Month: May 2004

I’ll worry about it the day after tomorrow

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It was a drizzly Memorial Day here in New York, so the movie theaters were full of folks who might have otherwise had a picnic or gone to the beach. My friends and I treated ourselves to the scientifically challenged, propaganda-laden disaster flick, “The Day After Tomorrow” (what else we gonna talk about as we … Read more

Ratzenfraktzen thunderstorms…

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…completely wrecked our plans today, tanjit. Rain is one thing, large bolts of electricity that strike the ground essentially at random are another. Guess we’ll go to the Memorial this weekend, instead. Open thread. Moe UPDATE: I was so not into the blogging thing today – I was introduced to this wonderful experience called a … Read more

Art Irritates Life

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Hat Tip to Constant Reader Dutchmarbel for this item ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lori Haigh, a San Francisco gallerist, was attacked by an as-yet-unidentified assailant who apparently objected to a painting she was exhibiting. Judging by the published photo of her, the attack was pretty brutal. The black eye Haigh received was just the latest in a string … Read more

Back from the Barbeque.

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I’m in fairly good shape, considering that the Dark Lady Tequila was there in her enticing, oh so enticing form of margaritas. Ah, tequila, lover and destroyer… Anyhow, it’s obviously been mostly a quiet day in these parts, although the subject of a DC blogging bash seems to have a resonance. Two notes: 1). When … Read more

Couple of Questions and a statement.

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1). The girlfriend and I plan to visit the World War II Memorial on Monday (yes, we know about the likely crowds, and yes, we know about the security issues). I don’t normally care about picture taking, but is there any interest on this from our loyal readers? 2). Do DC political bloggers ever get … Read more

Heading this off at the pass?

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Ted Barlow has a straightforward suggestion about how to make personal attacks against the Bush daughters, now that they’re joining the Bush campaign: don’t. He thinks that it’s not nice (Ted always was a big softie) and not smart politics (being a big softie doesn’t mean that you have to be dumb). Considering the unfair crap that got slung* against Chelsea Clinton, I’d have to agree, on both counts.

Of course, he still has to convince everybody else – certain of his commenters are, um, resistant to the idea – so I’ll sweeten the pot. I hereby swear that I shall make no cheap shots at Senator Kerry’s daughters for as long as Ted Barlow makes no cheap shots at President Bush’s, and I encourage bloggers from across the spectrum to follow my lead. Let us have something about this election that isn’t war to the knife, no matter how small it may be.

Moe

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The United States of Sparta

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I know that headline may immediately turn off a portion of the readership (“Good God, not another anti-war diatribe, can we just get over it?”). To those folks, I’d ask you read a bit further. It’s not what you think. The Belmont Club’s Wretchard writes a breathtaking thesis on the future direction of war in “The Global Battlefield.” His central argument is “Wars will no longer be fought between armies. They will be fought between societies.” He builds his argument around the ideas that

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If I’m reading between the lines correctly…

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…we may soon see a resignation by U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi (or at least some serious squawking). In a secret session today, the Iraqi Governing Council unanimously nominated Iyad Allawi (a current Governing Council member) as the Prime Minister for the Transitional Government beginning June 30. This despite Brahimi’s expressed belief that no current GC … Read more

Good and Better

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Kevin Drum gently criticizes Drezner, Yglesias, and me for (what I’ll roughly call) the “more troops” argument. Yglesias seems ready to concede; I’m not. Criticism 1: “The practical problem is that we don’t have 450,000 troops[,]” which is the number of troops Drezner suggests should have been deployed to Iraq. Drum is likely correct that … Read more

Thursday Night Blahs…

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…my Thursday night RPG session was fairly uninspiring (which is all due to me, being the guest gamemaster and everything), I had to do real work today and I’m just kind of beat. Thus, some site work (got a few people to add to the blogroll) and then to bed. If we’re missing sites that … Read more