tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97072482011-12-31T13:36:48.969-08:00Why Pay More? -- Speaking Truth and Cracking Wise to Power Since 2004.Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.comBlogger11721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-86047874020614498152010-04-27T12:43:00.000-07:002010-04-27T12:46:14.901-07:00

Here's a thought: What if the Tea Party folks, as currently constituted, were instead African Americans, rallying against a white president and his policies? Wonder how the public and the media would perceive them? Tim Wise at AlterNet has some ideas in a very intriguing post well worth reading. Check it out, kids.

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Editor --A letter writer to the Chronicle today (Letters to the Editor, 4/20) says that people shouldn't be afraid of Tea Party rants and rhetoric, that the groups are made up simply of "people taking an active interest in their government and protesting that it does not represent their views."On the opposite page, Debra Saunders chastises former President Bill Clinton for bringing up the

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Yesterday I deliberately put myself square in the mouth of one of the scariest of beasts in this country today -- the Tea Party rally at Union Square here in San Francisco. A couple hundred members of the Idiot Nation came out to wave their misspelled signs, shout lies and inaccuracies and generally pat themselves on the back for being the FOX-led fledgling fascists that they are. It was a rather

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Ha, this is about 25 kinds of awesome...

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This is the face of fascism. These are the people who are so pig-ignorant, so uninformed and so blindly led by the Fox News media shouters that they are willing to go out and protest a bill that they essentially know nothing about. The level of sheer stupidity here is amazing... and scary. As Noam Chomsky said in the post prior to this one, we need to take the Tea Partiers seriously. They want an

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Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in AmericaBy Matthew Rothschild, April 12, 2010Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States.“I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds

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From Kung-Fu Monkey via TBogg:"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

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Taken directly and entirely from my good friend nashtbrutusandshort's blog, Categorical Aperitif: Culture of LIFE! Telling a Congressman to "bleed out your ass, get cancer and die." Using racist epithets and sending pictures of nooses. Cutting the propane line to someone's house—someone whose address someone else posted online, obviously to encourage acts of intimidation. Oh

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-45484574856663247592010-03-25T15:31:00.000-07:002010-03-25T15:33:02.129-07:00

This is hilarious. The new health care legislation just passed by Congress is unconstitutional because... the president used too many pens to sign it. No, really! Go and read for yourself!

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I love this so much I want to marry it.

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Terrible wi-fi in the main library. A scandal, a travesty. Come to the library and let’s hit birds with bricks. There are so many birds outside and it’s awful, awful. They are ruining our wi-fi with their complicated bones, with their too-fast hearts.I can't explain it, I just love the blog called Sexpigeon. You should, too. If you don't, I don't think I love you.

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The Tea Party Movement Is A National EmbarrassmentPosted on Feb 13, 2010By Stuart WhatleyEditor’s note: This article was originally published on The Huffington Post.Last summer, when mass protests broke out in Iran following what was seen as a rigged election, Americans cried out in support of the uprising through all possible channels. Some commentators here went so far as to claim credit for

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My good buddy Jon pointed me to this website of Carlos Miller's, which I think is very interesting and unfortunately more and more applicable to myself and my growing gang of photographer friends. Check it out, kids.

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Shorter Sarah Palin: "We don't want a smart guy... *looks at palm of hand* ...runnin' things!"

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Think Progress reports that the teabagging morons are all up in arms right now and turning against their Queen, Sarah Palin, because she has endorsed her former running mate John McCain in his bid to retain the senatorial seat from Arizona. Apparently the ball-swallowing teabagging crowd prefers someone a little closer to their own ideology than McCain, namely a reactionary, ultra-conservative

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-17251750145572232532010-01-15T11:04:00.001-08:002010-01-15T11:04:50.196-08:00

Unfuckingbelievable.

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-17083797047471151072010-01-12T14:13:00.001-08:002010-01-12T14:15:52.261-08:00

Here's a great suggestion for what to call the decade that just preceded: The Uh-Ohs, a Decade of Conservative Failure. It surely was that, and more. Check it out, kids.(h/t to my good friend nashtbrutusandshort, who, after a long hiatus, is up and blogging again at Categorical Aperitif.)

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Alan Grayson is My Hero.

