Pepsi, Itunes Off Key

If you saw the ad shown during the Superbowl, Pepsi is involved in a promotional tie-in with Apple to give away 100 million iTune songs. One out of three Pepsi bottles has a code inside the cap for a free song that can be downloaded off the iTunes service....

Breast Beating In Congress Over Indecency

Congress and the FCC are so beholden to Big Media that the “Broadcast Decency” hearings this week on Capitol Hill were themselves an indecency. The highlights? On proposing a bill to increase the fines to broadcasters who break indecency rules, the Chairman of the House Internet and Telecommunications subcommittee,...

JFK Meets KFC: Kerry Whets NASCAR Appetite

Pretty good day for Kerry. He knocked Edwards flat in Virginia and Tennessee, and sent Clark packing for good. He also showed that Southerners have a taste for his message. Back in Washington, George “AWOL” Bush released new documents showing he was paid by the military for the time...

George AWOL Bush Meets The Press. (Or: “I Worked It Out With The Military!”)

send this cartoon to a friend! It’s interesting to listen to the President’s language and logic. Here’s the exchange between Bush and Tim Russert on Meet the Press this morning regarding Bush’s AWOL status: RUSSERT: The Boston Globe and the Associated Press have gone through some of their records...

George AWOL Bush: “Be Right Back!”

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Levitra /Cialis Do Super Bowl / Janet Jackson: Best Media Porn of February ’04

As the media, the NFL and the FCC work up mock outrage over Janet Jackson baring her breast during the MTV-produced Super Bowl half-time show, what the “costume malfunction that will go down in history” basically exposed is the hypocrisy of the media and sports establishment itself. America loves...

Guns And Guns And Guns And Guns And Guns And Guns And Butter

The wackiest part of Bush’s budget–and something that few of the major media seemed to call him on–was his circumvention of what a budget is. If you happened to notice, the President provided a detailed, itemized proposal to spend $2.4 trillion dollars. Then separately, he added his intention to...

Duck And Cover: Cheney And Scalia’s Conflict Of Interest

If a powerful litigant in a conflict-of-interest case (i.e. Vice President Cheney) engages a powerful judge about to hear that case (Justice Scalia) to go duck hunting, isn’t that a conflict-of-interest? As the Justice points out, going hunting with Cheney doesn’t violate the letter of the law. The problem...

Kerry Vetted By The Vets

If your state hasn’t gotten the message yet, the Mekong Delta-ed, My Lai-d, agent oranged veterans of Vietnam now have their very own Presidential nominee. And they’re already reaching out to other influential group (including the Gulf War-syndromed, land mine-foddered, buy-your-own-plane-ticketed men and women of the contemporary armed forces)....

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Bush, Burgers And Fries (Or: Who Gives A HHS About The WHO?)

Is Bush “pulling a Kyoto” on the World Health Organization? The Administration, through the Wealth and Inhumane Services Department (oops, we meant theHealth and Human Services Department), has elected to oppose a world-wide effort to fight childhood obesity. The WHO is in the final stages of preparing an initiative...

Goodbye New Hampshire: The Sweet Sorrow Of General Clark

If he has accomplished nothing else this week, General Wesley “No There, There” Clark has demonstrated the limits of intelligence in the absence of common sense. As we elaborated in our psychological study of Mr. Clark, it is not really possible to be a viable presidential candidate in the...

Cheney WMD Trailer Claim Comes Unhitched

The interview in today’s New York Times with former U.S. Iraqi weapons inspector David Kay includes a dramatic repudiation of Vice President of the United States in hiding, Dick Halliburton. Regarding Cheney’s assertion that Iraq was producing bioweapons in mobile trailers, the Times story states the following: “…Dr. Kay...

Dick Cheney Talks Trailer Trash (Or: We Found “The Weapons Of Mass Destruction Program Activities!”)

It was bizarre that President Bush tried to pass off the failure to find Iraqi WMD by saying we discovered “WMD-related program activities.” What was surreal was that the Vice President, emerging from his underground lair, actually lied to several news organizations about it. Cheney insisted to NPR that...

Bush, God And A Stiff Drink

Apparently, the Bush Presidency has become so distasteful, a record number of people had to resort to State of the Union drinking games to get through the event. For those not familiar with this practice, it involves taking a drink every time the President says any one of various...

Sad Beats Mad In Kerry Caucus Victory

As Dean and Gephardt tore up the low road, the John’s (Kerry and Edwards) were the beneficiaries of Iowa’s disgust for having to endure this slugfest. Given his greater stature, the emotionally burdened and typically “hang dog” Kerry was able to best the smiley faced, yet “wet behind the...

Tap The Rockies

Remember that commercial where the giant hand suddenly appears and drives a beer tap into the Rocky Mountains? Being a baseball fan, “W” must have seen it dozens of times. While the concern is that Bush wants to militarize space, its seems just as likely that he wants to...

Two For The Price Of None: Bush Shoots For The Stars

It’s not that we’re skeptical about President Bush’s plans for space. It’s just that, for a guy who can spend a billion dollars like it’s nothing, it’s unusual this plan is so long on ambition while so skimpy on budget. (Amidst the hoopla, Bush only proposed $1billion in new...