You're Lewis Black. You're mad as hell, and
probably going to take it some more so that you
can use it in your segment.

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Via Melpster

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How Osama Bin Laden got away.

A detailed look at how Bush's obsession with Iraq allowed OBL to escape justice.

Two months after 9/11, late November 2001, Bush distracted our top military commanders from the hunt for Bin Laden with rushed plans for a new war in Iraq. This shifted their focus at a critical moment, when we had Osama cornered at Tora Bora. The facts now show that it helped Bin Laden escape. The details are all public information, but the story never got out. Until now.

Powerful, well documented stuff.

11:37:40 AM     leave/read comments []

Daylight savings time......ENDS today.

In other news, the Journal Star admits that it meant to endorse John Kerry, but got confused.

11:22:54 AM     leave/read comments []

Jon Stewart: MEDIA SUPERSTAR!

Jon Stewart will destroy television!. Cory Doctorow: Brian Dear evaluates Jon Stewart-and-co's latest appearance on C-SPAN and predicts that Stewart will destroy television!

The panelists took turns reading from their book, America: The Book. It's amazing how much coverage this book gets on C-SPAN. But these guys are not normal book authors, and they're not there to push the book. They're there to destroy TV as we know it.

I believe that Stewart and company are trying to revolutionize television by tearing down its conventional standards and practices. First, dress inappropriately, like a slacker. Stewart's starting to dress like Bill Murray in the early scenes of Stripes. Second, resort to language that's simply not said on television, certainly not C-SPAN. Speak as many four-letter words as possible, so the television audience members marvel in the fact that there are no bleeps like there are on The Daily Show, only occasional and entirely useless on-screen warnings that this program contains bad language. Duh!

Prediction: Stewart and company are going to get C-SPAN in big trouble, and somebody's going to try to fine or indict C-SPAN for breaking FCC rules. You watch: some congressman is going to take this one for a ride, and sick the FCC on them but good.

Link

(Thanks, Brian!)

[Boing Boing]

OK, you can destroy television, but leave BBC America, Comedy Central, The History Channel and let's let Star Trek: Enterprise run for a while, because it's stopped sucking and besides, it's Star Trek.

9:24:25 AM     leave/read comments []

Via Jason, who doesn't have a blog.

8:36:20 AM     leave/read comments []

Spike Needs Your Help!

Spike is a 9 week old Domestic ShortHair, Neutered Male.

Spike is very playful but can be very loving at times.

Just look at that proud little guy! You just know there's a kitten with heart. Also, he's grey. Grey cats grow up good. Just ask Bob.

BTW, Harold still needs a home.

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