<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145</id><updated>2011-04-21T14:31:46.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>begemot</title><subtitle type='html'>"You left poor Behemoth, betraying him for a glass of brandy -- though it was very good brandy!"</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-4091904996978494066</id><published>2007-11-14T14:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T14:59:07.232-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Book now outEmail me at address on right to find out how you, too, can get it for a bargain basement price.Well, not exactly bargain basement.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/4091904996978494066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/4091904996978494066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html#4091904996978494066' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-117010359182486560</id><published>2007-01-29T15:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-29T15:46:31.836-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Historical ParallelsI've been meaning to post this little description of Nicholas II from the textbook I've assigned this semester.* It's ... uncanny.Here it is, to save future Bush historians much time:Nicholas's intellectual limitations and restricted social outlook might not have mattered so much had he relied on some of the talented and far-sighted nobles and bureaucrats who gained prominence</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/117010359182486560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/117010359182486560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html#117010359182486560' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-116975665704146289</id><published>2007-01-25T15:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T15:32:44.456-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Richard Cohen agreesTHIS is funny:Little said he hasn’t yet settled on his material for the April correspondents’ dinner. He has a vast repertoire of voices. His Web site features a hundred and sixty-three impersonations, including those of eight cartoon characters, three Muppets, and a hundred and fifteen people who are dead. These include Red Skelton, Broderick Crawford, Telly Savalas, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/116975665704146289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/116975665704146289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html#116975665704146289' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-116974959742854798</id><published>2007-01-25T13:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T13:26:37.443-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>A Revival:For personal amusement purposes only, I will, shortly, be reviving this much-beloved and desperately missed blog.Try to contain yourselves.-- Stu</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/116974959742854798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/116974959742854798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html#116974959742854798' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-109045195000980253</id><published>2004-07-20T19:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-21T19:23:07.276-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Please come follow me to my new home:PoliticalStrategy.org</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/109045195000980253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/109045195000980253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_archive.html#109045195000980253' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-108901044060823344</id><published>2004-07-05T02:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-05T02:54:00.610-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Kerry Picks Jesus Christ as VP Running Mate; Bush Campaign Responds[reposted from my dKos diary]A Bush administration spokesperson responded today to presumed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's surprise announcement of Jesus Christ, a carpenter from Nazareth, as his running mate:The Democratic Party is offering us a ticket that includes two ultra-liberal politicians out of touch</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108901044060823344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108901044060823344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_archive.html#108901044060823344' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-108901151306023733</id><published>2004-06-24T01:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-07-05T03:13:36.603-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>John Gorenfeld, Moon the Messiah, and the Media Echo Chamber[Reposted from my diary at dKos]I've been thinking about how the story that John Gorenfeld has been following for months concerning politicans' close ties to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, and in particular the bizzarre ceremony this March where Moon was crowned messiah, has suddenly burst into the open in the past several days.  It has </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108901151306023733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108901151306023733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_archive.html#108901151306023733' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-108742766118836096</id><published>2004-06-16T19:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-16T19:14:21.186-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Political Taboos, pt. 2:  Payroll Tax Reform[reposted from my diary at dKos]Part two of my series on "taboos" in American political discourse will argue for the need to reshift the tax debate from income to payroll taxes.  Previously I have posted an introduction to the series and an entry on the need to eliminate agricultural subsidies.  All posts in this series will also be reposted on my </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108742766118836096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108742766118836096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_archive.html#108742766118836096' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-108683969556226068</id><published>2004-06-09T23:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-12T02:31:31.556-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Suggestions for W's SpeechI sent some suggestions to Chimpy for his speech at the Reagan necropallooza(Oh, I should add, I suppose, that they are adapted from Stalin's speech at Lenin's funeral):In leaving us, Comrade [Reagan] commanded us to hold high and to keep pure the great name of Member of the Party. We swear to thee, Comrade [Reagan], to honour thy command.In leaving us, Comrade [</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108683969556226068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108683969556226068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_archive.html#108683969556226068' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-108613545755266202</id><published>2004-06-01T20:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-06-01T20:19:52.873-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Political Taboos, pt. 1:  Eliminate Agricultural Subsidies[Reposted from my diary at dKos]Last week I announced, to rapturous acclaim (or was it rapturous indifference?), that I would begin a series on topics that I believe to be taboo in American politics.  