming.

But then again, when you're on a roll why not go for the trifecta? From the Times:
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Only Thomas Pynchon Can Save Us Now

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Friday July 21, 2006 · 11:45 AM PDT

2006/07/21 · 11:45

I know it's been a heavy week, but you always have to find time for a distraction, right? So has anyone else had as much fun with the Thomas Pynchon comment appearing on Amazon this week as I have? Read More

Mexicans = Garbage (only on FOX News!)

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Tuesday July 11, 2006 · 3:45 PM PDT

2006/07/11 · 15:45

I just saw this interview with Senator Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming) on the John Gibson Show that was one of the damnedest things I've seen today.

Team Gibson & Thomas were trying to blame environmental advocacy groups for not bringing their collective wrath down upon illegal immigrants for littering during their crossing into the United States.
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Can We Ditch the "Terror Alert" System Now?

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Saturday July 08, 2006 · 6:43 AM PDT

2006/07/08 · 06:43

Can we please get rid of the Homeland Security Advisory System already?

Remember? That's the nifty color-coded "terror alert status" indicator that was cooked up by some marketing firm to inform the populace how scared we should be. This thing has been useless to the national interest and it's time it went the way of the metric system (not that I have anything against the metric system, but let's face it, it's just not gonna happen in America).
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"Victims of their own Propoganda"

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Friday July 07, 2006 · 8:23 AM PDT

2006/07/07 · 08:23

By way of Ken Silverstein, there comes this interview in The Passport with Newsweek's former Baghdad bureau chief, Ron Nordland, who has this to say about covering Iraq: Read More

"Sunday, Bloody Sunday"

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 10:28 AM PDT

2006/07/04 · 10:28

Happy Fourth, Y'all!

I hope everyone has had a chance to see this rather ingenious mash-up of President Bush "singing" "Sunday, Bloody Sunday." The creators of this little ditty employed some inventive editing of Bush's State of the Union addresses to present the "war President" covering the U2 classic with delicious irony.
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Air Force to Study Blogs

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Sunday July 02, 2006 · 12:59 PM PDT

2006/07/02 · 12:59

The Air Force is going to study blogs, forking over nearly half a million dollars for a three year study. The Passport over at Foreign Policy has some amusing meta-commentary on the story. Read More

Grow a Pair: Soccer, Nihilism & the Weekly Standard

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 2:39 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 14:39

I was going to let this one slide, but after seeing some amazing displays of athleticism this weekend I am now motivated to do otherwise. Last week the Weekly Standard published an article on its website equating soccer to nihilism. A little taste:

Mostly soccer is just guys in shorts running around aimlessly, a metaphor for the meaninglessness of life. Whole blocks of game time transpire during which absolutely nothing happens. Fortunately, this permits fans to slip out for a bratwurst and a beer without missing anything important. It's little wonder fans at times resort to brawling amongst themselves in the grandstands, as there is so little transpiring on the field of play to occupy their wandering attention. Watching men in shorts scampering around has its limitations. It's like gazing too long at a painting by de Kooning or Jackson Pollock. The more you look, the less there is to see.

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 1:16 PM PDT

2006/06/27 · 13:16

Is Moscow.

As in the one in Russia.

Well, I'll be damned...
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