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Posts Tagged ‘katrina vanden heuvel’

Traumatized Writer’s Hell-Cruise With Ralph Nader

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Ralph Nader will teach you the true meaning of 'upper decking'One brave man had the courage to write in the New York Times this weekend about some of the darkest, most painful days of his life. Days that would make a few waterboardings or even the Full Lieberman seem like child’s play. He was literally cast out upon the waters, trapped on a vessel with only miles of icy Alaskan sea all around, with no respite from the unending torment of Ralph Nader, Richard Dreyfuss, and Katrina vanden Heuvel on what one fellow captive described as “an S.D.S. reunion on the Love Boat.” MORE »


Andrew Sullivan’s War On TV Writers

Friday, January 4th, 2008

New episodes of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will start airing on Monday without the help of their starving writers, but plenty of writerly guests are lining up to promote themselves on the teevee shows. First up for Colbert: Andrew Sullivan, who may try to explain just what was going on in this creepy Iowa fantasy he posted yesterday. MORE »


Katrina Detritus

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Who loves hurricane victims more? Judge a party by size of their charitable giving ad. [Katrina]
First hand account minces no words, spares no hearts. As they say: Disturbing if true. [Boing Boing]
Pro-life group touts “satellite image looks like 6-week fetus,” “Louisiana has 10 child-murder-by-abortion centers - FIVE are in New Orleans.” [Eve's Apple]
“The destruction from Katrina vanden Heuvel is expected to be massive. The poor and disabled are particularly likely to suffer from the effects of Katrina vanden Heuvel.” [The Nation]
“Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.” Uhm, right. Katrina spared New Orleans. . . [HuffPo]
Bush’s address: not so good. [NRO's The Corner]