10-11-05-- Humor, Find the Brownie, Miers

Busy Busy Busy! One wonders where the time goes. The answer--homework. To quote my younger brother---blarg.

Humor
The internet is a random, random place.

25 More Reasons to laugh: stupid quotations from hurricane Katrina aftermath:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/currentevents/a/katrinaquotes.htm

A Complete History of the Codpiece
http://www.r3.org/life/articles/codpiece.html

Frnech Fries: At a vending machine near you...
http://www.patatachef.com/patatachef.html

Politcal Pictures of Amusing Calibre.
http://derenegade.blogspot.com/

Find the Brownie
Come play with us. What exactly are the qualifications of the men and women who are ruling over us?

Krugman's Original Article (that the New York Times attempts to shield but fails)
http://atcloserange.blogspot.com/2005_09_25_atcloserange_archive.html#112775288069184366

Blog devotees
http://findthebrownie.squarespace.com/

Articles:

"Hackocracy" (The New Republic)
http://liberaltopia.org/?p=3460

"Send in the Cronies" (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/World/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4427031

Bush Nominates Miers Out of Left Field
Because Snuppy the Puppy has more opinions in print.

Columns:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opcoc114464543oct11,0,762326.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/47/news-dubose.php
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1011/p09s01-codc.html
http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CADA5.htm
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007354

Actual Writing:

Harriet Miers promotes the administration: (I love how she refers to compliments as questions, reminds me of a Bush town hall meeting...)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20041029.html

Samples put together by Time:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1112940,00.html

Profiles:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/03/AR2005100300305.html
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005630.php

Fake Miers' Blog (heh)
http://harrietmiers.blogspot.com/

"Cynical silence is the plan. Miers was meant as the ultimate black box, an empty vessel into which Senate Democrats would peer and find nothing around which to mount a serious battle. But the Republican right has looked into this container and found it so bereft of information that many conservatives flame with rage. What was supposed to be a brilliant ploy against the political opposition has turned out to be too cute by half."
-Marie Cocco

"[H]er paper trail is shorter than your average celebrity marriage."
-Dante Chinni