Thoughts on Obama getting uppity with the SCOTUS.
Month: January 2010
Could this be any good?The original falls comfortably into the "hopelessly flawed yet endlessly entertaining" category. I suppose that the biggest problem I have with the trailer is the implication.
Learning that J.D. Salinger died a day after learning that Howard Zinn had qualifies as a sufficiently surreal experience for that type of person who very much resembles me. Catcher in the Rye taught me how to channel my anger into antisocial behaviors—reading books in...
Dan Drezner is among those who today bemoaned the absence of foreign policy content in President Obama's State of the Union Speech. He's not the only one. Max Boot calls.
Neither did anything wrong.
J.D. Salinger's son has announced that his father has died.I'm not familiar with most of Salinger's work, but I recently had a striking experience with The Catcher in the Rye. I read it in college and hadn't looked at it in 25 years when I...
Sorry for the lack of SOTU coverage on my end; because a seemingly endless series of random January illnesses culminated in mysterious but excruciating foot pain, I just caught random.
Wow. Perhaps the ghost of Howard Zinn was speaking through our President tonight. In a little over an hour, he called out the Supreme Court for its recent decision on.
Over at Big Hollywood, a man who only watched the first half of Steven Soderbergh's Che declares the whole film a work of propaganda. You can tell he only watched the first half because he thinks the whole film is about Cuba—the second half, sometimes...
It appears that Howard Zinn has passed. The only work of Zinn's that I've read is People's History; I was both deeply disappointed in it as a work of history,.
CNN is reporting that Obama will ask Congress to repeal the Don't Ask Don't Tell legislation. Of course "asking" could mean everything from making this a legislative priority to engaging.