Cut to the Chase: Zapping & Snapping The Zeitgeist

For the first time in years, I made a date this (Wednesday) morning to have breakfast away from home while I got my tires balanced (which is not a euphemism for anything, thank you). The Wayside ...

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As I noted at All Things Democrat , I think there are a host of reasons so many former Republicans and thirdies/Indies have joined new voters flooding into the blue party , among them: * excitem...

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Hurray for UVM , which happens to be an excellent set of schools. It's not that UVM isn't feeling the financial stress. But it makes sense for them to want more Vermonters to stay within a state...

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Sorry for the paucity of posts. I've apparently reached the point in my life where I spend more time attending or helping organize or sending memorial notes or remembrances FOR funerals than for ...

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And it's here: the story of the little woman who bit a pit bull defending her dog. They also used to tell us, besides that if it bleeds, it ledes, that we should never estimate the great intere...

http://cut-to-the-chase.blogspot.com/2008/04/just-like-i-learned-in-journalism.html

Today, as we mark that dark mid-March day in 2003 when President Bush, complete with a raised fist pumping air like he was about to go into the final playoffs to give "'em one more for the Gipper...

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You can be as low tech - talk to others about Iraq face to face vs. cyber - or high tech as you care to be. The point is to get people talking critically - not as in bad but with attention to det...

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However, the March 19th blogswarm commencing now is not to be taken lightly. Indeed, this war has never been a lightweight when it comes to brutality, sheer horror, the depths of human depravity...

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General William Fallon, who until this week was the most recent head of CentCom and the atrocity that is Iraq, has been referred to many times as perhaps the only person standing in the way of Bu...

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OK, color me fucking amazed (and not in a good way): you can lie entire nations INTO a war, and then lie about the results of that war every damned day, and yet if anyone speaks out against the l...

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Yes, this man - well, genetically male anyway - actually earns income as a chief correspondent for Newsweek AND as an MSNBC political consultant. I mean, the lady lobbyist McCain "helped" back in...

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(No, if I talked about weather, I'd use plenty of four-, six-, and even voluminously polysyllabic words as I curse. Vermont has actually had a 36-hour respite from our daily 12 inch dumps of snow...

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I really am a terrible sap for saving animals (and still have a scar from a car that clipped me as I moved a box turtle out of a country road to prove it). I hope Lucy a long, good life with this...

http://cut-to-the-chase.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-sob-story-of-week-save-my-dog-first.html

Funny... those family value Republicans - even New York ones - always have SUCH a short tolerance for anything even vaguely hinky anyone else does when we've got folks like GOP "morality czar" (a...

http://cut-to-the-chase.blogspot.com/2008/03/ny-republicans-and-stone-casting.html

First off, let me say that I think there are acts of what would legally be called prostitution that I feel are indeed victimless. People - not just women - have been known to use their sexual org...

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For those just coming out of their frigid, miserable ice caves, some right-minded though left-spirited are gathering to make March 19th, the anniversary of our 2003 invasion in Iraq, a day of...

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Er... uh.... yeah. I finally get time to get back to post and a) template went bonkers and b) I accidentally poured about 500 gallons of coffee into my keyboard (she types as she has to keep stop...

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, and on the torture brouhaha itself, at All Things Democrat, here and here including Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia insisting that, despite the Constitution's 8th Amendment, we shouldn'...

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Ashley Wright details some of the terrible stuff happening in Iraq that particularly target women . Mind you, before our invasion in March 2003, Iraq was perhaps the most "progressive" of the Isl...

http://cut-to-the-chase.blogspot.com/2008/02/despite-all-bushshit-bullshit-women-in.html

Well, here's a tale to extend the "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" discussion where Brattleboro, Vermont police felt justified in using tasers on two peaceful demonstrators. I just don't get how using elect...

http://cut-to-the-chase.blogspot.com/2008/02/when-cops-treat-tasers-like-flyswatter.html

If you haven't heard about InfraGard , a Bush Administration-FBI initiative to "fight the battle for homeland (in)security", you need to know. I've written about it in some detail at All Thing...

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Once more, the Republican Party figures it's the right one to choose WHO the Democratic presidential challenger in November must be. Meanwhile, idiots who tend to get this stuff very wrong - and...

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Gee, when I think of something like Botox/botulism which can cause a miserable death, I just don't simultaneously think, "Wow, let me inject it into my face on a regular basis. And, while I'm at...

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Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films brings us its latest hard-hitting film, this one driving it home about Iraq, McCain, the war machine and on, ad infinitum. BTW, Brave New Films is also look...

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Thanks to Monkeyfister - and those he contacted to get the word out - progressive blogs are calling on all with the resources to do so to learn what's needed in the areas ravaged by rare winter t...

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