Not, that is, that they cannot be talked about, but that they are unlikely at the present time to be pushed with any seriousness through</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108613545755266202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108613545755266202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_archive.html#108613545755266202' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-108552646392224602</id><published>2004-05-25T19:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2004-05-27T23:51:05.970-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Political Taboos, the Series:  Introduction[Reposted from my diary at Daily Kos]For some time now I have been scheming (but not producing, dilettante that I am) to write a series of essays concerning political taboos – that is, issues that will or can not be debated within the current parameters of American political discourse.  Most of the energy on dKos and other liberal blogs is rightly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108552646392224602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/108552646392224602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_archive.html#108552646392224602' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-107657156774078190</id><published>2004-02-12T02:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-02-12T02:42:55.390-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>For now I'm mostly hangin'At the truthandhope blog.But I may resume here eventually.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107657156774078190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107657156774078190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107657156774078190' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-107403947392889670</id><published>2004-01-13T19:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-01-13T19:22:40.686-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Wonder of WondersThat is, the frigging UPI posts a piece by Martin Shieff wondering whether Bush's teflon will remain so impenetrable.  On l'affaire Paul O'Neill:Only a day later it called for a probe into how government documents labeled "secret" could be aired on the O'Neill interview on national network TV in prime time. But this response contrasted strikingly with the far slower response</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107403947392889670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107403947392889670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_archive.html#107403947392889670' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-107337369460118070</id><published>2004-01-06T02:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-01-06T02:22:08.683-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>No One Wants to Get to the Bottom of ItSo, as Josh Marshall notes, Scott McClellan declines to say whether Bush wants his aides to sign the forms that would release the "Cold Call Six" from their confidentiality agreements.  But, McClellan adds, apparently with a straight face (at least Mike Allen doesn't tell us that he was bustin' out laughing), "The president has always said that leaking </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107337369460118070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107337369460118070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_archive.html#107337369460118070' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-107333631161065671</id><published>2004-01-05T15:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-01-05T16:02:17.410-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>On the MooniePIBack from hiatus, at least temporarily ...[Reposted from my dKos diary]This came up several months ago, after this excellent piece in Salon, but after Atrios's post today on the latest utterly ridiculous Rachel Marsden UPI-sponsored anti-Dean rant I think it needs to be said again.Why is anything associated with the Rev. Moon given any brook in any quarter in this country?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107333631161065671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107333631161065671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_archive.html#107333631161065671' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-107117722129023220</id><published>2003-12-11T16:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-12-12T02:25:17.563-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Spreading the MemeOkay, following Atrios:unelectabaleUpdate:  Boy can't even type right.unelectableThere!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107117722129023220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107117722129023220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_archive.html#107117722129023220' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-107023140729863669</id><published>2003-11-30T17:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-11-30T17:30:16.920-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Busy, busy, busyYes, yes, yes, my thousands of adoring fans.Life and work have taken me away from blogging, but I hope to return eventually.  In the meantime, support Atrios and make a fashion statement.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107023140729863669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/107023140729863669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_archive.html#107023140729863669' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106749033987910684</id><published>2003-10-30T00:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-10-30T00:05:37.366-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fox Nearly Sues ItselfAccording to Matt Groening, Fox nearly sued itself over a parody of Fox News on the Simpsons a while back.  Here is the streaming audio of Groening's interview on Fresh Air this past week.I remember seeing the episode (with running scrawl such as "92% of Democrats are gay") and thinking it was one of the most brilliant recent moments on what is after all these years still</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106749033987910684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106749033987910684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106749033987910684' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106744960746686789</id><published>2003-10-29T12:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2003-10-29T12:46:48.700-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Putin's Russia(reposted from my diary at Kos.)The arrest of Russia's richest man, YUKOS oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky, this past weekend has already produced an explosion of amateur Kremlinology. (For a sampling see this piece in Slate.) The general consensus is that this was unquestionably a political arrest, motivated by the fact that Khodorkovsky was bankrolling Putin's opponents in this </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106744960746686789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106744960746686789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106744960746686789' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106693831093023161</id><published>2003-10-23T15:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-23T15:46:09.456-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Our Ally, the Human Rights NightmareThe Memory Hole has the pictures up:  Bush, Powell, and Rumsfeld shaking hands with one Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan and one of the world's most renowned human rights violators.  