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The only thing I care about in Kerry’s Speech is foreign policy. I think that ought to be the key question in this election, and I think it is important enough to trump almost anything else. (I say almost to forstall the more outrageous but not relevant hypotheticals). I’m not as discouraged by what I … Read more
My girlfriend is back from her weeklong engineering conference at San Jose, CA; regularly scheduled blogging will resume… later. In the meantime, everyone play nice and only call each other names in a fashion designed to reinforce group-bonding rituals, or to advance the plot, or both. Or you could talk about this, which sounds like … Read more
Bush just taped an appearance on Dr. Phil. (Via K-Lo of the Corner.) This is your weekend open thread (looks like the others are getting a bit crowded).
It seems to me that Stuart Buck has a point, and a good one at that. As evidence that he approaches matters of war in a more “nuanced” fashion than Bush, John Kerry noted that “[s]aying there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doesn’t make it so.” True! says Buck: For example, Saddam didn’t … Read more
Seeing as I’m the only person up, apparently. Moe PS: My own take? (Shrug) Well, it wasn’t as if anybody really expected him to make a speech designed to convince people like me, anyway.
When I first heard it, I dismissed as fantasy TNR’s and Josh Marshall’s breathless report of a secret “deal” between the Bush Administration and Pakistan to capture a high-level al Queda operative during the Democratic convention. If it was a fantasy, though, what to make of this?
Saw “Orwell Rolls in His Grave” the other night. Tackling the whoredom that passes as mainstream media these days, Director Robert Kane Pappas assembles an impressive cast of media experts (including a priceless 1980 interview with Peter Mitchelmore, the New York Post’s former editor, on his way out…to say he was candid is a gross … Read more
Taking brief relief from my burdens, I came upon Professor Bainbridge’s comments regarding a recent Ninth Circuit decision: The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a corporation can acquire a “racial identity” and therefore have standing to sue in its own name and right under federal civil rights laws on grounds that … Read more
Nothing earthshattering: I’ve got a creative deadline* looming, non-blogging creative work piling up – and to be honest most of my posts this week have been a bit of a stretch anyway. I’ll no doubt be caught up by the weekend. Moe *Commemorative poem for my old SCA Barony. I was expecting it to be … Read more
I’m not sure if anyone other than Michael Moore is confused about the nature of the Iraqi insurgents, but today’s car bomb ought to dispell any remaining doubts about whether they are fundamentally ‘freedom fighters’ or ‘terrorists’. A suicide car bomb exploded on a busy downtown boulevard in Baqouba on Wednesday, shredding a bus full … Read more