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posted by on October 5 at 8:34 AM
Can We Turn The Page? Uh, no. Mark Foley mess keeps getting worse/better. House leadership warned more than once about Foley’s thing for young pages—in 2003. Denise “Wrestling Coach” Hastert hangs in there. Superstar gay journalist Rex Wockner outed Foley—as a gay man, not a teen page fan—back in 1996.
Surprise! Another Bush administration official makes yet another surprise visit to Iraq. These stunts aren’t news anymore, people. The day a Bush administration official makes an announced visit to Iraq? That will be news. Until then, let’s please stop falling for this “surprise visit!” crapola.
Spying Indictments Handed Down: Finally! Someone gets indicted for spying on US citizens. Sadly it’s not the President of the United States.
Crackheads: Ruining those expensive high-tech public toilets for all of us. Not even the homeless will use the things.
Time to Declare Victory: Big pot bust in California. DEA declares victory in drug war, shuts down.
Every Child Needs a Mother and Father: Woman kills her two young daughters during custody dispute with estranged husband.
Who’s Going to Break It to Josh? That lone white guy on the medal stand at the Olympics in Mexico City in 1968? Up there with the two black guys who raised their clenched fists—the black power salute—in a sign of defiance? He’s dead.
Savage vs. Santorum: Me and my potty mouth are going all the way to Philadelphia next week to help raise money to beat Sen. Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum. Liz Spikol at the Philadelphia Weekly hands me the mic, and I use the “f” word about ten thousand times.
I'm surprised she's willing to remind us of how bad Iraq is, where we're setting records for deaths again.
I LOVE the Philadelphia Weekly cover! And ewww..another pic of pudgy Rick in his baseball uniform. You know he thinks he looks HOT!
You should let Liz Spikol know that it's "coprophilia" not "corpofagia" that is abhorrent.
We haven't slogged about that awful huge fence going up on the Mexican border. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131303/.
Also, what is this going to do to the environment and wildlife?
Re: Kindaclueless Rice's surprise trip
No doubt she's going to let the troops know that we've now lost four wars since WWII that geniuses, like her, thought were impossible to lose: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
What a fucking bummer.
I'm bitter I can't go to the Philly event; I've got class til 9 that night. But I have told all my may-possibly-be-remotely-interested friends to go.
Spending $700,000 per year to maintain 5 high-tech toilets works out to $140,000 per toilet per year.
For that kind of money, you could build as many multi-user public bathrooms and staff them 24 hours a day with attendents earning more than $30,000/yr with full benefits.
It would be much, much better both for the people who need to go when they're out on the town and for people who don't have homes, but I suspect Seattlites would balk at "bathrooms with attendants," given our aversion to anything smacking of the sort of domestic employment common in larger cities (doormen, maids, cooks, non-white nannies, etc).
Interesting article about Peter Norman, thanks.
The "...in defiance?" comment about Peter Normal isn't all fair. Did you read the article you linked to?
Norman, I meant.
Thanks for the Peter Norman link--I never knew.
@5 Andrew. Tis the score. 0-4 since WWII. Oh, how our will has been tarnished.
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