Mike's Blog Round Up
Connecting.the.Dots: V.P. for saving the planet
Facing South: Gulf Stream Coach - the politically connected company handed a $500 million federal contract to manufacture trailers for Hurricane Katrina victims knew its product was contaminated with dangerous levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde in early 2006. But they failed to notify residents or take any action to protect them.
Petrelis Files: AIDS exec gets a pay raise, then cuts food and supplements to patients.
Shakesville: Onward HMO soldiers, marching as to war
Newshoggers: If the only tool one uses is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: The "gas tax holiday" and objective journalism...Crude Reporting..Obama moves right, pundits cheer...Har Har Har...Maybe someday, Maureen Dowd won't write something juvenile enough to make Annals...Zzzzzzzz: get ready for CNN's exciting convention coverage...Can we stop with the "liberal media" trope now?...Bypassing the Corporate Media...Jane Mayer shines some light on The Dark Side...Tom "six months" Friedman is angry because the world hates us...Shut up!...Judy Miller in a tent...
After inflation, I'm earning nearly 40% less than my parents did, and yet I'm in a more specialized job than my parents ever were. The middle class in this country is dead when execs of NON-FUCKING-PROFITs are making the rest of us look like chumps.
the NYTimes tom friedman might be one of the most pathetic, constantly-wrong, over-hyped, and corporate stoolies to ever grace the printed page.
the fact that he is seen as an expert in foreign affairs and economic matters is simply stunning.
tom 'friedman unit' friedman is one reason we are in as bad a state as we are.
A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Barack Obama's huge foreign policy team, organized like a mini State Department, is on the spot this week as the senator plans his overseas trip.
Trial for Vaccine Against H.I.V. Is Canceled By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Plans for a trial of a vaccine against the AIDS virus in the United States were canceled because health officials said it was unlikely to prove effective.
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 6:
not going to happen. the administration will have all the detainees secretly killed before january '09.
Can anyone explain to me how Maureen Dowd got her job? Oh yeah, and you can't use the word "blowjob".
House Republicans Block Democratic Effort on Oil Leases,Calling the Bill a Sham
By CARL HULSE
The Democratic initiative to spur exploration in areas where drilling has been sanctioned fell short of the margin needed under rules used to bring the measure to the floor.
But Al Gore wears earth tones. How can we take him seriously. (And is fat.)
I'm Catholic and the Pope asked all faiths to rally against violence. Real big stretch for the Pope. Words without action are just words. And he has the best role model of all, JESUS!
Ruth @ 9:
He's husky.
Samson- @ 2:
He's number 2 (literally and figuratively). William the Bloody is number 1.
StirFry @ 11:
It's from all those inconvenient truths he keeps telling.
Ruth @ 9:
when we're choking like the chinese olympians, will it matter?
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 7:
Rock candy swilling?
ysbaddaden @ 15:
Must be a Big Apple thing.
Mayer was also on Democracy Now today. I'm glad that her book is getting some coverage.
displssd @ 1:
Having been an Director of a non-Profit, I had to do a little bit of fact checking on this story. It turns out that Food & Friends has a 8.2 million dollar budget and the Director is not only the ED, he does the fund development as well. The administrative costs are a little high, but not out of line for a well run organization. The real facts are that this is the unusual case where someone who does a job that is life consuming in it's challenges is being reasonably compensated for what he does.
Imichael @ 11:
The cult of the tooth fairy is failing fast. And he doesn't actually want people to work against violence, he just wants 'em to sit down, shut up and do as they're told. That's his idea of curbing violence. Similar to his solution to the continuing pedophile priest issue. He just wants everyone to stop thinking and talking about it. Too bad they're running out of pay off money and the victims keep pouring out of the woodwork.
Personally I hope I live to see the vatican turned into a homeless shelter.
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