skippy the bush kangaroo: the things you learn in blogtopia (y!sctp!)

Monday, April 23, 2007

the things you learn in blogtopia (y!sctp!)

firedoglake offers us the comments of cintra wilson about the virginia tech shootings. we are by now weary of pop efforts to infer cultural meaning from one man's psychosis, but the post offers us two tasty items: 1) sadly no's comment: shorter everybody on the internet: the senseless massacre at virginia tech basically confirms everything I’ve been saying all along. 2) the term malignant narcissist, which explains ann coulter and, in glorious serendipity, as booman tribune reports, camile paglia's latest posturing. malignant narcissist, remember the term folks - it explains so much. for example, imagining using it in conversation, malignant narcissist, [malkin, limbaugh, o'reilly...etc] asserted today...

juan cole informs us that alot of people died in iraq yesterday - file this under different day, same exrement in aWol's glorious war.

via rick perlstein, we learn that the fda has known for ages about the contaminents in our food supply that led to the great peanutbutter and glorious spinach poisoning events this year. pudentilla advises everyone to garden more and buy less; or at least buy shares from your local organic farmers this season.

tpmmuckraker has a good roundup on the efforts of abu gonzales to use the justice (oh the irony) department to supress voter turn out of citizens.

bonddad, at the agonist, explains to you why globalization and "free" trade means your kids and grandkids will enjoy living standards closer to those of the third world than those you enjoy now.
everyone's talking about paul krugman's latest. Here's a taste: "You can pretend that it’s a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation, in which a beleaguered President Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders — the troops — if his demands aren’t met. [....]Anyway, never mind the political calculations. Confronting Mr. Bush on Iraq has become a patriotic duty."

steve clemons wants to know if paul wolfowitz's girlfriend is spy, and, given the sweetheart contract wolfowitz arranged for her, whether we could even find out if she were.

revere explains why we should be praying for the poultry - if an avian flu pandemic hits our health care system, nobody has a prayer.

cliff schecter invites us to consider the pampered luxury of republican candidates for a change - or, if you liked l'affair du haircut, you're gonna love rudy's hotel bills.

mr. lemieux observes that while republicans are fervant in their support for the sanctity of a fetus' life - if that fetus is born poor in mississipi, they really don't give a shit if it lives or dies. here's a thought experiment. suppose you believe "in the sanctity of life." can you also imagine that republican leadership says it does in order to mask it's real concern (control of female sexual and economic autonomy)?

jeralyn reluctant concedes that spitzer may have done something right when promised a marriage equality bill. hillary's probably peeved. hey, is it just us, or does this run of marriage equality bills in the northeast remand you the pre-roe legislative pattern on abortion?

thinkprogress gives us incontrovertible evidence that harry reid is right about the "war is lost" comment. david broder criticized him for it. talk about projection, dean broder, talk about projection.

thinkprogress also offers us further annals in the soft bigotry of low expectations: aWol's backing abu g because he answered "as honestly as he could."

and a finally word to the wise from pudentilla, if you have an addictive personality, you should probably not use goodle reader. we can quit whenever we want. honestly.

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