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Ben Regenspan 6:14PM EST Wednesday, 12/14/2005 [link to this item]

Ben Regenspan 1:48PM EST Tuesday, 12/13/2005 [link to this item]

My posts have been sparse lately, but I thought I'd just remind everyone out there: David Brooks is the king of all dopey wankers. Still.

"War on Christmas" column in the works for the prestigious Oberlin Review...

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Ben Regenspan 2:59PM EST Monday, 12/12/2005 [link to this item]

"Ticking time bomb": Arthur Silber does a good job of dissecting the pro-torture right's favorite (and only) defense here.

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Ben Regenspan 1:32PM EST Thursday, 12/8/2005 [link to this item]

Ben Regenspan All political scientists agree: A succesful challenger to a Hollywood rightwinger incumbent must be another macho-role- playing Hollwood rightwinger 4:28PM EST Wednesday, 12/7/2005 [link to this item]

No comment, but I'm afraid it looks pretty authentic (via Kevin Drum).

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Ben Regenspan From "The International Jew" to this 2:40PM EST Wednesday, 12/7/2005 [link to this item]

If you've been following the saga of Ford Motor Company and gay advertising, you know that they've explicitly stated to the press that they aren't in the process of caving to the demands of the fundamentalist American Family Association. Well, John Aravosis has confirmed that this is not true, Ford is removing advertising from gay publications and has not been exactly forward about this with the public.

So, question: the AFA claims about 3 million members. There are somewhere between 11 and 23 million people in the GLBT population, and many more out there who don't like to see corporate capitulation to extremists. Who's going to win this thing in the end?

Boycott Ford Motor Company.

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Ben Regenspan Someone to send a card to this Christmas (Dec. 25th/first night of Hanukkah) 2:28AM EST Wednesday, 12/7/2005 [link to this item]

Michelle Malkin has a post on wounded soldier Joshua Sparling, who is at Walter Reed recuperating from a gunshot wound he received during service in Iraq. Sparling received only one card so far, and it was a very disturbing death threat. Malkin and readers who tipped her off to this are urging readers to send him Christmas cards and, if possible, calling cards, which are highly sought after among patients at Walter Reed.

Even if it's safe to assume that Michelle will trot out the greeting card incident as a charge against the left later on, don't do this to disprove one of her typical attempts to equate half of the nation with a few fringe loonies. Whether or not a wounded soldier receives decent greeting cards and support should not be a political issue, regardless of whether others try to make it one (and maybe I am being unfair here in thinking she would). Send Mr. Sparling a card (free of anti-war diatribes, please, he's been through it, can decide for himself, and even if he's interested in debating probably doesn't want to do it from a hospital bed during the holidays) or gift, because he deserves one. Here's the address:

Joshua Sparling
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001
See Michelle's post for a reader's instructions on how to support Walter Reed's Red Cross.

Update: Tony in Boulder writes:

Joshua Sparling was interviewed by Sean Hannity again yesterday, (Wed. Jan. 18th).

'The Political Teen' has the audio mp3 posted at his site...

The doctors at Walter Reed are now 90% sure that his leg will be saved and Joshua sounded really upbeat about that news...

Joshua also was very thankful to everyone who has sent him cards, gifts and wishes of a speedy recovery. He is giving 99% of all gifts and cards to other recovering soldiers.

Sounds like it would be most effective at this point to, per a Malkin reader's suggestion, send any further donations (phonecards, stamps, gloves, stocking caps) to the Red Cross at Walter Reed, address:
Red Cross
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue NW
Heaton Pavillion
3EO5
Washington, DC 20307

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Ben Regenspan 11:25PM EST Tuesday, 12/6/2005 [link to this item]

Weblog Awards: Per Tbogg's suggestion, vote for The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler as "Best Conservative Blog".

With the words "ragheads", "Paleswinians", and "fucktard" somehow weaved into every other sentence, and frequent threats of violence, it's the most honest (far-)right blog out there. Bonus points for coopting the Star of David into its logo, despite there apparently being no Jewish bloggers to be found over there.

Juxtaposing my people's symbol and frequent assertions that individuals should be "swinging from a lamp post": sheer class.

