tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61440952012-01-27T02:10:55.256-08:00ain't no party like a left-wing partyGin, Juice, and JusticeWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-36000205514646749892010-10-24T22:48:00.000-07:002010-10-24T23:07:31.960-07:00Wow. I guess the last time I visited this blog, I managed to post chapter upon chapter of some forgettable James Ellroy trash. Not sure why, but there it is, in all its copyright infringing glory.Here's another. The first few minutes might put you off, but you don't need to adore Jennifer Jason Leigh to venerate Dorothy Parker. I fell in love with the character when I was sixteen years old, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-31218380017542676892009-10-17T13:06:00.001-07:002009-10-17T13:06:43.968-07:00CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVEThe hall window scraping, three soft footsteps on the bedroom floor. Buzz stirred, rolled away from Audrey, reached under the pillow and palmed his.38, camouflaging the movement with a sleep sigh. Two more footsteps, Audrey snoring, light through a crack in the curtains eclipsed. A shape coming around his side of the bed; the sound of a hammer being cocked; "Mickey, you're deadWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-12129629424539333682009-04-08T17:56:00.000-07:002009-04-08T17:57:03.287-07:00Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-4285776725837718812008-06-18T07:22:00.000-07:002008-06-18T07:23:35.919-07:00Cindy McCain, Junkie AlienWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-30513692699107201692008-02-24T13:04:00.001-08:002008-02-24T13:04:56.250-08:00Per request:One lovable scamp and his test tubes and things...Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-24419989446350056432008-02-21T07:45:00.001-08:002008-02-21T07:46:18.947-08:00Best. Headline. Ever."Obama learned politics helping the poor."Thank you, AP wire....Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-50423913634740027142008-02-21T06:57:00.001-08:002008-02-21T06:57:51.093-08:00sigh....Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-74234989845751264262008-02-18T07:00:00.001-08:002008-02-18T07:02:26.663-08:00This One's for You, Traveling TravisMore hot Obama action from the campaign trail...Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-41038516305396779392007-12-03T22:48:00.001-08:002007-12-03T22:51:07.732-08:00The Race TodayHuckabee to win Iowa; Romney to collapse; Clinton's attack machine to rev up; Obama-Edwards deal to be "leaked" by two very happy campaigns.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-17861600387278221072007-11-20T06:12:00.000-08:002007-11-20T06:14:37.752-08:00"My first foray into free speech"Noted without comment "In throwing her support behind presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with an unprompted, heartfelt speech at a New Hampshire rally last month, Carole Simpson, the longtime ABC news anchor-turned-Emerson College journalism instructor, flung herself into the partisan fires . . . if ( show_doubleclick_ad && ( adTemplate & INLINE_ARTICLE_ADWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-88822699419378344872007-11-01T12:04:00.002-07:002007-11-01T12:11:21.580-07:00Hot stuff, eh?The bottom pic is the only surviving portrait of my main man, Louis-Michel Aury. He was an insurgent pirate fighting the Spanish and Americans in the early 19th c. Caribbean. Although he helped found the first republic to offer the franchise to all men, regardless of skin color, his memory lives mostly in second-rate ghost stories circulating around NE Florida. Amelia Island, theWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-58412310227520854022007-10-11T02:22:00.001-07:002007-10-11T03:22:15.812-07:00Long time no see.So I've been far from a faithful blogger, these past few months. I'm not really sure of my audience here; I know SD and perhaps NI might be reading, but almost certainly no family and, tragically, no Chuck Todd, Ambers, or Winona Ryder (no link needed). Who cares, though? It sure is a pretty picture...Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-9902470140735743082007-09-27T01:10:00.000-07:002007-09-27T01:15:08.346-07:00This Poor WomanEpitomizes the insanity we've brought upon ourselves as a result of 9/11. This lady's brand of craziness - hard-working, helpful to institutions which do good work for the world, non-threatening and yet entirely, repellently nutso - is mirrored in the nonsense of the NY Times devoting time and energy to debunking her story. Bush lied, and thousands and thousands have died; this Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-72084927268096392552007-08-29T07:35:00.000-07:002007-08-29T07:36:51.061-07:00God Bless Carlo ValdonociWar, Class war, and you were the first to wage it under the cover of the powerful institutions you call order, in the darkness of your laws.