Human Rights Watch has the other pictures -- victims of Karimov's oppression, those who have been beaten and died in pre-trial detention.As the Guardian noted earlier </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106693831093023161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106693831093023161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106693831093023161' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106680087799871263</id><published>2003-10-22T01:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-22T01:34:37.690-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>NONE!A public service announcement from Garry Trudeau.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106680087799871263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106680087799871263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106680087799871263' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106676066127871827</id><published>2003-10-21T14:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-21T14:25:00.096-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Lockyer's FollySo it has come to light that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer voted no on the recall, but yes on Schwarzenegger.  In essence, he declared all out war on Bustamante."I voted for Arnold. First time I've ever voted for a Republican in my life for a partisan office," he said. "I looked at the list (of candidates). It was a crappy list. He represented for me what he did for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106676066127871827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106676066127871827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106676066127871827' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106632928836485070</id><published>2003-10-16T14:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-16T19:30:19.880-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Busheviks and Bolsheviks, pt. 2For part two in what is to be a running series on "how the Republicans are like the Bolsheviks" (the very brief pt. 1 is here), I turn to the recent "kerfuffle" over the identical letters to the editor supposedly sent by our soldiers in Iraq but in fact formulated by an over-eager batallion commander desirous of counteracting all of the bad news that the "filter" </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106632928836485070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106632928836485070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106632928836485070' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106609024790454420</id><published>2003-10-13T19:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-13T23:22:36.666-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>92 Days and CountingNovak's article exposing the identity of an undercover CIA operative appeared on July 14th.  That was 3 months, or, to be exact, 92 days ago.  That's 92 days where Bush could have, but hasn't, discovered the identity of the person(s) who leaked Valerie Plame's name.  As of midnight tonight, that'll be 2196 hours ago, if we assume that someone first alerted Dubya at noon on </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106609024790454420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106609024790454420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106609024790454420' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106589468712625822</id><published>2003-10-11T13:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-11T13:51:35.420-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Gitmo's Too Good For HimSo Pat Robertson is suggesting that the state department should be nuked.  Sounds like provocation to terror to me.  While we can all see the poetic justice in sending him down to Guantanamo to spend some time with those Muslims he hates so bitterly, it seems to me that advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government is high treason.  Couple this with his prayers for the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106589468712625822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106589468712625822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106589468712625822' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106581487653652277</id><published>2003-10-10T15:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-10T15:43:52.973-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Daschle Finds His Voice... with some help from Biden, Levin, and Schumer.  The letter sent by four prominent Democratic Senators to Bush over the bungling of the leak investigation is surprisingly articulate.  They highlight in particular the notable delays afforded in the procurement of documents, which, of course, would have afforded the opportunity for the destruction of incriminating </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106581487653652277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106581487653652277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106581487653652277' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106567607518612882</id><published>2003-10-09T00:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-09T01:21:10.526-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>American PsychopathI turned on the radio as I got set to do the dishes tonight, and heard a voice shouting, vehemently, furiously.  Is this NPR? I thought, wondering if my wife had changed the station.  Then the very angry man started sputtering that he knew what Fresh Air was really about, he was on to it.  And there, sure enough, was an absolutely flabergasted Terry Gross, trying to get a word</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106567607518612882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106567607518612882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106567607518612882' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106537120525197559</id><published>2003-10-05T12:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-05T12:26:45.080-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Maintain the BaseAnother story in the NY Times today about why Democrats are desserting Davis in droves.  The quotes are depressing, because it shows how much the Schwarzenegger propaganda machine has succeeded, but they are also a primer of the mistakes Davis has made.  Bustamante has not done enough to distance himself from Davis during the campaign and is assumed to be part of the same "</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106537120525197559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106537120525197559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106537120525197559' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106512294936442591</id><published>2003-10-02T15:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-02T15:29:09.106-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Goring of Cruz BustamanteCruz Bustamante has not run a very good campaign.  He isn't a very flashy guy, and that doesn't play well these days.  (See Gore, Al.)  He looks and smells like the politico, and what proposals he has made toward "fixing" California have the hint of pander to them.But none of these things explains why Bustamante, a Latino and moderate Democrat in a heavily Latino, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106512294936442591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106512294936442591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106512294936442591' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106502216109645515</id><published>2003-10-01T11:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-10-01T13:02:11.246-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Grim LA Times Poll:  56 to 42; 40 to 32Jerome Armstrong on the Daily Kos reports that Davis's campaign, specifically respected pollster Paul Maslin is reporting that their internal polls show that Arnold will absolutely win part two of the recall ballot, meaning that everything hinges on part one.  