
(Some of you may recall that the Time Magazine columnist formerly known as Wonkette lost her notebook at Yearly Kos. This document has in fact fallen into my hands. I can't tell you exactly who the double super secret source [*cough* Jane Hamsher! *cough*] is who FedEx-ed this to me from Vegas on Sunday, but it's, uh, quite a read. Some excerpts are below.)
Thursday, 6/8
3:30pm
Las Vegas
At least, we think this is Vegas. Goodness! We actually came to in a hotel elevator sans panties. We tried to match the number on our keycard to a door number, but a helpful member of the housekeeping staff informed us that we were in the wrong hotel! Now that we have cabbed to the proper hotel, we have a moment to take stock of our surroundings.
Funny, the last thing we remember was that bitch stewardess in first class telling us we couldn't have another Screwdriver. I told her, "I'm a columnist for TIME MAGAZINE, you stupid sky-wench! I can have as many goddamn Screwdrivers as I fucking want!" Maybe we shouldn't have taken that bar Xanax (or was it two?) at Reagan National.
Now we just need to track down some vodka and find out why we have Joe Klein's business card and $50 in our pocket.
Friday, 6/9
12:48am
We've just returned from smoking a joint with MoDo in her room. "I don't understand what's going on, here," she kept saying, "There's nobody fabulous here." Maybe if she wasn't so damn high all the time, she'd know what was going on here. But come to think of it, neither do we. Who invited all these old people? Maybe they're here for another convention and the fabulous people will get here tomorrow.
"I don't understand what's going on, here," MoDo said again. We must have smoked too much of her skunk-weed because she started to look to us like Towelie from South Park. It got weird so we left.
And thank Time Warner that we did. We got an email from GLENN R!!!! He told us not to call his home number anymore because of his wife, but then he asked if we think he should shave his back. We told him YES because the gays do that and ANYTHING the gays do is HOT!!!
Now we're going to take some Ambien, wash it down with some room-service scotch, and drift off to sleep dreaming of our sweet **GLENN**!! Ooooh, DADDY!!
2:30pm
We hate it here. Worst convention ever. All these stupid idealistic bloggers and their pie-eyed crap. We're barely getting recognized! No one has asked for our autograph all day. Saw MoDo earlier, getting her picture taken with tourists like a cardboard cut-out of the President.
"Oh, this is all so tedious," she whispered to me, "I still don't know what's going on. I don't think these people know who we really are."
"Maybe they're confused because you're behind a subscription wall," we said, taking two Percocets out of the bottle in her Gucci bag when she wasn't looking.
"Maybe they don't know who you are because you don't actually write much of anything anymore," she said. (BITCH! BITCH! BITCH! We were THE FIRST LIBERAL BLOGGER! How DARE she! We thought about taking her Gucci bag to go with the Percocets, but she would probably miss it before the convention's over. Bitch. She better be glad it isn't Sunday, or that bag would be coming with us back to Washington.)
Just sent an email to **GLENN**(!!). Here comes Matt Bai. Maybe he's got some coke.
11:30pm
FUCK! Byron York says he has our missing underwear from Thursday. He wants to know why they're the ones that say "Tuesday". FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
Saw Nagourney and some others, but no one here can compare to our ***InstaLover***. WHY isn't he HERE with us?!
This convention sucks. There's no one we want to sleep with. No one wants to talk to us about who they think has a biggest cock of the 2008 hopefuls or whether Hillary likes thebuttsex. All they want to talk about is the NETROOTS?! Groan. We're a columnist now. We don't do netroots anymore.
The way people are treating us, you'd think we built our entire reputation on semi-coherent ravings about the genitalia of the powerful, raunchy DC gossip, and oblique beltway humor.
Oh, wait. We did.
Matt's coke was excellent, but we're coming down. We're going to call his cell phone and see if he's got any more.
Saturday
2:40am
Can't stop crying...
5:50am
We know we weren't supposed to call G.R. at home. We didn't expect his evil cunt bitch whorebag wife to answer. Evil BITCH! HATE!! HATE!! HATE!! We hung up and called Hitchens, but the woman who answered the phone said he was passed out under a taxi. We called Sully, but he was in someone's bondage sling and said he'd have to call back in five or six hours. We called Joe K, but he never answers his cell after sundown on Friday. We feel so alone. SO. ALONE.
Surely there's a bar open in this piece of shit hotel or SOMEWHERE! We can't have taken all the blue Valiums we brought with us, can we? We need an apple martini! NOW. NOW NOW NOW NOW!!
WE HATE THIS CONVENTION. YEARLY KOS SUCKS DONKEY BALLS!! We just want to go home or pass out. GET US OUT OF HERE!!!
(Editor's note: There is a furious scribble of lines here, and it appears that Miss Cox stabbed the pen straight down into the page several times. There is nothing further except an entry near the back of the book that simply says, "Valerie Flame?". We have been unable to ascertain what this means.)
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TRex- editorial comment- did you mean screwdriver, or Screwdriver? A screwdriver is a tool. A Screwdriver is a drink. Please get your facts straight.
So Reynolds is a screwdriver? Is that what you’re saying?
tres amusant
So is there a difference between a martini and a Martini?
Got it, VG. Thanks for pointing that out.
Reynolds is a screwBALL maybe.
You should have seen the unedited version of this post.
OMG TRex I’m in tears. Funniest. Post. Ever.
TRex,
HAHA! ROTFLOMAO!
TOO MUCH!!! Still laughing!!! LOLOLOL
Brilliant investigative journalism there, TRex. I’d have gone with the wanking angle myself, but the coke thing works fine.
OH TRex- I hope you knew I was joking- taking liberties- I just couldn’t resist the “tool” association.
I’ve been seeing a trend on FDL of linking Wonkie to sexcapades. What does that stem from? Clearly, I’m way behind in getting the dish on her. Can someone please bring me up to date?
That was funny as (ass)fuck!
Clearly I need to have been a yearlyKOS to get this.
Having been seriously reading the goings on in Lost Wages, I gotta tell ya, this is the funniest shit I’ve read in too damned long. I’m talkin’ early National Lampoon back in the day when “Virtual Reality” came in sugar cubes.
I’ve been taking things far too seriously lately with the impending martial law and all. So I wanted to thank you for the late night giggles.
Here’s one back at you.
Namaste.
Condomaniacs?
TRex,
yer having entirely too much fun. Somehow I find it hard to picture that silly little split-tail enjoying a Screwdriver (drink)–vodka gimlet mebbee.
Liberal Heart,
As Wonkette she talked a lot about the washington social scene and her especial proclivity for enjoying anal sex, hence all the references to sex.
She used to be a liberal blogger, but now she wants to be a “kewl kid”, code for let’s shit on liberals since all of our bosses are corporate republicans.
Great post T-Rex.
Raoul
Been 2400 miles since I landed in OKC Friday night. To Pinedale WY and back. I’m a little rumdum right now, but I’ll try to catch up.
There should of been a warning…..damn now I have to clean my monitor….
TRex this was spot on…. saw her ducking and weaving through the throngs of Kossacks…..
Liberal Heart: Cox got attention by referring to butt fucking when she was Wonkette. If you remember the whole Washingtonienne scandal (about the woman working for a republican congressman who was having sex with various men for money and whatever), Wonkette (then Cox) was the one who brought it to light (in a way that suggested that the whole thing was an elaborate set up to bring them both attention). Truth is, she’s married and I haven’t heard about any verifiable infidelity. It’s her schtick to get attention and, in Washington DC, it worked. Apparently a fair number of the pundits/media types find her attractive. No doubt, in large part, for her willingness to claim the “liberal blogger” label while trashing liberal bloggers and democratic politicians. Hope this helps.
It was the “fuck me hard” high heals she was wearing EVERY DAY that put her in such a foul mood. Get a pair of fucking sandals ya douche bag!
Maybe she was afraid someone would take her serious and knock on her back door.
Why do people keep saying she used to be a “liberal blogger.” That does not necessarily follow from sleazy snark and an occasional insult of Bush.
TRex, this is hysterical! Thanks a billion!!!!
What a nightcap, T.
Truly inspired. My favorite-
“FUCK! Byron York says he has our missing underwear from Thursday. He wants to know why they’re the ones that say “Tuesday”. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!”
Like a Winger Bridget Jones.
since we’re going low-road on this thread, I’ll add this (Re: Wankette): as a friend of mine used to say, “I wouldn’t [boink] her with a *stolen* [penis]” (I won’t try italicizing “stolen”, afraid I’d not manage to turn off the damn italics)
TRex –
You, sir, are seriously twisted. What did it take to write this, and where can I get some? The quart bottles of Night Train aren’t doing it for me anymore.
