August 2009 – Page 7 – Delaware Liberal

Screw Joe Lieberman!

By Unstable Isotope August 24, 200914 Comments

Is anyone else as sick as I am of all these guys with gold-plated government insurance plans telling everyone else they can't have insurance? Joe Lieberman doesn't mind spending money…

Absence of Journalism

By cassandra_m August 24, 20095 Comments

One of our frequent targets of derision is The News Journal -- from their inexplicable and often wrong keeper of the Delaware Way Mr. Ron Williams, to some of their very shallow reporting of local politics -- this is a paper that doesn't seem to know from the "paper of record"

Early Morning Oddity

By Unstable Isotope August 24, 200910 Comments

You decide - brilliant back-up plan or just plain insane? They start their meetings with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the nation’s unofficial loyalty oath. And so it…

Late Night Video: Beyonce’s Single Ladies Spoof

By nemski August 23, 20092 Comments

This spoof by Nic Billington of Beyonce's Single Ladies is great. Here's a link to Beyonce's video if you've never seen it, but trust me, you don't need to watch…

Around the Horn Sunday

By Delaware Dem August 23, 20099 Comments

The News Journal says our blogosphere is small. I dunno, for our state's size, there are a lot of good writers out there with a variety of opinions, some good,…

Bill Maher Covers the Health Insurance Debate

By cassandra_m August 23, 200916 Comments

Smart, funny and some of the language is NSFW. Dana Gould really hits the heart of what passes for the debate on this right now -- lots of yelling a spittle on whatever the wingnut fear and resentments are and then there are the people just trying to take care of themselves.

If Loving Bush Was Wrong, Marc Ambinder Doesn’t Want To Be Right

By Unstable Isotope August 23, 200912 Comments

Journalist Marc Ambinder reacts to the news that Tom Ridge admitted to politicizing terror alerts by giving the DFHs (the people who were right about Bush) another kick. The news…

Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Aug. 23 Edition

By El Somnambulo August 23, 200921 Comments

LEAD STORY-Miami Herald: How Cyberthief Committed 'Heist of the Century' Nobody does crime reporting like the Miami Herald does crime reporting. Albert Gonzalez stole to his heart's content, while on…

President Obama Highlights a Favorite Cause of Bloggers

By cassandra_m August 23, 200911 Comments

At his Town Hall at the DNC the other day, President Obama took notice of how dysfunctional the media's role has become:

Late Night Video — Quentin Tarantino Edition

By cassandra_m August 22, 20093 Comments

The thing to know about QT movies is that the language is brutal and definitely in the NSFW or probably little kids category. That said, this is a video essay from Matt Zoller Seitz that is quite good -- showing how his characters use language to best and dominate each other: