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OBAMA!! BECAUSE BRAINS MATTER

By jollyroger on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 1:30am |

Geraldine Ferraro 's appreciation of Obama's DNA was merited, if misplaced: Daddy was a Harvard PhD.(economics--yeah, it was news to ME too) and, of course, Editor in Chief, Harvard Law Review is a famous affirmative action slot... Which is offered in support of Michelle Obama's wry remark that the American people don't get a shot at president's...

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QUERY: Who was the genius behind Fred Thompson's kamikaze run? McCain?

By jollyroger on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 3:42pm |

His mission accomplished, the man who, famously, "campaigned as if he really didn't want to be president" (hint: he didn't), gratefully returns to private life. Assuming (as we may without excessive cynicism) that the sole purpose of his run was...

Middle aged men rejuvenated by steroids and growth hormone; Can I please have some?

By jollyroger on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 2:34pm |

As the shitstorm swirls around yesterday's Boys of Summer, now the goats of Fall, may we not pause a moment in wonder at the miracles of chemistry? Just because teenage boys (already suffering from testosterone poisoning...) ought not bump their...

FORTNEY RACE HEATS UP; SCHUMER, FEINSTEIN STELLAR IN SENATE SET-TO

By jollyroger on Sat, 11/03/2007 - 10:31am |

Profoundly betraying principle and party, the hands that held the dagger have struck it into the back of the constitution. Only someone extorted by the most exquisite blackmail could be so base as these two. (Help me, Jesus, Dianne is...

Mukasey replied, I dont know what is involved in the technique.

By jollyroger on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 10:58am |

Mukasey appears to be the only person over the age of 5 in the entire country who doesn't know what waterboarding is. As we reflect on the astonishing sequel to that preposterous assertion, viz: an additional several days to come...

NOMINATIONS FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL "FORTNEY " AWARD

By jollyroger on Thu, 10/25/2007 - 1:59am |

The Tony Montana Institute for Progressive Conflict Resolution ("No women, no kids") announces the first annual *Fortney, and solicits nominations from the public. The award goes to that figure in public life who most clearly, by his inexplicably craven consumption...

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The strikes were in retaliation for a rebel ambush ...

By jollyroger on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 6:42am |

Turkey Shells Kurd Rebels in Iraq http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Turkey-Iraq.html?hp This day was always coming, ever since the end of Gulf War I when the no-fly zone was declared. Perhaps the Turks, knowing they would someday need unimpeded access to their border with...

eavesdropping and the "new technology" riddle: an hypothesis

By jollyroger on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:21am |

Josh has linked to a variety of tech/sigint/spook sites mulling the interface of technology, tradecraft, and gumshoe lore seeking an explanation for the strange decision by the administration to eschew the legal route to sigint for a darker and more...

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