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Michael Savage fired from MSNBC for hateful remarks I know, I know, newsfilter, newsfilter, but I thought you'd want to know (they don't, yet). Hopefully this will be the fourth and final installment ( 1, 2, 3) in this series.
comment posted at 2:51 PM on Jul-7-03

McDonald's New McGriddles® Breakfast Sandwiches! Beginning June 10, 2003, participating McDonald’s restaurants nationwide will offer new McGriddles® breakfast sandwiches as permanent menu items. McGriddles® breakfast sandwiches provide an innovative way for customers to eat warm golden griddle cakes (with the sweet taste of maple syrup baked right in), and different combinations of savory sausage, crispy bacon, fluffy eggs and melted cheese in a convenient sandwich.
comment posted at 7:16 PM on Jun-29-03

Every year, the end of school signals the beginning of the summer season: a time of taking advantage of the warm weather, relaxing by the pool , softball games, and the enjoyment of your favorite cold beverage.

While some people prefer lemonade or iced tea or maybe even a nice cold beer (my Dad's preference), I have always been partial to carbonated beverages. For crisp refreshment, nothing seems to beat the crisp, refreshing taste of a crisp, refreshing Pepsi or Mountain Dew.

In recent years, however, I have found myself becoming increasingly disillusioned with the quality of sodas that are available each summer. Sure, a Sierra Mist may provide temporary relief from the summer heat; but can it fill this void that I feel inside of me—this hole, this yearning for something more?

My friends, I have finally found the solution to our plight. The answer lies within in a soda with the familiar orange flavor of Minute Maid and the fully-loaded lemon-lime taste of Mountain Dew.

No, it's not the new Sprite Remix. The solution lies within Pepsi's new Mountaid Dew LiveWire.

One glass of LiveWire; that's all it takes. One glass of LiveWire to forget your troubles. One glass of Live Wire to feel truly satisfied—truly fulfilled.

My friends, this summer will be like no other.

This is truly the summer of LiveWire.

There, it's done. Enough sucking up. Now let the residual checks start rolling in...
comment posted at 7:18 PM on Jun-29-03

10 Great Gay Cars For 2003. I'm into leather...interior.
comment posted at 6:55 AM on Jun-14-03

Second study finds gaps in Bush tax cut. A new study has found that 8 million mostly low-income taxpayers will not receive any benefit from the tax law that Republicans have said for weeks was designed to benefit all those who pay income taxes. This in addition to the child tax credit already absent within the law.
comment posted at 7:21 AM on Jun-2-03

Guess who wants presidential term limits to be repealed... Putting aside your feelings for Bill Clinton (or Ronald Reagan for that matter), should the U.S. president be allowed to serve more than two terms?
comment posted at 8:15 AM on May-29-03

Quick, Hide The Body! "...But the Bush administration chose to keep the findings out of the annual budget report for fiscal year 2004, published in February, as the White House campaigned for a tax-cut package that critics claim will expand future deficits. The study asserts that sharp tax increases, massive spending cuts or a painful mix of both are unavoidable if the US is to meet benefit promises to future generations. It estimates that closing the gap would require the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 per cent across-the-board income tax increase."
comment posted at 8:52 PM on May-28-03

Battle of the "Gypsy"s. There was Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly and Bette Midler. There was even the possibility of Barbra Streisand as Madonna's mother. And now comes Bernadette Peters in the Sam Mendes production of the show theater guru Frank Rich called his favorite musical. This surely begs the question: who's the swellest, greatest, world-on-a-platiest Mama Rose ever? And who are your top five desert island Mama Roses? (Note: participation weighs significantly on your sexuality...contribute at your own risk.)
comment posted at 3:24 AM on Apr-22-03

