Shakespearean Daily Diss
“That such a crafty devil as his mother should yield
the world this ass!” —Cymbeline, 2.1.54-55
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Bruce Cockburn: “If I Had a Rocket Launcher”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
but in battalions.” —Hamlet, 5.5.77-78
Fox Sux
We know that viewers of Fox News tend to be among the least informed on current events—that’s a given. The Project for Excellence in Journalism suggests a correlation to fluff-versus-news ratios, says Media Bistro:
What’s more important: Iraq or Anna Nicole Smith? Depends on which network you’re watching.
According to PEJ’s first quarter News Coverage [...]
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Tracy Chapman sings her “Crossroads”
The Sixties Called. They Want Their Quagmire Back.
Here’s a prescient transcript of a 1964 telephone conversation between President Johnson and National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy:
Johnson: I will tell you the more, I just stayed awake last night thinking of this thing, and the more that I think of it I don’t know what in the hell, [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“High events as these
Strike those that make them.”
—Antony And Cleopatra, 5.2.361-62
The Smoking Gun?
Greg Palast says he has it, in the form of some of those e-mails the White House says it “lost.” There seems to be a direct reference to the deliberate—and therefore felonious—“caging” of votes in the 2004 election by Tim Griffin, the US Attorney who until last year worked as an aide to Karl [...]
The Dems’ War, Too
Having failed to gather veto-proof support for withdrawal from Iraq on a timetable, the Democratic majority in both houses is poised to send the president a blank check:
As a result, the $120bn (£61bn) measure, agreed after intense negotiations with Republican leaders, is set to contain only benchmarks for political action by the Iraqi government, and [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“And let those that play your clowns speak no more
than is set down for them, for there be of them that
will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of
barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean
time some necessary question of the play be then to
be considered; that’s villainous, and shows a most
pitiful ambition [...]
