Randy 'Duke' Cunningham was the Representative you may have seen cryin' his eyes out a couple of days ago on national TV as he pled guity to being a corrupt fuck and resigned his office.

It was a pathetic sight.

He wasn't a good guy. Don't feel sorry for him.

Hello!

I'm back, and I feel a blogging tear coming on. So check back often.

First today we observe via Kevin Drum that Donald Rumsfeld is an asshole.

And while it's often the kookies that talk about subjecting members of this Administration to war crimes charges, read this article in the Post and tell me that you couldn't see Rumsfeld in that bulletproof glass cage in the Hague that I remember seeing Milosevic in a couple of years ago.

I'm away from home until late Tuesday night.

There are many links on the right that you should clicky until then.

Here.

Well, I'll tell what we'll do. Next time there's a really big disaster, we'll put you in charge of it. We'll not give you any sleep, and we'll put you on this side of the camera. And we'll pepper you with questions for a couple hours at a time and see how tired you are.

Someone needs to put this dude on a roof surrounded by water for four days - or outside a convention center for four days with no food or water, wheeling around his 94-year-old granny or toting a screaming baby.

Fucker.

You know that any state that's not blue at this point is just batshit insane.

Caw-kuh-caw-kuh-caw-kuh-cawwww!

Arrested Development cancelled. Good article here.

Fox is a boil on the face of the media that should promptly be excised.

Oldest friend Dr. Mara got picked up by Panda's Thumb, an extremely popular and well-done blog that discusses evolutionary theory. Which makes sense, because Dr. Mara is an evolutionary biologist.

Her semi-mystical discovery, however, was an image of Darwin on the bottom of one of her frying pans:


Dr. Mara's auctioning off the pan with the proceeds to benefit the ACLU.

Go bid on her auction now. It's here.

Yay Dr. Mara!

Finally gettin' in on the Denver 3 thing. Took 'em long enough.

Right-wing thugs. With earpieces.

UPDATE: More on this here.

If you're that one guy who was in that indie band fifteen years ago?

Please don't stagger up to people at parties and say "I'm [name]. I was in this band [name of band]."

It makes me feel sorry for you.

Hear me?

OMG.

ROTFLMAO.

The house will be in order. The house will be in order. The house will be in order. The house will be in order. The house will be in order.

The video is also definitely worth watching.

Nice outfit, huh?

This is a superb illustration of how blogs have usurped even the elite outposts of the mainstream media for accuracy in reporting. The Times:

On Wednesday, Mr. Libby's lawyer, Theodore Wells, pronounced Mr. Woodward's revelation a "bombshell" that contradicted Mr. Fitzgerald's assertion that Mr. Libby was the first government official to discuss Ms. Wilson's C.I.A. connection with a journalist, Judith Miller, a former reporter for The New York Times, on June 23, 2003.

But this isn't true. Fitz didn't assert that:

In fact, Mr. Libby was the first official known to have told a reporter when he talked to Judith Miller in June of 2003 about Valerie Wilson.

Others have pointed this out first. I'm just bringing it to your attention.

It's important. Fitz is a very precise lawyer.

Oil execs lie to Congress. Which is a crime.

Today's a good day for the truth.

Must-read.

I can't tell you how impressed I continue to be with the elite journalists in this country. After finding out that top reporters from The NY Times, The Washington Post and NBC all withheld information from the public about their leaders, I can only wonder what else they may be keeping back because of their cozy relationships, book deals, or political sympathies. This is a crisis in journalism.

Matt Cooper was leaked to by Karl Rove in the summer of 2003 and he fought to keep from revealing his source. But he fulfilled his responsibility as a journalist by writing a story and it was the real story about what was going on. Here's the first paragraph of Cooper's first article on the subject back in 2003:

Has the Bush Administration declared war on a former ambassador who conducted a fact-finding mission to probe possible Iraqi interest in African uranium? Perhaps.

I don't know why all the other reporters who were being leaked this nasty bit of business didn't write articles with that lead, but they should have. As we all know, that was the story then and it's the story now. Instead it's only after the long arm of the law reaches into the newsrooms that we find out dozens of reporters, including some of the most famous and powerful, were involved in this little episode.

Much more there. Read it.

Just when you thought that Fitzmas season was winding down something nutty happens and suddenly more nuts are roasting on an open fire. This time, apparently, they're Bob Woodward's.

No one seems to know what to make of this, other than the fact that Woodward has some very serious ethical problems to address. Like the fact that he appeared on forty million media outlets discussing the Plame case without disclosing his role in it (see Atrios today for this).

Developing...

No guarantee that they'll fill your emergency contraception script, ladies.

This issue is too fundamental to ignore. Some rural-ish areas may not have tons of pharmacy options, first of all. And, more importantly, can you imagine being raped and then going to a large public establishment and, um, they're all, "We can't help you. (Slut.)"

A little firmly applied pressure will do it. Then we can go buy our swiffer mop refills there.

[This needs a repost, fellow bloggish types.]

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What is this, um, "teh" thing about?

Don't get left behind.

So loathsome.

You'll never guess.

Thus, in March, 2003, Bush, in perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history, invaded an Arab nation that had not attacked us, did not want war with us, and did not threaten us—to strip it of weapons we now know it did not have.

Result: Shia and Kurds have been liberated from Saddam, but Iran has a new ally in southern Iraq, Osama has a new base camp in the Sunni Triangle, the Arab and Islamic world have been radicalized against the United States, and copy-cat killers of Al Qaida have been targeting our remaining allies in Europe and the Middle East: Spain, Britain, Egypt and Jordan. And, lest we forget, 2055 Americans are dead and Walter Reed is filling up.

Answer here.

Why is this happening?

Juan Cole brilliantly asks and answers.

Someone impersonating hipster funnyman David Cross to get laid in Manhattan.

See MissMrs. T for the deets.

And then check out Gawker.

Lots of good stuff happened yesterday.

Governor wins in Virginia and New Jersey.

Intelligent design advocates swept out of a Pennsylvania school board.

A more complete roundup of the good and the bad is here.

Hey Arnold?



You're a loser.

Hey, it's votin' day.

In California, vote NO on Props 73-78.

Where do you vote? Check here.

I'm a permanent absentee and get my shits in the mail. Which kinda sucks, because I'm quite fond of the little patriotic rush I get waiting in line and voting and seein' the other voters n stuff.

Salto's on the fone with His Own Mom last nite (Salto's a good boy) and he's all "What a shitty year!" and His Own Mom's all "Word, homes!"

Now Paris is burning. And we're not supposed to go there. Are you kidding me?

Several countries, including Australia, Austria, Britain and Germany, advised their people to exercise caution in France, joining the United States and Russia in warning tourists to stay away from areas of unrest, news agencies reported.

That is surreal.

Fuck '05. I've had enough.

Pretty quiet 'round here.

Back on Monday.