Dumbass deterrent.

fitz. fornigate. Watergate II, the Sequel.

Will there be enough popcorn to go around for all of us?

fitzrated again! bwahahaha – we will be back…..

Jane, I can’t wait for my summer to start (the day after I turn in final grades) so I can catch up on all this good stuff. I’ve got Kevin Phillips’s new book sitting right on top of _Europe Central_, and no time yet to read them! I guess the next one I’ll get is Greenwald’s book – it sounds really interesting.

I can’t think of anything better than discussing a book with the author(s); I mean, how many people get the opportunity to do that?

There just are no words to properly thank you, so I hope you understand just how much “thank you” really means. :-)

Jane,

what Ann said !!, no way at all to thank you for all you do – so thank you !

pb – if you’re lurking, reading – left response downthread on the Hitchens question

Thanks, Anne.

When we announced the book club a lot of folks wanted both old and new works so they could get them at the library, as several mentioned they could not afford to buy the books. Rick Perlstein is sending me a case of his books, I don’t know how many there are but if you can’t afford one and don’t have one available to you at the library please let me know here in the comments, leave a valid email and I will try to get them out to folks. It was extremely thoughtful of Rick, I don’t know how many are coming but I’ll divvy them up as best I can.

Jane -

The FDL Sunday Book Salon is a superb idea. Does it start at 5 PM EST (according to the sidebar) or 5 PM EDT? If it starts at 5 PM EST, I might be back just in time for it after participating in Mensa’s CultureQuest tomorrow afternoon.

I ordered CTG after being hectored here — it wont arrive until Monday. I’m a precinct committeeman and Primary Election Day is Tuesday. It’s a long, boring 13-hour day (at no pay) so I’ll have something fun to read.
Oddly enough, my precinct isn’t particularly gay but both my GOP counterpart and I are both very gay-and-out leadership types. Kathy is a “liberal Republican” but a very nice neighbor and together we will run an honest voting place with paper ballots.

test

Firedoglibrary?

I just starting reading the book so it sounds like I got a lot of work to do tonight.

BOOKS! Goody!!!

When I was little I thought being rich meant having all the books you could want.

I second Anne’s comment. Definitely makes the book club that much better to have the actual authors talking about it.

Oprah Book Clubbers, eat your hearts out.

OT, but I was visiting thi site – http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/ – to read an article the blogger who runs it had written about me, and saw this from yesterday:

Web server Hosting Matters under attack
I saw Little Green Footballs’ story on the Pajamas site earlier today. It appears the web server Hosting Matters is under attack by hackers from Saudi Arabia. The first wave came this afternoon, and there appears to be a second assault this evening.
What they’ve apparently succeeded with is a denial of service attack.
Powerline and Captain’s Quarters have been afflicted, according to LGF. I noticed that Instapundit is down, and Wizbang is reporting the Hugh Hewitt site is off line.
Saudi Arabia. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.

UPDATE 9:05PM CDT: For now, at least, the sites are back up.
UPDATE 11:15PM CDT: Ed Driscoll’s site is down. I’ve been trying to access it for 15 minutes.

That’s so great some of the authors will join us! That’s one more reason to love FDL.

E.T.

LGF’s readers must be going insane.

[Dramatization] “You see! The liberals and the terrorists are WORKING TOGETHER! Crusade! Genocide! White power!”

Just a hello and a little comment.

Since I tuned out last night there are 880 comments to catch up on. I’ll never make it through them all, but

I MIGHT MISS SOMETHING!!

I feel a little panicked about this because of the excellent quality of our community’s comments, but my little package of fdl t-shirts will surely make me feel better!

Charts to write, BBL.

Jane, Al Gore’s book is coming out in June.

The money quote from Al Gore to Eleanor Cliff:
“I can’t say what’s in their heart, I’ll let the grand jury do that.”

‘At Some Point, Reality Has Its Day’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12…../newsweek/

cbl – I left you an EPU’ed link about Allen’s poll numbers in the last thread.

I have always been a rabid reader. I used to walk to the library when I was kid. Just so happy to have 4 books (the limit), that I would start reading all of them at once.
I never thought of myself as a geek.

That’s why I end up spending hours on the net just reading. Hi dust bunnies!

The net is like the biggest library in the world.

Spent a beautiful day at the museum with my 19 yr old daughter. In addition to the pleasure of spending time with her, I was also able to do a little soul restoration while viewing art from the likes of Matisse and Monet and Picasso, Rodin and Renoir and Degas. It was a stark contrast to the daily display in the news of some truly dark and ugly souls masquerading as human beings. Made me realize how important it is not to neglect one’s inner self even as we go about in the controlled chaos that probably describes most of our lives.

To come home and find out about the book club – reading is another of my passions – was just the icing on the cake.

OT
I had another nightmare last night. I dreamed I was sitting at a table listening to Miles O’Brian explain why airplanes don’t fall out of the sky.

It is so exciting. I am always trying to figure out how to be a professional reader. this might work. I can tell everyone It is required reading. Yeah!!!!!!

thanks Redshift !

O yeah. I’m a member of a salon. Alice B Toklas(sp) and all that.
My pinky finger is curved now.

