I stole the original cartoon from Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index , and changed it slightly.

It's up to us

Here he is! Jeff Gannon's advertisement for sex.


From AMERICAblog:
CBSNews.com: Comparing bloggers to Hunter S. Thompson by John in DC - 3/3/2005

Again, wow. I have to admit, I've never read his stuff. I really need to.

Several obits of the late Hunter S. Thompson described him as a precursor of today's bloggers. As The New York Times viewed it "his early work presaged some of the fundamental changes that have rocked journalism today. Mr. Thompson's approach in many ways mirrors the style of modern-day bloggers, those self-styled social commentators who blend news, opinion and personal experience on Internet postings. Like bloggers, Mr. Thompson built his case for the state of America around the framework of his personal views and opinions.

"Having spent the better part of the past two weeks in the blogosphere working on a column on Jeff Gannon and Talon "News," the comparison leaped out at me. Although many of the stories about Thompson described his behavior as outmoded and stuck in the '60s and '70s while Aspen and the rest of the world had moved on, he in fact made the conversion to the Web quite well. He wrote a column for ESPN.com and in 2002, Shift, a Canadian digital-culture magazine, named him, along with Matt Drudge, two of the top 25 Web personalities....

There is information on the blogs that is extremely helpful to advancing a story and journalists who ignore blogs are overlooking a huge resource. Media Matters, Americablog, Kos and their contributors plucked information about Gannon, Eberle, Rove, et al, quickly and disseminated it before Talon News and GOPUSA decided to remove it from their sites. The guerilla warfare continued last week when a conservative site, The American Spectator, put up a controversial ad attacking the AARP, which was then captured and circulated on the liberal sites, eventually making it to the MSM. By the time the MSM discovered the story, the Spectator had taken down the ad.

But, as Rosen says, bloggers are more than information providers. Their anger toward and distrust of the traditional media and the political establishment are palpable. After the Gannon column ran, I received hundreds of e-mails demanding to know why the msm was ignoring the story. One of the ways the mainstream has dissed the blogs has been to label them as having agendas and not being "objective." But that doesn't make their information wrong or their points of view irrelevant. Many bloggers are people who care passionately about public issues and who are frustrated that their viewpoints aren't expressed in public debate. The frustration became so great on the right that The Washington Times and Fox News were created and found a readymade audience.

The New Face of America?

Finally, a step in the right direction:
The Lawsuit Against Donald Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies


Watch movie, take action.

If only it were true...

Courtesy of my cousin, Amy.

Propaganda Press Corps

I am continually amazed by the huge stories this administration is able to sweep under the rug. However, what I don't understand is the press. The latest scandal is getting little to no airtime in the mainstream media. Who is making these decisions? Is Karl Rove making death threats, or has the media just given up?

Can you imagine if the "Jeff Gannon" story had broke in the Clinton Whitehouse? Bill would have been tarred and feathered by now.

A New Protest Song

Remember Country Joe & the Fish's Vietnam protest song: "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die?" Well, I changed the words a bit for our time:

Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Dubya needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Iraq-land
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Iran;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on all war profiteers, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those towelheads
Because the only good Muslim is the one who's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.
(and taken control of their oil fields)

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Iran;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Huh!

Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with Haliburtons trades,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Islamic ones.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Iran.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Iraq & not-so-much Afghanistan.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Iran.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Birthday dogs

February is doggy birthday month here at the OCD GenX Liberal's household. Norman's (the French bulldog) birthday was today. Stella's (the black pug) birthday was February 8th. They both turned 2.

I consider them my children...wouldn't you?