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-18033755486600276342007-07-06T18:14:00.000-07:002007-07-06T18:18:33.578-07:00Why I Like Hip Hopcheck this out.Will's Speed Racer tee is one of the first outbreaks of hipster witnessed anywhere in the western world. I remember wondering and loving that shirt, when i was twelve and all the world seemed like it might well be Golden Gate Park. Now I'm 27, and most of the world seems like Markham, when I was young - hot, buggy, and perhaps not all that worth the while.But Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-49821532310737023632007-07-06T11:20:00.000-07:002007-07-06T11:31:30.504-07:00Hank and Barry, For Reals Henry Wallace and Pete Seeger, rockin' itSo, everyone's crowing about Barry's hitherto unheard-of level of fundraising. Some left bloggers (mydd, in particular) have spied out the fact that Obama's money machine is not, like Dean's, entirely reliant on internet Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-82725159504850416402007-07-03T23:23:00.000-07:002007-07-03T23:44:57.113-07:00Good Advice, Long DelayedI was advised a while back that personal news, rather than random trifles of political interpretation and off-color material, was the key to a blog item of any general inter-est. I'm awfully prone to emoting in a confessional mode, having been reared a papist and taking a perverse pride yet in its wondrous inversion of the dubious art of psychotherapy, wherein one's Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-25146190691297547962007-06-29T10:47:00.001-07:002007-06-29T10:47:42.151-07:00When I meet Barry, it will look something like this.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-88380577129262657142007-06-29T10:37:00.000-07:002007-06-29T10:44:25.740-07:00By Popular DemandWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-34577774738599539682007-05-25T17:50:00.000-07:002007-05-25T17:55:23.247-07:00What More Can I Say?Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-50922561943288215902007-05-25T17:39:00.000-07:002007-05-25T17:48:39.460-07:00I (heart) Andrew SullivanFor writing paragraphs like this one:Two further impressions. At a couple of points in his speech, he used the phrase: "This is not who we are." I was struck by the power of those words. He was reasserting that America is much more than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Gitmo and Abu Ghraib and Katrina and fear and obstinacy and isolation. And so he makes an argument forWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-23480893439278415462007-05-24T22:13:00.000-07:002007-05-24T22:31:22.635-07:00Moqtada? I hardly touchedah!I've been a lonely soul in my take on Shiite badman Moqtada al-Sadr. Bear with me, and keep the magical mysteries of Hegelian logic in mind as you do so:al-Sadr is the most popular public persona, bar none, among poor and working-class Iraqis. He's leant his very loud voice to the Sunni ex-Batthist insugency, such as during the Marine siege of Falluja; his militia Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-74910563684052283982007-05-23T16:50:00.000-07:002007-05-23T16:55:19.563-07:00OhhhhhhhBAMA"We need somebody in there who wants to get out of Iraq as soon as possible," said Mangione, a conservative Republican who once voted for Ross Perot, then went with Bush and is now thinking about supporting Obama."I read quotations like this all the time; it's the kind of evidence that, paradoxically, makes significant elements of the netroots left uncomfortable, as if signs of Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-14826478714407328422007-05-21T16:53:00.000-07:002007-05-21T17:10:28.502-07:00Don't Hate, CongratulateWell, it's been a while. Major changes have occurred; I'm now a proud employee of the Sanitation Department of New York City (New York's... Dirtiest? Toughest? Wickedest?), making a bundle a week to divine the origins of our city's nonsensically privatized carting industry. My closest friend left for the west, to minister to her family. The weather's turning nice.So Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-39919705842498539112007-05-07T22:20:00.000-07:002007-05-07T22:32:56.853-07:00Liberation Theology For years I've been fascinated by liberation theology. The ole pater familias was a priest, before his babies, and his peculiar brand of Marxism with a human face is still, to me, the least bad way to face down the awful brutality of capitalism and empire. Marx's most inspired insight was his articulation of the ideal/hope/truth that we create ourselves through our labors, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-26627610547156155552007-05-02T23:36:00.000-07:002007-05-02T23:37:28.091-07:00What the Fuck?In re France.From the NYT:"During an argument about nuclear power, for example, Ms. Royal played schoolteacher, asking Mr. Sarkozy, “Do you know how much of electricity consumption in France comes from nuclear power?”When Mr. Sarkozy said it was 50 percent, Ms. Royal corrected him, saying it was 17 