Remember that question (asked of Miss Teen USA South Carolina) about how American students were having trouble finding the United States on the map?
(Via David Kurtz at TPM) Here’s President Bush talking about Southern Louisiana:
“[T]he taxpayers and people from all around the country have got to understand the people of this part of the world [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Um, Mr. President?
Posted in Bush, Snarking, What the Fuck?, katrina, politics on August 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yo quero Hispanic Vote?
Posted in Republicans, Would-Be Presidents, elections, politics on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In yet another exercise in political suicide, the Republicans seem to be conceding the Hispanic vote to the Dems this election cycle. With the exception of John McCain, all of the Republican candidates are encountering “scheduling” conflicts on the date of the Spanish language Univision debate.
Here’s Kos:
What’s obviously happening is that they don’t want to [...]
Your local news with the latest on the weather, traffic, and how to solicit gay sex in public restrooms
Posted in Broadcasting, Family Values, Journalism, Media, Republicans, Sex, Television, politics on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
CBS13 Sacremento in covering the Larry Craig gay sex scandal actually roleplays how to solicit gay sex in a public bathroom. Hilarious. God bless local news.
Put the Video Camera Down!
Posted in Put the Video Camera Down!, Random, Snarking on August 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think I’m going to start a semi-regular feature here at Yellow is the Color. Every time I watch an incredibly embarrassing YouTube video that makes me laugh and ashamed to be a human being, I’ll post it here as a part of the newly established Put the Video Camera Down! [...]
If reporters would just lift quotes directly from press releases, this would never be an issue …
Posted in Journalism, Media on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s an interesting discussion over at Ezra Klein’s for anyone who’s ever been a reporter or been interested in reporting. The impetus was this post at Penquins on the Equator:
I was rather surprised to learn, for instance, that TNR’s fact-checkers don’t check quotes with subjects; they just check quotes against the writers’ notes, which strikes [...]
Don’t you find it flattering when people throw change at your bum?
Posted in Books, Republicans on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I doubt the veracity of all of these stories, but Glenn Kessler has written a book about Condoleeza Rice, and this New York Daily News write-up of it is either hilarious or deeply disturbing; I’m still out on which.
One thing we learn? Bush apparently refers to Condi as “the most powerful woman in [...]
Katrina Retrospective
Posted in Bush, Republicans, katrina, politics on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s been a ton of Katrina articles the past few days and I wanted to highlight without comment some of the best ones I’ve read.
Doug Brinkley writes about the feckless rebuilding efforts in New Orleans and what it says about the priorities of the Bush Administration, the local politicians, and the future of the area.
Newsweek [...]
Your Mississippi Momma is fat
Posted in Health care, Obesity on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A recently published obesity study says that 30% of people from the state of Mississippi qualify as obese. But the worthwhile part of the study is how it compares all of the states to similar studies in the past.
According to the study, 47 states are above 20%. 15 years ago, there were no states above 15%. [...]
Turkey’s Muslim President
Posted in Islam, Turkey, elections on August 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s hard to overestimate the looming potential of Turkey as it sits astride the boundaries of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, has a long and proud history of dominating its neighbors, is trying to gain entry into the European Union, is engaged in a guerrilla war with Kurdish separatists in Southern Turkey and Northern [...]
Bin Laden – Chasing Smoke
Posted in Republicans, War, afghanistan, bin laden, terrorism on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Newsweek has an excellent article on the ongoing hunt for Osama Bin Laden. If you have no desire to read some of the excellent books on our war in Afghanistan (like Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor or Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzulo) then this article is a more than [...]
My favorite color is pistacio green …
Posted in Gender on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I read a lot of blog posts last week about the new research study that somehow PROVED that women intrinsically prefer pink. I didn’t bother looking at any of the news articles on the study, though, because I mostly got the gist from the blogs. Today, however, I came across an article about it in [...]
The Republican Party: like Hollywood, except creepier and without as many crotch shots
Posted in Republicans, Sex on August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Roll Call reported yesterday that another Republican politician was arrested for lewd behavior in a public bathroom.
Seriously, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS as of late?
I mean this completely un-snarkily. But this summer alone, we’ve had Larry Craig’s grabby hands under bathroom stalls, David Vitter’s diaper shenanigans, Michael Flory’s rape conviction, the [...]
The Climate Emergency Fast
Posted in Facebook, Snarking, activism, global warming on August 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I just got an invitation via facebook to join the “Climate Emergency Fast,” which is basically a thing where you agree not to eat for a day, from wherever you are, in order to raise awareness for global climate issues. The day for this fast is September 4th.
I support activism as much as the next guy. And [...]
Future governor of South Carolina?
Posted in Pop Culture, Times Being as They Are ... on August 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
See, what’s most sad about this is she doesn’t sound a whole lot different then a lot of politicians. Africa! Iraq! The future! …. at least she hits all the buzz words:
I want so much to like Ron Paul but he keeps making it so hard …
Posted in Libertarians on August 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On “The American View,” Ron Paul hems and haws a bit about whether homosexuality is a “sin.” Sigh ….
what would we do with out our self-appointed arbiters of hotness on the Internet?
Posted in Bloggers, DC, Random on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While I’m as prone to lamenting Paris Hilton stories on CNN as much as the next gal, there’s something kind of hilarious in people’s pearl-clutching over the vapidity of
Attacking Iran Part 2
Posted in Bush, Conservative Craziness, FoxNews, Iran, War, politics on August 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films produced a video which illustrates a point I was making in the comments of an earlier post.
Here’s what the reader Martin Sims wrote in part:
Here we are once again considering the terrorist nation of Iran. A nation that controls Palestine through Hamas, Lebanon and Syria though [...]
The Blunder – Hoagland’s excellent op-ed on Bush, Iraq, and the Vietnam analogy
Posted in Bush, Media, War, politics on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Pretty much the short version of this post is “what he says.”
But let me add a couple thoughts which I have been chewing on for awhile.
1. This “Blame Maliki” movement is completely self-serving. I have absolutely no doubt the guy isn’t what we hoped he would be. But I think that says more about our [...]
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