Rain’s coming down pretty hard here in Washington DC. There are few things quite so gloomy as white marble on an overcast day, but it does make the District the perfect place for “greyfaces”:http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/greyface.html.
Time again for the “Friday Random Ten”:http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2005/05/19/friday-random-ten-the-modem-got-shocked-in-the-thunderstorm-edition/:
# Broken Bed, “_James McMurtry_”:http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com/. From _Saint Mary of the Woods_, his most recent (and [...] Read more »

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I really wish the neo-conservative movement could make up their minds. Are we communists “or Nazis”:http://www.oliverwillis.com/node/2490? I mean, we can’t be both, right?
Ah, liberals. The SweeTarts of politics.
*Update:* In the comments, Kyle says communism and facism are indistinguishable from each other. Read more »

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“Kevin Drum says:”:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_05/006340.php
bq. There have been 126 car bombings in Baghdad in the last 80 days. That compares to 25 in all of 2004.
This is in context of an article quoting “American Military commanders in Baghdad” saying we’re going to have troops there for a long, long time.
Meanwhile, here at home, our Senate is [...] Read more »

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*Update:* I hate it when I lose my temper on my blog only to discover “I was already outdone by -an Irishman- a Scot”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/05/18/galloway/index.html?source=RSS. (Many apologies.)
So the other day on the Al Franken show, Franken’s dittohead friend Martin Luther says to Al Franken’s objections to Bush’s military policy “so you think we’d be better off [...] Read more »

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Oh, so changing the Senate filibuster rule is not a “simple rule change” after all. See, that’s what I’d heard: it’s no big deal, it’s a simple rule change, the Senate does it all the time. In actuality, changing the rules — particularly to remove the filibuster — requires a complex series of parliamentary proceedures [...] Read more »

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