Mike's Blog Round Up
Another week, another guest host handling the blog round-up here at C&L. Good morning. I'm Lance Mannion and I have a blog. Don't we all?
Mine's called with wry cleverness Lance Mannion and I post about politics, movies, TV, books, and occasionally yard work and home repair. I'm also the television editor for the arts and culture blog newcritics. All our posts come with the James Wolcott Good Blogkeeping Seal of Approval. What this means for you is that since my focus isn't solely on politics, my linkages here won't do that either. For example, over at newcritics right now for your listening and dancing pleasure we have three dueling reviews of the new Bob Dylan fantasy biopic, I'm Not There.
"Dazzlingly fresh and original," says Jason Chervokas, "Makes me wonder what went wrong with movies over the past thirty years." The movie offers "20 REASONS TO BE STUCK INSIDE A MULTIPLEX WITH THE OVERPRICED POPCORN AGAIN," promises the Shamus. "All bizarre medicine show bread and circus with no real insight into Dylan’s connection to the past," grumps Tom Watson.
Meanwhile, on the political front. Julia, of Sisyphus Shrugged, made her debut at Firedoglake Friday with a long and thorough post detaling the weirdnesses, thuggery, shady dealings, and romantic longings of Rudy Giuliani's BFF and now secondary albatross around the neck, Bernie Kerik. Josh Marshall has some more details on Rudy's new and heavier albatross, the Shag Fund.
MediaBloodHound explains why Tom Brokaw is still the only one of the big three network anchors who doesn't understand how he and his colleagues failed us in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq: His "professionalism" gets in the way.
And Tom Tomorrow channels Bill O'Reilly's Advice for Young People.
That's all for now. Lots of good reading for a lazy Sunday afternoon. I'll be back tomorrow with a shorter introduction and links to shorter posts for your Monday morning drive time.
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First, Rove is a pig.
OMG! The panel about falafels cracked me the hell up. :lol:
Bush hires Wolfy
..Makin' their way,
The only way they know how,
That's just a little bit more than the law will allow...
Yeeeehaw!
All topics are political.
Look out, here come the zionists!
Wolfowitz is coming back to a top job in the State department, from his sinecure with the AEI. Any doubts about who is running Amerika?
This should warm the cockles of Olmert's ass.
I'm usually on board with Tom Watson, but he's way off base on "I'm Not There". GO SEE IT!!!
Forget hitting the books from pre-school on, forget joining the chess club, and learning to fence and row sculls, forget SAT coaches....The best way to get your kids into Harvard, distasteful as it is, is to have your wife impregnated by a bush.
This may be Off Topic, but interesting non-the-less.
A teacher is to be punished because her students named their Teddy Bear Muhammad.
If the name of Muhammad is so sacrosanct then why are so many Arabs using the name for themselves?
A main reason the republicans have offered such a weak slate of candidates for the presidential election, is that all the smart ones are over in Iraq, stuffing their golf bags with bundles of looted US currency.
The White House is carrying it's secrecy fetish a little far, this morning Perino refused to acknowledge that Bush was president, saying 'That information would be detrimental to our national security'.
Whaddaya know, finally, Perino made a true statement.
You know, we're getting nowhere with Impeachment, due to the dawdling Dems, and their ties to the establishment.
As an alternative, why don't we start referring to Bush and Cheney as 'The Muhammeds'?
Maybe some Iyatollahs will put out some fatwahs on them, problem solved.
Today the CIA, the DIA, Interpol, Britain's M-5, and a dozen-or-so blogs, reported that Wolfowitz, Abramoff, Perle, Feith, Libby, Bolton, Olmert, and Cheney all knew each other.
Bush, reported Perino, 'Was amazed'.
The head of the FBI, reportedly, said 'Who's Olmert?'
'The Real News' surveyed the MSM for possible leads today, and reported, 'There isn't any'.
Sex and money. The MSM is doing the sex part alright, but what about the money?? I mean Rudy's business ties to the Mid-east. That is NOT a page 6 story. I think it is bigger than the sex story and should not be ignored.
Hey Sen Leahy
Way past time to drag this guy in under oath and let him start talking
Looks like Putin won the Russian election by a large margin.
And it was 'Fair and Square', too, according to observers.
Unlike our recent 'election' debacles.
I wonder if Putin will LHAO at Bush, the next time they meet.
Or call him 'Pseudo President' Bush?
Larry Craig's sure been getting a lot of sex, but since he almost always uses 'protection', at least he hasn't gotten pregnant.
"All our posts come with the James Wolcott Good Blogkeeping Seal of Approval."
Yes. But do you get your marching orders from the great and powerful Kos?
Bow down before his omniscient orangeness!
Nice to see ya here, Lance, but please, keep linking the long posts as well — it's the quality of the posts that matters. ;-)
Go to the Tom Tomorrow site link and watch Olberman read the cartoon. Priceless.
kudos to Lance
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