Please don’t pummel me for asking a dumb question, but when Christy was talking about Wonkette’s “lost notebook” during one of her YearlyKos panels, was she kidding or serious? I thought she was serious. :) I thought she was talking about someone’s lost laptop computer.
We likey.
Just when through a phone poll… Questions:
Q. How would you rate Bush on scale of 0-10 (10) best….
A. Negative 10, “well Mam, you mean Zero, no I mean negative 10.
Q. How would you rate JD Hayworth 0-10 …
A. negative 10 …but Mam…
Q. Are you a registered Democrat?
A. Ya, what gave you that idea?
Q. Do you think JD Hayworth has any good qualities?
A. “you think he has good qualities?” I thought he was under investigation for receiving money from Abramoff?
The kid said I was the “most interesting” person he polled all night… Really gave him a hard time…. waiting for the knock on the door to haul me away…..
EPU’d. This WAS on topic…
To characterize Lamont’s supporters as terrorists is abhorrant and despicable. I hope it becomes more and more obvious that Lieberman is preparing to bolt the party (at the same time he is seeking to be its nominee), and that the voters see him clearly for what he is%u2013a devious double-dealing it’s-all-about-me it’s-my-seat-boo-hoo Bush-kissing Republican-enabling worn out old WATB has-been phony. And that is coming from me, a yellow-dog Democrat who, if I were registered to vote in Connecticut and Lieberman won the primary, would hold my nose and vote for the old skunk.
Speaking of outrages, I hope everybody followed the link that sunny provided in 13 [in the Boltin’ Joe thread] to hear what happened at Hillary Clinton’s appearance at the Take Back America event. The deceitful suppression of the free speech of Clinton’s critics is shocking. I would be really interested in knowing whether Clinton’s people or the TBA people (and who are they?) were responsible for the fascist tactics used against the protesters of Clinton’s pro-war positions. Does anybody know anything about that?
Notwithstanding those two items, I hope everyone is having a pleasant evening.
Whaddya mean ‘we’, white girl?…Say, didn’t I see ‘all of you’ on a trading card once?
;>)
Rob- I was wondering where RH got her information too! I had assumed it was a paper notebook, tho.
Lost&Found
Lost clamdiggers and reportorial notebook, in or around Riv Hotel LV 6/8-6/9 sentimental value, generous reward, no questions asked. If you have the clamdiggers, you know where to find me.
FITZ IS JUST COVERING UP THE BUSH CRIMES JUST LIKE A GOOD RETHUGLICAN PROSECUTOR. READ THIS:
It’s true. I live in Chicago and they can’t indict enough democrats. Meanwhile, in the suburbs, the Rethuglicans can rape, steal and plunder while the Fibbies look the other way.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....22922.html
Those of us who have dealt with Fitzgerald in Chicago know that he has been a political pawn of the Bush Administration since he was appointed. After his office completed the investigation of former Republican Governor Ryan which was started by the former U.S Attorney, he set his sights on Democrats in public office. Never mind that Illinois had not elected a Democrat as governor for 30 years or that Ryan was a sacrificial lamb who had betrayed his own party by suspending the death penalty in Illinois. Republicans controlled all administrative functions in Illinois for 30 years and Fitzgerald has spent all of his time investigating and indicting Democrats.
tom - chicago, you forgot to throw in your obligatory rant against electronic voting machines. You’re losing your edge.
“…this piece of shit hotel…”
Well, THAT part is in fact true. I see an implosion in its future. Hell, they’re gonna implode the Stardust across the street later this year, a way nicer joint.
2:40am
Can’t stop crying%u2026
12:15 am - can’t stop laughing… Bravo TRex.
Ms. Wonkette did indeed lose her reporter’s notebook which she identified as having “Washington Times” on the cover. In the media room, we suggested it would not be wise to announce the loss … and there was some talk of competing bids for it … beginning at $50 in fact but of course, I did not participate in any such behavior.
Valley Girl -
You still not gettin’ my emails?
:(
Mwahhhhhhhh.
Classic. She deserves it too.
No one is safe from the snark-masters of FDL.
Siun- OH!!! Please tell us more! You were THERE! Details please! How did she announce this sad loss, to whom, etc. etc.
