As you probably have by now heard, someone leaked a massive collection of documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan between 2004-2009 to WikiLeaks, which has become the mother of all whistleblower sites. (The site is loading somewhat slowly at the moment, presumably because everybody and their intelligence service is stopping by for a . . . → Read More: The Afghanistan War Logs
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Or pixels, anyway. Two stories from something called Examiner.com, both to do with illegal aliens. The first, reporting on an incident in Texas: In what could be deemed an act of war against the sovereign borders of the United States, Mexican drug cartels have seized control of at least two American ranches inside the . . . → Read More: Things you just don’t expect to see in print Obama’s strongest rank and file supporters come primarily in two flavors: The denialists, who are similar to George Bush’s most enthusiastic followers in that they’ll refuse to recognize any excess or failure while angrily heaping scorn upon the less faithful; and the ones who behave like abused spouses, who recognize bad behavior but always . . . → Read More: Relative liberals rejoice over cynical political maneuver from Obama Here’s the whiniest, most incoherent intra-sect rant ever, directed by semi-famous right wing blogger Dan Riehl against some guy who works for House minority leader Orange John Boehner. The guy called Riehl a nitwit, essentially, and in his indignant response, Riehl calls the insult “insightful.” One can’t but agree. One of Riehl’s commenters chimed . . . → Read More: A few things we happened across If you’re not familiar with the back story, it’s this: James O’Keefe, a patently dishonest right-wing firebrand, if that’s not redundant, and Hannah Giles, a patently dishonest right-wing surf bunny took a hidden camera into various offices of ACORN, an umbrella operation for community organizing groups, and produced a patently dishonest video purporting to . . . → Read More: ACORN-baiting whore solicits Washington Post’s Ezra Klein The United States, we are often told, is a nation bound by the rule of law. We hear that less and less as it becomes more and more risible but I guess it still officially is, unless you’re the president, or you’re operating an armed drone on behalf of the president, or torturing someone . . . → Read More: In which we learn that the law is now against the law Stuff worth reading: The Columbia Journalism Review’s story on the Russian press and Russian journalists. The story cites the Committee to Protect Journalists ranking of Russia as the third most dangerous country for journalists, behind second-place Algeria and the US-created democratic capitalist paradise of Iraq, and describes the gyrations that reporters and writers for . . . → Read More: They Shoot Journalists, Don’t They? From big-time Village Voice blogger Roy Edroso: Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate. Plus: IOZ is the Helen Reddy of nihilistic triumphalism. I hardly ever watch Chris Matthews on MSNBC but recently I’ve made an effort to inoculate myself against the madness by watching him and some of the other ADD media types who populate the various aethereal passages. Much of today’s episode was focused upon Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance lecture—assessments of which varied wildly across . . . → Read More: Momentarily entertaining stuff I can’t believe anyone believes the CIA when it says that Iran was working toward nuclear weapons for a while but now they’re not. This sounds like they got snookered on the front end and now they’re covering for it. “Oh, shit. They weren’t working on a bomb. What do we do now?” I . . . → Read More: Genocide: crime against humanity or diplomacy by other means? |
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