Archive for July 2007

Big Ups to Things | July 9th, 2007

Big ups to my friends at PandaSmash.com for doing a cool job cutting on the web’s video sites. Right here. I personally would like to see more of Emo Sam, potentially a spinoff series. Hey, it worked for Rhoda.
Big ups to A-Z Guitar Tabs for having such a complete archive. You think of a song, it’s up on there. Now I need a site to keep me motivated to learn to play. Or I can just wait 15 years for guitar-teaching neural implants and keep playing Guitar Hero II in the meantime. Sweet.
Big ups to Rock Creek Park. Pretty cool woods and forest stuff to do in the middle of DC.
Big ups to Morningstar Farms Grillers Original. Cooked in the pan with a little bit of olive oil and topped with some A1, these are sometimes higher than real burgers on the taste scale.
Big ups to sunblock. Irish people in sunny climates thank yinz guys for keeping us out of lobster territory. Less ups to being pale as hell in the first place, though.
Also, big ups to lobsters. You are delicious.

I’m out.

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Libby: G. Gordon or Scooter, They’re All Criminal To Me | July 5th, 2007

I guess I’m supposed to be mad at the commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence, but normally you have to be taken aback by something to be angry, and this is probably the most predictable presidential action since the last bad decision Bush made. (Choose your own; there’s no shortage.) But the point is, it was predictable.

The time to be mad about this was probably when he was convicted. If on the day of the conviction, you somehow thought Libby wasn’t going to be pardoned, you should probably also see a doctor about the inordinate amount of time you spend submerging your grill-piece in grains of silica. I will give Bush credit: he surprised us with the speed that he arrived at the incredibly bald-faced decision we knew all he’d eventually make. I was thinking fall 2008 or so, but it’s not even mid-summer 2007 and we’re already witnessing the bending of justice. (Note to Tony Snow: keeping Libby away from justice is clearly worse than Clinton’s pardons, because it’s pretty obvious that Al Gore didn’t go to Marc Rich and order him to break the law. We can’t be quite so sure about Dick Cheney going to Libby.)

Keith Olbermann is certainly right here, but we’ve come to the point where we have two options: impeachment / resignation (as if!), or battening down until January 2009. (The latter being contingent on us not going to war with Iran. Should he opt for that, all Bush has to lose are many thousands of human lives, and that hasn’t proven to bother him so far.)

Though I think the president’s actions more than warrant impeachment, the Republicans unwittingly did themselves a favor by impeaching Bill Clinton: that was such a partisan joke that the pooch of impeachment has been good and screwed for at least a generation or so going forward, and it just doesn’t seem like something the country is willing to go through again, even though the case for Bush’s impeachment just gets stronger and stronger all the time.

I still can’t believe all these G.O.P. jokers I see interning on the Hill, like the events of today aren’t even happening. Is impeachment justified? I think so. Will it happen? F no, it won’t.

2009, where you at!