percent. To that, Mr. Sarkozy replied, “No, Madame, that is not correct.”She lecturedWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-24664719893673171512007-05-02T22:42:00.000-07:002007-05-02T23:03:49.311-07:00Hey JerksSo, one hopes this will become the standard format, thus saving my three readers from the unmitigated eyestrain of the mutating (thanks, thesaurus.com!) form of this site."Best of the Best" was one of the first films I saw (thanks, Michael Hernandez!) in sixth grade, when a fortuitous bus stop connection led my brother and I into the world of action/adventure, i.e., the categorical Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-68643336375926458252007-05-02T16:03:00.000-07:002007-05-02T16:07:32.917-07:00new favorite film of all timethis early Kubrick heist flick called The Killing. clever criminals, bent cops, italian jokes, subtext of racial justice, scenes in a chess club, duplicitous harridans with questionable drinking habits... what does this film not possess that I may not take away (wisdom from)? really, why else leave one's off-code bed-stuy shithole at 5 pm when the weather's beautifulWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-21858426846695764612007-05-01T15:46:00.000-07:002007-05-01T16:00:41.870-07:00Win With WebbI can't even remember where the original version of that slogan comes from (I'm with Sara Fisher; I too always thought "googling was something you did to yourself"). But it's sure as hell true. Webb's comments on the veto of the Iraq timetable bill were right on the mark:"We won this war four years ago. The question is when we end the occupation."I remember countless rooftop Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-46062485318236573072007-05-01T13:17:00.000-07:002007-05-01T13:35:14.294-07:00Paradoxical ProgressWell, unfortunately, I have no idea how to capture screen shots from web sites (egads...). Otherwise, I'd show this: the front page of the west coast's leading daily showing a gigantic city block overflowing with people marching in support of immigrant communities, matched with a headline proclaiming..."Immigration Rights March Attracts Far Fewer in L.A." Ok, ok, so last Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-45926750891728581352007-04-28T01:31:00.000-07:002007-04-28T01:53:18.340-07:00American Politics Today; or, Catching World History on the TurnMy view on the landscape:Both McCain and Clinton bet the wrong horse; years ago, both thought the only way to be President was to be hawkish on Iraq, and now both are paying the price for their strategic misjudgment. Losing a war is the most significant sin an American president can commit, and the real world consequences of W's Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-66774633171257997852007-04-26T23:21:00.000-07:002007-04-26T23:22:55.913-07:00"Full Blown Bourgeois Decadence, That's What I Call It."I lied. This is the best episode ever."Soviet power + electrification" etc."Yes, sir. Rogueishly."pip-pip, love, etc.baWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-42060378949052378542007-04-26T22:50:00.000-07:002007-04-26T23:00:34.249-07:00errSo, "gin, juice, and justice." i like snoop dogg, buttthe point was to convey the happy hippy carnivalesque possibilities that attend the vast sadness of being of the Left. Wonkette when it was Ana Marie Cox was an inspiration, as were the Radical Cheerleaders (though I was scared to death of them when I was 19, and now they're city commissioners...), the percussive dances of the NYU strike Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-35545702421546961042007-04-26T22:33:00.000-07:002007-04-26T22:47:13.427-07:00"Oh, I Understand. I Understand Perfectly. You've Funked It." - Lady Florence Creigh to Bertram WoosterWell. Nearly twenty days with no postings. Hardly a good sign for my blogging future.In sum.Got an ideal part-time job, for which I read books in Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-60343550480896279602007-04-07T17:35:00.000-07:002007-04-07T17:42:46.905-07:00A Grown Man Named 'Mitt'?The Mitt Romney hunting storyline, a collection of stories way, way, way too inane to link to, should be a heartening sign for Democrats. When was the last time a Republican candidate was subjected to this kind of substantively irrelevant, irritatingly prolonged manufactured controversy? Poor Al caught shit for earth tones and Naomi Wolf; Howard raised his voice in a Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-50047065361696537352007-04-02T18:20:00.000-07:002007-04-02T18:28:02.152-07:00formatting is for suckers...So, in the best news yet disclosed this week (soon to come: Barry's outta sight Q1 fundraising numbers - why would Axelrodland hold back unless they had boffo figures?) - Cormac McCarthy, portraitist of the bleak violence attending the American conquest of the continent; the ardently reclusive, avant-garde-but-for-the-horses icon of contemporary letters in the United Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-47053426546682868532007-03-28T14:17:00.000-07:002007-03-28T14:23:01.014-07:00needless personal note, in re: SH:Noted - an ex-girlfriend, to whom in reaction I hopped over the emotional cliff, had her cats taken by an ex-bf on his way to California. Quite rightly, as a good progressive hippie drug-aficionado should, she called the police, and had him indicted. When he returned to NC, he had the joys of going to court to answer charges of kitten abduction, Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-44369785900753749172007-03-25T03:56:00.000-07:002007-03-25T04:02:28.087-07:00Another One?The best thing about old Wonkette was her ability to make drunk jokes without any personal vulnerabilities or accidental revelations of world-historical self-absorption. Not so me. So want to hear some good music, that, like, isn't indy nerd self-congratulatory drivel? Music that's good, and shows how hip-hop along with Faulkner and blues is the only contribution of value America'sWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-89022489485277891982007-03-25T03:47:00.000-07:002007-03-25T03:51:09.513-07:00"OH, that's right, his name was Billy... Yo, this cat was all right, I saw him down at a Kiwi dj's night at this red hiphop bar, yo he was into politics for real. Yeah, for real."Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-73499346801298770002007-03-25T03:09:00.000-07:002007-03-25T04:07:22.578-07:00Let Me Reminisce Over You...(PM Dawn)Howard Dean, c. June, 2004.Hannah Arendt, for everything.Noam Chomsky, for writing me back.Rawkus Records, before your demise defined the word 'inexplicable."To Andrew the Torontan of Polmo Polvo, for buttering up ole billy.BKen, for what I might have known.BO08, for this chance now.Mario, for ducking before your idiot son fucked it all up.Joe Hill, for Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-26766329387877988092007-03-24T11:57:00.000-07:002007-03-24T12:00:35.917-07:00Don't Get Me WrongI still think white people, generally speaking, make awful music. But this one dude had the idea to let a bunch of indy rock nerds ape their chamber music betters, and had the better idea to do it in the middle of a Korean church in midtown, and had the even better idea of soaking the whole thing in gratuitous red wine. Check it.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-39782362980702477672007-03-24T11:38:00.000-07:002007-03-24T11:57:30.500-07:00That's Buzzy!Having remembered that I, in fact, keep a blog (if not the particulars of how to do anything with it), I decided its time to inaugurate a new feature to happywarrior. In loving memory of when I used to believe that shit, I'm starting a series of knock-offs of Newsweek's Conventional Wisdom watch. I have no idea how to copy and paste little arrows, but that's why they invented wordsWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-5393755375042868112007-03-20T16:45:00.000-07:002007-03-20T16:55:37.507-07:00Oh the things you'll see...I can hardly believe this has yet to come up, but let's talk a little bit about HotlineTV. Like Hillary, by talk I mean you listen as I type, but pay that no never mind; this is assuredly the finest political web-tv cultural criticism you'll read online this afternoon.I first came to HotlineTV in the halcyon days of late summer 2006. There were two young men, I recallWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-12492183711792816642007-03-20T04:13:00.000-07:002007-03-20T04:17:59.357-07:00So, not doing so well on the whole 'posting' thing. In re: the remedy.... Item!Here' s an Oak-town (don't stop) pic of a Bam* rally, happening in early March, the year before the election. As my increasingly main man Ben Smith says: Whoa.* Bam, the NY Daily News' glorious new nickname for Barry, is now the nomenclature of choice for all right thinking left-wing types. Let it be duly noted.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-88192938661467947012007-03-04T12:12:00.000-08:002007-03-04T12:14:34.187-08:00Big White Corn Farmers for BarackIf you haven't yet, check out William Finnegan's profile of Barry, from a 2004 New Yorker. Lovely detail, just a hint of the idolatry to follow, and some juicy bicoastal-elitist characterizations of Ill. rednecks in Cairo. Your Obama-related quote of the day....Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-30588322401034641102007-03-03T10:43:00.000-08:002007-03-03T10:48:46.041-08:00Time-Life Classics of Human DignityThis woman, the one whose jacket is buttoned but not zippered, with the chapped face which would be that of a drunk were it not so bitterly cold in, the one who's like as old as my grandmother? This woman here made me feel like a million bucks about the human race this morning. God bless all old women, amen. And cheeky chess players and communists, too.Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-58886323446621859682007-03-01T15:05:00.000-08:002007-03-01T15:12:04.874-08:00No time for blogging, no time at all, as the lovely neighbor is set to open her show, I (heart) Bed-Stuy, at the waist-high landlord's gallery next door. Her name being Naomi Campbell, there's little doubt as to the vast increase in attendance this show will boast in comparison to previous efforts, inevitably people solely by the artist's immediate pals, Raphael the dwarfish rentier, and us the Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-89823825938552635292007-03-01T07:25:00.000-08:002007-03-01T07:28:12.993-08:00Barack quotation of the day:Bacack, the Man in Black ("leave off that whiskey/and let that cocaine be" - even with all that book money you can't afford it)Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-49680705088246978852007-03-01T06:08:00.000-08:002007-03-01T06:21:44.182-08:00Not-yet Mario and No-longer-the-same-old Newt have teamed up to, you know, um, elevate the motherfucking political discourse.I usually try not to go the ultra-snarky Atrios road in my limited blogging, aiming instead to rise to the serene discursive heights of TPM or the American Prospect. But this shit is ridiculous. No media trope is more shop-worn than the old chestnut of bipartisan Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-56942233631444174192007-02-27T05:15:00.000-08:002007-02-27T05:23:01.554-08:00Well.I may even blog some summary of the last few months of my life, a bit of a script treatment featuring sex, drugs, and pigeon john, but most probably not.What I will do is begin featuring an Obama quotation of the day. This one's from an absolutely crack-addled feature by Hilary Hylton on Barry's rally in Austin last Friday. It's a gem, and not only because it tracks so nicely with my Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1165553922662341602006-12-07T20:55:00.000-08:002006-12-07T20:58:42.673-08:00Don't Tell Mama, I'm for ObamaObama's spectacular media rollout continues apace, with this article substantiating MSM chatter on the coming Barack-Your-World Tour. HRC hoped to be the Mondale who could, the rock star candidate who prevailed because of the steady elimination of the credibility/electability of all possible rivals. No more. I put the odds of HRC even running at 70 for/30 againstWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1161146940901724042006-10-17T21:46:00.000-07:002006-10-17T21:49:00.903-07:00Best Election Sitesfirst and foremost -politicalwire.comhotlineblog.nationaljounal.comcqpolitics.comof course -mydd.comdailykos.comswingstateproject.comTPM's Election Centralwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politicsWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1161146390570876032006-10-17T21:36:00.000-07:002006-10-17T21:39:50.583-07:00Ain't no party like a left-wing party, indeed.Well, it's been more than two years. Who knows what to write now? The political winds of the last six years are turning; Democrats, not entirely ignorant of George W.'s devices, have managed to turn the tables by focussing on Republican malfeasance, ruling-class piracy, and imperial adventure. My union was indeed broken, my ability to program Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1090075093653901572004-07-17T07:30:00.000-07:002004-07-17T07:38:13.653-07:00Despite being only marginally employed these past few days, I've had little inclination to post anything here. Substantial fears undercut my fleeting hopes about the political minutia of the coming Kerry victory. My union might get busted (thanks, NLRB!), our soldiers were sodomizing little Iraqi boys before murdering their brothers, 80 million Americans will live without health insurance thisWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1089760848627901672004-07-13T16:12:00.000-07:002004-07-13T16:24:49.676-07:00My last post had something to do with the inane mysteries of my questionable readership. Such untoward introspection! Well I'm not no Ted Hughes, so forward.
A particular turn of phrase from Josh Marshall caught my eye this afternoon. It's to do with overheated war hawk justifications for shameless White House law-breaking in the Plame Affair:
It may be that [they] could only serve the Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1079654750615804002004-03-18T16:05:00.000-08:002004-03-18T16:09:10.640-08:00By the way, I'm not entirely sure anyone is reading this. But lest any readers, imaginary or real, get the wrong impression: if I could, I would have as much reader-response feedback mechanisms as possible, discussion logs and comment buttons. As it is, I'm not only technologically ignorant but terminally indolent as well. Dulce far niente...Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1079654568583088862004-03-18T16:02:00.000-08:002004-03-18T16:06:46.263-08:00Why liberals persist in pointing out that right-wing attacks are incorrect after the slurs have already been slurred is one of the fundamental questions of early 21st c. political campaigning.
