Month: November 2006

Hiatus

by

by Andrew For whatever reason, I’m just not up to this right now. I don’t know if it’s the election or something more personal, but coming to ObWings these days is an occasion for me to get angry rather than to learn. There’s no point in that, as I have a pretty acid tongue under … Read more

There They Go Again…

by

by hilzoy OK: I give up. This campaign season has gone beyond parody. The whole business about Webb’s novels was bad enough. I tried writing a parody of that (“Characters in racist Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novels USED THE N-WORD!!!“, etc.), but it was just too much. Then the whole brouhaha about Kerry’s remark, which shou;dn’t … Read more

Time To Go, Part 2

by

by hilzoy From the Washington Post: “American soldiers rolled up their barbed-wire barricades and lifted a near siege of the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in Baghdad on Tuesday, heeding the orders of a Shiite-led Iraqi government whose assertion of sovereignty had Shiites celebrating in the streets. The order by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to lift … Read more