Thursday: Rhetorical Talk about Rhetorical Jobs for Non-Virtual People

So, Obama gave a speech last night about removing troops from Afghanistan and bringing some home by the end of the year and blah-blah-blah.  Didn’t we hear this kind of crap before about Iraq? And how did that turn out? Let’s examine What Obama REALLY Said last night: For this reason, in one of the most [...]

Sunday: Lori, Noam, Libya and Paywalls

Lorenda Starfelt passed away last Tuesday.  She was 56.  Her death was announced by her husband Brad Mays yesterday on Correntewire where Lori posted under the name Basement Angel.  Long time readers of this blog will remember Brad and Lori as the filmmakers who documented the dispossessed of the 2008 primary elections.  I met them [...]

Wikileaks the State Department

The cables are out and now is the time to sift through them and come to our own conclusions about what they contain.  For those of you who want a running commentary, Peter Daou recommends Greg Mitchell’s blog at The Nation. I’m not surprised that we’re spying on UN officials  and gathering intelligence from around [...]

TGIF News and Views

Good Morning and TGIF, fellow Conflucians!!! Raw Story has an “exclusive” on the toxicity of the dispersants that BP and the Coast Guard used to cover up the massive amount of oil that was released into the Gulf of Mexico by the Deepwater Horizon well from hell. I used the quotation marks, because I wrote [...]

Monday Morning News: Bradley Manning, BP Gusher

Good Morning Conflucians!! Two big stories are dominating the news so far this morning. OFFICIAL EFFORTS TO PERSONALLY DESTROY BRADLEY MANNING It looks to me like the mainstream press, probably pushed by the government, is trying to try to undermine the credibility of the material on Afghanistan released by Wikileaks by destroying Bradley Manning and [...]

Story of the Week: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Releases Afghanistan War Logs

The biggest story in the news today is the massive leak of government documents to three major newspapers: The UK Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel in Germany by Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. He has been called “The Robin Hood of Hacking.” As the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, which posts secretive [...]

Thursday Morning News and Views

Joltin’ Joe “Bite-Me” Biden got off his leash over the weekend, and he has been talking nonstop to the press. Politico has all the gossipy details. According to VP Joe, all the speculation about Democrats doing poorly at the polls in November is nonsense. I’ll tell you right up front, I couldn’t always make sense [...]

Lazy Saturday News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!! I don’t know what’s wrong with me this morning–I just can’t seem to get myself going. I don’t know if it’s all the bad news or just a hangover from my long trip home. Anyway, I’m going to throw out a grab bag of news stories and hope you can help me [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!! TGIF!!!!!! I got back to Beantown last night around 7PM, after having been in Indiana for more than a month. The drive was very pleasant, with nice weather and minimal traffic through Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. The first shock to my system came when I approached the end of the [...]

Tuesday Mid-Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! Dakinikat has jury duty this morning and Riverdaughter is tussling with the charts at Survey Monkey, so I’m going to get us started today with a few links to stories that interested me this morning. As always, post your own choice links in the comments. First up, Joseph Cannon has provided more [...]