Quote of the Day

Jaye Ramsey Sutter, at Blondesense:

I am going to start every encounter with everyone I know with the following exchange, "I believe Joseph Wilson, I know the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were fixed, if we don't know where Osama is we don't know where our own asses are, Iraq intelligence was cooked, and if you don't agree with me, you can kiss my own ass. Now what the fuck do you want?"

Mother Chu's Taiwanese Gourmet, Haymarket

Chicken fillet with stir-fried noodle $7.50There's something about Mother Chu's that always fascinates me. For a start there are the dumpling dames.A huddle of women in the open kitchen work constantly as tourists and students on Dixon Street pass on by. Hour after hour the women knead their dough; they roll out perfect circles, and then, within a blink of an eye, a dumpling is made and the next

Mother Chu's Taiwanese Gourmet, Haymarket

Chicken fillet with stir-fried noodle $7.50There's something about Mother Chu's that always fascinates me. For a start there are the dumpling dames.A huddle of women in the open kitchen work constantly as tourists and students on Dixon Street pass on by. Hour after hour the women knead their dough; they roll out perfect circles, and then, within a blink of an eye, a dumpling is made and the next

Morning Sedition Update

Today is the last live Morning Sedition at O'Neal's in NYC. Alas, I have too big a workload to go, and it's probably just as well, because these days when I turn the radio on in the morning, it just makes me feel depressed and hopeless.

There are almost 2500 signatures on the petition now (if you haven't yet signed, what are you waiting for?), Seditionistas are bombarding Danny Goldberg with cards and letters, and Marc Maron is giving tantalizing hints that there's a small possibility that something can be worked out.

I'm not putting a whole lot of eggs in that basket, for Danny Goldberg is looking more and more like a Republican mole every day.

But at least the rabble of Blogtopia is starting to get on the case.

Reb at Lefter, Warmer, Bill at Under the Lobsterscope are talking about the show, and Sufilizard at The Resistance even yanks my comment about the show at Kos as a lead-in. And to talk to other Seditionists, you can go to any of these diaries at Kos, or to the boards at Air America Place.

Meanwhile, if you want to join the barrage of paper (don't e-mail, they're too easily deleted), send a letter or postcard to:

Danny Goldberg
Chief Executive Officer
Air America Radio
641 Sixth Avenue
4th Floor
New York, NY 10011

...or call and register your support: 212-871-8100.

Danny Goldberg is a guy who wrote a book called How the Left Lost Teen Spirit, and now he's canned the guy who brings in the younger listeners in the morning -- just before Howard Stern departs broadcast radio, leaving his youthful audience high and dry -- and ripe for the picking.

Goldberg, like George W. Bush, seems to be yet another lousy manager who can wreck what he touches in record time.

Willful ignorance

A new CBS News poll has some potentially very bad news for George W. Bush. The problem is that George W. Bush has some very bad news for the rest of us over the next three years. But the stonewalling of Scooter Libby and Karl Rove and Judith Miller served its purpose -- to ensure re-election of C-Plus Caligula, so we can all enjoy his relentless march to the peculiar amalgamation of Stalinist totalitarianism and Christian Taliban theocracy that is the wet dream of the right. Americans have a serious case of buyer's remorse -- at least those Americans who bother to find out what's going on in their own country.

The astounding recurrent theme in these poll results is just how ignorant Americans are about important matters having to do with their own government. 25% still don't know that someone in the Bush Administration leaked Valerie Plame's name. 54% haven't heard enough to know if the charges against Scooter Libby are true. 51% don't know if Rove's actions in the CIA matter were wrong, unethical, illegal, or any combination of the above.

And yet, 61% say Libby should be prosecuted; and 36% say Rove should be prosecuted, with sizable numbers still in that "don't know column." And 51% say that the CIA leak is a matter of great importance. (Just by way of context, 41% think the Clinton/Lewinsky matter was of great importance and only 20% think Whitewater was a matter of great importance.)

64% think the Administration was either hiding aspects of the weapons situation in Iraq or outright lying, and yet 66% think Bush himself is as honest or more honest than most people in public life. This reflects the NEED people have to believe in this guy. The one thing that might protect him is that the idea of waking up and seeing what this guy is, and what the people around him are, is so depressing that a majority of Americans just can't face it.

And yet, as another inconsistency in this poll, this stubborn adherence to the "Bush is honest" meme doesn't save him -- his overall favorable rating is at 33%, and Cheney's are at a miserable by any measure 19%.

I know that readers of this blog don't fall into that "don't know" category, but how on earth can we get the people who are more concerned about who's going to be the next top model to realize that their kids' futures are at stake?

DMBLGiT winners

Head over to Chubby Hubby to check out all the winners of DMBLGiT #10.Wha..? A mouthful of random letters to make the casual reader feel ostracised and alienated?No, it merely stands for Does My Blog Look Good in This, a monthly web gallery of tempting food porn from bloggers around the globe.Check out all the entries for this month here.Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the

DMBLGiT winners

Head over to Chubby Hubby to check out all the winners of DMBLGiT #10.Wha..? A mouthful of random letters to make the casual reader feel ostracised and alienated?No, it merely stands for Does My Blog Look Good in This, a monthly web gallery of tempting food porn from bloggers around the globe.Check out all the entries for this month here.Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the