BlogBites

October 28th, 2004

What does it tell you when Warren Buffett, Robert Rubin and John Bogle — perhaps the three best-respected money guys in the country — all favor Kerry? Andrew Tobias  

Instead the U2 iPod looks like the A-Team van. Airbag  

The amount of high explosive now revealed to have gone missing from a single site in Iraq could produce the equivalent of 4000 blasts on the scale of the explosion that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. William Gibson  

October 27th, 2004

I stopped watching SNL years ago, because . . . well, because it’s thirty-five different kinds of sucks. WIL WHEATON DOT NET  

October 25th, 2004

Feith’s best defense is “nya nya nya boo, boo, Dick Cheney has my back.” The Washington Note  

Reuse is dead. Build a bridge, get over it. That’s so stupid that it’s not even wrong  

I don’t think we can know yet how many of our own troops have been killed with explosives that were looted because the administration didn’t field enough troops to secure key installations like the al Qa Qaa facility. Talking Points Memo  

October 24th, 2004

For while many things may be unclear in the heady rhetoric of the campaign season, one thing is certain: Giblets will destroy you if you do not vote for him. Fafblog!  

There’s a technical term for how earthquakes like this make you feel: scared shitless. Antipixel  

No one will shed a tear for the record companies, and rightly so. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal  

Given that this report is available for free at NewsMax, I’m thinking the answer to that question has to be (1) women looking for green cards, (2) mail-order brides, or (3) the type of woman you inflate. The Dark Window  

“I can’t believe anyone would make up their mind based on an ad showing a bunch of animals running around.” Salon.com Politics  

Better wear a helmet and some body armor on the campaign trial, Eddie — the roads are full of Republicans. Roger Ailes  

October 23rd, 2004

If you’re moving, here’s a way to save money on moving costs: before you move, loan all of your belongings to friends. And then after you’ve moved, ask them to return them. misterpants!  

This isn’t just campaign strategy, it’s a life strategy crucial to any American who can still take Bush seriously at this point. Denial, denial, denial, and scream until the truth gets hauled away in handcuffs. And Then…