On Bullshit

A few links for your bullshit detector...

How can you honestly say this and expect people to think you are qualified to sit on the highest court in the country?


James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" is getting a million little fact checks.


Remember how Iraq was going to last a couple of weeks and cost only "$1.7 billion"? Well, that figure was a wee bit off.


George Will is worth reading today. (via Donklephant) I disagree with him a lot, but he is pretty pissed off at his party nowadays.


And lastly David Sirota is still my hero (full post here and well worth reading):
...The White House is desperately trying to distance itself from the corruption scandals - and Time Magazine is doing its best to help. In a big story this week, the magazine creates the veneer of a President totally isolated from the corruption, claiming President Bush supposedly "does not like to have contributors or local officials in his cars, planes or holding rooms unless they are there for a good reason, and he sometimes questions his underlings sharply if someone he considers extraneous is admitted." Readers are expected to swallow this virtuous image and forget that "GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration," according to a May 2005 story by the Associated Press. Meanwhile, Bush has returned just $6,000 of Abramoff contributions - a far cry from the at least $100,000 Abramoff raised for the Bush campaign as one of the President's top fundraisers..UPI reports that President Bush's former Attorney General, John Ashcroft, "has banked $269,000 from four clients just three months since registering as a lobbyist...Payments include $220,000 from Oracle Corp., which won a multibillion-dollar Justice Department contract a month after hiring Ashcroft."