All right, already:
Get Gmail. AOL is slow, worthless, and you have to pay for it. It’s an absolute system hog, its clunky, insecure, and about the worst-designed piece of garbage imaginable. Gmail saves all of your messages automatically, it has a nice streamlined interface and an excellent spam filter, you get more space than you could ever hope to use, and the ad revenues go towards saving kittens. OK, maybe I’m exaggerating on the last one, but still, GET GMAIL.
More AOL-harshing here.
"I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. There was one problem. It was not true. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President’s chief of staff, and the President himself," – former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.
A reader writes:
The fundamental premise of the neocon argument for attacking Iran is based on two concepts:
1. A nuclear armed Iran, even with a single weapon and little means to deliver it, is a fundamental threat to our nation that cannot be permitted
2. A military strike against Iran will stop them from being able to make a nuclear weapon.
I will grant that, assuming such a strike did in fact wipe out all of Iran’s nuclear facilities, on the day after that attack, Iran would find themselves unable to make a nuclear weapon. What happens on day two? Day 10? Day 1000? Would Iran be progressing towards liberal democracy? No. Would Iran have less motivation to possess a nuclear weapon? No. Quite the opposite, they’d have indisputable evidence that they were vulnerable and that having a nuclear trump card was vital to their security.
In a neocon world, time stops after we attack. Unfortunately for all of us, they are living in our world, not theirs.
And what if Putin or a future Pakistani leader decides just to give them one anyway, in solidarity after US aggression? I understand the worry about Iran’s regime and nukes. It’s real. But pretending that no other global powers exist or that mere bombing will solve our fundamental problem with Islamism seems to me to be badly short-sighted.
A nice put-down. Have you noticed that the op-ed pages – the NYT on Reagan and race, the WaPo on Iran – are becoming a little more bloggy? Except they can’t name one another and they don’t link. I guess they’ll figure it out eventually …
Jesse Benton writes NRO. Money quote:
Dr. Paul stands for freedom, peace, prosperity, and the protection of inalienable individual rights. He knows that liberty is the antidote for racism, anti-Semitism, and other small minded ideologies. Dr. Paul has focused all of his energy on winning the presidency so he can cut the size of government and protect the freedom of every American. Neither he nor his staff is going to waste time screening donors. If a handful of individuals with views anathema to Dr. Paul’s send in checks, then they have wasted their money. I cannot profess to understand the motivations of Don Black as neither Dr. Paul nor I know who he is, but a simple Google search shows that his $500 contribution has netted him at least 88 news hits, including Charen’s column. Perhaps a better explanation for his “contribution” is not support for Ron, but the attention he knew he would receive.
I guess he needs the money.
Please tell me there’s a mistake here:
The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.
Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.
More here.
A little insight into the pathologies of the far-right. Here are Conservapedia’s most viewed pages:
Most viewed pages
1. Main Page [1,894,429]
2. Homosexuality [1,475,437]
3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis [515,993]
4. Homosexuality and Promiscuity [416,375]
5. Homosexuality and Parasites [387,265]
6. Homosexuality and Gonorrhea [327,795]
7. Homosexuality and Domestic Violence [319,073]
8. Gay Bowel Syndrome [305,261]
9. Homosexuality and Syphilis [261,781]
10. Homosexuality and Mental Health [243,293]
They are really are obsessed, aren’t they? Hewitt had a little moment today as well.
Her polling lead is almost cut in half.