Pearls of wisdom, too.

This will quickly become the “go-to” salon of this era. Future booking suggestion: Al Gonquin.

tout Paris en parle
(all of Paris is talking about it)

but what will the Goncourts say about it afterwards?

punaise says:
April 29th, 2006 at 2:45 pm

It’s good to see that it’s being touted on this side of the big pond.

colleenmilitarymom 22:

I’m surprised we never met there. ;)

I grew up a 5-10 min walk away from the city’s flagship library. Many hrs spent there. As it turns out the univesal pinball machine has relocated me just about in the same 5-10 min walk range. Said library has CTG on order. The area wide library network for WMass will have 8 copies when they are all in. Some are already ‘holds’. I’ll be following the insightful comments and may be able to get to it in time for Nov.

Oh, question on our man in CT Lamont: I see his background is cable industry. Anyone have a sense how he likes ‘net-neutrality’? Just askin’…

Watergate Redux, the unbroken circle of Republican scandal. It’s not just Nixon anymore.

cbl–
Got it–thank you.

*ilson46201 (9)

I ordered CTG after being hectored here — it wont arrive until Monday

Hector Heathcoat, a true American patriot, but always late.

Saw Me3 on the last thread–where have you been hiding?

Stephen Parrish, CPA -

are you in Europe?

I ripped off billmon again :)

Liberal Prosecutors Let Known Drug Offender Walk Free

MIAMI, April 28

Liberal prosecutors today made a plea bargain deal with lawyers acting for known drug addict Rush “Big Pharma” Limbaugh. The 450 pound broadcaster had been caught red-handed buying thousands of Oxycontin pills, known as “Hillbilly Heroin”, to feed his massive criminal drug addiction.

Outraged.

Interviewed after the deal, Limbaugh expressed his outrage at how liberals and activist judges were undermining the system of law and order in America. “I’m outraged that I haven’t been locked up for this”, said Limbaugh between mouthfuls.

“There are teenagers being locked up for life for testing positive for cannabis in Texas yet I can eat 2000 Hillbilly Heroin pills in six months, pills that I bought illegally through drug couriers, and I’m allowed a plea bargain.” Limbaugh promised to address the “morally depraved decision by the liberal activists who control our revolving-door system of justice” in his next radio show. “I’m going to expose their hypocrisy” said Limbaugh, adding “does anybody here know a good hookup for ‘little blues’ ? “

http://www.pharmer.org/files/i…..0160_0.JPG

Tens of thousands march in NYC against the war.

Check out the slideshow of pictures.

punaise says: “are you in Europe?”
April 29th, 2006 at 2:57 pm

I see why you said that! Oops – my comment was ambiguous. I’m in upstate South Carolina.

I’ve commented a couple of times, but mostly I lurk. I do appreciate the explanations of the legal maneuvering and other aspects of the Plame investigation.

Can’t resist this, though.

There is so much corruption in this administration that I’m wondering how it can all be investigated. There just isn’t enough people power to do it, and Congress and the courts have other things to do.

It makes me tired just thinking about it.

Stephen Parrish, CPA
I’ll ponder that

Upstate South Carolina is sort of the anti-Europe.

harry,

Excellent. I think that all the oxycontin was Rush was just trying to live up to his name.

If you are a Plameologist I suggest to go to Talk Left. There’s an intriguing post on Card and Rove.

I’d link it for you but I haven’t a clue on how to do that. I lurk a lot and love it.

can’t see new posts unless I post…

Anne: post a blank comment to refresh. It will be discarded but you will see new posts…

Ceee -
Here’s the link: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014697.html

Anne says:
April 29th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

What browser are you using?

I look forward to reading all of these. Great picks!

If you’re still taking suggestions, I propose Secrets by Sissela Bok. Admittedly, I haven’t read it since college, but I recall it offered a fascinating discussion on the ethics of secrecy, and in particular discusses whistleblowing and leaking, government secrets, military secrets, secrecy in journalism, etc.

just ordered the apres-Eau-d’Or book …
(punaise: correct?)

kunge 31
Ha! The library was a 45 minute total walk. I lived in Rock Island, Il. No bus service.

Via Project Censored:

US Controls Colombian Reproductive Rights
Reviewed by Bailey Malone

In Columbia, women can be imprisoned for up to four and a half years for having abortions-300,000 to 450,000 illegal and sometimes fatal procedures take place every year. The US “Mexico City” policy, which denies financial aid to groups that support the right to abortion, is damaging a campaign to decriminalize abortion in cases of rape, risk to the mother’s life, or severe deformation of the fetus. Groups that once supported decriminalization are now silenced due to dependence on US funding.

Colombian Abortion Law Campaign is Undermined by Washington,” Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, 11/13/05

Colombia: Women Face Prison for Abortion,” Human Rights Watch, 05/27/05

And we had a 2 hour walk to school and back … uphill both ways.

OT. From MoDo’s latest:

“On the cusp of the third anniversary of ‘Mission Accomplished’, Rummy was still in denial despite the civil war, with armed gangs of Shiites and Sunnis going out and killing each other and Balkanizing whole communities.”

