Slog - Comments on The Morning News http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311 But Fox News Said it Was Al Qaeda: A boy playing with matches is the arsonist that set at least one of the California wildfires. It Couldn't Happen Here: Alleged "mastermind" of Madrid terror bombing acquitted, along with six alleged accomplices. Four other accused men convicted. Debatable: The lost boys gang up on Hillary Clinton. You can read Eli Sanders live-blogging of the second-to-last Dem debate here. Andrew Sullivan says it was a good night--for the GOP. Attorney General Nominee: Mukasey says waterboarding isn't torture (except when the Gestapo or Khmer Rouge do it). Now Senate Dems are very seriously... Copyright 2008 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:14:09 -0800 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:33:31 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Adi In light of all the exciting republican sex scandals, I really should've posted this earlier:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-827561891976725007

My final year film from university was screened last year, a month or two before the Mark Foley scandal and all of these other exciting events. I had no idea it would be so prescient.
It's a short comedy-mystery that has weird conservative sex, robots, a cute servant boy, lots of sex jokes and the line "Well, for a conservative he's awfully... fellating a boy"

It's right up Dan's alley, and so presumably anyone who reads the Slog regularly.

Do enjoy.

]]> Adi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837079 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837079 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:27:30 -0800 Comment by elenchos Were you trying to link to Same-sex couples raising children less likely to be white, wealthy?

Sullivan? He's a tool.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837080 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:28:31 -0800 Comment by Sean Hannity SEE?! I told you it wasn't global warming!! I told you so!! And that kid has ties to Al Qaeda too! I bet he knows where the WMD's are at in Syria!!! Nothing to do with Global Warming!!!

]]> Sean Hannity http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837082 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837082 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:36:54 -0800 Comment by Just Me Ugghhh... Edwards and Obama came of as not presidential but desperate....

F*ck! I suppose I will go with Hillary at this point. But she damn well is not getting any money from me and I am not putting up any damn yard signs for her. I will vote for her BUT THAT IS IS!!

Get ready for Republican Lite for 4 to 8 years.

]]> Just Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837085 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837085 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:38:52 -0800 Comment by dopesick Gotta love this line from the Brittney Spears parenting article:

"Judge Scott Gordon has ordered the kids to remain with their father, rapper Kevin Federline,"

RAPPER?! lol

]]> dopesick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837091 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837091 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:57:07 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell Jesus -- there's so much musical-comedy in that clip I'm 25% gayer than I was 10 minutes ago.

And I didn't really need to become any faggier.

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837103 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837103 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:20:49 -0800 Comment by MyDogBen Ahh. Della Reese. I love her.

]]> MyDogBen http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837114 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:42:50 -0800 Comment by Heather @ #2....Sullivan is not so much a "tool" as he is an intentional supporter of imperialism. On the Maher show last week he implied that Iran was better off under that butcher The Shah.
He may distance himself from Bush, but I think he supports imperialism with a human face.

]]> Heather http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837120 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837120 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:48:57 -0800 Comment by Greg Hey, forget about the zoo... Bruce Ramsey wants you to take the bus everywhere. The bus. Not the train. And you. Not him. Because he doesn't want to pay for a train to Fife.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003983805_rams31.html

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837122 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837122 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:53:06 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Iran WAS better off under that butcher the Shah.

Della Reese, Ann Miller, sure, but stick around to the end for MISS CAROL CHANNING, people.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837123 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:55:32 -0800 Comment by Heather @ #10...The people of Iran did not think they were better off, that is why they tossed him into the dustbin of history where he belonged. If people in any country want to get rid of their government then that is their right even if it does not please. the U.S. government. It is also their right to install a government that does not please the U.S.

]]> Heather http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837170 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837170 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:45:59 -0800 Comment by Fnarf You don't know anything about Iran, do you, Heather? SOME of the people of Iran made a revolution, yes, but before it was even finished it was stolen from the leftists and students who started it by the mullahs, who created a theocracy. That was the furthest thing from the minds of the original revolutionaries. And very few of the people of Iran were consulted on the matter.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837194 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837194 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:09:51 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @11,

Tell that to the people who were butchered by Iran's theocrats.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837219 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837219 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:31:37 -0800 Comment by elenchos Fnarf, I don't think pointing out how the revolution against the shah went wrong counts as a reason why Iran was better off under his regime than now. Especially considering how the shah came to power in the first place.

If you want to say people were better off under his secret police than the current secret police you'd need to show that the torture was less tortuous or the executions less summary or something along those lines.

I know why Sullivan would like the shah better. All part of being a tool.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837229 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837229 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:36:55 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @14,

Here's one reason why they were better off under the Shah: the Shah killed and tortured people to bolster his own power. Iranian theocrats killed/kill and tortured/torture people to bolster their own power and to enforce their incredibly narrow-minded vision of how people should behave.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837247 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837247 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:55:10 -0800 Comment by Fnarf What Keshmeshi said. Remember that "better off" doesn't mean "delighted". The Shah was bad news, but he didn't execute underage boys in public for sodomy, he didn't routinely threaten to nuke his neighbors, he didn't send tens of thousands of unarmed boy soldiers into battle, or force them to roll across minefields to clear the mines.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837408 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837408 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:18:46 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle True. He did that in private.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837658 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c837658 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:35:20 -0800 Comment by Heather @ #16..so for Iran the choice is "pick your poison?" Sort of like our choice here in 2008.

]]> Heather http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c838228 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c838228 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:41:49 -0800 Comment by AdmNaismith Not enough of that sort of thing anymore.
(And who was the blond dancer in the Carol Channing number?)

At least Kevin Smith had the good sense to include one completely superfluous song & dance number in 'Clerks 2'.

]]> AdmNaismith http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c838476 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_morning_news_311#c838476 News Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:33:31 -0800