Larry Craig, Naked Hula Dancer

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Friday August 31, 2007 · 8:07 PM PDT

2007/08/31 · 20:07

This will be a quickie diary, but the message offered in it is too important to pass up.
Kent Jones, Professional Comic Relief of Air America's Rachel Maddow Show, hit on a metaphor with great depth and strength today, a metaphor that really sums up my personal reaction to the Bush Administration's leak to Roll Call on Monday, and to everything that has followed inevitably from it.

I offer the MP3 audio of Kent Jones' insight to you here.

I urge you to listen to all 45 seconds of it, and ponder its wisdom.

Then follow me over to the corpus.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 10:56 AM PDT

2007/08/14 · 10:56

The constant counter-argument to the proliferation of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles has been the size and weight of the battery packs, the inadequate energy density of the available batteries, and the toxic ingredients and expensive manufacturing processes that go into making those batteries.

But what if we had high-energy batteries that used no toxic electrolytes and could be printed like the pages of a book?

Well, that's just what researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced today.

Prepare to get enthused...

tbetz

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Monday July 30, 2007 · 11:02 AM PDT

2007/07/30 · 11:02

George Bush has taken advantage of Senate recesses 170 times (167 times through January, 2007, and three more in April, 2007) over the last six years to fill positions that would otherwise require Senate confirmation with people who would likely -- or certainly -- have failed to win Senate confirmation. Bush has never missed an opportunity to flip the bird at the Senate, even permanently appointing a US Attorney using the notorious Patriot Act II provisions on the very day he signed into law Congress' legislation outlawing the practice.

Follow me into my nightmare...

tbetz

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Wednesday May 23, 2007 · 6:47 AM PDT

2007/05/23 · 06:47

If you don't know already, find your Representative's name in the lookup box at the top of this page.

If you don't know already, find your Senators' name in the lookup box at the top of this page.

Here are three toll-free phone numbers, no waiting:

877-851-6437
800-828-0498
800-459-1887

Ask the nice operator to transfer you to your Senators and Congressperson.

What to say? You have to ask?

tbetz

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Thursday April 19, 2007 · 5:01 PM PDT

2007/04/19 · 17:01

(This will be short, but there's no open thread that isn't three miles long today)

The Associated Press is reporting in an unsigned story that the Democratic National Congress is suing the Justice Department...

demanding it turn over any e-mail traffic with the Republican Party on the U.S. attorneys controversy and criminal investigations.

~~More overleaf...~~
See the update overleaf...

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Thursday March 01, 2007 · 4:49 PM PST

2007/03/01 · 16:49

Melissa Block interviewed David Iglesias extensively on today's All Things Considered. You can hear the interview at the Listen link here. He's already been interviewed by Senate Judiciary Committee staff, and is scheduled to testify...

tbetz

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Friday November 24, 2006 · 1:41 PM PST

2006/11/24 · 13:41

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette front-paged a very good story 11/24 headlined "Robot callers might buzz off" about pending state legislation to add political robocalls to Pennsylvania's Do Not Call list, but buried on page A-15 the story of what might very well be the dirtiest robocall of the 2006 campaign.

More... well, on page A-15.

tbetz

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Saturday November 11, 2006 · 5:47 AM PST

2006/11/11 · 05:47

By now, you've probably heard about Mean Jean Schmidt's ballot being repeatedly rejected by the scanner in her polling place.

But you may not have heard this even funnier story from OH-2. Read More

[UPDATED] CALL FOR ACTION ON HOUSE TORTURE BILL! (HR 6054)

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Saturday September 16, 2006 · 5:54 PM PDT

2006/09/16 · 17:54

After the House Armed Services Committee passed HR 6054 (the Bush/Cheney Retroactive Torture Definition and Legalization Act) out of committee by a vote of 52 to 8 last week, this week the Senate Armed Services Committee produced its own alternative version.

Both of these pieces of legislation are seriously flawed, and both need to be stopped. Right now, before the next House committee considers HR 6054, we have to let legislators know that voting for HR 6054 could make them international war criminals. Read More

Jack Abramoff, High-School Bully

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Saturday June 24, 2006 · 1:21 PM PDT

2006/06/24 · 13:21

Listening to the the introduction to today's superb This American Life, I was mildly stunned to hear Jonathan Gold, food critic for the LA Weekly, describe how (among other petty cruelties) high-school jock and bully Jack Abramoff delighted in pushing Gold and his cello down a flight of stairs back when they both attended the same high school.

I guess we have here another example of how bullies tend to grow up and become felons.

(Of course, Abramoff's attorney denies that such a thing ever happened.) Read More

The Stock Market is really at 70% of its 2000 level

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Friday May 05, 2006 · 11:02 AM PDT

2006/05/05 · 11:02

I've been getting really annoyed with the business pages announcing that the Stock Market is hitting its 2000 highs.

It isn't. It's a long way from those highs. And the business press corps' utter failure to tell the whole story is giving corporatist wingers phony talking points that hurt America.
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Wayne Adkins on Stephen Colbert and Wenyi Wang

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Tuesday May 02, 2006 · 1:41 PM PDT

2006/05/02 · 13:41

Wayne Adkins' take on Stephen Colbert's performance raises a point that I haven't seen raised elsewhere, and while not precise, the parallel he draws between Colbert and Wenyi Wang is not really all that strained, and deserves notice. Read More

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