VG - it did cause rather a stir … after all, reporters tend to be rather careful about those nifty little notebooks. I was taken with the “washington times” on cover detail. She apparently left it in a room where there were panels … now if I had known that *cough*Jane*cough* has liberated it… we could have had dramatic readings! damn!
BobbyG!!! I did get an email from you with a really nice pic of Matt O. attached, and I am sorry for not having responded. As you probably know, I didn’t get to YK because I am still writing that f*ing grant proposal, and so I have also been bad about responding to emails. I am just so stressed, but commenting occasionally on FDL does help me keep sane. If I have missed more recent emails, tell me. I really liked that pic, and the one of Matt O. with JW, and all of the other pics you posted. I saved them for my scrapbook. xxoo VG
oh … I also had a sunday show ask me to suggest a conservative blogger to balance an appearance by ms w … I will not repeat my reaction but we will be talking in the future about bloggers who might be good guests. (and no, it was not mtp who were super wonderful to work with!)
LMAO….that was great…..
thanks TRex
you nailed ol’wonkwhench
But Siun- where and when and how did she announce that she had lost it? How did you find out? etc. I fear that you are just too close to the issue, and need to step back to give us a more complete picture. (hehe- hope you know the last is light-hearted.) Thanks so much for all you did at YK. I did get to read many of the threads, and ALL sang your praises.
Siun, I wondered about that “washington times” on the cover bit, thinking “doesn’t she write for Time Magazine?” what’s up with that?
Valley Girl -
OK, cool. Jus’ was wonderin’…
I’m stil jazzed over YKos. It was fabulous. The FDL people I met were uniformly wonderful.
VG - it is hard to have a proper … ahem … objectivity after days in the press room.
Poor ms w appeared with a young man in tow and was looking for her lost notebook … I fear I was not as sympathetic as I might have been.
TRex, you are fantabulous. OT, because by the time I got caught up with the previous threads, everyone had moved on: VG, sounds like a Palmetto bug. They are in fact large roaches, but they won’t hurt you. Try to usher yours gently outside. AirportCat, “Netroplex” sounds like a bunch of movie theaters, but you’re on to something. Maybe Netropolis? Then we could all be Netropolitans. Finally, for emptywheel from several threads ago, instead of gooper scooper, how about Vaseline? The all purpose lubricant, designed to make rough things seem smooth without actually changing the underlying terrain? Just a thought.
VG “writing that f***ing grant proposal” … brings back very bad memories of grad school for me, when I (and my two fellow native english speakers in our group) endlessly wrote grant proposals to keep our smegmatic advisor in funding … ugh! You have my sympathy!
BarbaraB !!!
xoxoxo
*ilson, information at the Mod Com service desk has been updated!!!!
I’m fried, just droppin in & will have to read all these brilliances tomorrow. just called to say I love you
Thanks, Mike Boyd and Pissed in NY. I never read Wonkette so missed her remarks about her sex life.
I think someone should put the notebook, at least the one posted here, on eBay. Give the dough to charity — Buttfuckers Anonymous, maybe.
I will also say … since it’s late night and I am almost asleep … that ms dowd got rave reviews from our media team. She really was interested in YKOS and was quite gracious with her numerous fans. And ms. dowd does actually go to sessions and experience the story she came to cover. We also really liked her encouragement of her associates to get involved with blogging - folks may not approve of what she wrote, but she made a good impression here.
Oh I should remind everyone that the idea for TRex’s fabulous “lost diaries” post came from ck in the comments yesterday. Credit where credit is due. Our comments section can be quite the gold mine.
Subway Serenade—warn me next time, I laughed and inhaled cookies. TY in advance. ;) Needless to say that goes for you too, TRex.
BarbaraB, “Netropolis” is WAY too close to “necropolis” for my tastes, but you are right, “netroplex” does sound a bit like a movie theater complex now that you say it :(
I am dumbfounded by this post.
I was watching Christy participate on a panel via Air America or C-Span. Christy made a fairly lengthy announcement about the lost notebook and requested that if the notebook was found, that it be returned. She also made a plea that nothing be published from the notebook.
how about “Netropia”?
Rob
It’s not a dumb question.
It was a real request and it was an actual, [hysical notebook. It said Washington Times on it or some such thing and she had notes in it for a story she was writing.
heading off to sleep … g’nite all!
AirportCat 50 -
So, much of academic is a “rent-a-desk” phenom, ‘eh? My former biz partner was that way. Non- tenure track, always having to buy his seat via grant $$$.
