A most important clip.

Bill Moyers Journal, VICTOR GOLD

The impact of the sound bite mentality which you find in both parties…is there’s been a debasing of the system. Because if you listen to these — I call them the Stepford candidates — on both sides in these debates the only two candidates that speak clearly are the ones they [...]

Bloomberg’s Banana Republic

It’s my Island!

Bloomberg’s Day
posted June 27, 2007
(July 16, 2007 issue)
Micah L. Sifry
Merely by toying with a run, Bloomberg–who registered between 10 and 15 percent in the polls after he announced his change of party–can force the major candidates to pay attention to issues dear to his heart. Fortunately, many of them are sensible, like gun [...]

What’s wrong with the milkshake song?

Tip O’ the hat to MyDD

A quick meme for brunch.

Some crazy 8 business. I’m getting all logged on and set up for some on-line courses today, thought I’d toss off a post when along comes AG with the perfect situation.
Here we go, eight random facts:

I’m pretty damn good at chess, but Chinese checkers is more fun.
I can play lead, rhythm, and Bass, but get [...]

Thank you, Gramma.

GROWING UP JEWISH IN THE 15TH WARD:
RECOLLECTIONS FROM THE 1920′S THROUGH THE 1950′S

From the mid 1800s through the mid to late 1950s the original Jewish neighborhood in Syracuse was located in the 15th Ward. Starting around the turn of the last century, the Jewish portion of the Ward was confined largely to 60 [...]

Has the damn burst?

Will reality come flooding in?
Voinovich joins in call to pull troops from Iraq
Other GOP members expected to speak out on war after 4th of July
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:59 p.m. ET June 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - Sen. George Voinovich said Tuesday the U.S. should begin pulling troops out of Iraq, joining Richard Lugar as the second Republican [...]

Watch as I live blog stabbing my own eyes out.

Jubilant Paris Hilton out of jail
POSTED: 6:21 a.m. EDT, June 26, 2007
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Hotel heiress Paris Hilton walked out of a Los Angeles-area jail early Tuesday with a big smile on her face after serving 23 days for violating her probation on a reckless driving conviction.
With the paparazzi swarming around her, Hilton [...]

Talking to a wall.

Whence in the company of my good friend Bacchus in the wilde of Alabama he bestowed a book unto me, Keystones of Democracy. Novel ideas these French folk have:
The Tribunate
WHEN an exact proportion cannot be established between the constituent parts of the State, or when causes that cannot be removed continually alter the relation of [...]

Lets do the math.

17 June:
Duncan links to a post from Instaputz on Mother Jones’s interview with Glenn Reynolds.
20 June: In Mother Jones
Meet the New Bosses
News: After crashing the gate of the political establishment, bloggers are looking more like the next gatekeepers.
By Daniel Schulman
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-In the words of the White Stripes, you can’t [...]

For Shame

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A nod and a wink to el Comandante.