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-37067585145261539302009-12-04T14:35:00.000-08:002009-12-04T15:03:53.278-08:00

...and Sarah Palin is their Queen.Seriously, the current crop of Teabaggers, Palinites, Dittoheads, Becksters, Freepers and the rest of what constitutes the majority of today's GOP would be laughably comic if they weren't so tragically scary and potentially powerful. They embrace Teh Stoopid with both arms and legs, glorify anti-intellectualism and wallow in ignorance. They don't know nothin' and

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"8:13: 'I see first hand the terrible wages of war.' No, you see the vig on the loan we're making."Just one little comment from the Rude Pundit while live blogging the PreziHope'n'Changenit's speech tonight. Read the whole transcript... if you dare! (And if you have enough rye whiskey at hand. I know I do.)G'wan. You know you want to.Cheers! *gulp*

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Mrs. Generik on Sarah Palin: "She should have gotten more brains and less body."Just another reason why I still love her after all these years.Mrs. Generik, I mean, not Sarah Palin. Just in case anyone was confused.

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-73662942212502798172009-11-17T08:44:00.000-08:002009-11-17T08:45:14.986-08:00

From RetroPolitics:“The VA rep, obviously a talented and seasoned government professional, spent the next 20 minutes explaining the regulations and bureaucratic system for homeless veterans who dared to venture in the fox holes of VA services and housing. I think I’m getting old. Or at least after 13 years of fighting government bureaucracy for the sake of hurting people in our society,

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October 30, 2009The Defining MomentBy PAUL KRUGMANO.K., folks, this is it. It’s the defining moment for health care reform.Past efforts to give Americans what citizens of every other advanced nation already have — guaranteed access to essential care — have ended not with a bang, but with a whimper, usually dying in committee without ever making it to a vote.But this time, broadly similar

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From the Rude Pundit, appearing (as he does regularly) on the Stephanie Miller Show this morning: "Olympia Snowe must have some mad fellatio skills."*swoon*

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Batshit-crazy birther Orly Taitz gets a big legal smackdown -- to the tune of $20,000 -- in her efforts to use the judicial system to "force the president to produce his birth certificate."It's a long document, but man, it just gets better and better as you read it. Highly recommended.Thanks to my good friend Buffoon for the link.

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-26850036825434522962009-09-30T16:35:00.000-07:002009-09-30T16:39:14.633-07:00

This is Teh Awesome:Oh, and to Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson and the rest of the insurance lobbyist-worshiping Blue Dog whores in Congress: You can all seriously go eat a bowl of dicks. Because you might as well be siding with the Republicans on this debate right now. In fact, you pretty much are. Bastards. Fucking assholes.

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-89494185538048118792009-09-30T08:15:00.001-07:002009-09-30T08:18:27.939-07:00

The Angels clinched the American League West last night by beating the Rangers. A photo from the news wires shows them celebrating by soaking their late teammate Nick Adenhart's jersey with beer and champagne. Adenhart was killed early in the season when his car was hit by a drunk driver.Am I the only one who sees the irony here, or am I making more of this than I should?

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-56627416786781526062009-09-22T09:37:00.001-07:002009-09-22T09:37:29.330-07:00

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

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I just got back last night from my favorite spot in the Eastern Sierra, where I had spent a little over a week out of the reach of telephones and the internetz and civilization in general, and boy, are my neural synapses tired. About the only communication with the outside world that I had while I was busy fishing, hiking and sitting around campfires were Giants baseball games on the radio at

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Amazing. Just fucking amazing. A Limbaugh Party Congressman, Joe Wilson (Asshole-SC, and no relation, I hope!), felt that it was so important to share his views on Obama's speech and Obama as a president that he shouted out, "You lie!" in a quiet moment just after Barack said that his health care bill would not cover illegal immigrants. The particulars of the speech aside -- and just for the

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From today's Salon.com:Mr. President, it's time to fight No one's ever conquered Washington politics by saying "pretty please" to the guys trying to cut your throat By Bill Moyers Sep. 09, 2009 | The editors of the Economist magazine say America's healthcare debate has become a touch delirious, with people accusing each other of being evil-mongers, dealers in death, and un-American.

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Regarding the recent release of CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s report on torture and the CIA, here's Scott Horton in the current issue of Harper's Magazine with seven points that he's drawn from reading it. Reprinted below is point #4; be sure to read them all.4. All trails lead to the Vice President’s office. At several points, redactions begin just when the discussion is headed toward

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You just have to wonder how different America and the world would be today if...

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The Patron Saint of Cocktail Hour is gone, and it's a damn shame, too. I think the best line I've read about his passing was written by my friend Aunti Juli, who said, "Don't RIP, Ted, get health care reform passed!"So long, Teddy, thanks for everything.

