Tuesday, September 30, 2003

The Yankees Lose! Thuuuuuuh Yankees LOSE! ...and the Yankees have now lost Game 1 of their best-of-5 division series to the Twins, 3-1 in Yankee Stadium. Sweeeeet.
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But Bush KNOWS Rove Didn't Do It! Julian Borger Names Karl Rove. "Several of the journalists are saying privately 'yes it was Karl Rove who I talked to.'" Guardian audio report here. (thanks to the tip from sl) [Eschaton] This is, of course, just the beginning. Until someone goes on the record saying that Rove called them and told them that Plame was CIA, it's not a sure thing...but that's got to be coming soon now. EDIT: The Poor Man gets in on the meme. And Brad DeLong points out that the actual leakers are just the tip of the iceberg.

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The Right Revisits Denial Over Plame Affair More Plame Reaction. MORE PLAME REACTION....Allen Brill rounds up the . He's not too impressed. The general reaction seems to be to ignore it, to sit on the fence, or to try and distract everyone's attention by... [CalPundit] Brill notices a meme that I've seen a lot of on message boards - attacking Wilson's credibility, as if Wilson's history as a Clinton appointee either makes it alright that the Administration illegally burned his wife's cover, or that it's somehow Wilson's fault anyway. Yeeterday, Drudge posted a bit from FEC records showing a May donation to Kerry by Wilson, which I guess was supposed to show that he's some crazed partisan nutcase...but then someone found a $1,000 donation to Bush that Wilson made in '99. Whoops. Drudge pulled the Kerry report lickety-split. They're just flailing, basically. Makes sense - how can you defend this when it's fairly obvious that it happened, and blatantly obvious that it was reprehensible? By the way, you should be reading Allen Brill's The Right Christians. Their motto comes from an Al Sharpton quote: "It is time for the Christian Right to meet the right Christians." Kickass.

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David Brooks Whines. We're Shocked. Really. Settle Down, Children. David Brooks wants us all to be nice. How nice.... [Matthew Yglesias] One of Brooks' more goofy statements, and a great response from the comments at Matthew's post: The warriors have one other feature: ignorance. They have as much firsthand knowledge of their enemies as members of the K.K.K. had of the N.A.A.C.P. And in fact, the KKK knew the local NAACP pretty well. They weren't lynching strangers. posted by Zizka

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Good Music I'm absolutely loving the Super Furry Animals right now. They rock my world...continuing proof of the inherent superiority of Welshness.
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Bushies Don't Want To Get Caught White House: No Independent Counsel For CIA Leak. The White House today rejected calls for an Independent Counsel to investigate leaks in the Plame affair. Both Wesley Clark... [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] Of COURSE they're not going to appoint an independent counsel - they're terrified of a Democrat Ken Starr. Or they're guilty as all hell and running scared.

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Can We Use Time-Travel To Undo The 2000 Election, Then? Clark Campaigns at Light Speed. On the election trail in New Hampshire, Wesley Clark thanks Internet activists and discusses his views on technology, which include his desire to research time travel. By Brian McWilliams. [Wired News] "I still believe in e=mc², but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go," said Clark. "I happen to believe that mankind can do it." "I've argued with physicists about it, I've argued with best friends about it. I just have to believe it. It's my only faith-based initiative." Clark's comment prompted laughter and applause from the gathering. Ok, we already knew that he wanted to be an astronaut when he was a kid...now he's dreaming of time travel. Lost in all the hubbub over Clark's military history, his political affiliations in the past, etc... is that General Wesley Clark, the next President of the United States of America, is a big ol' geek. This is a Good Thing - why can't we dream of making the world a better place, and advancing technology to get us there?

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