When did Iraq move to the Balkans?

Ok, I’m being facetious, but seriously, I’m rather concerned that ‘Iraqification’ and ‘Balkanization’ have become synonymous. And not just over the geographical confusion.

Perhaps we need a new word to identify the common denominator in each of those geopolitical regions. Sectarification, maybe?

The way the middle section echoes the word ‘terrify’ seems somewhat revealing.

*ilson – pas mal – it works.

alternately, apres l’eau d’oree

The French are taking over this blog just like they took over Europe.
And the UN.
And butter.

For those of you who like to read, new thread on war profiteering.

colleenmiltarymom 51/52-

Rock Island…is that the Woody Guthrie song Rock Island Ferry?

Nouveau fil.

Klude 58
Yes. It’s the song Rock Island lines. The railroad. Did Woodie write it? See you upstairs.

Jane, nerd that you are, ;o), you have some clout or charm or both to get the authors to take enough interest in your site to attend the talkathons. Wow! You really must really be as impressive as you seem to be.

Blank K (#58):
if you’re not jesting it’s

“The Rock Island Line is a mighty fine ‘road,
the Rock Island Line is the ‘road to ride,….”

it’s a railroad name. don’t know if it’s still operatin’.

Woody didn’t write Rock Island Line. I think Johnny Cash wrote it.

So bummed my firedoglake mug broke, won’t have it for book group.

colleen #60

woodie may have written it or he may have just heard it ridin’ the rails.

is this place amazin’ or what? some of us are talkin’ in french and others are askin’ questions about hobo songs ……….

deconstructionism anyone?

Upon further review it looks like Rock Island Line is basically uncredited, but perhaps Lead Belly was the first to bring to wide public attention. Cash does, though, have a popular recorded version of it.

kitt #66

yup, just googled it. traditional song. lead belly did it. i believe that pete seeger helped popularize it, maybe even before the man in black did his version. i think my musical memory is dredging up some banjo arpeggios……

Kitt — just compromising pictures ;)

Hey, whatever it takes, Jane. ;o)

Oh the irony in the number of my last reply. Lol.

I and my friend used ride the Rock Island Lines to Chicago.
Kitt-Your..just cute about Jane.

Remember, kids…The Decidinator sez, “Books is Good Readin’”.

;>)

I would love to participate, but I’ll be playing golf.

Might I suggest Richard Parker’s bio called “John Kenneth Galbraith, his Life, his Politics, his Economics.” It is VERY well written and is more of a really good history book written from the POV of Galbraith than a bio.

This is important because we really SHOULD know more about the economists who helped the USA pull out of the Great Depression and engineered the Great Prosperity. We may need this information again very soon.

“Before the Storm” is probably the best history book I’ve read. I can’t wait for his next book on Nixon.

Jane, this is fantastic! Thank you so much.
I bet I can get Before the Storm.

Books. Authors. Blogtalk. Thrilling.

thanks. I like devoting two weeks to each book. That way I might have a chance of getting on the stick and reading enough by the timethe discussion days come around to participate. This sounds like fun, speaking nerd to nerd.

Read ‘ Manchild in the promised land’ as horse came to Harlem. ‘ Crime and punishment’ for the Deciderator and the reptilican’s. Get off the frikkin internet and go to yr nearest frikkin library! Not everything good is online…yet.

Jane:
O’Reilly’s book “Culture Warrior” is due out in Oct. Can we put that on the schedule, and ask him to participate?

Seriously,this is a great idea. And the right doesn’t have a clue why Glenn’s book is doing so well. I love the blogospheres.

Troll

John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006

John Kenneth Galbraith died shortly after 9 pm Saturday.

America has lost a great and iconoclastic economist, thinker, writer and political figure.

As William Greider wrote in The Nation last year, the striking quality about Ken Galbraith–the man and his work– “is how forcefully the books he wrote across nearly fifty years speak to our present circumstances.”

Read Galbraith, “to recognize the many important matters–society’s condition, for instance–excluded from the brittle, math-obsessed economics that poses as hard science. Study Galbraith’s critical voice in the serious public policy debates of his time to appreciate what is missing from today’s politics and media. Listen to Galbraith address such taboo subjects as corporate power to understand what honest economists and politicians should be confronting now.”

Galbraith, who never shied away from the (relentlessly demonized) term liberal, was also a man of wonderful and droll wit, whose fluid prose and pithy notes delighted and inspired.

As Richard Parker’s fine biography, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics reminds us, Galbraith never lost his critical-minded, unconventional and truly liberal-minded temperament –a quality that ensures so many of his books ( a staggering forty-eight) remain remarkably relevant to the present.

As we wrestle with his loss to our society and politics, let’s celebrate how this great man (and at six-foot-seven he did seem great in so many ways) never ceased to act on behalf of the common good, common sense and powerless people.

Oh nuts. I’m overbooked already, may not be able to make this first exciting salon as I have a meeting with PDA tonight…but I will be eagerly waiting for the thread afterwords. Wonder how many comments this will take? would a real time chat be better?

I would be grateful for a copy of the Perlstein book. Thanks.