Exclusive Middle East sources have tracked down top Iraqi leadership’s bolt-hole: Now begin to badmouth me. Debka has a going rate that is some 2/3s on target and that makes this piece (headlines) worth considering. Too, they noted some time ago that WMD shipped to Syria. Recall in Gulf war I that they shipped planes to Iran for safe keeping and never got them back. Thus far, we have not found WMD and Iraq has not used any. Ergo....
comment posted at 1:47 PM on Apr-3-03

"General Rumsfeld" “This is tragic,” one senior planner said bitterly. “American lives are being lost.” The former intelligence official told me, “They all said, ‘We can do it with air power.’ They believed their own propaganda.”
comment posted at 12:41 PM on Apr-1-03

The War has begun.
comment posted at 6:03 AM on Mar-20-03

Elizabeth Smart has been found - alive - in a restaraunt in Sandy, Utah, MSNBC reports.
comment posted at 6:46 PM on Mar-12-03
comment posted at 9:18 PM on Mar-12-03

DIVE! DIVE! DIVE! - Markets in free fall. Remember the heady DotCom bubble days, and innocuous scandals - Clinton & Monica,the cigar?! Then, WHAM: 9-11, Enron, Worldcom et. al, the push for invasion of Iraq, ballooning deficits, while a new US neocolonial American ideology of preemption suggests more invasions to come - with a worldwide surge in anti-American attitudes. "Irrational Exuberance" turned to terror, fear, worry, anger, rage. What possible train of events and U.S. government policies could more efficiently send world economic markets into free fall? Hold on: it was a two decade long ride up - the ride down has merely begun. Those among us with a few spare billion lying around will wait until the bottom, and buy on the cheap. For everyone else, it's bankruptcy, frugality, middle class decline, cans 'o beans and darned socks. But cheer up: play, joy, creativity, generosity, indeed love itself - and also the classic "recreation of the poor" are all free.
comment posted at 1:26 PM on Mar-7-03

The great duct tape conspiracy? It seems that 46% of all duct tape is produced by the Manco Company of Avon, Ohio. The company, a division on Henkel inc, was run by Jack Kahl until just after Bush's 2000 election. It turns out Mr. Kahl donated no less than $100,000 to GOP committees in the 2000 election cycle. Has Tom Ridge become the official spokesperson of all things duct tape purely out of his concerns for our security here in the Homeland? Got duct tape? via boingboing
comment posted at 2:50 PM on Feb-24-03

lies, threats, a lost identity and the internet: "[This site] will officially be shut down when all the lie sites about me are shut down and have been gone for 1 year, including all archives, caches, etc, and the AT&T Broad Band AOL user stops coming around me and threatening me and when Katy stops stealing my journal entries through her hand held internet and anonymous proxies."
comment posted at 6:21 AM on Feb-8-03

U.S. admin using future shares of Iraqi oil to build anti-Iraq coalition. Nation building just doesn't get any better than this.
comment posted at 1:57 PM on Feb-5-03

The State of the Union address. "Yet there is power -- wonder-working power"
comment posted at 8:53 AM on Jan-29-03

Who the h*ll is Michael Musto talking about when he writes these columns? [And, furthermore, why do I read them?]
comment posted at 3:04 AM on Jan-7-03

GM announces plans to roll out gas/electric hybrid cars for consumers in the next four years -- including pickup trucks and SUVs. Plus a brief discussion of ways to get the general populace to buy hybrid... apparently tax breaks are being mooted? Interesting. The cost increase / gas savings breakdown still isn't as impressive as one might like it to be, though... would you give one a try?
comment posted at 3:19 AM on Jan-7-03
comment posted at 4:45 AM on Jan-7-03

Shaqzilla dethroned. Shaquille O'Neal, who warned Chinese citizen & #1 draft pick Yao Ming to "Look Out, Shaqzilla is coming" (presumably unaware that Tokyo is not part of China), has been dethroned; currently in fan balloting, he is running a distant second to the rookie for starting center in the All Star game. Even though his numbers are effectively double those of Yao's, even though he's a three time NBA Finals MVP.
comment posted at 11:54 PM on Jan-2-03

