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Friday February 25, 2005 · 8:15 PM PST

2005/02/25 · 20:15

TBogg and ThinkProgress have been trawling around the dating service at Sean Hannity's website. "No," you say, "such an easy target for derision surely does not exist in the wild. That can only be an invention of snarky, smug left-wing bloggers, right?" No, it's real and oh so worth your time. Just for starters:

Chris in Alabama is looking for a Christian woman who will appriciate his assperations to Christ.

Krista in Michigan would trade her tiara to have "the kind of love that Nancy and Ronald Reagan had," so if you're totally confused and incontinent, drop her an email.

Dave in Oregon's sole hope from placing his personal is "to kill deer with Ann Coulter someday." From the comments at ThinkProgress: "Well, you'd have to swing her over your head real fast, but I bet you could get up enough speed to bring a deer down with her."

Jay in New York believes "there is nothing that can be said that Billy Joel hasn't put in a song" and says "I enjoy getting off at a random subway stop." I love that Billy Joel song about masturbating in the subway. Read More

Best site for convincing conservatives?

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Thursday October 07, 2004 · 6:24 AM PDT

2004/10/07 · 06:24

My boss just came by and asked me if I could point him toward the best site for convincing a conservative that the Bush administration lies every time they open their mouths. He wants this to use with his brother-in-law, (who he views as a principled, honest, but underinformed conservative) to try to sway him to at least vote libertarian instead of Republican this cycle.

The site needs to be fact-based, comprehensive, and not rabidly partisan. The more professional-looking, the better. I think you know what I'm driving at here. Help me out here, compadres.

How do we lose?

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Thursday September 16, 2004 · 12:00 PM PDT

2004/09/16 · 12:00

You should go read Sidney Blumenthal's latest column, Far Graver than Vietnam. It contains several quotes from interviews with the US military's leading strategists and prominent retired generals, who agree that Bush's war is already lost. A few of the key quotes (followed by my rant):
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Let's get this party started!

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Thursday June 24, 2004 · 7:20 AM PDT

2004/06/24 · 07:20

Any day now, Ralph Nader will begin complaining about not being invited to the presidential debates (followed shortly, one would think, by Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian nominee). The complaints will, of course, fall on deaf ears outside their own choirs. 24 years ago, Ed Clark led the Libertarians to break the magic 1% bar in the Carter-Reagan race, and they haven't been back to such lofty heights since. The 2.75% of the vote that Nader took in 2000 will certainly seem like a lot compared to what he pulls this November. I suppose one could argue that being excluded from the debates contributes to such low showings, though I doubt that spotlight would flatter either.

Anyhow, if those low vote-getters should qualify, then where does one draw the bar? There are a boatload of candidates running for president each time out and giving them all a go at it would make the debates look like a high school marching band performance. But fair is fair, so I thought I'd give some shouts out to a few of our more, uh, colorful tickets in 2004 that won't be fielding any questions from Jim Lehrer. Read More

Yes, but does he spit blood?

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Monday June 14, 2004 · 10:32 AM PDT

2004/06/14 · 10:32

In 1961, aspiring rock bassist John F. Kerry and six friends formed a garage surf band called the Electras that played high school dances. They cut a self-titled album and had 500 copies pressed. Amazingly, the masters still exist and have been dug up and re-released. KerryRocks.com has ordering information, the liner notes, and an mp3 of clips from the album. The band also now has a website that warns, "There have been rumors of a reunion performance between now and November 2004."

click to enlarge JFK's bass-slapping fury

The rumors persist, but the apostropher research staff has learned from a reliable campaign source that this is not John Kerry. Neither is this. Nor this, despite the uncanny resemblance. The rumor that is true, however: after a successful career as a municipal bond trader, the maracas player now does real estate management. Just thought you'd want to know.

(via Boing Boing)

The War on Drugs Comes to Fallujah

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Monday April 19, 2004 · 9:09 AM PDT

2004/04/19 · 09:09

Strangest news quote of the morning:

Senor said no offensive U.S. military operations will be carried out if residents of Fallujah, a city of about 250,000 people that is 35 miles (56 kilometers) from Baghdad, turn in banned weapons and "move to eliminate remaining foreign fighters, criminals and drug users from the city."

