at one point that my computer woes were more than likely caused by a bad memory module, but I forgot.
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I didn’t pay much attention to the news while my brain was in the shop and I’m not ready to start paying again. I couldn’t help but notice, though, that the same people who accused the CIA of being a fifth column for Saddam because the agency was insufficiently negative in its analyses of the [...]

So, this kid was looking around for some speed and storage space for his music and videos, and he found a server that seemed to have plenty of spare bandwidth and hacked into it. He told a few friends, and they told a few friends, and they told a few friends and before too long [...]

The cost of the much-ballyhooed prescription drug benefit has, according to the administration’s Office of Management and Budget, ballooned by a third to more than $530 billion from the original $400 billion estimate when the legislation was enacted in December. The significance of this is, according to the National Journal’s Stan Collender, that OMB was [...]

The cost of the much-ballyhooed prescription drug benefit has, according to the administration’s Office of Management and Budget, ballooned by a third to more than $530 billion from the original $400 billion estimate when the legislation was enacted in December. The significance of this is, according to the National Journal’s Stan Collender, that OMB was [...]

The Kennedy retread man-on-the-moon program trumpeted by Bush not only didn’t make it into the State of the Union address, it hasn’t, so far as I can tell, been mentioned by the White House at all during the past few weeks. I’ll lay odds that if it goes forward, the budget will include a moon-based [...]

Al Sharpton has a Republican hit man running and funding his campaign. Nice to see the GOP reaching out.

Single-celled organisms still dominate but a few have mutated into one or another Frank Baum character.
In the wake of the latest revelations from weapons inspector David Kay, many of the largest U.S. newspapers are belatedly pressing the Bush administration for an explanation of how it could have gotten the question of weapons of mass destruction [...]

It’s because the department of Homeland Security has agreed to institute benchmarks for some of its vendors. The good news is that the department will require contractors working on anti-missile systems for commercial aircraft to meet specific performance targets during each phase of the program. The bad news is that the department will hire the [...]

Whether “it” is who burned CIA operative Valerie Plame or who’s responsible for the nonsensical “intelligence” driving our aliterate president. Here’s long-time Knight-Ridder political guy and professional cynic Joe Galloway on pre-war intelligence and the search for a scapedonkey.
“Now everyone is saying George Tenet put too much reliance on humint and we need to go [...]

Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney’s office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer’s identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.
According to these sources, John Hannah and [...]

MUNICH, Feb 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed as trivial on Thursday differences between the Bush administration and its former chief weapons hunter in Iraq over whether biological or chemical arms existed there.
“The question is: Is the glass half full or the glass half empty,” Rumsfeld said.
Former arms inspector David Kay, who [...]

Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Tony Scalia went duck hunting together three weeks after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case challenging Cheney’s right to keep secret the proceedings of his energy policy committee. Nothing to see here, move along …

A few weeks ago I enjoyed a brief correspondence with New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent. I had written him about one of David Brooks’ more egregious columns, one in which I thought Brooks had demonstrably lied, and asked Okrent what the journalistic standards for Times columnists are. The answer: they can’t swear and [...]

While the EPA is busy ensuring that the ricin sent to Senate majority leader Bill Frist hasn’t contaminated the building, the Bush administration is busy eliminating the EPA’s budget for researching building decontamination techniques and technologies. Maybe Senator Bill could drop his buddies across the way a little note.
Buried in documents justifying the Environmental Protection [...]

Dick Cheney’s former employer, Halliburton, is now under investigation in the US, France and Nigeria regarding bribes paid to Nigerian ministers to secure a natural gas facility construction contract.
The alleged bribe is said to have been paid in the late 1990s when Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root was part of an international consortium building [...]

Jacob Weisberg at Slate has found the Holy Grail of Bushisms.
“I was a prisoner too, but for bad reasons.”—To Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, on being told that all but one of the Argentine delegates to a summit meeting were imprisoned during the military dictatorship, Monterrey, Mexico, Jan. 13, 2004
Every word is a gem. Bush should [...]

Or at least points out that the bag is empty. The former Viceroy of Iraq says the US will, and should, have a military presence in Iraq for decades.
“I think one of the most important things we can do right now is start getting basing rights” in both northern and southern Iraq, Garner said, adding [...]

As someone suggested to me yesterday, the theme song for the Republican convention could well be The Clash’s “Rudy Can’t Fail.”
Halliburton, the big contracting company that Dick Cheney used to run, is now warning investors that its Cheney connection is what Wall Street calls a “risk factor.” No, the company’s not talking about the multibillion-dollar [...]

In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in decades, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war activists.
In addition to the subpoena of Drake University, subpoenas were served this past week on four of the activists who attended a Nov. 15 forum at [...]

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the combined investigative might of the Fourth Estate, which didn’t manage to generate as much additional info on Bush’s National Guard Record in four years as this guy did in a couple of weeks. The end is nigh, assuming any investigative reporters can successfully investigate the whereabouts of their phones and a phone book. [...]

“What we don’t know yet is what we thought and what the Iraqi Survey Group has found, and we want to look at that.” 
— George W. Bush on February 2, responding to a question about the commission investigating pre-war intelligence.

The Bush administration is intent upon breaking civil service unions by eliminating civil service protections for some jobs and outsourcing other jobs to private contractors. I’m thinking a lead candidate for the competitive bidding process should be our intelligence operations. We’re clearly not getting a bargain even when the executive branch doesn’t decide to hijack [...]

Top: The 250 mph electric car. Bottom: Classic Citroen.

The Tampa Tribune adds some detail to the Village Voice’s investigation of the relationship between Al Sharpton’s campaign and long-time Republican dirty-trickster Roger Stone. The Voice discovered that Sharpton’s campaign is largely funded and run by Stone and a coterie of Republican strategists, and the Tribune identifies some additional Sharpton-Gop ties as well as [...]

… is to run the country following WW III. Form letters from Ike to the post-nuclear keepers of the light.

Tearfund, a British evangelical relief agency, has announced that it is suspending operations in and around Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, “due to increasing insecurity in the region.”
Aid workers are increasingly being targeted. In the last nine months, 13 aid workers have been killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan. Tearfund is calling on all parties in [...]

of questions Tim Russert should have asked George Bush, if that’s his real name, during the president’s Meet the Press interview. Greg Mitchell, the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine, is among everybody, and here’s the best of his lot.
When Bush said flatly that he was “not surprised” by the level of resistance the U.S. [...]

The Russians understand why the US is permitting the opium trade to flourish in Afghanistan, but they’re still annoyed about it.
Nato is turning a blind eye to the flourishing opium trade in Afghanistan to ensure the support of warlords in the struggle to maintain security in the country, Russia’s defence minister has claimed.
Sergei Ivanov [...]