no big fat lies

* "If your religious beliefs interfere with your job providing any and all desired or required care for a patient, you have several options- change your job, change your religion, suck it up and hope yours is a forgiving God." (link)

* krugman: "Why does the insistence of some journalists on calling this one-party scandal bipartisan matter? For one thing, the public is led to believe that the Abramoff affair is just Washington business as usual, which it isn’t. The scale of the scandals now coming to light, of which the Abramoff affair is just a part, dwarfs anything in living memory."

* "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today sued the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over its continued refusal to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Katrina-related issues." (link)
i heart melanie.

* yesterday i mentioned the Silent Disco. thnx to a reader in Holland who pointed me to the official site - it turns out the concept was big in europe over the summer.

* more on the mydd poll results here and here

* "But of all the changes over which President Bush has presided, the biggest is probably the 'hopelessly polarized country we live in today,' says independent pollster John Zogby."" (link)

* "Sen. Russ Feingold Monday charged that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales misled the Judiciary Committee at his Senate confirmation hearing on January 6, 2005, when repsonding to questions about the President's authority to order warrantless surveillance." (link)

* idiot bumiller has her annual article about the writing of the sotu (16words): "

"(Blinky) will say, 'Get it out, it doesn't follow,' " Mr. McGurn (head liar speechwriter) said. The president, never known for his elocution, does have clear ideas of how a speech should sound — no fat, no repetition, no meandering. "He's not big on anecdote," Mr. McGurn said. "He really wants to make it on an argument.""

'no fat, no repetition, no meandering' and no big fat lies? 16 words?

bumiller continues:

"While they have had varying success, Mr. Bush's State of the Union addresses have been memorable for one reason or another: defining an "axis of evil," preparing the nation for the Iraq war, opening a re-election campaign, calling for an overhaul of Social Security."

no mention of the 16 words? this would be a perfect paragraph to mention it, surely.