And there are times I just enjoy bursting someone's bubble. I get a royal kick of it. Once again, I play iconoclast, and extend the WTW pin to prick yet another neocon fantasy...

Story follows shortly....yes...

And straight away, a tip of the Six ballcap to our dear friends over at Democratic Underground for this cute little deal: Seems some of those Obama smears are coming from....yeppers...Freeperland!

Stay with me...

There's nothing like the concurrence of a serious economic problem, like the cost of oil and gas, with the pandering and pretzelling of logic that is a presidential election. Claims, counterclaims, distortions, outright lies, and the ever popular partial truths all flying around in print, on the air, and in the massive confusion of voters minds. So is there really anything to the "new" John McCain/George Bush plan to reopen leasing of the outer continental shelf (OCS) and encourage the building of new refineries?

Late Thursday night, AP issued the following statement after a day-long discussion of the DMCA takedowns issued to the Drudge Retort that reached all the way up to the company's top management.

Two stories come to my attention: One can't seem to go away soon enough, the other, well, they state what we've known for some time, and for an odd reason, these two seem to compliment the other...

...in that Twilight Zone kind of way, yes....

The Associated Press claims that Drudge Retort users linking to its stories are violating its copyright and committing "'hot news' misappropriation under New York state law." An AP attorney filed six Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown requests this week demanding the removal of blog entries and another for a user comment.

On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released its report titled JACK ABRAMOFF'S CONTACTS WITH WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS. Interesting reading; if you haven't already looked at it, follow the link in the last sentence.

The political world, especially at the right end of the spectrum, is full of "support our troops" mantras, supplemented by the millions of Americans whose cars & trucks sport magnets bearing the same slogans. Needless to say, slogans don't particularly help our troops, being incapable of restoring health, supplying food and shelter, or finding jobs for the vets. And it looks like, once again, those who scream "support our troops" the loudest have missed another opportunity to render support beyond words and magnets.

Well, well and well: Apparently we've got an investigation going: Are oil speculators to blame for current crude prices?

Cat got a climbing gear?

I'm currently reading What Happened, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's 323-page stab in the back to the Bush administration. The book wasn't supposed to be out until June 1, but the publisher lifted the embargo yesterday and I grabbed a copy at Barnes & Noble. Current and former Bush administration officials are playing dumb on McClellan's motive for writing the book, but he makes it crystal clear in the preface: Valerie Plame leakers in the White House used him to pass along lies to hide the truth and save their own asses, and Scotty don't play that way.

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