Iran with Senators

A Bone For A Bone starring The Goofy Gophers.  This 1951 Warner Bros Merrie Melodies cartoon was directed by I. Freling.  Story by J. B. Hardaway.  Animation by Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, and Ken Champin.  Layouts by Hawley Pratt.  Backgrounds by Paul Julian.  Effects animation by Harry Love.  Vocal characterizations by Mel Blanc and Stan Freberg.  Musical direction by Carl Stalling.

What’s on your mind tonight?

So a lot of people ask me, they ask, “Thers? You seem like a nice enough guy — well-read, a family man, wise and warm-hearted, affable, and yet touched with a melancholy nobility, as if in your mien might be discerned from afar the lofty air of vanished Númenor. Why do you waste so much of your time reading and linking to so much insane moronic wingnut garbage?” To which I

While claiming he’d used most of his best material at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama dropped some zingers and got plenty of laughs at the Radio & Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner last night. And he gave a hat tip to bloggers.

Despite the flood of new media, I think your programming is more relevant than ever before.

All the benefits of another Republican appointee without any of the downsides of removing one from Congress.

People are debating whether we ought to meddle in Iran or not. But we already have.

Several months ago word went around the journalistic community that a New York Times reporter named David Rohde had been kidnapped by the Taliban. I emailed a listserv I’m on and asked people not to report the kidnapping out of fear that publicity would jeopardize his release. Then, while at an airport waiting for a flight, I very stupidly posted something that generically urged people not to say or write anything

Steven Miles is a prominent bioethicist and a trenchant voice and prominent leader in the fight to expose the complicity of medical professionals in the post-9/11 torture program initiated by the Bush administration.

Dr. Miles is the author of Oath Betrayed: America’s Torture Doctors. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and also on the Board of the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis. Oath Betrayed reveals how “medical professionals cooperated with all phases of coercive interrogation in Iraq, at Guantánamo, and in Afghanistan.”

The Post has been trying to kill off Froomkin’s audience for a while. Anyone who writes for a web site knows that if you get no main page exposure — or in this case, even a link on the Politics page — your traffic is going to take a huge hit, regardless of the quality of your writing. It’s like taking a baseball bat to someone’s knees and then firing them because they can’t walk.

Hiatt doesn’t need to produce Froomkin’s traffic figures — he needs to explain why they have been actively trying to eradicate Froomkin’s readership such that disingenuous arguments about “viewership data” could ultimately be made to justify sacking him.

I want to introduce you to Anthony Woods, a progressive young Democrat running to replace Ellen Tauscher in a congressional district northeast of San Francisco (CA-10), a district that has been trending decidedly Democratic (Gore won with 55%, Kerry with 56% and Obama with 65%). Anthony is one of the less likely candidates we’ve visited with– and one of the most remarkable. Born on Travis Airforce Base near Fairfield, the biggest city in the district, Anthony– raised by a single mom working as a housekeeper– earned a congressional appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He signed up to lead a platoon in Iraq– twice– and earned a bronze star and then earned a Masters Degree from Harvard. He gained national fame when he discharged from the military for standing up for equality and telling his commanding officer that he is gay, a violation of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Currently he works as an economic policy advisor. He anything but a professional politician and the primary in CA-10 is swarming with them.