Feminism on the web: We love it, you should check it out

11:47 AM Manny: i went to the packaging girlhood site

11:48 AM I also am against the new Dora

11:49 AM me: if you read that site/book you will quickly be against everything

11:50 AM huggies, dora, jem--you name it

Manny: i was already against those things

I'm all about Amanda Marcotte and the Feministing blog

11:51 AM me: I am not familiar

11 minutes

12:03 PM Manny: www.pandagon.com

www.feministing.com

wait, www.pandagon.net

12:06 PM Me: did you read the pandagon comment on sanford? hysterical!

11 minutes

12:17 PM Manny: indeed

she's funny

don't call her toots

me: word

12:18 PM duly warned

Froomkin, the death of the post, and PAUL "are you kidding me!?" WOLFOWITZ

10:00 AM Manny:

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/06/washington-post-andy-alexander-says-that-it-is-dan-froomkins-fault-that-fred-hiatt-and-company-fired-him----froomkin-departs.html

J. Bradford DeLong is professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He chairs Berkeley's Political Economy major and from 1993-1995 he was deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for economic policy.

10:04 AM me: Dude, they hired PAUL WOLFOWITZ!?

the post is a tragic joke

10:05 AM Manny: can't have too many republican voices

how will people internalize their bizarre views, without constant exposure to them?

me: I would think this tragedy was funny if it weren't for the dead bodies all over stage

10:06 AM Manny: yes

sucks to get one's legs blown off behind these a-holes

10:08 AM me: yes or to lose one's civil liberties or be trampled by the wealthy

fact vs. opinion

11:11 AM me: related to our conversation about npr and torture from yesterday, an old Bunch post: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/44423707.html

11:12 AM Manny: Dan F yet again

11:13 AM me: indeed

good thing the post fired his ass

11:14 AM Manny: moral clarity makes everyonee else look bad

don graham doesn't need that shit

me: that's so true

Manny: he needs his readers to feel serene in their assurance that their betters have everything all worked out

11:16 AM me: and that they will declare what is true and what is false for the benefit of all readers

Manny: the washpo let George Will make up fake data purporting to show that climate change isn't happening

11:17 AM it's opinion, they said

11:18 AM me: oh, obviously opinion. Science, philosophy, and politics are all the same thing my friend

15 minutes

11:34 AM Manny: and punditry

science is the same as punditry

11:35 AM me: of course, hence intelligent design

Sanford is back! Republican presidential candidates gone wild!

10:46 AM me: Dude. the republican presidential candidates are dropping like flies! Sanford was in BUENOS AIRES!? He was out of country and his own staff didn't know!? That's awesome.

10:47 AM Manny: name a republican leader who doesn't look like a creature from Dune

10:49 AM me: bobby jindal

Manny: bwap

wrong

the media makes him look more normal than he actually does

10:50 AM they let him, like bush, stand on crates to look taller and stuff

he's a freak

stone cold

me: ha

10:51 AM who is the senator who cheated on his wife with his staffer and then fired her and her husband again?

10:52 AM Manny: evelyn? Something like that

10:53 AM me: The stanford story has taken his story completely off the front pages. he's loving life. I can't find the spelling of his name anywhere. Ah, it's Ensign

the washington post in hell

11:58 AM Manny: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/washingtons-journalistic-culture.html

17 minutes

12:15 PM me: That guy could be us

12:16 PM the point is, of course, totally correct, he's just in the sad, sudden-realization-of-truth-stage still

Manny: its true

and Dan Froomkin is fired

WOAH! Holy missing governor!

10:25 AM Manny: did you see that the gov of south carolina is missing?

me: what!?

10:26 AM Manny: mark sanford

disappeared

his staff NOW says he's hiking

his wife didn't know

they ain't seen him in days

5 minutes

10:32 AM me: that's totally f-ing crazy

8 minutes

10:40 AM Manny: it is

NPR is liberal? Why can't they talk about all the TORTURE!?

9:31 AM Manny: I love Glen everyday, but this is also vg: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/22/npr/index.html

9:33 AM key question: How can you kill a detainee using interrogation tactics without torturing him?

13 minutes

9:47 AM me: no, I don't think so

26 minutes

10:13 AM Manny: NPR is an embarassment on this issue

as are the Times and the Post

I wouldn't have guessed our parents generation would be so quick to rationalize torture

10:14 AM me: dude, npr says "interrogation techniques that some have called torture"

10:15 AM Manny: some

like, you know, the red cross

some have called them "happy puppy tickles."

Like, the people guilty of commiting torture

and their daughter, Liz Cheney

me: ha

ha

10:16 AM ha

the red cross is notoriously hard on peaceful interrogators dude

10:17 AM Manny: My first concert was the Amnesty international show in philly with Bruce and Sting

I never really imagined France holding one of those concerts for our people

10:22 AM me: and the French are exemplary in their treatment of people different from themselves

10:23 AM Manny: also the belgians

love the belgians

me: of course