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Month: March 2010

Pre-Emptive Mea Culpa

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In Robert Farley
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On March 20, 2010
I'll admit to getting pretty excited by the F-22 cancellation last year. It seemed to indicate that Robert Gates and the Obama administration were willing to get serious about costly and unnecessary weapons programs, and suggested a more clear focus on the wars that the...

Mad Masses

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In Charli Carpenter
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On March 19, 2010
My colleague Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything forwarded me this interesting piece from Slate, in which ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100.

Off-Target

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On March 19, 2010

Un-frakkin-believable. A retired Marine general told senators Thursday that the Dutch army failed to protect the city of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war partly because of the presence of gay.

The UNSC-mandated Monitoring Group on Somalia presented its report to the Security Council Tuesday. The part of the report detailing corruption in the distribution of humanitarian aid is getting all the press, but for my money the most interesting part of the report is the...

Remembering Alex Chilton

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On March 18, 2010

Scott already covered the awful news, but if anyone is worth a follow-up post, it's Alex Chilton.  Like most of my contemporaries, I came to admire Alex Chilton through his.

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