PINK PIQUE
Things have been quiet — too quiet — after last weekend’s Austin American-Statesman vs. Pink Dome flareup sparked by a blog fight between two gubernatorial campaigns.
It all started with skirmishing on Gov. Rick Perry’s blog between Perry’s camp and challenger Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s spokesman Mark Sanders.
When Perry’s folks resorted to posting Sanders’ 1980s photo [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
So it’s pretty much been shored up that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the guy who gave Valerie Plame’s name to crazy GOP geezer columnist Robert Novak. Novak confirmed the leak with Karl Rove and you know the rest of story. Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy criticizes false [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Republican Senator Conrad Burns was speaking to a crowd at his fundraiser, warning them of the dangers of not electing Republicans this fall. Apparently America is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night.” It’s true, as can be seen from this undated [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin
- Gov. Perry loves Texas Parks, especially if he can sell the land for drilling purposes. Hoo-ee!
- One Tough Grandma is being sued by the former director of Woodside Trails Therapeutic Camp (a camp that Strayhorn closed two years prior). Austinist has a piece written by a former counselor from the camp.
- The [...]
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But I’m reading this: Slate is publishing a chapter a day online of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation.
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“This is a democracy, still. . . sometimes just barely. And as such, all voices count. Not just his. Had he or his President proven any of their prior claims of omniscience . . . we all might be able to swallow hard and accept their omniscience as a bearable, or even [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin