
I don't know quite what the problem is with the Village Voice these days, but whatever it is, it would be better with Tom Tomorrow back again.
A Better TomorrowBy: Jane Hamsher Thursday January 4, 2007 2:30 pm |

I don't know quite what the problem is with the Village Voice these days, but whatever it is, it would be better with Tom Tomorrow back again.

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Whew. I bet Twolf1 is right behind me…..
PELOSI!
Happy Pelosi Day!
Katymine!
TeddySanFran @
3
Very Happy.
Bush Claims Right to Check Nation’s Mail, Underwear:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.....-item.html
Bustednuckles @
1
I was watchin’
…and I saw your comment edit ;)
Tomorrow!
twolf1 @ 7
Heh Heh Heh Heh
Like I said, I have my methods.
Lott now calling himself a populist on Tweety.
Yeah, a bigoted populist.
Oh, and speaking of bigots, if you haven’t seen this picture of “vandalism” at Virgil Goode’s office, do drop in. It’s worth it.
RevDeb @ 10
I have a feeling that Lott thinks Populist mean to populate his pocket with our hard earned earnings.
RevDeb @ 10
Tweety all swoony for Trent. Why doesn’t he call him on his Strom-love?
hi jane!
RevDeb @ 10
There’s a long tradition of them, RevDeb. Think about the Kingfish, for starters.
Given its history in this country, populist isn’t a label I’d seek or apply to myself.
BC
scarlet p. @ 6
If Bush wants to open my mail, I expect him to pay my bills, too.
Maybe Lott needs his office decorated like Goode’s?
New Goode Title?
Bush can check my junk mail anyday…. He can have it!
Yeah Tweety has a thing for Lott, but he is pressing him on a straight answer as to whether he supports the Bush/McCain/Lieberman escalation.
Lott bought the package, though he still believes myth of the biological airial spray! He uses the ‘change the status quo’ hairspray pathologically.
Novak is the “Prince of Darkness”? (Tweety)
I thought that title was willingly held by Richard Perle….
neurophius @ 18
Well, maybe not. He asked him a good direct question but did not follow up well, let Lott get away with saying “the status quo has to change.”
You could go either way with that one.
Did anyone one see this on Pelosi?
AND this was written by a woman… but it is the Arts and leisure section.
Suited for Politics
RevDeb @
11
and really - if you didn’t go see this, you should - it’ll do your heart good…
on this momentous day my contempt for Joe Lieberman shines as brightly as ever
Jon Kyl re: Iraq ’surge’ - “You can make the argument either way, but you’re not going to know if it works until you try it.”
Let’s experiment with your kids Mr. Kyl, and the Bush twins… then we’ll know if it works.
katymine @ 22
Bleah. If this is the best the media can do with a woman in a position of political authority, we might not be ready for Madam President after all.
Bush has been packing the White House payroll of late with lawyers with the express purpose of insulating the prez from what’s coming.
jayt @ 20
Novakula has held that title for years Inside the Beltway. Perhaps Perle can be the Little Prince of Darkness?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 27
Shit? Meet fan.
If the WH is captured by the Dems in 2008, where will that leave Lieberman? In terms of what continued damage he can do.
TeddySanFran @ 28
Perle could be The Prince of F***ing Darkness…
RevDeb @ 11
Technically, I suppose it is vandalism, but it’s hard to imagine a milder form. Wonder if they had to scrape it off, or if they just needed to wash the window?
Katymine @ 22, It’s my understanding that Madame Speaker’s husband picks out her dress. Not too shabby?
TeddySanFran @ 28
The Little Weenie Prince of Darkness.
TT is the best penguin cartoon this side of Bloom County.
Cujo359 @ 32
Perhaps truth should be a defense for graffiti.
So we celebrated Pelosi and at the same time
Meirs quit
Bush names UN Rep
Bush fires two generals
Did he want us not to notice or is he and Rove trying to steal Pelosi’s thunder?
katymine @ 22
Of course it was (written by a woman). You don’t think editors assign fashion stories to MEN, do you?
Cujo359 @ 35
Indeed. Opus is the king penguin though.
Cujo359 - I found the “graffiti” to be absolutely artful and wish I’d thought of it…
Bustednuckles @ 29
Congress: “Your shit’s in my fan.”
President: “Your fan’s in my shit.”
Looking forward to the WaPo Style section’s dissection of Majority Leader Reid’s fashion choices…. but not holding my breath!
twolf1 @ 25
First it was OldCoastie and now twolf1 dis my Senators….
You mean lets remove habeas Corpus Kyl?
You mean a man who has worked for years to remove habeas corpus?
The senator who had to put a page on his AZ Senator Website stating how he supports Vets when my DFA group sent 500 or so letters to him about his NO votes on military and Vet bills?
The senator that votes 97% with BushCo?
That stinking senator?
jayt @
20
You are correct. I have it on authority these neolosers like to ride around Chicago’s Southside pickin’ up young male a__ in nice shiny limos.
And I forgot Nregroponte…..
CNN - north korea preparing another nookulur test
just sent an email to msnbc and asked them why they would ruin their afternoon lineup with a “silly little twit” like Fucker Tarlson…
well, OK, I spelled his name correctly… someday they will get enough “he’s annoying” emails and offer him the chance to “pursue other opportunities”.
Cujo359 @ 41
Harriet Meirs was a big fan of the preznit.
Gen. John Abizaid replaced by Admiral William J. Fallon
General George Casey replaced by David Petraeus
John R. Bolton replaced by Zalmay Khalilzad
Old Hip replaced by Gen. New Hip
newspaperbrat @ 34
Oh my. Don’t stir that asshole up, he’ll convince Georgie to invade N. Korea. (after, of course, our ’successful’ attack on Iran)
He’s worse than Kristol, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld combined. Hard-core mother-f***er.
punaise @ 48
I have a bit more respect for her now that she was fired, er, resigned, from the White House.
Did anyone know beforehand that the doctors were going to socket to Bush I?
neurophius @ 52
no one could have foresewn his breeches.
punaise @ 53
Yes but are they magical breeches?
“Sock it to me?”
Richard Milhouse Nixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_In
twolf1 @ 49
Great. Put a naval aviator in charge of the Iraq problem. That’s worked so well in the past. At least this one went to the War College.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 54
Let’s not have any breeches of good taste here…
looking at gooperblog wizbang article about ‘pelosi already drunk on power’ linked to from raw story main page. in the comments section:
So if some one shot HER, Bush would still be President, right?
Posted by: LJD at January 4, 2007 09:00 AM
LJD:
Now thats funny!
Posted by: USMC Pilot at January 4, 2007 09:01 AM
Let me see if I can get this right: Al Gore wins in 2000. Bush contests Florida recount. U.S. Supreme Court hallucinates Bush victory?
Does anybody feel better knowing this past six years has been Rehnquist’s hallucination?
Let’s be clear. If Lott is calling himself a populist and Arnold Gropernater is proposing healthcare for all children in Cali-fawnya, it is clear the political plates are shifting.
That is why the Republican whining is going to hurt them more than it hurts us.
Whine on you crazy wingnuts.
-GSD
P.S.
Wanna get a pool going on how long before Denny(s) Has-Turd quits the House?
Will Poppy Bush get his spine replaced too?
-GSD
Was Rehnquist supplying Limbaugh or was Limbaugh suppying Rehnquist?
neurophius @ 57
I promise I wont have any mor going mon.
GSD @ 61
Didn’t know he had one.
GSD @ 60
Valintines Day, Ping !
Oh, oh its Magic! You knooooooow…
FYI — Tom Tomorrow is featured on line at Salon Magazine.
While I haven’t been happy with all of Salon’s business and editing decisions, Salon has been a bargain as a subscription because of quality content like Tom Tomorrow and the wonderful premiums it offers (free daily music download, podcast interviews, magazine subscriptions, occasional books, TableTalk userid, etc.)
