Dr. Laura takes a call from Dr. Laura

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Sunday May 20, 2007 · 3:53 PM PDT

2007/05/20 · 15:53

"...And now we go to "Laura" in California. Hello, Laura."

Hi, Dr. Laura.

"What can I do for you today?"

Well...I'm worried about my son. He's a soldier in Afghanistan, and it seems that he created a very disturbing webpage...

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Thursday May 17, 2007 · 8:03 PM PDT

2007/05/17 · 20:03

Well, somebody had to go over to The Steaming Pits of Hell and see what they were saying about the Holy Leader's blessing of the McCain/Kennedy immigration bill.

And it shocked even me. I was expecting some laughs, but the Schadenfreude I felt at their horrified betrayal by the Dauphin was just too rich. Rich rich. I mean, Stilton-and-port rich. With a side of gout.

Actual responses from the Bush faithful regarding Dear Leader's perfidy -- and do keep in mind that these are the rock-ribbed faithful, who have defended him come the hell of Iraq and the high water of Katrina:

Gutterboy

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Tuesday May 15, 2007 · 2:47 PM PDT

2007/05/15 · 14:47

I made a joke in another thread about the Rev. Fred Phelps and his kkkrewe showing up to picket Falwell's funeral. (No, I'm not linking to Phelps' site here.)

But, as Lily Tomlin once said, "No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up."

Behold:

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Sunday April 22, 2007 · 7:47 PM PDT

2007/04/22 · 19:47

The UK newspaper The Independent recently ran a commentary by Rupert Cornwell contrasting the last days of the Bush administration to the end of the Sopranos. Like the Bush administration, The Sopranos has run for eight years; unlike the Bush administration, it hasn't faltered in its mission or execution.

And it's been a damn sight better well-written.

That said: Watching tonight's episode, I was struck by a few psychological parallels between the family Soprano and the family Bush.

(There's a mild semi-spoiler under the flip, so if you haven't watched the US broadcast of April 22...thanks for reading this far, at least...)

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Thursday March 01, 2007 · 2:04 PM PST

2007/03/01 · 14:04

The site OlbermannWatch -- the personal effort by blogger Robert A. Cox to document the atrocities of Keith Olbermann, has been shuttered.

We had held out hope that MSNBC would allow Olbermann's contract to expire even up until the last few weeks. But the deal is done and our Countdown Clock expired at midnight on March 1, 2007.

Faced with Olbermann's new four-year deal with NBC Universal, Mr. Cox seems to have taken his blog and gone home...

Gutterboy

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Wednesday February 21, 2007 · 12:13 AM PST

2007/02/21 · 00:13

As you may know, the very august and superswanky National Press Club held an event on Feb. 20 where they agreed that bloggers are very, very bad people:

David Gregory: Because it- it's the Internet, and the blogs, that have really used this White House press conference to somehow support positions out in America- political views...and I think people try to divine motives of the questioners and- and certainly draw conclusions about, uh, the answers, or- or non-answers, uh, based on their, their, their own political views.

That was the tenor of the meeting. (And - as Kossack STOP George noted - legendary man-whore White House correspondent Jeff Gannon was in attendance.)

All very funny. We get it. Bloggers is bad mens (and wimmens).

So why is the NPC teaching a Blogging 101 class to its members on March 12?

Gutterboy

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Sunday January 07, 2007 · 8:01 PM PST

2007/01/07 · 20:01

"Do you like my cowboy hat?"

The woman at Louis Armstrong Airport was heading back to Oregon, but right now she was beaming, holding out her camera to me. "I was just inside, admiring it on some guy, and he insisted I take it."

I snapped her photo, and she told me about her trip, the fun she'd had, the people she'd met, clearly intoxicated on the city, the experience, and perhaps a midday brew or two. "New Orleans people," she concluded, "are all so nice. They are the nicest."

She was on my flight, along with a member of the Portland Trail Blazers and an Oregon family who had come up for the LSU/Notre Dame game. As we were getting ready to deplane, they were talking: "The only thing that could have been better," one of them said, "was if the Irish had won."

"Well, look at the good side," somebody else said. "At least we didn't get shot at or murdered."

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 8:03 PM PST

2006/11/17 · 20:03

Ruth Brown, 78, a Queen of Rhythm and Blues, Dies

She was a legend, a star, and an R&B queen of the 1950s who was reduced to working as a maid a decade later. Twenty years after that, she won a Tony Award and a Grammy. And, in her 70s, she was touring the country with Bonnie Raitt.

All very nice. But what Ruth Brown did was change the musical landscape for dozens of her contemporaries - her contemporaries who were cheated out of their royalties due to duplicitous record company accounting. Read More

A little Santorumfreude

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 12:27 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 00:27

I know there are a fair number of folks who disapprove of the whole idea of Schadenfreude (we're a big tent!), but I can't help it: I'm seduced by Santorumfreude, the German term for "taking joy in the misfortune of Rick Santorum."

Come freude with me... Read More

Ed Schultz Cuts & Runs From AAR

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Friday October 13, 2006 · 2:08 PM PDT

2006/10/13 · 14:08

I never signed up for Ed Schultz' email list, but it seems I'm on there. Today I got an email from Ed Schultz' producer, James Holm:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 13, 2006 Fargo, ND ... Ed Schultz, host of America's fastest growing progressive talk radio program The Ed Schultz Show, today assured his listeners and fans that his show is independently owned, operated and in no danger of bankruptcy or other financial obstacles...
Schultz' assurances that all is well at The Ed Schultz Show and at Schultz's partner and co-owner Product 1st, the programming company owned by long-time radio executives Randy Michaels and Stu Krane, were sparked by news of bankruptcy filings at a liberal talk network in no way related to Schultz. (my emphasis)

Why I'm getting email from Schultz, and why this pisses me off so very much, is under the cut. Read More

Everyone Knows It's Lynndie: The Jailhouse Interview

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Thursday October 12, 2006 · 1:57 PM PDT

2006/10/12 · 13:57

So Lynndie England has finally given her first jailhouse interview, not to Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters or Katie Couric, but to...Marie Claire magazine. (Quite a coup for Marie Claire and writer Tara McKelvey, I'd say.)

Some points of interest from the interview:

* Since the gates slammed shut at Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar in San Diego, she hasn't had one visitor. Not one. Marie Claire accompanied her mother for her first visit to the prison, along with England's baby by her former lover and fellow abuser Charles Graner.

* England now refers to Graner as "Shithead."

* And England chose to pose for Marie Claire wearing a T-shirt that says "Desert Rock," in a takeoff of the Hard Rock Café T-shirts.

Personally, I wouldn't want to choose clothing that would remind people of my role in something like Abu Ghraib, but I guess that's what makes her ineffably Lynndie...as is the following: Read More

The Hollywood Reporter decimates PT 9/11

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Saturday September 09, 2006 · 3:48 PM PDT

2006/09/09 · 15:48

Ray Richmond, the longtime entertainment/media columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, was sent a screening copy of The Path to 9/11, and his blogcolumn on the miniseries, Five Years Later, 9/11 Is Reduced To Just Another Edition of 'Artistic License Theater', is the most thorough, stinging exegesis of the project that I've read to date.

Remember when 9/11 happened? In the rush of hyperbole, we were all convinced it represented the one cataclysmic occurrence that was utterly sacred. It would be forevermore depicted with the proper reverence and respect or not at all. This was hallowed historical territory, after all. Well, it took a mere five years for TV to render that ideal obsolete. We always hear protestations of, "It's too soon!" Well, in that spirit, allow me to chime in that it's too soon to be tampering with this truth as we would an urban legend.

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