McCain's good, but Lindsey Graham has been good, too. He's a former JAG officer, so he knows the Geneva Conventions and the UCMJ backward and forward, and he's pissed.
McCain subtly handed Inhofe his ass by asking the three generals (one JAG, two Intel) if the Geneva Conventions were A Good Thing™, and why. He also made a snarky remark about "humanitarian do-gooders."
Warner was pretty right on this afternoon, too. He got pretty snippy with the three generals for weaseling about chain of command issues and the origin of the instructions to torture the prisoners.
Pig bastard.
To actively discourage his mostly young clientele from voting is just plain awful. And yeah, you can play it off as hip irony, but the Abercrombie & Fitch chinky-chinee T-shirts were hip irony, too.
There's a point at which it's not funny anymore, and they both shot right over it. Which is why these designers should have professional humorists as consultants. Your Adam Felbers and Margaret Chos should get major scratch for telling them what's "edgy" and what's offensive.
And it's not so much that these t-shirts are offensive so much as they're truly harmful. Why encourage un-civic-mindedness when there is so much already?
Unless...well, I was on the staff of a Republican Congressional campaign once. And they were cheering the crappy weather, because it would suppress voter turnout.
They knew the Republicans would turn out no matter what.
Look: The US has a two-party system. When it comes to the big Kahuna, only one of the major-party candidates is going to walk out of the Thunderdome.
If you care about introducing more voices to the conversation, the presidential election just isn't the right venue. With a few rare exceptions, all it produces is a handful of asterisks every four years.
I'm sorry, but parties are built from the ground up, with, y'know, work. Anybody who says voting third-party every fourth November accomplishes anything toward that goal is either a fool or a liar.
And I disagree that your presidential vote is a means of expression. The man in the Oval Office has the power, both on his own and through his appointees, to affect millions of lives all over the world. Most of those people don't get a vote, so you owe it to them to consider their needs, their dilemmas, their lives.
As some wag once said, "If you want to express yourself, make a f*cking quilt."
I have the general impression that the beltway dems would like nothing better than to eradicate Dean from all memory
That's so not true. I was at the TN Dem event where Gore delivered his firey "Bush Lied!" speech, and his fellow ex-Senator Jim Sasser started his list of the Dem candidates with Dean and how he helped the party regain its voice.
Maybe the Beltway Dems feel that way, but the ones out here in the hinterlands are grateful to Dean, even if they didn't think he'd make a good presidential candidate. And if Democrats out here don't get elected, the Beltway Dems don't have a job.
I'm with Patrick. I'm also a Molly Ivins fan, and everything I've read about GWB said he's a whiz at politics, but policy...mmmm...not so much. She did her best to calm us here. Not sure she'd stand by that judgement today, but it's interesting.
And C-SPAN is a great resource. I watched the Vilsack picnic last summer, and it was great watching them mix and mingle. Dean and Bob Graham looked like they were having a great time, working the room like they were at The World's Best Party. Poor Dennis Kucinich looked like he couldn't wait to get out of there. I've not seen him since in this setting, so maybe he was having a bad day.
Any candidate who promises to break up private businesses, i.e. media companies....
And who, pray tell, would that be? Because it sure ain't Howard Dean.
I think Gore's endorsement was entirely based on his desire to position himself at the head of the democratic party once Dean has lost the election.
Sorry, but I think this kind of tin-foil-hat speculation about the nefarious motives of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton is every bit as destructive as the pot-shots and distortions.
What makes you think Al Gore would subject this country to four more years of Bush just to satisfy his own ambitions? I don't think you can ascribe that kind of craven malevolence to a man you've never met.
If I was a resident of this town and we were paying these people a salary out of our taxes...
As the daughter of a tiny-town councilwoman, I'll bet you money these people do not get paid.
Not that your argument wasn't lame enough already.
I'm curious what the upside is to doing the tabular layout entirely in CSS vs. tables.
1. Smaller file sizes.
2. Greater accessibility for readers with handicaps. Someone using a screen reader doesn't get stuck with disjointed information reading across table cells. You can augment this with additional enhancements like skip navigation and access keys for readers who can't use a mouse.
3. The ability to change the look of the whole site by changing a file or two; or provide multiple style sheets and allow readers to select their favorite.
Glish has a great collection of examples, as does The Noodle Incident, and Eric Meyer's css/edge has some funky CSS tricks that I've stolen liberally. Jeffrey Zeldman knows all, tells all; and his Web mag A List Apart is chock-full of tutorial goodness.
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