If it were a choice between Village Voice and Salon — seeing as the better content is clearly in VV’s online edition — I’d have to go Salon. Might be worth telling them you don’t have a compelling reason to stay with their print or online material if you can get compelling content AND Tom Tomorrow elsewhere…food for thought…
GSD @ 60
“Wanna get a pool going on how long before Denny(s) Has-Turd quits the House?”
I would have to check and see how his retirement date would affect his pension.
I have to tell you all. I’m watching some local news (I hardly ever do that anymore) and seeing Deval Patrick at the Shubert Theater with 1,000 high school kids earlier today.
This guy is one to watch. I sense in my deep gut that he will rise much higher than Gov. of MA.
Stay tuned.
Dear Jane,
I signed (#103).
Did you?
Love,
Woid
new thread
Why am I not surprised that all the talking heads on TV are Repubs tonight?
Keith!!!
neurophius @
64
It is made of gummy bears.
-GSD
Reminds me of a Pink Floyd tune…….
twolf1 @ 58
That pilot has been in the sandbox too long - needs to be ratted out, decommissioned and hauled before a military tribunal. I couldn’t be more creeped out.
GSD @ 60
talent rises to the top of the cesspool
newspaperbrat @ 75
agreed.
I signed the petition. Who in their right mind would drop Tom Tommorow??!! He’s one of those people, like Stephen Colbert, that has helped kept me sane through these insane times through brilliant, satirical humor.
OldCoastie @ 71
With mustard.
EvilDrPuma @ 26
But she does look lovely. Especially today.
Two words: New Times.
The Phoenix-based tabloid newspaper chain recently purchased the Village Voice, and then proceeded to fumigate the place with its tiresome brand of kneejerk contrarianism. Mayberry Muckrakers.
The Village Voice, sold itself and and the many very good local weeklies it had purchased over the past 20 years to the cravenly commercial “New Times” conglomerate.
The new owners have wasted no time in absolutely gutting the Seattle Weekly of any intellectually interesting content whatsoever.
All of the major writers quit or were laid off en masse.
Previously when the Village Voice took over the local control of the Weekly about six years ago, it was mostly an improvement over the overly elitist prior owners. Publishing is becoming increasingly unprofitable, and perhaps the Village Voice owners decided to get out while their papers still had readers, rather than marginalize them just to continue making money.
The new owners have no qualms about printing a paper with cheap boilerplate content like “Pet Cemetary” and no expensive reporting of useful information like local news.
They would have to pay a good columnist / reporter to do that. Instead we did get a really hard hitting (NOT!) cover story in the Seattle Weekly on “Cosby Sweaters”. Or a rather insultingly stupid and not-funny “Ask an Uptight Seattlite” column. Meanwhile the other Seattle weekly “The Stranger” remains well written and interesting to read, and apparently finding it easier to sell lots of ads while the Weekly is half the size it was before the sale.
EvilDrPuma @
26
Please, please EvilDoc, don’t make us live under the prez that the press deserves!
Novakula is Richard, Prince of Darkness. Perle is Prince Robert of Darkness.
Pace, Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana of Wales.
The distinction between head of house, and member of house.
RevDeb @ 69
I watched his victory speech after the elections and thought the same thing. He is one of those politicians that can really connect with his audiance and deliver a moving (and honestly heartfelt) speech it seems. I’ll be watching to see where he takes his career in the next few years as well.
I don’t visit the comment threads here often, but since you have to scroll to 80 and 82 to find an on-topic comment, it’s no wonder why.
In any case, regarding the Village Voice takeover by New Times: it is the single most alarming development in the media landscape during the past year. For many years the only reliable place for the left to have a voice in the media at all was in the alternative weeklies. And suddenly it is gone. New Times has destroyed that in the space of a few months. I have seen it here in LA with the LA Weekly. They still publish it every Thursday but there is nothing left to read except a few movie reviews, and even they are suspect. It’s sad and very unfortunate.
I am suprised that there has been so little coverage about what’s happened at the Voice, the Weekly, and other alternatives.