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This morning I ran some hardcore TS Eliot smack at the NYT for “balancing” its coverage of the many failings of the new ABC 9/11 miniseries with empty retorts from the network and puff commentary on its cast.
Turns out the farcical “historic broadcast” they claim to be based primarily on the 9/11 commission report was [...]

Good news, friends! ABC’s going to blame Clinton for 9/11.
From the NYT, via TPMI:
Days before its scheduled debut, the first major television miniseries about the Sept. 11 attacks was being criticized on Tuesday as biased and inaccurate by bloggers, terrorism experts and a member of the Sept. 11 commission, whose [...]

By Frank O’Hara
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Now that our hero has come back to us
in his white pants and we know his nose
trembling like a flag under fire,
we see the calm cold river is supporting
our forces, the beautiful history.
To be more revolutionary than a nun
is our desire, to be secular and intimate
as, when sighting [...]

Today, DarkSyde wrote about one of my favorite subjects, the Library of Alexandria. In those hallowed halls, humans stored knowledge of the diameter of the Earth and documented theories of a heliocentric universe and worlds beyond our own. And that was all before the 5th century.
No one can say with certainty [...]

To sniff out the mood of the country, wingnut pundits have jammed their noses in their own armpits and taken a huge whiff. Unfortunately, all they smell is the odor of imminent defeat, which is even grodier than their normal stink. The stench has either made them crazy or scared. Either way, [...]

I’m lucky to be an American.
Whatever freedoms we’ve recently lost have never been known by most people in the world. Those qualities/beliefs/experiences for which so many Americans still face discrimination might be grounds for execution elsewhere. We have access to mountains of stuff. We are fortunate to be writing, reading, and [...]

*Correction added-Lydia wrote the post about stocking crappy posters at Walmart, but it was Mrs Alexandra who cherry picked Little House on the Prarie. Names used in the post have been changed to reflect this.*
My favorite anti-feminists haven’t updated their site in sooo looong. It turns out that they’re busy blogging. Lady [...]

It must be exhausting to be an evangelical Christian. There’s so much real stuff to battle — gays, baby-hating feminists, Muslims, Janet Jackson, and an inability to cope with one’s own sexual desires — that piling on debates about what really happened between semi-fictional characters in their fun and friendly book of worship seems [...]

A comment got away from me in marc’s Post on the recent Hitler Culturally Pure All White Conservative Christian Youth Rally, in which he said:
But did he [Hitler] stage an “anti-porn rally?” If not, well, the Christians may have him there.
Well the nuremburg rallies were a combination of the republican national convention, a white pride [...]

We apparently have trolls.
Trolls who don’t actually know what the hell they’re talking about (or trolls as I like to call them).
Inspector Callahan posits this little gem;
Iran could EASILY (if they had a bomb) start a major war. All they have to do is nuke Israel (which they’ve been threatening for some time now). And [...]

Vox Day, which as everyone I’m sure knows, is latin for bad hair piece…

…made something of a faux pas recently when he smashed a few windows at Godwin’s synagogue, saying that Bush must be wrong about being unable to deport all the nasty jewish mexican immigrants because the nazis managed to “rid themselves of 6 [...]