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Roger Ailes linked Fox's fortunes to the Bush Administration. How's that working out for you?
By: Odruid | Updated: 1/31/2008 by Odruid | (1)
As Glenn Greenwald puts it in Salon, the American right is chock full of reasonable bi-partisans who believe that everybody's out to get them.
It turns out that Holocene Epoch, which saw the rise of humanity, ended about 150 years ago. We're now in a new geological epoch, according to researchers.
Had he taken him on directly in last night's Reagan Library debate, Mitt Romney could have chipped away at John McCain's reputation for straight talk, says John Dickerson in Slate.
By: odruid | Updated: 1/31/2008 by odruid | (1)
Satanist Anton LaVey's San Francisco house is going condo.
Last year alone, 2100 active duty service men and women attempted suicide, the highest number since the military began keeping records in 1980.
It was long a solid base of Republicanism, but environmental concerns, and an influx of new voters is slowly lending the purple to the mountains' majesty.
By: odruid | Updated: 1/31/2008 by odruid | (0)
He hasn't spent a single dime on TV ads in any of the contested states.
Think your last flight was rough? Imagine what it must have been like for the passengers aboard a Heathrow bound plane who's captain was dragged screaming from the cockpit after an apparent breakdown.
This time, it's not gonna be the price of crude that's sending fuel prices through the stratosphere, it'll the price of alkylate. (Huh?)
Betcha didn't know they were covered by a union. Betcha didn't know they were covered by anything.
By: odruid | Updated: 1/31/2008 by allenn | (1)
After all, what good is democracy if doesn't come with a stick of stale gum?
No, it's not a euphemism for something, it's a real chocolate hotel room being offered as a Valentine's Day promotion by Godiva.
He'll be providing the play by play on Super Tuesday.
By: Odruid | Updated: 2/1/2008 by Odruid | (1)
The GOP's wild eyed rhetoric about Muslim's of all stripes may come back to haunt the party, says Juan Cole.
By: Odruid | Updated: 2/1/2008 by Odruid | (0)
With her easy, letter to an old friend style and her canny and arcane understanding of what makes political pros tick, Peggy Noonan may be the finest pundit penning, says NJ's Bill Powers.
A grand jury has subpoenaed James Risen, apparently hoping he will spill the names of some of his confidential CIA sources.
With a congregation that is almost exclusively made up of undocumented immigrants from Latin America and Caribbean, Fr. Kelly, an immigrant himself, is fighting on their behalf.
The cost of splitting water has always been the stumbling block to effective hydrogen fuel production, but this company may have found an answer in an abundant resource.
In this essay, Walter Berns suggests that a nation's willingness to execute prisoners is directly related to it's religiosity.
The benchmark will always be the NY Post's "Headless Body in Topless Bar" but this list of CNN's slug happy shortcomings is well worth a read.
Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live comic and one time Air America Host is leading the Democrats in their vid to unseat Minnesota's Republican Senator Norm Coleman.
One on four Britons believe that Winston Churchill was a fictional character, while nearly 60 percent believe that Sherlock Holmes was real.
By: odruid | Updated: 2/4/2008 by odruid | (1)
When Ronald Reagan first one in 1980, he did it, in part by luring disgruntled Democrats to his side. Three decades later, Obama seems to be doing the same thing among some Republicans.
By: odruid | Updated: 2/4/2008 by odruid | (3)
At least one TV critic worries that Olbermann may be spawning a new generation of snide, self righteous young talkers who will try to outdo him, and alter the face of TV news in the process.
By: ODruid | Updated: 6/9/2008 by ODruid | (1)
Not only is the nation willing to suspect its one-child policy for those who lost offspring in the deadly quake, it's willing to pay to untie tubes and reverse vasectomies to make it happen.
They contend that a poster -- not affiliated with the campaign -- who posted an anti Semitic comment on the Obama web site represents the true soul of the left.
I guess when you've spent years enduring torture in a North Vietnamese prison camp, as John McCain did, you can afford to admit that you like ABBA.
The sudden spike in gold and commodities prices may have an explanation beyond supply and demand. Gold bugs may smell war in the Middle East, specifically, an attack on Iran.
Four students and a fellow safety officer who's boat capsized during a regatta in the Gulf of Mexico are alive today thanks to 53-year-old Roger Stone. Stone's body was pulled from the choppy waters of the Gulf on Sunday.
Okay, so it's really only as big as a hampster, but would you want one of these crawling out of your fruit salad?
By: ODruid | Updated: 6/4/2008 by ODruid | (1)
With a new tax of $1.25 a pack it now costs $9 to light up in New York.
If the new Newlywed show is a half hour, that'd be fifteen minutes longer than half the marriages in this country.
Ed Mahon, Johnny Carson's avuncular sidekick and the face of the Star Search is facing foreclosure on his $4.8 million Beverly Hills home.
By: ODruid | Updated: 6/8/2008 by (Guest) | (2)
It's that last stage -- acceptance -- that Clinton seems to be having a hard time grasping, says Maureen Dowd.
By: ODruid | Updated: 6/4/2008 by ODruid | (0)
Five key staffers have split the mag in recent weeks, but then there's the original Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox, who has bagged her mainstream gig with Time to be a contributing editor for Radar.
Jim DeRogatis, the music critic for the Sun Times who had the R Kelly tape tossed over his transom and handed it over to authorities, will be forced to testify failing a last minute reprieve.
By: ODruid | Updated: 6/4/2008 by seamusm | (2)
Clean coal technology, touted by the president and pushed by coal state lawmakers as an alternative to foreign oil, is in limbo in the United States, thanks to mismanagement and cost overruns.
By: ODruid | Updated: 5/30/2008 by ODruid | (0)
Democrats in Minnesota are getting their panties in a knot over a comic piece the comic penned for Playboy nearly a decade ago.
By: ODruid | Updated: 5/30/2008 by ODruid | (1)
The Commodities Future Trading Commission has begun a an investigation into concerns that energy speculators are behind the rising oil price.
The Wizard of Oz feints left, lavishes praise on Obama, but says he can't imagine trying to lure Olbermann back to Fox. "I fired him five years ago...he's crazy."
The book, which excoriates the Bush administration for its propagandistic distortions and its mishandling of the war and domestic policy, may have little real impact on the current political campaign, Chris Cillizza writes.
By: ODruid | Updated: 5/29/2008 by ODruid | (1)
Not surprisingly, the United States is not among them. Nor is Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan -- all of them major producers or users of the weapons.
By: ODruid | Updated: 5/29/2008 by seamusm | (3)
This, in a nutshell, is why I hate Facebook. Anybody I wanted to poke in high school is, in my humble estimation, no longer worth poking. And neither am I.
By: ODruid | Updated: 5/29/2008 by ODruid | (0)
The Florida governor and rumored McCain running mate is not gay. And a purported sex tape that purportedly shows him cavorting with a purported woman purportedly prove it.
A five year old with a form of autism was voted out of his kindergarten class after the teacher allowed each of his classmates to explain what they didn't like about him.
By: ODruid | Updated: 5/29/2008 by kengrubb | (2)
Did CNN-WashPo media pudnit Howie Kurtz cross the ethical line when he interviewed Kimberly Dozier, for whom his wife is doing PR work?
Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on a new breed of robotic rovers that can collect data from the froze wastelands of Antarctica.
The the Senator, who still denies being an Idahomosexual, is set to pen a book that, while nominally focused on 'energy' will also include a fair amount about his foot tapping experience in an airport men's room.