Excuse me? When did that become one of our goals in Iraq?

Numbers numbers numbers.

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Tuesday March 09, 2004 · 3:20 PM PST

2004/03/09 · 15:20

Interesting data abound in the latest ABC News-Washington Post poll. Bush's overall support was unchanged from February at 50%, equal to the lowest of his presidency. Bear in mind that the day after he was impeached, Clinton was in the high sixties. This is just about an historic low for an incumbent president at this point. 57 percent say they want their next president to steer the country away from the course set by Bush. In a three-way race, the respondents break down Kerry 47, Bush 42, Nader 5, though without a party backing, Nader is unlikely to make the ballot in more than a handful of states, so the two-way numbers of Kerry 53 Bush 42 are probably closer to an accurate snapshot. However, the most interesting numbers lie in the details. The margin of error is +/- 3%. Read More

We now move to the talent portion of the debate.

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Monday February 16, 2004 · 5:34 AM PST

2004/02/16 · 05:34

Rep. Dennis Kucinich looks on, sulking. He knows there is no way he can compete at robot dancing with a guy who's eight feet tall.

(picture from the front page of msnbc.com)

Now THIS is dirty politics.

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Saturday February 14, 2004 · 12:26 PM PST

2004/02/14 · 12:26

I know everybody decries the degraded state of our political campaigns and the nasty mudslinging that looks to dominate our current presidential election, but kids, we ain't got nothing on the Russians. Presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin is a former Yeltsin official who negotiated the end to the first Chechen war and the highest ranking official to criticize Putin after the current president restarted the conflict. He went missing last week, resurfacing in Kiev, and now says he will conduct his campaign from London out of fear for his safety.

He was contacted two weeks ago by a human-rights activist who offered to take him to a secret location in Ukraine to meet [Chechen president] Maskhadov. Suspicious but intrigued, Mr Rybkin said he flew to London last week to seek advice from Mr Maskhadov's representative, Akhmed Zakayev, who has political asylum in Britain. Mr Zakayev said he would need a week to check, but on his return to Moscow, Mr Rybkin was rung again by the go-between. He decided to take the risk, without Mr Zakayev's answer.

He took a train to Ukraine, and the go-between met him in Kiev. There he was taken to a flat. After being offered tea and sandwiches, he felt drowsy. Four days later he woke up in a different flat, where he was shown a compromising video of himself. Repeatedly declining to discuss the contents at yesterday's press conference, where he seemed close to tears, he said it was made by "horrible perverts".

Kinda makes American political dirty tricks seem quaint and charming by comparison.

Playing It Safe

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Saturday January 31, 2004 · 11:19 AM PST

2004/01/31 · 11:19

(First posted at apostropher.com)

I've said many times below that the Democratic race is still too close to call based on the actual delegate counts, and that's true - a mere 15 delegates separate Kerry and Edwards and the smallest state holding a primary on Tuesday, North Dakota, gives out more than that. But momentum is indeed a real factor, until it is stopped. That stop, as Dean's campaign discovered, can come quickly and without warning.

On discussion boards around the web, many commenters are lighting into Kerry's and Edwards' stands on specific issues - No Child Left Behind, Patriot Act, etc - and the campaign that Rove can run against them. This misses the point, in my never particularly humble opinion. This election will not be a referendum on the Democratic candidate; much more so than any recent election, it will be a referendum on the incumbent. I'm increasingly confident that he is going to lose that referendum... as long as the Democratic nominee doesn't implode.

That, in a nutshell is Dean's problem, and Clark's as well. The Iowa and Trippi debacles, along with Dean's tendency to make statements that he spends the next week clarifying, all contribute to a picture of campaign that is almost, but not quite, in control of itself. Clark is new to the retail politics game, and I've watched his campaign holding my breath, waiting for the next wince-evincing slip-up, which gets delivered on just about a weekly basis. Put simply, these guys don't look like professionals and they make voters who just want Bush removed nervous. Read More

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