Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Marlboro Man gets PTSD

* jeralyn: "Bush undoubtedly will use this (new zawahiri) tape and Osama's tape of a few weeks ago to remind us during SOTU that we must win the war on terror. He probably won't remind us that his war on terror and curtailing of our civil liberties did not produce either one of these two top terrorists despite the passage of more than four years since Sept. 11."

* jeralyn has a post up about Marlboro Man getting PTSD. ftr - i thought that the whole Marlboro Man thing was actually an advertisement for Marlboro - a clever way to get around the restrictions on advertising. IIRC, at one point Fox put the still up on the screen and literally added an image of a pack of marlboro's... nice work.

* ""In order to protect his brand as a hard-charging, truth-probing journalist, Team Russert needs to do an Oprah: haul back on his show Cheney and Rumsfeld and all the politicians who've lied to him on the set and damaged his credibility and confront them straight out."" (link)

* St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial "But sound financial and accounting practices are American values, too — or at least they used to be. The Justice Department can’t just let it slide. Defrauding the government in peacetime is a crime. Defrauding it during a war is very close to treason. " (link)

* chris deliso: "Today we live in an imperial moment like any other. And when it becomes necessary to grovel at the feet of empire to curry favor, those who have neither self-respect nor an interest in self-reliance always win. Sometimes it's better to lose." (link)

* it's time to rush out and get an abortion. or two. stockpile them if you can.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

some internet censorship stuff here and here

Anonymous said...

thnx. let me know when the new news comes out if it's interesting