Archive for December, 2006
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By the way, happy new year. 2007 is going to be quite a trip.
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Matt Stoller, who has always been pretty skeptical about John Edwards, seems to be warming up to him. I’m pretty much in the same position - I was unimpressed during the 2004 election, when he seemed like kind of a lightweight, but since then he’s really come into his own, and right now he seems […]
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
This Mother Jones article has some pretty unfortunate examples of advertising and corporate sponsorship run amock, but this one has to be my favorite of the bunch:
Announcing Rumsfeld’s resignation, Bush said, “It’s tough in a time of war, when people see carnage on their Dell television screens.” Dell’s chairman is a major gop donor.
It’s a […]
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Saddam Hussein’s execution was pretty much inevitable, but the way it was carried out still struck me as sudden, as if there was a rush to hang him within a certain time frame. And then I read Juan Cole’s mention that Hussein was executed on a Sunni holy day, and it started to make sense.
This […]
Friday, December 29th, 2006
Is it just me or has Lieberman got even worse since his general election victory? Take for example his op-ed in today’s Post, called Why We Need More Troops in Iraq. After trying to paint himself as anti-war candidate during the later days of the election, Lieberman is back as one of the war’s […]
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
For those who don’t really understand what’s going on in Somalia right now, the always awesome Ze Frank has a great cliffnotes version.
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
So I saw The Good Shepherd last night, or as it was called in the early development stages, The Godfather for WASPs. Overall, a great movie, and well worth the three hours required to sit through the whole thing.
It’s taken me until now to figure out what I think of Matt Damon’s performance in the […]
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
I’m something of a bad movie snob. A lot of people are content to watch Battlefield: Earth, Batman and Robin or Gigli and walk away from it thinking, “Wow. That’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen.”
Not me. When I set out to see a terrible movie, I want it to be truly atrocious. The kind […]
Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Like a good little Jewboy, I attended Sunday school in preparation for my Bar Mitzvah, where I would ostensibly learn Hebrew. Hebrew is a difficult language, though, so the farthest I got was learning to read it phonetically, a skill which I’ve since mostly lost. That was enough for me to read from the Torah […]
Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Happy holidays, everybody.
There’s not going to be much in the way of breaking news over the next week or so, so don’t expect much here. Although, a friend just recently got me to sit down and actually listen to the band Placebo, and they’re pretty good. That’s breaking news to me, at least.
For once I’ve […]