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Archive for January, 2007

Savage’s greatest hit

Posted: Thursday, January 18th, 2007 @ 10:27 pm in Political | No Comments »

Here’s what’s probably Michael Savage’s greatest hit. This 2003 incident, in which he told a prank caller who admitted to being a “sodomite” to “get AIDS and die”, ended up costing him his short-lived MSNBC TV show.

…you piece of garbage… You got nothing to do today? Go eat a sausage and choke [...]

Wiretapping oversight

Posted: Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 @ 11:20 pm in Political | 7 Comments »

Why has the Bush administration decided to submit to judicial oversight of its wiretapping of suspected terrorists? After years of lawbreaking and eavesdropping with no oversight or warrants, the administration has now announced its soi-disant “Terrorist Surveillance Program” will be subject to the authority of a court.
For several years, we’ve heard that the president, [...]

Savage Birthright

Posted: Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 @ 9:19 pm in Political | 16 Comments »

I might have been premature, readers, in awarding Dumbest Comment of the Month to Crazy Pammy (see below). Looney-tune Michael Savage is making it a tough competition:
But basically, if you’re talking about a day like today, Martin Luther King Junior Day, and you’re gonna understand what civil rights has become, the con it’s become [...]

Subjunctive tense?

Posted: Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 @ 7:08 pm in Language | 2 Comments »

Timothy Noah, writing under Slate’s “Chatterbox” rubric, talked to the ghostwriter of O.J.’s controversial ex-book If I Did It. In his article, Noah wrote a sentence I can’t quite understand:
Goldman assumed a karate stance, according to Miller’s description. “Then,” Simpson/Fenjves writes discreetly, “something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can’t [...]

Dumbest Wingnut Comment of the Month

Posted: Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 @ 1:21 am in Political | 13 Comments »

I feel confident that Crazy Pammy has already made the dumbest wingnut comment you’re going to hear all month:
Remember Black hawk down? This ain’t Bill Clinton they’re up against. A U.S. gunship has conducted a strike against two suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia.
Because, as we all know, President Clinton personally planned every aspect [...]