Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
From Raw Story:

Although the scope of surveillance conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act remains shrouded in secrecy, newly disclosed documents show the costs one company charges the government to eavesdrop on customers.
Comcast, which is among the nation’s largest telecommunication companies, charges $1,000 to install a FISA wiretap and $750 for each […]

Wow - I never thought I’d be recommending a milblogger to read, but Army of Dude is something else! Apparently a total GI Joe right out of high school, this brilliant 22 year old kid is winding up his 15 month deployment in Iraq and nobody has pulled the wool over his eyes. […]

To BRT:
I bet if I had a time machine and could go back 20 years in time and tell you that one day you’d call Willie Nelson a traitor you wouldn’t believe you could become such an ass.

It appears that mercenary trolls and professional sock-puppets like to attack in the summer.

Remember last year in June when they clandestinely rose out of their muck.
This year they are taking out ads.
Actual Troll Ad.
And now the Pentagon wants under the bridge.
(via - C&L)

Feel like my life on the line
That’s why a nigga be hype all the time
Ready for the revolution at the drop of a dime.
-Stic.man, “Look Around”
I got a duty to have security for my niggas
A duty to serve the beautiful black sisters
A duty to stand wit anybody that’s wit us
And fully criticize all bullshitters.
-M1, “Look […]

Lots of bloggers talk about “ponies.” Looking for the ponies in Iraq. It seems to be synonymous with unrealistic, wishful thinking. Atrios is particularly fond of “ponies.”
Does anyone know from where the pony meme is derived?

Does anyone here know what happened to Gilliard?

Lessons of War - washingtonpost.com
Lessons of War - test post. Having trouble with the site’s database and comments. Carry on!

Glenn Greenwald has been really getting under Patterico’s skin - along with any number of other conservative bloggers. They don’t like having their noses rubbed in their own filth.
Writing about Ann Coulter’s recent appearance at CPAC, Glenn Greenwald said the following about the contemporary conservative movement:
This is a movement propelled by an insatiable hunger […]

Sorry for my personal light posting today.
Ever since Glenn Greenwald got hired to write a blog at Salon he’s been pumping out fantastic posts. Of particular note is this beauty about Dick Cheney’s slide into mental oblivion and Cheney’s claim that a withdrawal from Iraq would be catastrophic to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Give Glenn a […]