Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Instahoglets 17th April 07

Some links, some snark and thee.

Anything they Say riffs on Debbie Schusel's xenophobic postings with the obvious reductio ad absurdum - time to lock up Michelle malkin for the crime of "being of Asian descent while unhinged."

What kind of louse would go to speak at VA Tech about their loss and use the occasion to showboat in front of three seperate TV interviewers?

Charlie Stross cleans out his spam folder and wishes Vonnegut was still around.

Stranger at Blah3 points up an unsettling story - the commander of a carrier attack squadron in the Gulf was "relieved of his command on Monday due to a ‘loss of confidence’ in his abilities". What's going on there then?

Pat Robertson's Regent University has deleted any mention of the 150 alumni who serve in the Bush administration, something it was very proud of until yesterday, from the front page of its website. Steve benen at Crooks and Liars says "either Regent is suddenly embarrassed to be associated so closely with the Bush administration, or the administration is suddenly embarrassed to be associated so closely with Regent."

Pygalgia does car blogging - a 1,902.7 miles per gallon car, to be precise. But I think he needs to take some style tips from the other end of the scale...this is how you do a car review.

It looks very like Gonzales is going to try throwing Sampson under a bus, secure in the knowledge that Sampson has already quit, when he finally sits down in front of Congressional questioners. TPM muckraker explains why the tactic might well rebound on Gonzales and Bush.

Andrew Sullivan "I have no idea why the Democrats don't actually start accusing Bush of aiding terrorism by his ineptness. It's what the Republicans would do if Bush were a Democrat."

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