Much as I would love to teach, I ain’t gonna go back and do a Doc to end up taking about a 1/3rd pay cut to put up with that shit. I’d rather contunue to take my stupide Happy Meal money on the side as a PTI adjunct.
At UNLV, 60% of the teaching faculty is PTIs making crap money with no bennies. Prolly the same elsewhere, more or less.
Hi BarbaraB, hope you had a good trip home from Las Vegas. I really enjoyed meeting you.
Siun 56, Ms Dowd (MoDo?) got rave reviews at YKos? I had the misfortune of reading her column on YKos in the N.O. Times-Picyernose today, and can’t imagine how she could have been “engaged” and then go write that offal.
BobbyG — Right back atcha, sweetie.
Rob Zuber #35:
Until this morning’s news bulletin, I’d been anticipating a Steel Cage Death Match between Team Diebold and Team Net Neutrality over the Holy Grail One True Most Important Issue Ever.
I guess we’ll have to wait until the Fitz thing unwinds a bit.
I’m wondering where TRex is. He *loves* compliments. TRex, are you vacuuming up again after another brilliant late nite post? Have you gone off to Kroger’s to buy hazelnut candy bars? If not, what?
VG 69
Maybe he got called for jurassic duty
For the record: My Jones for MoDo is strictly doxy. Borne of a distant fond biting/scratching roll reminiscence (as I recall, it was in Spokane, while I was touring with Merrillee Rush).
And strictly theoretical at this point.
Thanks a lot TRex. Now how in the hell am I gonna make the next war profiteering post this funny?
Damn you!
Hey BobbyG, did you get my email with photos from YKos? I fear not as I didn’t get the cc I sent myself. I think I attached too many photos, I’ll try again in smaller packets. I was hoping you could post them on that album thingy you have on your site and give the firepups a link in comments. I’m not smart enough to handle that part myself.
BobbyG @65 - yeah, you right! Best comment I ever had from a student was the first course I ever taught (adjunct, of course!) when at the end of the semester a guy came up and said to me “the first day in your class I thought ‘wow, this guy doesn’t know shit’, but you know, I really learned a lot in your class.” Funny thing is, he was right, I didn’t know shit, and I learned at least twice as much as he did.
Best quote I remember from grad school, one tenured prof asked (rhetorically) “why is it that we can’t get good American-born graduate students?” and a young tenure-track guy (one of the good ones) replied “because Americans won’t do this for a bag of rice, a handful of curry powder, and $200 every 6 months!” I still laugh over that one.
op99 -
No, re-send, OK?
I can post ‘em.
I’ll have to monitor my spam filters. An increasing hassle. The swell information society.
goddamn that was funny. thanks, rex.
TRex, thank you for wonderful satire. I remember checking out Wonkette a while back, only to discover that there wasn’t any real substance there.
Found FDL, loved the graphics/images that come with each post, and discovered thoughtful, intelligent discourse [with a large side of snark], and a community of people looking for ways to make a difference.
VG, are you a grant writer, or is grant writing part of your job?
AirportCat (note that I am writing while asleep) - the raves were from our media team who found her respectful and friendly. I do think we underestimate how odd it was for “old media” to meet “new media” and spend several days listening to our critique of their work. I find the critique valid but then don’t blame the “old media” folks if they feel a little put off. And I appreciate reporters and columnists who do make the effort to explore this new terrain and talk to folks all over the convention and generally show decent manners.
and now I really am heading for my pillos.
If only there were a National Lampoon, TRex, you could write for it.
Also, the graphic is truly great. Love. The. Snark. Though, don’t you think, ass-sex should have been alluded to in the picture? :)
AirportCat 73 -
LOL!!!
At UNLV we make about $2,300 per 3-hr course per semester. We have to pay for parking (in VEGAS!), we get no office space (my office is the back seat of my car), and no bennies. For me, in my tax bracket, I end up giving it up to taxes.
And, the fucking tenured sourpuss crybabies on the regular faculty (all of whom HATE the students). You dudes got no Clue.
neurophius 62, “Netropia” sounds like a fruit drink or something … but can we have rival bloggers square off in … “The NetroDome”?
What’s another “root” word that means “city”?
TRex %u2013
You, sir, are seriously twisted. What did it take to write this, and where can I get some? The quart bottles of Night Train aren’t doing it for me anymore.
rcauthen, my friend. To be as twisted as I am, you absolutely positively have to write stone cold sober, helped along by generous cups of coffee and the occasional cigarette.
