BlogBites

September 14th, 2004

State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd “investigation” that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November. Oliver Willis  

They could sense I would be one of the great pilots of all time. Strange Doctrines  

But any article that lists Orrin Hatch as a liberal Senator is one who’s accuracy I have to seriously question! A Skeptical Blog  

Televangelist tries to gag his boyfriend… The Felonious Elephant  

I’m starting to think more and more that if the 60 Minutes documents are indeed fake, as the right-wing conspiracy claims (through dubious, non-scientific means, of course), they were planted by a Rove operation. It makes perfect sense… underzealous  

The Republican party is impossible to parody, and they are so well practiced at poker-faced defense of the indefensible and sober statements of outright lunacy that they have become true Jedi Masters of Irony. Us fancy-pants, brie-eating liberal academics have just had one of the few weapons in our arsenal completely neutralized. Pharyngula  

I just told you the real story: What was once a hell wrought by Saddam is now one of America’s making. Back to Iraq 3.0  

“The controlling motive and direct purpose of the average newspaper are financial profit. One is now and then founded, and conducted even at a loss, to serve party, social, religious or other ends, but where the primary intent is unselfish there remains hope for monetary gain.” Adam Curry’s Weblog  

The communications revolution continues. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal  

Even blogs aren’t as important as choosing the best president in 2004. If that’s the only thing we accomplish with all our work over all these years, it would have been worth it. Scripting News  

I’m agog, or agag, or adama, or whatever it is you do when you want to cry for weeks at a time. Gizmodo  

While Mr. Novak steadfastly refuses to name a source on the Valerie Plame outing, he continually insists that 60 Minutes should reveal their sources on Bush being AWOL. underzealous - Douchebag of Liberty  

Tom Ridge is a four-legged equine with the mind of a two-year-old…
No, really. He even set a record in the mile this week. This Modern World  

“Do you think that ever, even once, in a boardroom somewhere, someone floated the idea of making a Passion of the Christ game for Playstation?” (Another hypothetical for you: is it a two-player game?) World O’Crap  

Rule Number #7 of Fight Club: Never upset a giant fiberglass muffler man The SaltwaterPizza Blog