I'll repost my response on the Kos comment boards here:When Maslin says it's all over on the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106502216109645515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106502216109645515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_archive.html#106502216109645515' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106494668292861613</id><published>2003-09-30T14:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-30T14:31:22.613-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Arnold the EnvironmentalistThe AP is reporting that Arnold is catching flack from environmental groups for accepting $100,000 from a large developer with a history of environmental-related complaints.The company, owned by Tim Blixseth of Rancho Mirage, is facing fines and other sanctions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality stemming </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106494668292861613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106494668292861613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106494668292861613' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106489843849105743</id><published>2003-09-30T01:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-30T01:07:18.560-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Comments UpFor that magical future date when all the world will come to gawk at the hideous things I write!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106489843849105743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106489843849105743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106489843849105743' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106468231753548537</id><published>2003-09-29T20:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-29T20:49:30.350-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Whore of BablyonThe Rev. Barry Lynn, director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, has been quite visible lately.  Americans United led the good fight against the grandstanding Justice Moore and his ten commandments monument, and, perhaps of more substantial importance, has been loudly warning against Dubya's Faith-Based Initiatives, which is now being implemented by a</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106468231753548537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106468231753548537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106468231753548537' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106484962491814675</id><published>2003-09-29T11:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-29T11:33:44.660-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Total Recall 2Yesterday's Doonesbury includes a pre-printed form to begin the campaign to recall Arnold ...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106484962491814675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106484962491814675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106484962491814675' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106481440774656559</id><published>2003-09-29T01:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-29T01:49:38.023-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Davis Toast?As I just posted on the Kos comment boards (scroll down):The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll predicts a relatively low turnout of 50% of the voting age population.  In an ordinary election that wouldn't be low at all, of course, but with the dramatic increases most counties are reporting in registration over the past month or so, it is difficult to know if this is a good guess.The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106481440774656559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106481440774656559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106481440774656559' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-10647847195210143</id><published>2003-09-28T17:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-28T17:38:03.760-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Plame OutI'm not going to be so presumptuous as to add my own post on the White House's outing of Joe Wilson's wife, since it is being covered in blanket detail over at Atrios, CalPundit, Talking Points Memo,  Kos, etc.  (I won't bother with the permalinks since there are so many and with more unfolding by the hour.)I have noted two things on Atrios's comment boards, which no doubt aren't </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/10647847195210143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/10647847195210143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#10647847195210143' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106470491210705289</id><published>2003-09-27T19:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-27T19:26:36.400-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Pooty-PootPutin more or less thumbed his nose at Bush during their meetings at Camp David, refusing to cease their involvement helping Iran build a nuclear reactor.  He and his advisers essentially determined shortly before our invasion of Iraq that they had gone as far as was domestically politically possible in cozying up to Dubya in order to have him reiterate how the war in Chechnya was part</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106470491210705289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106470491210705289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106470491210705289' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106462268104939575</id><published>2003-09-26T20:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-26T20:32:04.703-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Paying AttentionWhether it's Bush's falling poll numbers or his own soon-to-be fund-raising record for Q3, Dean's call for the reisgnations of Rummy and Wolfy is making the rounds as an AP blurb.  Significantly, it is showing up on all of the local news broadcast websites, which means, I will assume, that it is being read as part of their three minute national news overviews.  (But maybe not, I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106462268104939575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106462268104939575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106462268104939575' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106461749696466420</id><published>2003-09-26T18:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-26T19:05:35.940-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Weintraub's ObsessionToday our favorite fair and balanced expert simply lists what tribes have given to Bustamante and McClintock.  Now, keeping track of what money is going where is a great service that the media should provide us with far, far more often than it does.  But ... is Indian money the only money going into this campaign?  Where are Arnie's millions coming from, Mr. Weintraub?  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106461749696466420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106461749696466420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106461749696466420' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106459425796984542</id><published>2003-09-26T12:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-26T12:37:37.820-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Ernie CarvilleBuzzflash links to this brand new poll showing just how deep a hole Bush has dug for himself.  