William Saletan, who is usually spot on, exemplifies this trend with a meticulously well-researched, perfectly near to pointless piece in Slate today. We have got to get it into our heads that the Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1079586914744744042004-03-17T21:15:00.000-08:002004-03-17T21:18:33.623-08:00It really is mind-boggling, this petty contempt for democracy on display in the political press' mass reaction to 11-M... Even the Grey Lady offers up the inexplicably biased
At the same time, the White House and its allies tried to halt any notion that other nations might be tempted to follow Spain's example of bending to terrorists.
I mean, that's so boldly kow-towing to GOP talking points Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1079418143828510952004-03-15T22:22:00.000-08:002004-03-15T22:25:39.873-08:00"Power comes from the barrel of a gun" - Mao
Bush & Co. are, in their own petty vulgarian way, millionaire Maoists. They (along with countless video games and Risk boards) have convinced a huge part of my country that you if you just break enough stuff and kill a sufficient number of enemies you can plant pretty much whatever you want in its stead. And so with Iraq we've unleashed a flood of Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1079417363629632502004-03-15T22:09:00.000-08:002004-03-15T22:12:39.873-08:00This incessant repetition 'Socialist victory = sneaky Al Qaeda triumph' is really, truly infuriating. The PP lost so dramatically not because of the bombs but because of the lies that followed them. The transparent political calculation behind blaming ETA, to the extent of manipulating the Security Council into a quick resolution improperly blaming the Basque nationalist group, sent Spanish Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1079217430611111162004-03-13T14:37:00.000-08:002004-03-13T14:40:23.293-08:00The full horror of 11-M, as the conservative Spanish press is now dubbing the train attacks, only hit me when in the midst of remembering small details about Atocha - the silly indoor rainforest, the security guys checking out travelling girls, the endless cafecitos sipped by anonymous businessmen - I realized that the only equivalent in the US would be the PATH trains exploding underneath Penn Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1078451111092364762004-03-04T17:45:00.000-08:002004-03-04T17:48:11.670-08:00Masons With Balls
Well, I guess everyone already knew that John Kerry, presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States, and George W. Bush, presumptive President of said States, are both Bones and Skull-men. Now I learn that Dana Milbank, one of the few reporters of prominence willing to beat around the Bush administration, is too...
I mean, I know it's colorful and allWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1078367756599267162004-03-03T18:35:00.000-08:002004-03-04T17:50:47.076-08:00Favorite McClellanism of the week:
From the March 1 White House Press Briefing...
Q Thank you. Can you describe what the United States knows about the conditions under which President Aristide left Haiti? Do we know, did he leave of his own? Was he forcibly --
MR. McCLELLAN: No, that's nonsense. I would just say -- I've seen some of the reports. Conspiracy theories do nothing to help the Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1078366548045902492004-03-03T18:15:00.000-08:002004-03-03T18:19:59.780-08:00I'm a graduate student at New York University. I study American history, really slavery, capitalism, and how the antebellum state was a whole lot stronger than most historians make it out to be (if it was 'strong' enough to foster genocidal violence against most all Indians east of the Mississippi while maintaining a nation of millions in chains making the cotton that made New Orleans factors Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1078365625302621072004-03-03T18:00:00.000-08:002004-03-03T18:03:24.966-08:00Well, since I'm prohibited from posting pictures, by orders of the Blogger directive, I'll have to content myself with links:
This is me in Delft
This is me smoking in MichiganWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1078364795631168842004-03-03T17:46:00.000-08:002004-03-03T17:49:34.640-08:00This began in a moment of fiery ambition wrought by the Dean campaign circa late fall 2003. Now that history has consigned the good doctor to its dustbin, we now lack a certain something called 'purpose.' At least Dean had the good sense to midwife - dialectically, of course - a new breed of progressive politics out of the barren waste of the DLC and its pet consultantocracy. [I get a dollar Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1078364365979723392004-03-03T17:39:00.000-08:002004-03-03T17:42:25.076-08:00Or the content, as yetWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144095.post-1070097653403338882003-11-29T01:20:00.000-08:002004-03-03T17:22:57.436-08:00Like Wonkette, without the filthinessWilliamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980995782463224313noreply@blogger.com0