Thanks for a great post today. Republican or Democrat, it should be clear to most people that the Bush administration has distorted facts in an effort to facilitate policies. But, as Ted Rall points out, most americans really just don't give a shit. Pretty sad.

Not to get dramatic, but I watched the towers fall on Septmber 11 and smelled the fumes for weeks after. What has sickened me more is the knowledge that if we were attacked again, most of the world would say we deserved it. But we don't care as long as a reality TV show is on tonight.

Reinquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Stevens, Souter.

I think I've fared worse on the Cabinet, though: Powell, Rice, Norton, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Thompson, Ridge, Paige, Chao. That's all I can remember, although I think there are two others. Then there are cabinet-rank level postions, like VP Cheney, the Chief of Staff, the Drug Czar, um, isn't the EPA now just cabinet rank and there's some other monetary position.

Well, not too bad, at least. I need to go brush up on my civics before casting stones at the uninformed masses....

I love your blog. Please don't cite Ted Rall.....do a little background check on this guy. He's 100x more biased than Fox is, which is saying something. He's actually quite the asshole. Below, I've attached a link where he makes fun of Pat Tillman after he was killed in Afghanistan. I don't care what your political views are, someone who makes fun of a guy like Pat Tillman (who sacrificed fame and fortune in the NFL) is an idiot and a prick.

http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/

Wow, that Rall cartoon is rough, man. I link to stuff I find interesting, not necessarily endorse. I mainly linked to that one because of the ignorance of so many voters.

Even the Cheney stuff -- and the FOXNews.com thing -- were just for fun. I ain't gonna vote based on it. I just like how Cheney crafted this zinger about having never met Edwards and it blew up in his face like a cartoon cigar.

In Cheney's defense, there's a perfectly good reason why he didn't remember meeting Senator Edwards (or anyone for that matter):

He IS running the country on a day-to-day basis from an undisclosed bomb shelter, three miles below the Earth's surface, like an Underground Grinch.

For public appearances he has an undead cyborg stitched together from the parts of dead insurance salesmen and driver's ed teachers show up in his place. Not even Lynn Cheney can tell the difference. In truth, it is not clear whether he has YET met John Edwards.

But we can all sleep soundly at night, knowing that the pure evil that runs through his clogged arteries gives him super-powers that will protect us from another terrorist attack.

Cheney is quite the character. I really liked the way he waved off the opportunity to counter many of Edwards comments.

But to more important stuff like Howard Stern...
How many people will pay for radio? I guess if I had a long commute I would consider it, but I just don't see the value in it.

I am following Howard to satellite radio and I am pretty confident alot of other fans will to. I was so sure of it that a bought a considerable amount of stock in Sirius at market open yesterday.

If you enjoy something enough, you should be willing to part with a few bucks for it. I would pay for PK.com if you started to charge like the porn sites do. I pay extra every year when my Eagles and Phillies season tickets go up without complaint.

To be fair, factcheck.com isn't owned by George Soros. It's owned by a domain name holding company... looking to try and sell the name to the highest bidder. (BTW - I hate those bastard domain squatters) When the site got bombarded with hits, the domain name holding company decided that they would forward all the requests to a different site. Apparently they thought it would be funny (and it was) to forward it to Soros' site.

Soros has a message on his site saying that it came as a surprise to him, too.

Oh, and the reason why they decided to forward the hits in the first place is because they had a bunch of ads on the factcheck page and their advertisers would have had to pay $$$ for all the hits.

Ah, now that's interesting, too. I saw how FactCheck.com got redirected and wondered what that was all about. Jesus, can we get the truth about anything anymore?

Is it true that to find out how Bill Clinton was involved in the Halliburton scandal you have to go to FatChicks.com? I keep running into my company's firewall when I try to check it out...I guess top brass here must be Dems.

Cheney is a serious horses ass, but did anybody else who watched the debate feel like Edwards was...well, he seemed like a sleazy politician to me. He was waving his children around at the end of it just begging for someone to take his picture.

And I will follow Howard anywhere!!!!

Edwards never seemed like more a puppet then when he couldn't even talk about himself (without mentioning Kerry.) If anything positive for conservatives in that debate, Edwards made clear that he brings nothing to the Kerry/Edwards team other than his looks and southern accent. That's what I came away from the debate with.

The sad part about Cheney's comment is that Edwards failed to address it. That's what made it so effective. Unanswered attackes become facts. Having your wife remind you after the debate that you had, in fact, met the Vice President isn't very encouraging.

Why didn't John Edwards remember ever meeting Cheney? Judging by the look on his face, it seemed like Edwards believed him.

Hey Paul, where's my T-shirt?

Mike