Clearly voters have been swayed by campaign manager Ernie's skillful attempts to play up the multiple eyebrow liability.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106459425796984542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106459425796984542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106459425796984542' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106459367295273557</id><published>2003-09-26T12:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-26T12:30:21.166-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Toy Terriers on SpeedI don't know whether Buzzflash creates permalinks to his deeply original headlines, but some of them deserve to be preserved in one form or another, even here where no one will read them:Colin Powell is Caught Lying About the Bush Case for the Iraq War, So, In Typical Bush Cartel Fashion, He Lies Some More. Didn't Bush Say Saddam WASN'T  Connected to 9/11.  They Change </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106459367295273557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106459367295273557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106459367295273557' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106459345340787918</id><published>2003-09-26T12:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-26T12:30:40.373-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Coming HomeStill more on how the trends are favoring Davis, although no new polls as of yet."All of my friends spent the summer snickering at and needling Gray Davis,"  Farley said. "But it's gone from cocktail party to real. Now we're all coming  home."The question, as a Republican operative quoted further down the article hopefully remarks, is whether Democrats will get out to vote.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106459345340787918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106459345340787918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106459345340787918' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106452851359758742</id><published>2003-09-25T18:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-26T12:30:58.170-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Ancient John HolmesFrom harper's weekly review (scroll down).Scientists announced the discovery of the oldest known genitals, which belonged to the 400-million-year-old ancestor of the daddy longlegs; the fossil penis was two thirds the length of the creature's body. Oh, and in the same roundup, from the annals of chauvinism (both unintentional and cavemanesque):The World Bank declared </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106452851359758742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106452851359758742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106452851359758742' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106450142697441266</id><published>2003-09-25T10:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-25T10:55:20.036-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>All-Sizzle, No-SteakReading through the reviews this morning, I'm even more glad that I skipped watching the debate last night.  "This all-sizzle,  no-steak TV debate played like cheap reality programming and left the same  aftertaste," writes SF Chron TV critic Tim Goodman. It sounds like Arianna decided her mission should be to take down the Arnis, and I can only applaud her for that.  A </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106450142697441266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106450142697441266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106450142697441266' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106446595620549505</id><published>2003-09-25T00:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-26T12:31:14.106-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Pre-season gameWell even Weintraub isn't trying to spin Schwarzenegger's performance at the debate into anything special.  (After an entire day spent hurrahing the Indian Gaming issue.)Schwarzenegger said this would be the "Super Bowl" of debates, but his performance was more apt for a pre-season game. He didn't exactly embarrass himself, but neither did he score any touchdowns.I didn't </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106446595620549505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106446595620549505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106446595620549505' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106444506737303531</id><published>2003-09-24T19:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-24T19:22:08.666-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Echo ChamberWhether based in the academy or firmly ensconced in their own private arm-chairs, historians love to talk about how the failure of the Soviet Union should serve as a warning concerning faith-based government.  Ideology, it is explained, can offer little in the way of a practical guide for dealing with the problems for which states must actually find a solution.This is a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106444506737303531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106444506737303531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106444506737303531' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106444375085489909</id><published>2003-09-24T18:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-24T19:24:58.836-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Weintraub's VendettaWeintraub is dropping any pretense of objectivity over at the California Insider.  The particular target of his wrath is Bustamante's funding by the Indian tribes, and he links to "fair and balanced" John Fund in support of this.  Fund, he tells us, "comments astutely" on this issue.  Fund also tells us that several tribes are funding McClintock with the precise purpose of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106444375085489909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106444375085489909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106444375085489909' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106441837913362797</id><published>2003-09-24T11:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-24T19:24:28.320-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>A Major ProblemThe pressure mounts on McClintock to get out, but, cross our fingers, it doesn't sound like he's going to go anywhere.  And his campaign continues to lay it on Schwarzenegger:"The untold story is the incredible stall in the Arnold campaign," said  McClintock deputy campaign director John Stoos. "You bring on the celebrity  with the biggest media profile in the world, and he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106441837913362797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106441837913362797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106441837913362797' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847145.post-106426429681284453</id><published>2003-09-22T16:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2003-09-24T19:25:32.836-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Very Good Brandytesting first post of Begemot</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106426429681284453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5847145/posts/default/106426429681284453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://begemot.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_archive.html#106426429681284453' title=''/><author><name>sdf</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11376392751167510049</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