The job, the blog, and you. Interesting Washington Post article I ran across today that discusses the pitfalls about blogging about your job. Makes some good points, especially how the blogging community needs to take account of things such as non-disclosure clauses in employment contracts.
comment posted at 12:24 PM on Dec-19-02

Self-fulfilling Prophecy? Enron video says maybe... A video from an Enron company party from 1997 shows executives or other employees playing execs making jokes during skits about how to make "a kazillion dollars" et al. Some of the "methods" they speak of apparently are exactly the things that brought the company down. Looks like the cat was let out of the bag in front of a lot of unsuspecting individuals..
comment posted at 11:56 AM on Dec-16-02

Moblogging! Yesterday's Guardian Unlimited features a gently snarky piece by Jane Perrone, introducing a wider world to the possibilities of camera+mobile phone+Web publishing, à la HipTop Nation. By my count, that's one month, five days from the word's coining to its first appearance in the major media (if you think the Guardian counts as such, that is). Given such rapid memetic uptake, what do you think: flash in the pan, or new social structure abornin'? (Full disclosure: my site is linked from Perrone's piece.)
comment posted at 4:07 AM on Dec-13-02

Son of NRA big wig arrested in road rage shooting. How will Chuck Heston spin this one? The local TV news reported this without a hint of irony, and the post barely covered it. What Happened to the "Liberal Media"? Have they been co-opted? Has anyone seen more extensive coverage of this? I realize that the article I linked does not contain much info, but I guess that is sort of my point. Should this not be a catalyst for discussions about gun control in this country?
comment posted at 8:22 PM on Dec-7-02

How to Break the American Trance. From a speech given by 92-year-old Doris "Granny D" Haddock, who walked across the U.S. in 1999-2000 for campaign finance reform: "On my long walk across America, a man driving a garbage truck told me that the biggest problem facing America today was the inheritance tax. I didn't have to ask him if he had a radio in his truck." [more inside]
comment posted at 10:00 PM on Nov-30-02
comment posted at 10:16 PM on Nov-30-02

Bush Pardons Turkey. Ratio of the number of pardons George W. Bush has issued turkeys to those he has issued human beings : 2:1
comment posted at 8:27 PM on Nov-26-02

Potter Pirates Fail to Copy Film on the Internet and Potter Pirates Swap and Copy Film on the Internet. C'mon Reuters, which is it?!
comment posted at 3:10 AM on Nov-13-02

Full body scans. Is this the cat's revenge?
comment posted at 5:21 AM on Nov-4-02

A Liberal Argument for Iraqi Regime Change from Salman Rushdie Such a pleasure to read a well-written op-ed piece for a change.
comment posted at 6:29 AM on Nov-1-02

"Don't Question Whether [They] Deserved Them or Not." Not only was no one held accountable for the visas unlawfully issued to the 9/11 terrorists, but now the State Department has rewarded officials responsible for the lax visa policies — that paved the way for the deaths of 3,000 innocent Americans — with large cash bonuses. [More Inside]
comment posted at 1:33 AM on Oct-24-02

Dear Soldier of the U.S. Military: "With all due respect, I want you to know that if you participate in this conflict, you are not serving me, and I don't support you." A West Point graduate weighs in on the impending war.
comment posted at 5:14 PM on Oct-17-02
comment posted at 6:21 PM on Oct-17-02

BBC reports a woman has been shot dead with a single bullet outside Washington DC, in the American state of Virginia.
Looks like this might be that snper again...
comment posted at 3:40 AM on Oct-15-02

Iranian bloggers are being credited with being at the forefront of an underground movement which is undermining the fundamentalist hierarchy. Perhaps we should blog Iraq.
comment posted at 12:26 PM on Oct-5-02

Get Your War On (which you can now buy) was originally posted a while back, but many more additions have been made to this brilliant strip since then (by the same guy who gave us this series)
comment posted at 5:56 AM on Oct-2-02

