Ghost of Elvis: "Who Let This Jackass In My House?"

Here it is… The Lisa Marie moment that’s even more embarrassing than when she made out with Michael Jackson on live television.

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The Beginner’s Guide to NSA Detection

The guys over at the Wired Magazine blog have published a way of telling if your internet traffic is being routed to the NSA or not. The process is fairly simple, but interpreting the results is a little more difficult.

Hit the Windows key + R to bring up a command prompt.
Type “Tracert”, space, then the [...]

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Good Article on the Stanton Jew-Baiting Push Poll

There’s nothing I despise more than a narrowminded bigot. People like Ed Stanton are everything that’s wrong with local politics today, and I plan to verbally kick him in the nuts every chance I get.
An anonymous comment on West Tennessee Liberal’s blog pointed the way to a good article from The Forward about the [...]

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The Ninth District

Okay, I should probably apologize about this post. Not to the people that I’m bound to offend with it— But to the candidate that I’m backing in the Ninth District Congressional Race, State Senator Steve Cohen. I’d been holding off making this endorsement not out of ambivalence of any kind, but because I [...]

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Let’s Hold a Military Recruitment Drive!

If you’ve seen the movie “Fahrenheit 9/11″, you undoubtedly groaned when you watched the section where the Marine recruiters were coming off like a couple of used car salesmen when attempting to sucker kids in the “poor mall” (As they put it) to sign up. Yeah, I’m sure that the Marine Corps has been [...]

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Democracy for Memphis Bush Protest

My good friend Brad Watkins asked me to share this with you:
DFM Bush Protest PrimerPlease attend DFM Movie Night And Bush Protest primer on Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 7:00 PM. You can RSVP here.
Come join us as Democracy For Memphis, the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center and other local progressive groups as we join [...]

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Another Day, Another Limbaugh Drug Bust

The Courtney Love of American politics has struck again. He was detained at Palm Beach International Airport for carrying Viagra without a prescription.
You know, there are a lot of places where you can carry your prescription drugs without a prescription. Unless you have a bucket of them, most police aren’t going to run [...]

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Ann-Marie James at The Medicine Factory, Opening June 30th

I got this from two lovely ladies at The Lantana Projects, a local nonprofit art residency program, and I’d like to thank them for giving me a heads up on what I’m certain will be a great art show. Lantana previously brought us the works of James Clar, whose works with light beautified South Main.
Sarah, [...]

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The Gray Matter

By now, everyone’s talked about the demise of The Leon Gray Show on WWTQ 680 AM. Of course, most have discussed it only in terms of speculating on why he was fired/quit, whether or not he slandered someone, etc…
So I’m going to do something kind of different here. Instead speculating on the reasons [...]

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Illegal Immigration and Local Law Enforcement

A few weeks ago at the Bloggers’ Bash, I met John Harvey, a candidate for Shelby County Sheriff.
I just checked in with his blog though, and I have to disagree with a position he’s just taken.
From Crime In Memphis:
Today, Sheriff’s candidate John Harvey said if elected he would move to identify and arrest any illegal [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth

Sarah from Drinking Liberally had another great idea for a Drinking Liberally field trip— Several of us will be going together to the 9:35 screening of “An Inconvenient Truth” at Malco’s Cordova Cinema. We may be going out for dinner and/or drinks before or after, so watch this space for more details as [...]

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Der Fuhrer or Der Coultergeist?

It’s actually more difficult than you think. I got ten right.
Ann or Adolf?

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The New Bush Economic Plan

The president gave an address in the Rose Garden this morning laying out his new economic agenda going into the fall midterms.
“With this plan,” he said, “we’ll be able to guarantee the future of freedom and liberty for all Amurrkans.”
“See,” he said, pausing for dramatic effect, “this Nigerian fellow contacted me. He told me [...]

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Senator John Warner Said The Most Ridiculous Thing Today On the Senate Floor…

Today was the vote on John Kerry’s bill to bring the troops home by year’s end. Warner showed his true colors by calling the measure “ill-timed” because of the death of the two soldiers that were kidnapped and killed last week.
Hey, braintrust… When would be a good week? Are we waiting for [...]

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Why Is the Voting Rights Act Still An Issue?

I thought I had fallen into a time warp of some kind. Maybe it was because I read the story pre-coffee, but even the presence of a laptop on my lap was not enough to convince me that it was actually still 2006.
Why? Because the Voting Rights Act is up for debate in the House [...]

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Need More Proof That NRA Members Are Morons?

Head NRA goof Wayne LaPierre wants to promote his new book called The Global War On Your Guns. So what does he do?
He convinces the braindead saps that hang on his every word that the UN is holding a special session on July 4 to “take your guns away”.
A few fine points that seem to [...]

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The Drinking Liberally Trivia Team (Further Updated)

Is your head a warehouse of useless information? I know mine is…
Put it to good use tonight at 7 PM at the Flying Saucer downtown.
*UPDATE*
To all those who didn’t show up last night… We could have used your help! Some of those questions were absurd. “Hibernation is dormancy in the winter. What is dormancy in [...]

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Watch (Or Record) Frontline Tonight…

From WKNO’s program description:
“The Dark Side” reports on Vice President Cheney’s involvement with the war on terror and the Iraq War. Included: his working relationships with former CIA director George Tenet and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; steps leading to the Iraq War.I was already pretty interested in it and programmed my DVR to record [...]

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Flying Monkeys – The Life of a Right Wing Talking Point

“I promise, by the year 2008,” the president said with a straight face as he stared into the camera, “to make monkeys fly. They will flap the little wings on their backs and soar like the mighty eagle”
The Democratic response was swift. Senator Harry Reid (NV) and Representative Nancy Pelosi both gave addresses [...]

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Best Liberal Songs? *UPDATE 1*

John J. Miller over at National Review just came out with a list of “the fifty greatest conservative rock songs”, and I have to tell you… I think he reached a little bit.
“One” by Creed (47) – Instead of the song against racism that it is, he seems to believe it’s a song against Affirmative [...]

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