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-72908728228799060662009-08-24T18:15:00.000-07:002009-08-24T22:54:48.324-07:00

Apropos of nothing at all, here is a list of 11 songs that you will never, ever find on my iPod or in my CD collection. If I am a guest in your home or you happen to find me driving along with you in your car somewhere, please, please, please, I beg of you, do NOT ever play any one (or more) of these songs in my presence. Seriously. Please. Because I am one opinionated motherfucker who is not

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-91796369758157247092009-08-20T13:23:00.000-07:002009-08-20T13:30:13.297-07:00

Speaking of smackdowns, few people do it better than Jon Stewart. Here are a couple of recent clips from The Daily Show that really put the wood to the Republic asshats trying to derail health care reform. Big thanks to my pal robo for these links.The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cGlenn Beck's Operationwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealthcare

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Once again, the American Right embraces Teh Stoopid. Proudly. Nice smackdown, Barney Frank. You go.

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From the Courage Campaign.

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From The Independent:August 15, 2009The brutal truth about America's health careAn extraordinary report from Guy Adams in Los Angeles at the music arena that has been turned into a makeshift medical centreThey came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and

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Conservative pundit and noted American traitor Robert Novak has died. The man who outed Valerie Plame, and who claimed on CNN that death squads in El Salvador were "a liberal myth," has finally shuffled off this mortal coil. If there were any justice in this world, he would have died in prison after being convicted of treason for the Plame outing. I didn't like the son of a bitch when he was

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-90373414444445957372009-08-18T15:40:00.001-07:002009-08-18T15:41:09.613-07:00

Thanks to my pal Buffoon for this.

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This is fucking awesome.

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Glenn Beck is obviously trying his best to edge out Lou Dobbs (and Bill O'Reilly) as the single dumbest and most offensive motherfucker on the planet.Barack Obama, he says, has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."Good luck with that meme, Glenn. How's it working for you so far?

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-29191283273786718932009-07-28T10:05:00.000-07:002009-07-28T10:26:26.965-07:00

This is exactly why people hate politicians of every stripe. Glenn Greenwald brings some righteous wrath upon the Washington Post editorial writers for suggesting that Attorney General Eric Holder instigate some fake, Potemkin-like inquiries into the Yoo-Bybee memos, then wrist slap few low-level CIA agents to make the whole issue go away.That, in a nutshell, is the twisted Washington mentality

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-33818219148166480352009-07-24T10:03:00.000-07:002009-07-24T10:10:28.968-07:00

Lou Dobbs must be jealous of Glenn Beck's success in portraying himself as the dumbest motherfucker on the planet.And I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Why, oh why, do right-wingers embrace the stupid so willingly and so enthusiastically? It's almost as if they were stupid themselves... oh, wait.Never mind.

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David Sirota over at Truthdig has a good post up today on how the top 1 percent of wealthy Americans have never had it so good, how income inequality has never been more severe in this country and how the rich continue to stick it to the rest of us. According to government figures, 1-percenters’ share of America’s total income is the highest it’s been since 1929, and their tax rates are the

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Here's a good argument for single-payer health care in America, which really is the only sensible and moral way to approach the growing crisis in this country. The fact that there are nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance is criminal and obscene. The fact that every month many poor and middle class (and even some fairly well-to-do) families go bankrupt because of astronomical

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More fun with the dumbest fucking man on the planet. Thanks to my good friend nashtbrutusandshort for posting this first.

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Mike and Dennis, two of my all-time favorite drinking companions, in better times. We'll miss you, Mike. Cheers.

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-42827330579984537512009-06-24T11:15:00.001-07:002009-06-24T11:15:43.956-07:00

Seriously, WTF?!?

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From today's Salon.com:Let's Hold Bush officials accountable for tortureThe ACLU's executive director joins with a military officer to ask for a special prosecutor for torture By Anthony Romero and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld Jun. 17, 2009 | Torture is a crime and the United States engaged in it. Those are two indisputable facts. Given the mountains of evidence already in the public domain

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Pual Krugman in the June 12 New York Times:The Big HateBy PAUL KRUGMAN Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Conservatives were outraged. The chairman of the

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Memorial Day, 2009

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The evidence that the prior administration committed war crimes grows with each passing day, just as the failure of the current administration to pursue the truth and punish those responsible for the crimes becomes more and more egregious. The law is the law is the law. The people who called for and instigated these shameful and heinous -- and unquestionably illegal -- actions need to be

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Two very interesting posts from The Progress Report, sent out by the folks who give you Think Progress:ECONOMY -- REPORT: WALL STREET FIRMS DROVE SUBPRIME CRISIS: The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) released an extensive report yesterday detailing how Wall Street firms fueled the subprime lending that helped create the current economic crisis. CPI reported that "at least 21 of the top 25

