Atrios at his finest, bitching that people aren’t talking enough about the promotion of democracy abroad: But, the more interesting question is why conservatives aren’t jumping up and down about this. I think it’s pretty obvious — most aren’t particularly concerned with spreading Democracy around the world. George Bush might actually be sincere in his …
Archives for February 2005
Oscar Blogging
Chris Rock sucked. Period. Robin Williams was funnier in two minutes than Rock was the entire night. I am pissed at Rock for making me agree with Sean Penn- what the hell was Rock doing belittling Jude Law, who is a fairly talented actor? I watched the broadcast, and one thing I noticed was that …
The Firing of Dan Rather
This is alternately amusing/alarming: It was meant to be a heart-to-heart: just the two presidents and their translators, sitting alone inside the historic castle that overlooks the Slovak capital of Bratislava. Four years earlier, in another castle in Central Europe, George W. Bush looked Vladimir Putin in the eye and saw his trustworthy soul. But …
Havens of Fluorescent Idiocy
Larry Summers is in trouble for attempting to lead a provocative discussion on the role of women in the hard sciences. Why didn’t he just think of this: While professors and deans took to Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday to discuss Harvard
A Good Start
A little pressure is exerted, and all of a sudden some people want to play ball: The Iraqi government said today that it had captured a half-brother of Saddam Hussein, a man who for several years headed the country’s domestic intelligence and security service, once the most feared agency in Iraq. The half-brother, Sabawi Ibrahim …
What To Say
There really can be no meaningful discourse when those who disagree with you think this: What all of them miss, importantly, is the role of movement leaders — particularly Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove, and the neocons — in encouraging these proto-fascist traits. There is no evidence that they’re doing so because they themselves are actually …
BTK Killer
The Wichita authorities just held a very euphoric and thoroughly self-congratulatory press conference in which they announced nothing. And I mean nothing. They caught, or so they say, the BTK killer. They, however, released no name, no information, nothing. Some quick thoughts: 1.) It seemed to me the police and DA were pretty damn pleased …