"Lewis came under fire last year for pouring millions of dollars worth of earmarks into his heavily Republican southern California district. "
Monthly Archives: June 2007
SCOTUS: Pay Discrimination Rulz (part 2)
Classic Mike Luckovich, to go along with my earlier post re Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire (2007). h/t C&L, cross posted from AoF Sphere: Related Content
Alan Ginsberg, Howl and Moloch Live On
June 3, 1926 April 5, 1997 I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, From Howl by...
Voter Caging – The Plot Thickens
Thursday, in retrospect, may well turn out to have been the turning point on the road to impeachment: Tim Griffin, Karl Rove‘s right hand man … well, let Greg Palast write the lead. After all, he broke the story: US Attorney Resigns Following Conyers’ Request for BBC Documents Published June 1st, 2007 in Articles by Greg Palast June 1, 2007 Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC...
At Long Last, Bush Defines Victory in Iraq
At Long Last, Bush Defines Victory in Iraq Victory, Beaver Cleaver, Iraq, baghdad, James Baker, John Deere, Saddam Hussein Ward and June al Cleaver and their two sons, Walli and Beav al Cleaver shown here in their Baghdad home.The photo above is said to depict the President’s vision of “the typical Iraqi family in the “post Saddam era, by that I mean the era that is after Saddam,” the President is reported to have said. The photo was leaked...
Out the box: ‘I Am The President!’
I have long maintained that Bush is stark raving mad. Now Think Progress has a report that says “In Meeting, ‘Wild-Eyed’ Bush Thumped Chest While Repeating ‘I Am The President!’” During a recent meeting, Bush lost control of his sanity(or what there was of it), and even shocked some of his friends from Texas. Think Progress quotes an article from the Dallas Morning News in which Bush is clearly in his maniac mode. But by all reports, President Bush...
New England, The Devil and P.J. O’Rourke
It’s a blue moon, and a Blue Moon of May (I began this before midnight). I’m a Tibetan Buddhist, and the Full Moon of May — or the Wesak Full Moon — is the great festival of the year: A time for contemplation and meditation. Since we actually got TWO of them last month (a blue moon in this sense is two full moons in one calendar month, and NOT a literal blue moon caused by the eruption of,...
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