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From yesterday's Salon.com:Cheney's painful war for torture President Obama must fight back against the former vice president by launching investigations into the Bush administration's interrogation policies. By Gene Lyons Apr. 30, 2009 | Having stampeded his ill-informed predecessor into a series of catastrophic blunders, it appears that Dick Cheney has declared open bureaucratic war --

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Hey, remember that fireball photo and the story of how I stood on Potrero Hill all day waiting to get the shot? Well, it seems that the staff at San Francisco Magazine saw it on Flickr and liked it a lot. They liked it so much they contacted me about publishing it in their next issue (and paying me for it, woohoo!!). Yesterday I got the brand new May issue, and in a huge spread across pages 26

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I don't know who this guy is, but I agree with him one hundred percent. (Found on Glenn Greenwald's Salon.com site.)

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Thanks to OCTO for this!

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Looks like they're busy cranking up the crazy on the right again...As you all know if you didn't just crawl out from under a rock or fall off the turnip truck, this past Wednesday was a day for a whole host of fucking brain-dead idiots conservative true believers to get out and protest, uh, something. Taxes, I think -- even though, from the looks of the pictures taken at these various tea-related

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If you haven't already seen this over at Sadly, No!, well, here's your chance to see it here instead. Or, if you have, here's your chance to see it again. This is a brilliant mash-up of the ridiculous anti-gay marriage ad that some nutjob organization calling itself the National Organization for Marriage (or NOM -- as in "NOM, NOM, NOM, I eat your balls") is polluting the airwaves with right now

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I thought I was going to hurt myself watching this last night, I was laughing so hard. You go, Limbaugh Party teabaggers!!Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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From Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post:Torture Is a Crime That Must Be PunishedPosted on Apr 10, 2009 By Eugene Robinson It’s no longer possible to mince words, or pretend we didn’t know. The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration’s so-called enhanced interrogation methods, used on “high-value”

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The Red State Update guys discuss an idea with some merit.

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As most of you know, I voted for Obama for president. I'm happy that America has made a change away from the disastrous course that Republicans had set us on for the past eight years (actually more like 30, counting Reagan-Bush, and assuming -- as I do -- that Bill Clinton was decidedly more R than D in his administration of triangulation). He's done a number of things that needed to be done, and

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To all BARBARians and wannabe BARBARians, this is just a reminder that we will be meeting Saturday, April 4th, at Zeitgeist in San Francisco, corner of Valencia and Duboce Streets. Festivities start about 1:00, lasting until all the beer is gone or they kick us out, whichever comes first. Come join the plunder, and remember to look for the helmet!

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I stood on Potrero Hill for nearly six hours today, waiting for this shot. A film crew was in town, shooting a TV pilot for a potential series called Trauma, and word was out that there would be a big explosion on Hwy. 280 sometime this afternoon. The window was supposed to be between 1:00 and 4:00, but it actually happened at just a few minutes before 6:00. Along with another dozen other

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This is a copy of a letter recently written by someone very close to me who lives in Southern California. She sent copies to Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and David Dreier (her local Representative). If this is typical of what most Southern California applicants face when applying for Social Security relief, then the system needs to be completely overhauled. And if this was just an isolated

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The Mighty Joe Conason on yesterday's Salon.com:AIG is chump change -- let's find corporate America's hidden billionsIt's time to reform offshore banking, and see what untaxed wealth big business is hiding in overseas tax shelters.By Joe ConasonMar. 23, 2009 |The popular urge to claw back the bogus bonuses paid by American International Group is irresistible and fully justified, but should the

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From today's NY Times:Financial Policy Despair By PAUL KRUGMAN Over the weekend The Times and other newspapers reported leaked details about the Obama administration’s bank rescue plan, which is to be officially released this week. If the reports are correct, Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, has persuaded President Obama to recycle Bush administration policy — specifically, the “

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Wonder what the former Worstest Preznit EVAR is up to now that he's no longer in charge of running the country into the ground? Here you go.(h/t to my good friend Ken Scott for this image.)

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Brock Keeling over at SFist is rapidly becoming my new BFF. He is without a doubt a fan of my photography (which, as you may or not have noticed, has become my primary focus these days -- no pun intended). At this point, I'm not sure which one of us should be sending the other a paycheck, or springing for drinks at HiDive or The Saloon.Anyway, other people created this ephemeral public art; I

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I heard last night that Barbara Bush was recovering from heart surgery yesterday, and I think I speak for millions of like-minded people out there when I say... Barbara Bush has a heart?!?

