Archive for July, 2007
Pollack and O’Hanlon
What Glenn says. In spades, freakin’ spades:
It is difficult to remember a media spectacle to match yesterday’s grand pageant where Ken Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon were paraded across virtually every network and cable news show and radio program and heralded as “war opponents” and “Bush critics” who nonetheless returned from Iraq and were forced [...]
As If No One Saw THAT Coming…
Susie’s got this goofy “What Tarot Card Are You?” quic going on at her site. (For what it’s worth, I was a woman a few moments ago, and now I’m the Devil. Oh wait, now I’m the Sun. I knew that astrology stuff was wack!)
Anyway, poking around I found the Sesame Street quiz. [...]
Bees
I’ve written before about the impact of massive honeybee collapse in the US. Honeybees have never had an easy time here: they’re European imports and the climate isn’t favorable to them. The bees are largely farmed, and are vulnerable to disease, blight, and other troubles. The latest die off is more troubling, [...]
Read More..>>Sunday Photos
I have a large batch of photos taken during Sam’s last visit that I finally have a chance to post, including a few updates from the chaotic vegetable garden in my backyard and the long-delayed “Sam Goes fishing” series. There may be a couple of repeats in here, so bear with me. As always, [...]
Read More..>>Why is the Washington Post Interested in a 60-Year Old Woman’s Breasts?
For the second time in a month, the Washington Post is focusing on Hillary Clinton’s breasts. I have no idea why.
There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
She was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. She was wearing a rose-colored blazer [...]
Bullet Points
It’s been mighty slow here at brendancalling lately, save for a few choice shots at Arlen Specter and a tour of my totally random sense of humor.
Part of it’s the heat and the summer doldrums, part of it’s the natural cycle of creativity, part of it… well, whatever.
Over at Philly Bits, Ray has [...]
FOX: Crabby Old Men Who Wear Diapers
FOX tells lies about left wing bloggers. I’m tired of it. Especially given their [puckered] star[fish] Bill O’Reilly sponsoring (and by his own standards endorsing) the worst kind of anti American, violent, terrorist, mysoginist, racist comments at his site. A loudmouth blowhard with an agenda who has less viewers than the people he [...]
Read More..>>Specter Wants a Mulligan (and Someone Doesn’t Know His Constitution)
Via Susie we learn that Arlen Specter wants a mulligan!
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) plans to review the Senate testimony of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito to determine if their reversal of several long-standing opinions conflicts with promises they made to senators to win confirmation.
Specter, who championed their confirmation, [...]
A Good Question
Over at Firedoglake they’re live-blogging the House Judiciary Committee’s hearings on whether to issue a contempt of Congress citation to Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten for refusing to comply with Congressional subpoenas. A commenter asked the following question:
I’ve been thinking a lot about this. CSPAN is doing its part. PBS is not doing its [...]
For No One
No one, except for perhaps the most fiendish, deserves this.
I live in a truly rotten city.
I don’t even KNOW what I think about the newspaper showing the dead boy in his casket. It’s tasteless, and may be over the line. On the other hand, the people of this city (never mind the [...]