Lost&Found
Lost clamdiggers and reportorial notebook, in or around Riv Hotel LV 6/8-6/9 sentimental value, generous reward, no questions asked. If you have the clamdiggers, you know where to find me.
VG! Snerk!
Yes I think Christy may have actually talked to her and maybe found her worth helping out. Best not to find out if she’s a real human being. It’ll spoil the fun.
Dude. Please, please, please don’t make me feel guilty. I kind of already do. But imagine trying to keep something like this locked up in your head forever. It was all Jane’s fault! She read what ck said and apparently, it looked like a job for TRex.
Many are called. Few are chosen.
Hi Neurophius — It was a much longer trip home than it was supposed to be (Alberto and all that.) My internal clock is all messed up; jet lag is a bitch. I’ve posted bits and pieces at odd hours and was glad to see that you got back to Kansas safely. It was a pleasure to meet you too. In fact, getting to know the other FDLers was an amazingly wonderful experience. I wish you all lived close enough to visit on a regular basis! Pixels are good, but real people are better. I am now going to try to get some sleep, since I have stuff to do tomorrow. ‘Night, all.
TRex, my evenings aren’t complete anymore without your posts. I saw a license plate when I was gassing up to drive to Vegas that says exactly what I feel right now:
BWHAHAHA
G’night BobbyG, BarbaraB. Love you, Trex.
Interesting post on DKos on Looking Back at the Lieberman Independent Run
Who has pictures from YearlyKos? And where can I download them?
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=yearlykos
http://www.youtube.com/results.....rch=Search
http://www.linktv.org/yearlykos/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/12/13410/8251
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/13/125129/063
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....15447/2221
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/8/154638/7177
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/9/113617/3557
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/10/131758/013
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/12/162051/625
http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki.....lyKos_2006
And, the fucking tenured sourpuss crybabies on the regular faculty
Yep, That’s me, BobbyG!!!!!
BobbyG @82, wow! I feel lucky, I got $3500 for teaching that course - 3 semester hours, junior level - way back in the early 90s, but that was at a big public university, and it was an engineering class (I think they pay a little more in engineering) … a couple years after that, I taught at a juco for $1500 per 3-hour semester course. Full-time faculty at the juco were really nice, but only making about $35k for teaching FIVE 3-hour courses per semester. I love the value this society places on teaching!
Matt:
I got some,
http://www.bgladd.com/FDL
mommybrain, you are special.
G’night, firepups, gotta go crash. I was out late last night hangin’ with my guys at the Palms:
http://santafeandthefatcityhorns.blogspot.com/
VG, at least YOU are writing your own grant proposals!
Matt O.- hugs- Bobby G has posted some links on previous threads, and also someone posted a link to flicker (flickr?) where he had done a YKos search. I’m sure we can figure out where to find those pix. VG
AirportCat– I tried really hard to get Matt O. to write my grant proposal for me, but he politely declined. True.
OT - Richard Armitage speaks on Charlie Rose:
Regarding his role in the CIA leak case: “I’m not worried about my situation. I don’t even have an attorney.”
Rose: But the scuttlebut is that you went and testified very early.
Arm: Bush said that anyone who knows anything should testify. The State Department complied.
Rose: Were you Novak’s source?
Arm: We’ll wait and see. When Mr. Fitzgerald has wrapped up his investigation.
Rose: Was the purpose of the leak to damage Joe Wilson?
Armitage: No.
Valley Girl!!!!
It was a generalization about UNLV, m’Dear. My only experience.
AirportCat 88 -
Yeah, were I to adjunct full time year round, it’d be about that, $32-35k. Homie Don’t Tink So.
So, what am I to do, lowly MA that I am? Go back, get the Doc so I can be a mid-60′ish rookie assistant professor making mid 40’s?
Homie Don’t Tink So.
Don’t get me started on U.S. society’s compensation values.
Yeah, I’ll bet Matt O. would be very good at writing grant proposals. Did you offer him money, or just an “A” in your class?
the website wonkette wrote for was pro war & was very snobby — for instance, her colleagues in new york studiously avoided criticizing bush, cheney or rumsfeld for the torturing of prisoners in iraq, but they gleefully made fun of lynndie england’s roots in appalachia, as if she was to blame for being poor — i got the impression that denton loves neocons
op99 -
Got ‘em, email just came in, but I really do need to crash now. way tired. I’ll prep ‘em and post ‘em tomorrow, OK?
