Week of 8/20 thru 8/26/06
The big news among Liberal Coalition members this past week was that John turned 50 and achieved his 75,000th site hit. Congratulations on both fronts, John! Elsewhere in the LC:
• Bryant finds more creative completely out of context Clinton bashing that has him saying something he didn't say in a way he didn't say it. I always think it's the height of hypocritical bad taste to accuse a past president of not behaving with propriety when (a) it's a lie and (b) the fart-joke currently in office wouldn't know propriety if it smacked him in the tuchus.
• Echidne introduces the Cootie Awards, to which I give a big EWWWW!
• Jude tells us the story of (In)Curious George and the Wanna-Kill Spree. With pictures!
• I agree with Kathy, it's not so much that Katherine Harris believes God (rather than her own machinations and the Supreme Court) chose our current president, but that she thinks of our public servants as rulers.
• Mustang Bobby wants to know, "You've got $1,000 of found money (the IRS goofed or something) and enough frequent flier miles for a two round-trip tickets to anywhere in North America (including the Caribbean). Where do you go? Who do you go with?" Too many hypotheticals for someone living paycheck to paycheck with no frequent flier miles!
• NTodd has an excellent perspective on the many Iraqis the US has killed this year.
• Steve Gilliard introduces us to Alice Waters and serves up a timely reminder that the government's post-Katrina failure "isn't history, it is current events." (Don't forget the blogswarm tomorrow!)
• Lastly, upyernoz reveals something he didn't know, and I didn't know it till he mentioned it: the name "Al-Qaeda" may have been inspired by the 1952 Arabic translation of Asimov's Foundation.
On to watch the Yankees game...
• Bryant finds more creative completely out of context Clinton bashing that has him saying something he didn't say in a way he didn't say it. I always think it's the height of hypocritical bad taste to accuse a past president of not behaving with propriety when (a) it's a lie and (b) the fart-joke currently in office wouldn't know propriety if it smacked him in the tuchus.
• Echidne introduces the Cootie Awards, to which I give a big EWWWW!
• Jude tells us the story of (In)Curious George and the Wanna-Kill Spree. With pictures!
• I agree with Kathy, it's not so much that Katherine Harris believes God (rather than her own machinations and the Supreme Court) chose our current president, but that she thinks of our public servants as rulers.
• Mustang Bobby wants to know, "You've got $1,000 of found money (the IRS goofed or something) and enough frequent flier miles for a two round-trip tickets to anywhere in North America (including the Caribbean). Where do you go? Who do you go with?" Too many hypotheticals for someone living paycheck to paycheck with no frequent flier miles!
• NTodd has an excellent perspective on the many Iraqis the US has killed this year.
• Steve Gilliard introduces us to Alice Waters and serves up a timely reminder that the government's post-Katrina failure "isn't history, it is current events." (Don't forget the blogswarm tomorrow!)
• Lastly, upyernoz reveals something he didn't know, and I didn't know it till he mentioned it: the name "Al-Qaeda" may have been inspired by the 1952 Arabic translation of Asimov's Foundation.
On to watch the Yankees game...
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