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Ben Regenspan Blogs are fun 8:41PM EST Tuesday, 12/6/2005 [link to this item]

Keeping blogs in perspective:Meanwhile, Time's Blog of the Year provides us with a good case study on the value of reading material authored by people who actually know their shit, as, in the course of calling for criminal prosecution of CIA agents who leaked information on the agency's secret international detention centers, Hindrocket says (emphasis added):
How many days do you suppose will go by before the identities of the countries in question are leaked? In the meantime, how many North African countries are there? Four or five? And I'm pretty sure the al Qaeda prisoners aren't in Libya.
Umm...
60 Minutes tracked the secret jet the Central Intelligence Agency is said to be using to deliver the terror suspects to countries known for torturing people.

The plane made at least 600 flights to 40 countries, all of which came after 9/11, including 30 trips to Jordan, 19 to Afghanistan, 17 to Morocco, and 16 to Iraq. The plane also went to Egypt, Libya and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

...:
Aero Contractors' planes dropped C.I.A. paramilitary officers into Afghanistan in 2001; carried an American team to Karachi, Pakistan, right after the United States Consulate there was bombed in 2002; and flew from Libya to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the day before an American-held prisoner said he was questioned by Libyan intelligence agents last year, according to flight data and other records.
It's funny that someone can defend a practice that explicitly involves cooperating with really bad people and at the same time assume that his country wouldn't cooperate with really bad people. Especially when the really bad people in question have been off the Axis of Evil list for some time.

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Ben Regenspan Hugo embarrasses Bush, again 7:26PM EST Tuesday, 12/6/2005 [link to this item]

Some South Bronx neighborhood associations are actually taking Chavez up on his plan to subsidize heating oil in the US, paying 60% of wholesale prices for oil from Citgo. Keeping in mind that it's run by some dopey gentleman allied with the Heritage Foundation, the anti-Chavez site vcrisis.com's opinion on Chavez' plan is worth a read, as it raises the question of whether an impoverished country should really be handing out international aid (their assertion that Chavez will be giving aid to non-low-income people here is probably BS, though, and, as usual, any assertions that Chavez has degraded Venezuela's previously immaculate economic performance have to be taken with a boulder of salt (PDF)).

Instead of constantly trying to undermine Bush (and, sadly, managing to do a very good job of it, for a Halloween-paranoid loon), Chavez, who enjoys an approval rating embarrassingly high above Bush's would do better to focus on his own country's economy, which may have improved enough to make the VCrisis folks look silly but still features a very high poverty rate.

Catalyst's opinion on this matter is, of course, about as influential as the coming student referendum at Oberlin calling on the US to withdraw from Iraq is likely to be, but I just thought I'd put the unassailable credibility granted by my sitemeter to good use.

Update: In related and equally-important Latin-American strongman news, Castro recently declared Jeb Bush to be "fat". Drudge's link misleadingly suggests that the actual word used was the slightly more humorous "fatty".

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Ben Regenspan 12:31AM EST Monday, 12/5/2005 [link to this item]

"a depraved hellride toward moral degeneracy" - marriage-equivalent (more or less) civil partnerships now legal in Britain.

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Ben Regenspan 2:54PM EST Saturday, 12/3/2005 [link to this item]

Signs of desperation in Alito-land: Think Progress catches the nominee's backers attempting to cast as "anti-God" a coalition that includes The Interfaith Alliance, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the National Council for Jewish Women, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism...

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Ben Regenspan 6:12PM EST Friday, 12/2/2005 [link to this item]

Ben Regenspan Crescent-shaped objects: the new "niggardly"? 12:15AM EST Thursday, 12/1/2005 [link to this item]

Crescent-spotters: still mind-bendingly stupid
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Designers of a Flight 93 memorial have made a circular, bowl-shaped piece of land its centerpiece, replacing the original crescent-shape design that some critics said was a symbol honoring terrorists.
Sometimes the most prominent critics of "political correctness" are the best examples of how horribly it can go wrong.

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Ben Regenspan 2:02AM EST Sunday, 11/27/2005 [link to this item]

Al-Jazeera staffers make a weighty request: "Don't Bomb Us" (via firedoglake).

Be sure to read the Fisk article they link to, some interesting stuff there, especially the fact that the interventionist right was actually rather fond of Al-Jazeera's free speech up until the station started using it to broadcast Bin Laden.

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