QotD

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend
the knee to custom, is itself a service.

-John Stuart Mill

Mad as Hell

Keith Olbermann, former SportsCenter host, occasional Salon.com columnist, and current MSNBC desk jockey, lays it straight, right on the air.

Preach on, Brother Keith.

[transcript available here under "City of Louisiana."]

Escape from the Real LA

ETA for metaquotes: Thanks to southernkitten - The original article appears here.Also on LJ, here.

This has been circulating on MySpace [nicked from uproar]. I believe it to be every bit true, based on the accounts I've heard from the friends [GO micahra!] who had to make it out of New Orleans post-hurricane.

Read it, pass it on.

( Escape from NOLA )

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Put that in your pipe and smoke it, CNN, Fox, and the rest of you media pansies.

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God.

More

Yep, I'm a one-note bastard.

From Neilsen Hayden (http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/), this gem.

Bush, Jesus called. He said you're an asshole. He also said something about Brownie, but it was hard to tell over all the laughter.