Month: October 2008

So Called Liberal Media2 Comments

The Internet Needs To Get Off Journalism’s Neck

People shot in Chicago not related to Jennifer Hudson merit a couple of inches in the “Chicago Crime” section: A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot while apparently taking out the garbage Tuesday morning at his Back of the Yards home. Alejandro Avitia was shot in the chest just after 11 a.m. in the 4800 block of South Bishop, a stretch that neighbors say has been plagued by gang violence. He died at the scene, according to police and Fire Department reports. ViaBeachwood. I’m sorry, Jennifer Hudson seems like a nice girl and it’s a terrible thing that happened to her … Continue reading The Internet Needs To Get Off Journalism’s Neck

Political Crack1 Comment

Make of yourself a light

Photo: Obama Pics Daily By oneself alone is evil done;By oneself alone is one defiled, By oneself alone is evil avoided;By oneself alone is one purified.Purity and impurity depends upon himself.No one can purify another. Buddha, theDhammapada It’s not about Obama being a spiritual leader or a guru or a savior or a messiah. He’s not, and further, it’s dangerous to even hint at that. The folks who do, supporter and deriders alike, aren’t getting it: a mere politician can do, should do, what he’s done. It’s not even about Obama changing “our politics.” It’s about the part where we … Continue reading Make of yourself a light

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Endorsements That Matter

Time Cube Guy endorses McCain. I’m personally holding off on voting to see if theWeasel Ball guys offer me any guidance: All your life you have wanted to order something from a website called WeaselBalls.com. That day has arrived. If you order more than one, you can tell everybody you know that you “bought some weasel balls off of the internet.” The story alone is worth the purchase price several times over. If you so desire, we will write, at no cost to you “CAUTION: WEASEL BALLS INSIDE” on the outside of the box. We are completely 100% serious. Your … Continue reading Endorsements That Matter

Jude, Political Crack7 Comments

Sweet SweetBarack’s Baadasssss Song

And the congregation says “amen.” One week to go, folks. I went down to the County Clerk’s office last week to vote–the wait was almost an hour. But nobody left. This week, I’ve heard that hour-and-a-half wait times are common.  All the polls show bad, bad news for McCain. Palin’s playing smashy-smashy with his campaign. With luck, we’ll have enough Democratic Senators so that we canfinally tell Joe Lieberman to go fuck himself. And we just might get 270 House seats. Wonderful, wonderful news. Just think. In just over one week, we’ll be celebrating our new, distinguished, intelligent, commieMuslimmarxistuppityNegroAmericahatingredistributionist overlord. … Continue reading Sweet SweetBarack’s Baadasssss Song

Political Crack8 Comments

Column: VOTE!

Bitches! Look, I’m a realistic person. I know not everyone lives with the CNN news crawl jacked into the back of their brains like something out of the Matrix, which is how it’s starting to feel to me at this point in the election. I realize we all have jobs and lives and families and right now most of us are in the midst of trying to gather cardboard to build a shantytown for the coming Not So Great Actually Depression. Things move fast these days and so I’m not talking about you not knowing the finer points of Obama’s … Continue reading Column: VOTE!

Stupid Republican Tricks10 Comments

State of the Race

Arguing with Republicans is starting to feel like this: Only without the joke. It’s the certainty, the absolute certainty about things that are completely wrong. Obama’s gonna raise my taxes. Well, no he’s not, and here’s why he’s not, and here’s in fact how much money you’d save in taxes if you make amount X. But … Obama’s gonna raise my taxes. I know you say and he says that he won’t but it’s a campaign, they all lie, he’ll get into office and he’ll raise my taxes. I just … OMFG NO, okay? I am not good at talking … Continue reading State of the Race

Stupid Republican Tricks13 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freepi – It’s getting embarrassing over there

Good morning, everyone! I like to think think of this weekly feature as a public service to all First Draft readers – no matter how crappy a job you have (If indeed you still have one), or how awful your Monday is, it couldn’t possibly be as bad as being a GOP kool-aid drinker in this fall of 2008.Suit up and follow me inside – there’s rocks to kick over andschadenfreude by the metric ton to bag up! You know, if these assholes hadn’t driven our country into the ditch, I might feel sorry for them.But they did, so I … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freepi – It’s getting embarrassing over there

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Quitting Time Booster Shot

–It’s over? I just GOT HERE! Man, that was fast. We went from a 1,000 years to hear about the death of newspapers, 60 years to hear about the death of broadcast to FOUR YEARS for the death of the blog? My BUNNY has a longer life expectancy than that, and we don’t give her the high-end feed… Maybe this will help explain exactly why I tend to laugh off people who spend their time on their (and other people’s) blogs telling me, “Newspapers are dead, man. So dead. They’re like a rotting corpse, man.”) Hey, ADD boy, at least … Continue reading Quitting Time Booster Shot

War in Iraq5 Comments

West Point grads leaving service at highest rate in over 3 decades

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From Boston Globe: WASHINGTON — Recent graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point are choosing to leave active duty at the highest rate in more than three decades, a sign to many military specialists that repeated tours in Iraq are prematurely driving out some of the Army’s top young officers. According to statistics compiled by West Point, of the 903 Army officers commissioned upon graduation in 2001, nearly 46 percent left the service last year — 35 percent at the conclusion of their five years of required service, and another 11 percent over the next six months. And … Continue reading West Point grads leaving service at highest rate in over 3 decades

Political Crack11 Comments

Things Happening Right Now

Bigot.Done. Bigot.Done. Bigot.Done. Moron.Done. Failure.Done. Crook.Done. Apathy.Done. Cynicism.Done. Infighting.Done. Fear.Done. Karl Rove.Done. Douglas Feith.Done. George W. FUCKING Bush.Done. Over. Finished. No more. Repudiated. Disgraced. Denied. Shoved away like the smelly cheese on the plate at a party. Chucked out the back door. GONE. Whatever happens in the next 12 days (holy God, 12 days), you cannot DO THIS ANYMORE. We’ve said so. It’s been made clear. You do not get to stand up and screamtraditional marriage, anti-American, terrorist, not without every voice around you rising up to shout as loud or louder. We’re done hiding when you pull that shit … Continue reading Things Happening Right Now

So Called Liberal Media4 Comments

The Internet’s Slaughter of Journalism Continues

Media ask: Why no media coverage? The story of Jon Burge is as much a story of media failure as anything else. As noted in the Sun-Times’s editorial this morning, “As early as 1982, public officials got wind of rumors of Burge’s torture tricks in the basement of a South Side police station.” And as Mark Brown writes in his column this morning, “From the time the accusations were raised in 1983 by attorneys for cop killer Andrew Wilson until fairly recently, the collective attitude in this city was of disbelief, of not wanting to believe such a thing possible … Continue reading The Internet’s Slaughter of Journalism Continues

Diary5 Comments

Friday Ferretblogging

Puck’s recovery is nearly complete; he’s getting monthly shots for the adrenal disease and is done getting mashed-up food fed to him like the little spoiled brat he is. Which is a good thing, not just for him, but for his brother: Riot finishes off whatever the lean-and-mean Puck doesn’t feel like eating, and so has gone on the Winter Pudge Warning Chart from Mild to Footstool. He’s not taking kindly to me calling himMeatwad and making not-so-veiled references to Jenny Craig. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging

Jude, Political Crack4 Comments

Fourth And 26

I know we’re all tempted to break out the champagne glasses when we see things likethis, this, andthis, but remember: Fourth and 26. I can hear you thinking “What the hell is he talking about?” Well, allow me, as a Wisconsin resident, to direct your attention to the 2004 NFL playoffs, in which the Green Bay Packers went to Philadelphia to challenge the Eagles. Late in the fourth quarter, the Eagles faced fourth down and 26 yards to go with no timeouts. There really aren’t any plays in the book for 4th and 26. Converting that down and getting a … Continue reading Fourth And 26

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What Would Jackie Say?

It’s been 36 years to the day since he left us, a victim of diabetes and heart disease. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was only 53 when he died, or just six years older than Barack Obama. The pair has been linked in a number of ways, thanks in no small part to Bill Maher’s stating of the obvious. That explanation seems to simple and too basic for anyone who knows anything about Robinson. He was not a simple man, a cliché or a cookie-cutter icon. He was aRepublican who supported Richard Nixon against John F. Kennedy, a decision he said he … Continue reading What Would Jackie Say?

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Ferrell!

Will Ferrell is back as Bush to endorse McCain and Palin…Good stuff http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/490173ea42911982/490134029d191ad3/cf081f50/-cpid/5c604c87f30ed125/clipID/783981/video_title/Saturday+Night+Live+-+Update+Thursday%3a+Bush+Endorsement/video_imgurl/http%3a%2f%2fvideo.nbc.com%2fplayer%2fmezzanine%2fimage.php%3fw%3d350%26h%3d196%26path%3dnbc2%2f2cde5682032c0421001c2da21944138d_mezzn.jpg%26hash%3d1467ecb80b049c2baf8282c961bc2714/video_url/http%3a%2f%2fdev.nbc.com%2fSaturday_Night_Live%2fvideo%2fclips%2fupdate-thursday-bush-endorsement%2f783981%2f/video_description/Pres.+Bush+endorses+McCain+and+Palin?storeInPid=true Continue reading Ferrell!

Immoral Values, Jude, Stupid Republican Tricks5 Comments

The Scorpion And The Frog

Not nearly so congenial as this. Attention, Republican donors: You have been fleeced. It seems that the Republican National Committee took 150,000 of your dollars and blew them on clothing for Sarah Palin. That’s right. In one month, they spent four-and-a-half years worth ofmedian individual incomes (for adults over age 25). That’s four-and-a-halfyears. If you’re a small-time donor, someone who just earns near the median (or less) national income–let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you’re a plumber named Joe–yet you felt strongly motivated by whatever reason to send twenty, thirty, or a hundred of your hard-earned bucks to … Continue reading The Scorpion And The Frog

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Triumph of the Willy Nilly

It’s nice to see aconcise, easy-to-understand explanation of just how, well, plain wrong Governor Palin is on a particular issue, in this case what the term “preconditions” means in a diplomatic sense (via.) And I’m sure anyone with an adult’s level of understanding could identify a number of instances where Governor Palin and Senator McCain are, at best, being rather disengenuous…or lying through their goddamned teeth, if you prefer. Last night I was bored enough to tune intoHardball — I wanted to catch a video clip that had been flagged by several progressive blogs re: Nancy Pfotenhauer on another one … Continue reading Triumph of the Willy Nilly