"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by von General Clark had a strong appearance on Meet the Press yesterday. Russ asked the right questions, and Clark mostly answered them the right way. I’m increasingly likely to support Clark over Bush, should he make it past the primaries. Unfortunately, my saying so may be the kiss of death for Clark, because my … Read more
Two unrelated items: 1. This young marine and adopted New Yorker is just a wonderful writer. Read it. 2. I watched Howard Dean’s speech at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner last night (right after they auctioned off Tom Harkin’s tie and passed around buckets to raise money–politics is so unbelievably hokey sometimes.) It was a slightly … Read more
While I have nothing against anime – indeed, my lifestyle is such that I am periodically exposed to it, and I quite like some of the stuff – I wish to note that the name of this blog has nothing to do with this site; it’s parallel evolution. The geekcontent of the name of this … Read more
by von Perhaps there’s some good news coming out of Bremer’s meeting with Bush & Co. As reported in the Washington Post (and elsewhere), “Iraq’s U.S.-appointed Governing Council announced on Saturday a transitional government would take over by the end of June from the U.S.-led powers, in a far swifter restoration of Iraqi sovereignty than … Read more
to prove I can write a short post: According to this survey, I am Charles Kennedy. My British relative approves. According to this one, I am “red” Ken Livingstone, which he says is “all right, if you don’t mind being completely f—— insane.” According to this, I write like a man. (It’s not close, either.) … Read more
There’s an interesting interview with the director of Amnesty International in Salon today. It’s mainly a critique of the anti-war movement (or at least its most visible members). But rather than start Iraq Debate Round 8072 I want to discuss these lines from the interview: “Certainly I have argued within Amnesty that in the face … Read more
By Moe Lane Via Matt Yglesias’* link to LGF** following Matt’s comment on an Instapundit*** post (and doesn’t all of that seem odd to type out) there’s a copy of a Weekly Standard article by Stephen F. Hayes detailing a memo that traces the links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda from the early 1990s … Read more
The beginning of the second to last sentence of the angriest Lileks Bleat I have ever read. Not that I’m disagreeing with him about most of it, mind you. Especially about the zombis.* Moe *I had a pretty good riff going on about how I probably wasn’t going to do link posts like this one … Read more
This is ridiculous. The Justice Department is prosecuting Greenpeace for boarding a ship to protest illegal trade of mahogany. What Greenpeace did was illegal, and they were arrested by the Coast Guard, as is routine in a non-violent civil disobedience protest like this one. What is not routine is that: 1) the Justice department is … Read more
I’m von, I’m the third poster on the site, and I’m currently consumed by the following question: What the hell has going on at Daily Kos? I used to read Daily Kos. He was an insightful commentator on the Iraq war, and it didn’t hurt that his politics and mine have certain similarities. But what … Read more
Hi. I’m Katherine , host #2. The liberal one. I try not to froth at the mouth, and to paraphrase my mother, I don’t hate Bush, I just hate the way he’s acting. I’ve been volunteering for the Howard Dean campaign on and off since last March, which should give an idea of both my … Read more
By Moe Lane …a title which is glaringly out of sync with the generally sober tone of this entry, but really, our corner of the world is filled with the sorts of people who would really, really want to read about Uzbekistan, as opposed to the ones outside our corner of the world, who would … Read more
Well, it’s official: I’ve succumbed to the Dark Side of the Force and started a blog. It was probably inevitable; Lord knows I like to ramble on about things, and it’s not too surprising that I’d eventually take it up to the next level, or whatever the phrase is. So, here we are, at this … Read more