Month: May 2004

It’s commencement address season, and Chris Matthews had a good one the other day.

This Emily J. Miller sure seems like a saint. The best is what she told a WaPo writer who was profiling her previous boss, Tom DeLay:
“You lied!…You betrayed him! You twisted his words!…We don’t know you. You don’t exist….You are dead to us.”
For the record, anyone who has ever said the words “You are dead to us” — in any context other than mocking hilarity — is a self-important ass.

For those of you who read my post Thursday on the Orange County gang rape case, the O.C. Weekly has been doing a good job following the case. (And taking advantage of the fact that, as an alt weekly, they can publish all the bad words the O.C. Register won’t.)
First, this piece, which does a convincing job showing was a bunch of drunken teenaged goons these rapists are.
But this piece is the one to read. The first half is about a (probably minor) courtroom screwup by the prosecution. But the last two paragraphs may be the a new low for the legal profession. How these defense attorneys can sleep at night, I’ll never know.
The victim in the case, known only as Jane Doe, testifies tomorrow.

Today’s Word That Should Be Used More Often: harpy.

Since this web site was long ago established as the source for photos of Suze Orman looking bite-the-head-off-a-puppy crazy, I present this ad taken from Yahoo Mail today.
Crazy, I tell you! She’s crazy!

I love this car commercial.

A fun parody of Pitchfork. I loved the band names for the fake album titles (Ed Neilson and His Fantastic Broken Casio Keyboard, Dreams of Motorbikes and Stew, J.E.R.K., Underground Indie Band, Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero One).

Here’s my story from page 2 today, on educator reactions to yesterday’s collapse of the legislature’s school finance special session.

You hear a lot about blame-the-victim strategies in rape trials, but this seems to take the cake. (It’s a case where three teen boys — one of them the son of an assistant sheriff — are charged with gang-raping an unconscious girl and videotaping the act.)
In just his opening statement, a pacing, finger-pointing [defense attorney Joseph] Cavallo told the jury that the girl