Archive for July, 2007
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I write this on what it was once again a keyboard made whole. Huzzah!
This post started off being about Lieberman’s continued insistence that we go after Iran, but I’m starting to think that the shriller he gets the more it signals his increasing irrelevance and that he realizes that - he’s deliberately trying to be […]
Paranoid Blogger
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007I’ve been keeping any sort of computer-based writing to a minimum today because of my broken keyboard, but I just had to draw attention to Stereogum’s celebration of the 10th anniversary of OK Computer’s release.
I have to admit to not having listened to any of the mp3’s yet, but the endeavor itself seems noteworthy. And […]
Stupid Kyboard
Monday, July 9th, 2007The reason for less posting as of late is that the e key on my keyboard is broken, which is making typing much more of a chore than it should be. Hopefully it will be fixed in a couple of days, but in the meantime I have to copy and paste “e” over and over […]
Friday, July 6th, 2007
I just started reading A Russian Diary, the final dispatch from a dissident Russian journalist who was murdered in cold blood last year. It’s a disturbing, fascinating account of what a failed democracy looks like.
It makes me glad to be living in this country, for all of its flaws, but there’s also an undertone to […]
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Via Amanda Marcotte, here’s a particularly bizarre pro-life explanation for the recent increase of abortions in Minnesota.
“Planned Parenthood has learned how to take advantage of teenagers and young women by marketing its brand and building relationships to create future abortion customers,” said MCCL executive director Scott Fischbach in a statement. The statement, issued by […]
From the department of ridiculous analogies
Thursday, July 5th, 2007One of the running themes in President Bush’s war rhetoric is he likes to flatter himself by comparing this current conflict to other wars that we were on the winning side of - and by extension, comparing himself to America’s leaders during those wars.
He’s already done the Cold War/Reagan thing. And the WWII/Roosevelt thing. So […]
Patriotism
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007Happy July 4th, everyone. If I could intrude on the festivities with some heavy shit for a moment, today seems like a good time to reflect on this.
And this.
Enjoy your explosions and hamburgers. Or, in at least one case, exploding hamburgers.
UPDATE: Oh, and this.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Joseph Wilson shares my suspicions regarding the commutation of Libby’s sentence. That is to say that he thinks it might have been a way of keeping Libby from squealing about who actually ordered the leak.
But he’s willing to take it a step further, and suggest that Congress look into obstruction of justice charges against the […]
And you thought Schrödinger’s Cat was a headache
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007I’m a little drowsy right now and that probably has a lot to do with explaining why I’m in no condition to try and digest this mind-bending interview. I’m still having trouble with the idea of causality not being time-linear. From there it just gets weirder.
It’s all fascinating stuff, though. I would be interested to […]
Why did Bush commute Libby’s sentence?
Monday, July 2nd, 2007It wasn’t loyalty, if that’s what you were about to guess. Bush has a history of merrily dumping close associates who have long shown unswerving loyalty to him - look at Rumsfeld. And Libby was nowhere near as close to the Oval Office as Rumsfeld was.
No, I think this all goes back to who actually […]