friday reads

Minnestoa Senate race: Colman leads by a mear 5 votes but Frankin is projected to win by 89.Frankin by 96 278!. The Flying Spaghetti Monster as a write in candidate on one of the challened ballots. Live coverage at The Up Take.


A.C. Thompson: Katrina's Hidden Race War


Psychiatrists Revise the Book of Human Troubles


Paul Krugman: The Madoff Economy


Idolator interviews an "anonimous" freelance music writer. Robert Christgau has a few observations.


‘Incompetent’ is the top word that Americans associate with Preznit bu$h.

Goodbye, Neighbor

R.I.P Jennifer Gale

wednesday reads

Court sides with ACLU, strikes down Patriot Act gag provision


British military to withdraw from Iraq


Matthew Yglasias: Bush Tries to White-Wash History; Portrays Himself as a Victim


Scott Horton - Tamm; Punished for defending the Constitution?


Get a Job Morans!


Obama beer

tuesday reads

Mike Ferner: Why We Must Prosecute Bush and His Administration For War Crimes

Glenn Greenwald: Senate report links Bush to detainee homicides; media yawns

Raw Story: Cheney admits autorizing detainee's torture


Afghanistan newspapers have described the Washington-led war on terror as failure and said that the outgoing White House chief Geroge W. Bush toured the post-Taliban state Monday amid surge in Taliban activities in the war-battered country.


Shoe thrower 'beaten in custody'

the contempt is mutual

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in a supreme insult has suddenly become the talk of Iraq, hailed by marchers as a national hero but blasted by the government as a barbarian.

The little-known Shi'ite reporter, said to have harbored anger against Bush for the thousands of Iraqis who died after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, had previously made headlines only once, when he was briefly kidnapped by unknown gunmen in 2007.

TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi remained in detention on Monday, accused by the Iraqi government of a "barbaric act." He would be sent for trial on charges of insulting the Iraqi state, said the prime minister's media advisor, Yasin Majeed.

UPDATED: Iraq Sho Tosser Guy: The Animated Gifs

Wounded Lion

Pony People - Wounded Lion



(h/t Jenny the K)