August 31, 2005
'Racism: Alive and Kicking' - 09:22 AMAnd giving myself the lie not two posts later, here's something from Atrios that I just couldn't not pass along (he got it from Daily Kos). No more comment, just go read....
'One More Thing' - 09:14 AM
If anyone reading this (anyone?) knows why MT-Blacklist might all of a suddent stop blocking trackback spam, or how to delete trackbacks in MT (I just get a javascript error, "Object not found.") I'd greatly appreciate it....
'I'm Still Alive' - 09:11 AM
Coming to you from deep inside Orientation Week here at Columbia University. I have little time to follow news or post biting (but insightful!) political rants with all the Orienting and unpacking I'm doing, but I did want to make...
August 26, 2005
'And Now, For Something Lighter' - 07:07 AMWell, perhaps not exactly: At nine feet in length and weighing 646 pounds, it may be the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded. Said Ewan McGregor, "It's so wrong, but it tastes. so. good!"...
'The Last Five Years in a Nutshell' - 06:57 AM
Bush: George W. Bush, the US president, has said no decisions have been made on troop levels in 2006. “I think they were rumours. I think they're speculation,” he said at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, this month after meeting...
August 25, 2005
'First They Came For the Gays' - 11:48 PMMake no mistake, the radical right-wing is after your rights, not just those of homos and brown-skinned foreigners. Don't believe for a second they won't turn on you. Hey, it's happened before....
August 24, 2005
'Expanding Scoobilization?' - 10:40 PMMy English-Arabic dictionary has an entry for "Vampire Slayer." That is all....
'Hold Everything!' - 10:29 PM
Apparently, I was wrong about Pat Robertson. I believed the liberal media's lies and distortions (and video) about what he said. He apologizes for the whole misunderstanding and set's the record straight today: "I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our...
'Jesus Would Cap His Mother*ing Ass!' - 06:55 AM
Liberals, and specifically New York liberals, have often been asked whether we learned anything from 9/11. I'll tell you what I learned on 9/11: Religious extremists are the the mortal enemies of a free society. All religious extremists. The war...
August 22, 2005
'Tort Reform in Action' - 11:12 PMOver the weekend it was announced that a Texas jury granted a widow a $253 million award in her lawsuit against Vioxx. Impressive, but less so after you realize: Under Texas law capping punitive damages, though, that part of the...
'A Warning' - 07:18 AM
I prefer to do actual substantive writing on this blog, rather than the Heh-Indeed-link, stream-of-consciousness or snappy-snarky-comment styles that make for more rapid fire posting. I started with the goal of a post a day back in May, and I...
August 19, 2005
'Winning Hearts and Minds' - 07:34 AMThe Medium Lobster finally discovers the secret plan to win the war in Iraq: Indeed, the Medium Lobster could not agree more: while some in the petty name of "truth," "accountability" and "basic humanity" might want to open this material...
'Heisenberg Goes To War' - 07:30 AM
Via Atrios, this Hardball transcript brings up an important point on the covering of the war in Iraq: MATTHEWS: Let me go, Paul, before you start. What I keep doing here is asking people on and off camera who come...
August 18, 2005
'Able Danger' - 11:58 AMI don't really have time to go into this in the detail that I want, and this post is mostly just a glorified bookmark for myself. However, if you want to dive into the whole Able Danger flap that's going...
August 17, 2005
'Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?' - 06:53 AMIt's one of those things that we always seem to forget the moment after we learn them, but police lie. They lie about as much as ordinary citizens, despite the mythology of courageous thin-blue-line integrity that often surrounds them these...
August 15, 2005
'Going Back to the Start' - 09:50 AMI absolutely love Dan Savage, and so I absolutely loved that he was guest blogging at Andrew Sullivan's site this past week. Dan and I share several political positions and leanings, one of which was a left-wing rationale for going...
'Declaring Defeat' - 06:58 AM
I was away this past weekend at a ceremony and accompanying festivities for my dad's retirement from the Army after 29 years. Thus, no recent posts. Meanwhile, I missed the spate of articles on Sunday announcing the new Administration exit...
August 10, 2005
'Getting Seriouser in Iraq' - 07:44 AMAnybody who was in the least interested in my recent take on flipping Iraq should be reading TPM Cafe right now. Larry Diamond, a Stanford professor called in by Condoleeza Rice to advise on the reconstruction of Iraq in November...
'Bitter Vindication Watch: Plamegate' - 07:16 AM
Back in the early days of this blog I made a few predictions, one of which was, "The various lingering Administration scandals and investigations will bear no fruit until after the next Congressional elections, and then only if Democrats make...
August 08, 2005
'Savage Blogs!' - 04:53 PMDan Savage, author of the Savage Love advice column, is guest blogging at Andrew Sullivan's site. Didn't see that one coming!...
'More Groundhog Day' - 07:23 AM
It's getting to the point where when I read the words, The assessment by Gen. John P. Abizaid, the head of the military's Central Command, tracks with a statement made last week by the top American general in Iraq, Gen....
'Wild Speculation' - 06:57 AM
I have a hunch that all this talk about John Roberts' records from his days with Bush I isn't going to lead anywhere. For one, I think this Administration just likes playing this little game of keep-away with the press....
August 05, 2005
'Getting Serious in Iraq' - 12:00 PMThe first and last step towards getting out of Iraq is more troops. And not American ones. Simply put, we have no more troops to send: The proposed cuts in the size of the Army may send the same message...
August 03, 2005
'Who's Training Iraq's Troops? Oh no, Bear's Training Iraqi Troops!' - 09:29 AMReading over the articles I missed this past weekend, I'm struck by a very disturbing trend: Slate.com - "This recent talk of withdrawal may have been sparked by the realization that almost no progress has been made in training Iraq's...
August 01, 2005
'Monday International Roundup' - 05:15 PMIt's been a busy one: King Fahd dies at 84. Oil hits $65/barrel, and we all wait to see who comes out on top. Bush appoints John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador as the Senate recesses. Bolton will be U.N. Ambassador...