'Goodnight Bush'closes chapter on Bush years.

Read the Preview of Goodnight Bush

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WOW... I just caught this as I was getting ready to get off here and go to bed. I'll have to post more later about it, but I thought it was certainly worth sharing before I nod off...

Back to the Drawing Board for Disney’s First Black Princess

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A religion scholar with the Martin Marty Institute at the University of Chicago recently mused about a new website, Youvebeenleftbehind.com. Evidently, for forty dollars a year, "those who are relatively assured of their own salvation can leave a final e-mail to less fortunate loved ones who might be left behind during the rapture.

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Have you heard the latest?

Not only has Phil Gramm told Americans there is no recession, its all in our heads, but now we learn that he invested in a soft core porn film through encouragement of his brother-in-law (BIL).

His BIL showed Phil the movie "Truck Stop Women - No Rig Is too Big" and invited him to invest $15,000! AND HE DID!

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As many of you know, CNN will be launching its series "Black in America" on 23 July with its Black Women and Familes program. The second day will focus on Black men.

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As you know, I've been out of pocket for a week or two, trying to catch up on my life and business before the final push towards the master's degree. Just so you don't think I've been slacking, here is my take on things that have been giving me heartburn over the last two weeks.

Enjoy!

Wear a Cup

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From a friend's email comes this not-really-a-shocker from Wonkette:

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Sometimes, those emails just BEG to be shared...

The GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY is now in the planning stages, the Library will include:

01. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has yet been able to find.

02. The Hurricane Katrina Room , which is still under construction.

03. The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember anything.

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Over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton highlights some research about the effects of that tax rebate that was supposed to perk up the economy. Turns out it DID perk up something...

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Let me just tempt you with the first paragraph of "The Ten most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency"

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... [Billy Graham's] lasting damage, I offer as an aside, was to persuade the young George W. Bush to abandon his wastrel ways, at which he excelled, and instead seek the path that has led him to where he is now, a calamity for the nation and the world. Graham's burden is heavy indeed. ...
Putting Them Out to Pastor, Richard Cohen, July 1, 2008

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From Dispatches from the Culture Wars, a perfect definition of chutzpah:

Karl Rove actually went on TV with Bill O'Reilly and slammed the New York Times for outing a CIA agent. Seriously. Karl Rove doesn't have brass balls, they're made of cast irony. In related news, Paris Hilton called Britney Spears shallow.

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OK, the social scientist in me thought this was terribly funny.

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Per Hunter at Daily Kos, on the Clinton strategy:

It was not a narrative, but a meta-narrative. She was electable because she was electable, and anything that disproved that theory was dismissed as an exception. It was the campaign equivalent of Intelligent Design.

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From Daily Kos:

"It was comical watching McCain, who supported Bush 95% of the time in the past year, trying to distance himself: I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq.

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