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Monday, September 26th, 2005

TimeSelect: The Turnkey Solution For Suppressing Dissent

Mickey Kaus has been on an absolute tear ever since the pinheads at the Times started their subscription wall. Today, the brilliant Kaus has had a breakthrough:
Why does China have to spend millions on new repressive opinion-blocking technologies and new complicated anti-speech rules when it could just adopt TimesSelect across the board and accomplish the […]

7 Comments » - Posted in NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Why Did Bayh Vote Against Roberts? Think 2008

The Indianapolis Star is none too pleased with Senator Evan Bayh:
Evan Bayh has erased any doubt that he’s running for president in 2008.
Indiana’s junior senator announced Friday that he will vote against Indiana’s John Roberts to be the next chief justice of the United States.
Roberts was sharp and insightful during four days of testimony before […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Evan Bayh, Mike Huckabee, 2008 News, Republican Candidates, Democratic Candidates by Mark

Monday, September 26th, 2005

News Flash: Mother Sheehan Arrested!

No link yet…arrested outside White House…’progressives’ everywhere swoon in horror about brown-shirt tactics of Republican goons…developing!…
UPDATE 1:01 p.m. central: Here’s that link…the whole world is watching, say protestors…beans, says I…
UPDATE 2 1:07 p.m. central: Be strong, people! Courage! Mother Sheehan’s example will see you through! Let us bask in the words of the Great […]

8 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Hillary Candidacy Gains Support

The latest poll from Rasmussen Reports shows that Hillary remains a serious contender for 2008; 31% of those polled said they would definitely vote for Hillary if she ran (balanced, however, against 38% who would definitely vote against), and 42% say she is liberal, a figure that, while high, is the lowest recorded by the […]

24 Comments » - Posted in Hillary Clinton, 2008 Polls, Democratic Candidates by Mark

Monday, September 26th, 2005

The Networks Lied…

…about the number who died. In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, virtually everyone (myself included) was quick to believe every wild story that came down the pike. 8-foot sharks, 20-foot alligators, rape and murder on a massive scale, a body count that started at 10,000…
Well, information was tough to get, no doubt, and it […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina by Mark

Monday, September 26th, 2005

ACL Wrap-Up

I didn’t go, and I probably never will as long as it is in September (hint to the organizers - you live in Austin, you know it doesn’t get cool here until October!), but apparently the ACL Festival was hot, hot, hot - both musically, and temperature-wise (a high of 108(!!!) in some parts of […]

No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Mark

Monday, September 26th, 2005

There are RINOs…

…and then there are RINOs, and trust me, you don’t want to mess with the RINO Rachel has dug up to illustrate the latest installment of RINO sightings. That is one bad mutha…

No Comments » - Posted in RINOs / Chillers by Mark

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Times Executive Editor Bill Keller: My Spidey Sense Was Tingling

Byron Calame, the semi-new Public Editor of the New York Times, is okay in my book. First, as we’ve discussed before, he takes Paul Krugman and Gail Collins to the woodshed for their non-correction corrections; now, he catches an anti-Geraldo bias that goes all the way to the top. Now, God knows, I’m […]

4 Comments » - Posted in NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Must-See TV?

Or the fifth sign of the apocalypse? Markos Moulitsas Zuniga interviews Juan Cole, and it’s captured on video for all eternity! Oh, the humanity…watch out folks, there’s enough brain power in that room to lightly singe bread!…Watch the intro here, it’s absolutely screamingly hilarious!…
UPDATE 09/26/05 10:53 a.m. central: Many thanks to the good Dr. […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Cindy Sheehan’s Retort To Karl Rove

Here’s the Peaceful Mother:
I may be a clown Karl, but you are about to be indicted. You also preside over one of the biggest three ring, malevolent circuses of all time: the Bush administration.
Zing!…oh, wait…hey, that doesn’t make any sense at all: one of the most ‘malevolent’ circuses of all time? Have there […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

What We’re Fighting For…

…yowza. Indeed (be sure and click the picture for all the other goodies)…

No Comments » - Posted in Iraq by Mark

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

More TimeSelect Bashing

Who needs MoDo when you can just bash the Times for their business decisions? Mickey Kaus has the scoop on how even paying subscribers can’t get to the TimesSelect content. Meanwhile, the Times is heavy-handedly going after sites that break the ’subscription only’ taboo, and pretty well alienating everyone in sight. Nice…
UPDATE […]

2 Comments » - Posted in NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

Hello Again

Hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. This is my niece:

…and I’ve been visiting her this weekend at Angelo State University, where she is a freshman in the Nursing Program. Thanks for the hospitality, Audra! Glad to see that Rita was not the killer storm Katrina was, and hope everyone is safe […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Mark

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

Having Fun With The Family

Light posting today as I’m with my family at my niece’s Family Day at Angelo State University in San Angelo. There are a number of anti- and pro-war protests going on today. The Instapundit’s is a good place to start…

2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Mark

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

What Do Kate Moss, Hurricane Rita, and Hunter S. Thompson Have In Common?

Heck if I know, I thought maybe you did…
I don’t know what Paul Wolfowitz has to do with any of this either, but I do know there’s a good interview with him in the Wall Street Journal this morning that’s well worth your time…
I also know that I sure like the editorial page of the […]

1 Comment » - Posted in SCOTUS, Foreign Affairs, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

How Bad Will It Be? We’ll Know Soon Enough

Port Arthur looks to be the town that will bear the brunt of Rita, but Galveston is likely to suffer heavily, as well…it will make landfall soon enough. My prayer is that it will be milder than is currently thought, and that it will dissipate more quickly. Good luck and God bless any […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs by Mark

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Feinstein on Roberts: Not Touchy-Feely Enough

Betsy Newmark notes Diane Feinstein’s reasons for voting against the nomination of John Roberts:
I asked him about the end-of-life decisions: clearly, decisions that are gut- wrenching, difficult and extremely personal.
Rather than talking to me as a son, a husband, a father — which I specifically requested he do — he gave a very detached response. […]

2 Comments » - Posted in SCOTUS by Mark

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Jimmy Carter: Al Gore Beat George W. Bush in 2000

Wow, just imagine becoming the President of the United States and not understanding things like Supreme Court decisions and the Electoral College. I’ve written before that I have a deep-seated respect for the institution of the Presidency, but lord, Jimmy Carter tries my patience. Here’s the latest, care of Academic Elephant…

3 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

An Amazing Innovation

Did you know…there’s this thing called the ‘Internet’?
Did you know it’s paperless, and can appear in a ‘browser’?
Did you know that many people can, in fact, get ‘news’ and information of all sorts on it?
If you’re one of the early adopters aware of such marvels, thank Margo Kingston!…

No Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

So, How’s That Subscription Wall Working For You?

I’ve made no bones of my desire to see the New York Times‘ new subscription wall fail; not because I can’t live without my MoDo and Frank Rich to make fun of, but because I view a failure as more likely to lead to shakeups that might result in some way (I know, it’s a […]