http://skank.tanglebones.com Just another skank Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:40:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear boomers: We're sorry for rolling our eyes at you all these years.... http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/07/havrilesky/ http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/11/07/an-open-apology-to-boomers-everywhere/ Joe Conason at Salon.com: Now that we're all about to take on hundreds of billions or perhaps a trillion dollars in new public debt to redeem the nation's super-smart corporate financiers, there is one thing I hope we can expect in addition to postponing the apocalypse. Will they all please shut ... http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/09/20/the-free-markets-invisible-hand-picks-the-taxpayers-pockets-again/ Remember to celebrate. It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day. http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/09/19/arrrr/ Former Republican John Cole on Sarah Palin: Sarah Palin is the distilled essence of wingnut. She has it all. She is dishonest. She is a religious nut. She is incurious. She is anti-science. She is inexperienced. She abuses her authority. She hides behind executive privilege. She is a big spender. She ... http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/09/12/c%e2%80%99mon-john-tell-us-what-you-really-think/ No comment. According to Alaska’s 2009 catalog of earmark requests the state’s sea life are in great need of federal money. As Politico points out, Palin’s office requested $2 million in federal monies to study crab mating habits; $494,900 for the recreational halibut harvest and $3.2 million for seal genetics research. Those ... http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/09/12/palin%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cstand-against-earmarks%e2%80%9d/ The city of Wasilla released all the records of the Palin administration today. I've crossed out the ones I've read. I also crossed out the Webster's Collegiate Dictionary which I own. The remaining books are going on my read list. Books Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library This information ... http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/09/08/wait-until-she-gets-a-gander-at-the-library-of-congress/ Fragile progress indeed: The Washington Post writes that “few Iraqis paid much attention” to the testimonies of Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker: “The Americans have hundreds of meetings and testimonies like this, and what has it done for the Iraqi people? Nothing,” said Allah Sadiq, 49, a carpenter in the ... http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/04/13/%e2%80%98i-don%e2%80%99t-even-know-who-petraeus-and-crocker-are%e2%80%99/ See it here. http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/04/02/flying-penguins-filmed-by-bbc/ The surgeon broke my nose last week. She straightened a badly deviated septum and resected the turbinate structures in the nose. The upshot  is that when everything has healed, I'll be able to breathe through my nose. I haven't been able to sleep more than 3 or 4 hours a ... http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/03/29/not-as-bad-as-id-been-led-to-believe/ Check it out here.  Hat tip to Atrios. http://skank.tanglebones.com/2008/01/17/mitt-romney-defends-himself-from-vile-attacks/