“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Thursday, May 19, 2005

catching up with panhandle truth squad: june 2004

(second in an ongoing series) To celebrate our first anniversary and to welcome our new readers, we are compiling some of our "Greatest Posts" by month. Fire Walk with Us through June, 2004: a month when Enron finally got that deadbeat Grandma Millie to pay up, Michael Moore turned up the heat on the Emperor W, and the number of crocodile tears wept over Ronald Reagan finally equaled the dollars of deficit created by the man. We experienced our own trickle-down effect when a mention on Air America Radio led to our first major spike in hits.

Where Are the Moderate Voices?, 1 June 2004, The Liberalator, In Which Diogenes Liberalator Searches in Vain For an Honest Republican
Enron, Lies, and Audiotape, 3 June 2004, DustBowl Dem, In Which Traders Rip Off Grandma Millie
They don’t even try to hide it, 4 June 2004, DustBowl Dem, In Which a Now Vanished PTSer Holds Forth. Whatever Happened to DustBowl Dem, Anyway? Where Have You Gone DustBowl Dem, A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You. Where Have All the DustBowl Dems Gone? Long Time Passing. Et Cetera.
Dutch is Gone, 5 June 2004, Spacedark, In Which We Show Class and Restraint By Not Actually Dancing On the Man’s Grave. For a Day or So.
Ombudsman: Shooting Fish in a Barrel, 7 June 2004, Spacedark, In Which We Call On the Globe-Republican to Consider Actually Doing Its Job
ENOUGH ALL READY!, The Liberalator, and St. Reagan, Prodigal Son, 9 June 2004, In Which We Begin Dancing
Whatever You Want It To Be, and AGN Headlie of the Day, 12 June 2004, and 22 June 2004, Spacedark, In Which We Dissect the Globe-Republican's Misleading Headlines and Bad Puns
Take That Faith-Based Initiative, 14 June 2004, The Liberalator, In Which We Call on Compassionate Conservatives to Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is
St. Reagan’s Comet, 15 June, 2004, Prodigal Son, In Which We Really Start Dancing 'Cause Your Friends Don't Dance And If They Don't Dance, Well, They're No Friends Of Mine
PTS On Air America Radio, 23 June 2004, Prodigal Son, In Which We Are Mentioned on the Randi Rhodes Show
Why Let Facts Get in the Way?, 26 June 2004, The Liberalator, In Which We Clarify When the American Economy Collapsed
Moore Goes Easy on Dubya, 26 June 2004, Spacedark, In Which We Discuss Michael Moore’s Misty-Eyed Hagiography of George Bush Titled Fahrenheit 9-11
Premature Iraqulation, 30 June 2004, Prodigal Son, In Which Prodigal Writes the Best Headline Ever

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