OT, but Mrs Cat & I went out to dinner the another night, and on the way out we walked past a dumpster and I noticed that it really stank (stunk?). And the reason why this is significant, is that all of New Orleans no longer smells like a dumpster (or worse) as it did for months, which is why I was actually noticing the smell. Does this count as progress?
Holy cow, after midnight, I have to go to work at a job that is becoming increasingly intolerable … I had trouble getting up for it this morning as it was. Good night ‘Dogs!
TRex, the comments at the Service Desk have been updated.
Speaking of journalism, although I guess that’s off-topic for an Ana Marie post, Keven Roderick (former LAT reporter, now successful blogger) has an interesting quote from WaPo’s Downie for your late-nite enjoyment:
http://tinyurl.com/g5gj9
Expect a steady diet of missing notebooks, or notebook owners, for the indefinite future.
Tom - Chicago @35:
I have no idea who Sheldon Drobny is or what makes him qualified to assert that “Those of us who have dealt with Fitzgerald in Chicago know that he has been a political pawn of the Bush Administration since he was appointed” - but the bottom line is that Illinois right now is controlled by Democrats. There’s a Democrat in the Governor’s mansion - Blagojevich. The other power center - Chicago - is controlled by a Democrat (Daley). Who else are the FBI and Fitzgerald going to investigate? Low level Republicans downstate who are stealing Post-It pads? Chicago is run on the patronage system. For better or worse, Fitzgerald’s office has criminalized the patronage system. (I happen to think that’s a good thing.) There’s a lot of evidence that Blagojevich (a former Congressman who has always been a machine pol) abuses his own patronage system.
I don’t doubt that Judy Baar Topinka (Republican candidate for Governor) has her own ugly patronage skeletons in her closet. If she wins the Governor’s office he’ll go after her too.
The last one left standing in Illinois, please turn out the lights.
I was sorely disappointed not to see something along the lines of “So hung over I’m not sure which hurts worse, my head or my ass…”
But genius nonetheless, and I detect a distinct whiff of Koufax Award.
Netborough
Netticoat Junction
Isle of Net
Netistantinople
Santa Ineta
Netsburgh
Nettingrad
stop me
I always thought of Ana Marie Cox as more of a liberal comedian who blogged. I found her to be amusing and fairly self-deprecating; she certainly never seemed to hold herself out as important. I stopped checking out Wonkette.com once she left.
Thanks BobbyG, don’t forget to crop out Pach.
YE GODS I love NETSBURGH!!
Rove testified before the grand jury a total of five times. Some legal experts considererd the outcome unusual
“I’ve never seen, frankly, someone involved in an investigation of this kind given so many chances to continually correct and amend prior testimony. There are many prosecutors who would have indicted Rove on his first statement,” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley told CBS. “He was given a great deal of deference and quite frankly, assistance, by the prosecutor.”
jmcq — I am smelling Koufax too.
The person to thank for the Rove getaway is Viveca Novak.
She just couldn’t get enough of those cocktail weenies.
TRex 109 — cool!
LOVED your hilariosity the last few nights. Brilliant.
Sheldon Drobny was the co-founder of Air America Radio. He is also the Chairman and Managing Director of Paradigm Group II, a venture capital firm specializing in socially responsible businesses. He has been the major force in developing Paradigm to the status it has achieved today. Mr. Drobny, a Certified Public Accountant and winner of the Elijah Watts Sells award for outstanding performance on the Uniform CPA Exam has practiced public accounting for over 30 years. Prior to entering public accounting, he had a number of years of taxation experience with the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Drobny specializes in business and tax matters and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court as a non-attorney. Less than 200 non-attorneys have been admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court since its inception in 1942. Mr. Drobny received a Bachelor of Science Degree in accounting from Roosevelt University in Chicago and is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an honorary fraternity recognizing acadamic achievement in colleges of business administration.
(Bio of the guy who says that Fitzy is a pawn of the Clusterfuck administration)
Netocracy (more of a concept than a place)(the association is with democracy, not bureaucracy)
Really, I think this IS a steady way to achieve credibility and yes.. a sure winning strategy for the mid-terms. What are the issues Cox’s is proposing next fall? What is her platform?