Cable channel FX to run 'American Candidate' competition. You heard me right, folks. Picture 'American Idol', but this time the winner gets to run for president. (Presumably via a whole lot of cash from FX.) Man, I can hear the Europeans mocking us already!
comment posted at 5:59 AM on Sep-21-02

When Nelson Mandela says the US are a threat to world peace, does that make us think?
comment posted at 11:24 AM on Sep-11-02

U.S. Stops Iraq-Al Qaeda Talk From the Washington Post. Beyond the superficial significance of administration back-tracking, in regards to intelligence there seems to be two key aspects to this story: 1) The article talks about how the CIA was unable to "validate two prominent allegations made by high-ranking administration officials," implying that Bush/Cheney/etc. have been making baseless assumptions about Iraq in their pro-war arguments, and 2) it brings into question whether we know anything at all about Iraq, anyway. What if the same can be said of Hussein's nuclear plans?
comment posted at 9:02 AM on Sep-10-02

Post-Saddam Iraq? Not Our Problem. "President Bush Monday told world leaders it will be the responsibility of the whole international community, rather than the United States, to determine what kind of regime should replace Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if his government is toppled by U.S. military action, European diplomats told United Press International." How's your shining beacon of democracy doing today?
comment posted at 11:44 PM on Sep-9-02

No link here. Just wondering...the 9/11 anniversary...I am not ready for it. The wound is still too raw. I am still not comfortable looking at those images, but everywhere I turn television and magazines are plastered with them. There's no escape. I think it's too soon to be faced with this barrage. Am I alone? My first post...be gentle.
comment posted at 5:13 AM on Sep-9-02

Looks like it's already started, American and British aircraft make an unusually large strike against Iraqi air defences near the jordainian border. Is this the precurser to Bush and Blairs looming Gulf war?
comment posted at 3:43 AM on Sep-6-02

U.S. faces bigger issues than hitting Iraq. A former Japanese diplomat--now chairman of the English-Speaking Union of Japan-- offers a quintessentially Japanese view regarding the manifest folly of a US attack on Iraq. (From The Japan Times). Mr. Hanabusa underscores the formidable difficulty of the victor's creating anything but a puppet "regime change." Since Japan has had some recent experience in this regard, his words merit contemplation by those who favor an immediate attack and damn the foreseeable consequences thereof.
comment posted at 12:40 AM on Sep-4-02

No butts about it... Bloomberg plans to ban smoking in small bars and restaurants in NYC. Why not? The pope took it even further. And after all, it won't hurt business owners. Perhaps a better plan would be to limit food portions instead. How do NYC smokers feel about this? I know Carrie Bradshaw will not be too thrilled.
comment posted at 5:21 AM on Aug-10-02

One more reason not to read the Drudge Report. Don't know how recent a development this is, but Matt has added pop-unders to his site. Looking at the source ... [inside] ... it looks like he sets a cookie to only have it happen occasionally -- I can't tell - maybe once a day? Still. No one needs another source of pop-unders. Why do we tolerate this sort of crap? Perhaps this calls for a boycott!
comment posted at 9:35 AM on Aug-6-02

2" GI Joe Rifle Confiscated in Airport Security Crackdown Airport security staff confiscated a TWO-INCH plastic gun from a toy soldier. "They examined the toy as if it was going to shoot them . . . Then they asked me if there were toy grenades as well. I thought they were joking, but they weren’t smiling — they were deadly serious." Have the terrorists already won?
comment posted at 10:03 AM on Aug-5-02
comment posted at 10:26 AM on Aug-5-02

Freddy vs. Jason. Batman vs. Superman. It seems Hollywood is done mining lame cartoons for movie fodder and has moved on to pitting tired franchises against each other. What's next? Hercule Poirot vs. Indiana Jones? (Actually, that'd be good.) Personally, I'd like to see Bugs Bunny vs. Sauron. We know who'd win that battle. What movie battles would you like to see?
comment posted at 9:46 AM on Aug-5-02