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It's been some time since I posted anything here, for a number of valid -- and some perhaps not so valid -- reasons (busy, sick, otherwise occupied, disinterested, etc. etc., take your pick), but I wanted to jump in here tonight before I read this somewhere else and post my thoughts about the way to rebrand and revitalize the Republican party.Why? Because I care. Oh, yes I do. After all, what

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On Truthdig today, Robert Scheer has a good column about the current Republican squalling over the just-signed stimulus bill and how ridiculous it is for them to criticize and obstruct when, for the most part, they and the Bush administration which they whole-heartedly supported are the ones who got us all into this mess in the first place. (The full column is below; to read the comments or reply

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Do you have a problem? Boss hates you, girlfriend wants to break up, truck needs new tires and a carburetor, dog died? You find yourself making less money and doing more work? Getting tortured regularly at Gitmo?Here's your answer, courtesy of the GOP.You're welcome.

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So I was in line at the supermarket this evening when something caught my eye among the tabloids and the soap opera magazines there at the check-out stand. Had I been drinking milk, it probably would have shot out my nose. Good thing I never drink milk. It was half-hidden on one of the small racks generally reserved for Soap Opera Digest or some other lowbrow publication, and the title of it had

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From RJ Matson in the St. Louis Dispatch (h/t to Truthdig).

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Put another candle on my birthday cake, I'm another year old today.

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The folks over at SFist saw some of my Chinese New Year parade pictures from this past Saturday and liked them so much they posted 17 of them on their site.Excuse me while I take a pin to this inflated ego of mine...Here are a few; you can see more in the set on my Flickr site.

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Some clever person has made a mix video using the Christian Bale on-set blow up tape combined with Bill O'Reilly's on-air meltdown from when he was with Inside Edition, and the result is quite amusing:

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Here's a question that I've had for a few weeks now, and I would really like an answer, because honestly, I don't know. I will, however, admit to just a smidgen of schandenfreude in asking, but in all seriousness, if anyone out there can enlighten me, I'd very much appreciate it.Who is the real leader of the Republican Party today? * John McCain * John Boehner * Mitch McConnell * Michael

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So here's something very cool -- at least *I* think it is -- some of my photographs are printed up in large format and are on display (and for sale!) at a copy shop in Boston. Here's the scoop: As many of you already know, I've been participating in a group photoblog, called Pixels at an Exhibition, for the past couple months with my pals Tom Hilton and ahab (Michael Daley). A woman named Donna

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Joan Walsh at Salon.com has it right about the current ridiculous and inconsequential Rush Limbaugh / Obama administration flap in her account of the recent skirmish she had -- and decisively won -- with discredited ignorant sexist blowhard former US Representative Dick Armey. I have to say, I'm suffering serious stomach cramps lately from laughing at the precipitous implosion of the Republican

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I know a whole lot of people are out of work right now, and that's a terrible thing. There's one guy in particular that I know of -- you may have heard of him -- who just lost his position and is looking for something new. Take a look at his resume, maybe somebody out there can make a recommendation for him.

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This is the universe *I* want to live in...

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Over at Categorical Aperitif, my good friend nashtbrutusandshort has a post that deserves to be spread far and wide. Thank whatever deity you pray to (or don't believe in) that a new era has finally come. Feelin' That Way, Too Michael Tomasky, on Obama's apparent willingness to ditch the ridiculous "war on terror" rhetoric that's covered up so much stupidity and so much evil for so

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Thanks to my pal Carmen for this one!

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I'm still pinching myself. I'm still not sure it's really true, though by all appearances it is. George W. Bush is no longer the president... wait a minute, I think I have to say that again, with a little more emphasis:GEORGE W. BUSH IS NO LONGER THE PRESIDENT...and Barack Hussein Obama, the first African-American president in our history, has been sworn into office. Our long national nightmare,

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Seen on the corner just outside my building this morning (and no, I'm not the one who put it there, though I do heartily agree with the sentiment and commend the artist).

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Well, what do you know? The SF Chronicle actually published a letter I wrote. Check it out -- you'll have to scroll down to the penultimate letter on the page (or buy a copy of today's Chron). I was reading the Insight section here at home, and reading through all the letters before mine when I got to the opening line and realized, oh yeah, this is from me!Woohoo.

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More like this, please:Katon Dawson wants to be the new head of the RNC, and in this short video clip, he spells out why. This is exactly the same tired partisanship and mouthing of meaningless talking points that got them where they are today -- in minority, and declining, status. No mention of policies that might help the nation recover from the dreadful position it now finds itself; no talk

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