I just called Rachel Schultz, the Wisconsin / Richland Center school district superintendant who threatened high schoolers with expulsion for wearing pro-Kerry shirts to the Bush event held today at a high school under her jurisdiction. Here’s how our conversation went:
::five rings::
Rachel: Hello?
Me: Is this Rachel Schultz, Superintendant of Schools?
Rachel: Yes, but [...]
What the fuck is going on? Is everyone losing their damned minds? If you’re wondering what I mean, here’s a small sampling of stuff that either happened or was reported today. Just today:
A memo was found from Florida GOP election officials officially ordering poll workers to challenge voters, which then forces them to [...]
OH GOODY! Rupert Murdoch is bringing his ragtag bunch of newsrebels to America! This will obviously mean some changes in how the American news is reported:
SPICE channel now only running GOP GRUDGEFUCK vol. 1-38 and The Falafel Tuesday Journals
Bush Administration talking points now referred to as “policy sunshine affirmations”
Rush Limbuagh named Emporer of [...]
So it wasn’t terror alerts or Osama bin Laden. The missing explosives got covered and Clinton showed up again, but they weren’t the biggest stories of the day.
Instead, Rehnquist stole the headlines with some outpatient surgery for thyroid cancer.
Now, I know a little bit about cancer, I’ve had it and survived it. So [...]
You have to register to read this story at the New York Times, but its worth it: huge caches of explosives (about 380 tons of HMX and RDX), safely sealed during Saddam Hussein’s rule by the I.A.E.A., were looted during the first days of the US invasion of Iraq, right? We knew that. We [...]