Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Book extract: How To Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Book extract: How To Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson: "(I would question the sanity of a religion that holds up the ant as an example of how to live. The ant system is an exploitative aristocracy based on the unthinking toil of millions of workers and the complete inactivity of a single queen and a handful of drones.) "

in defense of slack...

First Draft - Wage Data from Today's Job Report

First Draft - Wage Data from Today's Job Report

so, not only are jobs not even increasing at a rate to keep up with the new folks reaching working age, but we're still bleeding real wages!
grrr....

Voters live in Cartoon Nation. The nation's big news orgs? 'Don't care'

Voters live in Cartoon Nation. The nation's big news orgs? 'Don't care': "YOU�LL SEE IT HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE: �By any measure of his votes,� Carlson said, Kerry is �the most liberal member of the Senate.� When GOP hacks say that Kerry and Edwards are first and fourth most liberal senators, they are citing a survey from National Journal. But on March 6, that very same Journal�explicitly responding to this misleading claim�published its list of current senators with the most liberal lifetime voting records. Here it is�the Journal�s Top Ten. Guess whose names aren�t on it?
National Journal: Most liberal senators, lifetime voting
1. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.
2. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md.
3. Jack Reed, D-R.I.
4. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.
5. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
6. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
7. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa
8. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
9. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.
10. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt
�By any measure of his votes,� Carlson said, Kerry is �the most liberal member.� Will CNN correct this groaning misstatement�an apparent lie? Of course they won�t; the net doesn�t care. Of course, there�s little sign that Brazile or McMahon give a good flying f*ck either. It�s good to be a Washington pundit. Why waste time on such affairs?"


sorry about the crummy formatting, but hey, I'm lazy...
the point is...
let's get this list circulating...

MMFA investigates: Who is Jerome Corsi, co-auth ... [Media Matters for America]

MMFA investigates: Who is Jerome Corsi, co-auth ... [Media Matters for America]

co-author of?
the swift boat veterans attack book...
go check it out...
we need to get these quotes out there so reasonable folks can see who they are listening to...

M

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail: "There is just no explanation for what was going on at that time, Mr. Rutkowski says."

Oh there is an explanation all right...
but you don't want to hear it...
you don't want to hear about the hollow earth!
or the underground bases in New Mexico!
or the Nazi's at the north pole!
NO! You just want to ignore the reptiles among us!

yeah, well, I guess that's your choice...
but don't say you weren't warned!!!

The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly: "So what do we know? We know that Bush skipped five months of drills without permission, but we've known that since last March. In addition, though, we now know that despite what he says, Bush never made up any of the drills he missed."


How is it folks can even think about attacking Kerry's military record when Bush's record is that he went AWOL in wartime?

Daily Kos || Comments || McCain lashes out against anti-Kerry ad

Daily Kos || Comments || McCain lashes out against anti-Kerry ad

Ok...maybe you've heard about this "swift boat veterans for truth"?
Maybe you've seen their ad condeming Kerry's Vietnam record even though none of them served with him on his boat?
even though every medal Kerry got had to be requested and approved by his higher ups (they are essentially calling his officers liars)...
Well, most of their funding comes from Bob Perry, of Perry Homes...
check out the link above for a link to one way to contact them, and read through more of the comments for other ways and people to contact...
Let's let Perry know we'll be buying our homes elsewhere...

Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon?: Rev. Moon's submarines, sold to Kim Jong-Il, empower a nuke threat to the West Coast

Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon?: Rev. Moon's submarines, sold to Kim Jong-Il, empower a nuke threat to the West Coast

VIA Atrios of course...

so, can Kerry go after Moon when he's elected?
the man is obviously an enemy of the United States,
and he gives generously to many conservatives and conservative causes. We need to shut him down.

Eschaton: "The Times reports today that much of the information that led to the heightened alert is actually three or four years old and that authorities had found no concrete evidence that a terror plot was actually under way. This news does nothing to bolster the confidence Americans need that the administration is not using intelligence for political gain."

yes, this is about the recent "terror alert"...
the one right after the dem convention...
is there no level to which these folks won't sink?

Ashcroft Tells Libraries to Destroy Citizen-Friendly Publications - BuzzFlash News Alert

now they are actually trying to get the texts of federal statutes out of the libraries...
wouldn't want citizens to be able to know and take advantage of the law, would we?

GRRRR!

Daily Kos || Everyone Should Take Action on Computerized Voting Machines

I am.
I'm ordering an absentee ballot...
I suggest everyone who would like their vote counted do the same.