To recap

From David Corn's initial article: The sources for Novak's assertion about Wilson's wife appear to be "two senior administration officials." If so, a pair of top Bush officials told a reporter the name of a CIA operative who apparently has...

Jailhouse rock

Will Karl Rove soon be exchanging his suits and ties for a new wardrobe of prison denim? David Corn was on this story early, and now it's made it into the Times and the Washington Post: At CIA Director George...

Busy week

A confluence of deadlines, meetings, and personal obliagations conspired to keep me mostly offline this week, and next week isn’t looking much better. If by "better" we mean to imply that I will be able to spend more time online,...

Light blogging

Probably for the next few days....

Greetings, Guardian readers

The page of 9/11 kitsch to which Matthew Norman refers is here. It hasn't been updated in awhile, and I have some new images I need to add when I get a little time, so be sure to check back....

A blast from the past

William Safire’s name has been coming up a lot on the blogs I read lately, and it reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to go back and look up. (Fortunately I have some access to the Lexis-Nexis database. Unfortunately...

The Environmentalator

From Kos: Seyz Arnold: "I want clean air, clean water and a clean environment," the Terminator star said at a campaign appearance in Carpinteria, about 85 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Arnold drives a Hummer. Actually it's worse than that....

This'n'that, mateys

Okay, I’ll spare you any further pirate talk, though I will continue to post under my Pirate Name until the holiday is officially over. Do watch out for this latest virus—the crafty buggers who send these things out are trying...

Speakin' o' scalliwags

I suspect there be some new virus goin' around, posin' as email from Microsoft (but with a mighty odd-lookin' domain in the return address, if ye look closely). The scurvy dogs tell ye to download a "patch." Yer pirates, by...

Arrrrr!

Avast, ye scabrous scalliwags! I’ve got a fearsome lot o'plunderin' t'do tomorrow, which probably means light postin' around these latitudes, so I wanted t'be remindin’ ye that it be Talk Like a Pirate Day. (If ye need help talkin' like...

Bizarre slip of the tongue

Tom Brokaw has referred to "Hurricane Israel" at least three times now....

The only thing more annoying...

...than having these idiot reporters standing out in the rain shouting into their mics to let us know that there's a whole lot of rain...is having them chastise the idiot pedestrians gawking nearby. Just saw a guy on Fox trying...

Struggling against the tide

Congressman J.D. Hayworth apparently had not yet received the memo when he wrote this: The Bush haters are also befuddled that most Americans believe Saddam Hussein had a role in the September 11 attacks. In fact, there is a definite...

A few shows...

…on which I would very much like the opportunity to shamelessly promote the book: Real Time with Bill Maher; Whad’ya Know (update: was just contacted by their producer!); Fresh Air; And of course, The Daily Show. Just sayin’....

Sigh...

An Amazon reviewer complains because The Great Big Book of Tomorrow contains work published in previous collections. Well, yes. There is a bunch of new stuff in there too, but as I’ve discussed many times on this site, it is...