I see a few conceptual problems in the media coverage of the Iraq War Diaries leak (useful roundup here) and people’s reactions to it. 1) More than half of the atrocities detailed in the diaries
I should probably be enjoined from criticizing Charlie Manuel again, since I’ve never been more wrong about a manager. He is, on balance, very good. But tactically…ye gods. One worked and
Less than ideal time for this to happen: The Royal Navy hastened to assemble an official inquiry Friday evening to explore why Britain’s newest nuclear submarine, H.M.S. Astute, ran aground while un
I gave up on the Lancet fight a long time ago; I can’t remember now whether the flurry of allegations and counter-allegations about error and fraud raised sufficient question in my mind about La
Depressing but true: Well the latest Wikileaks disclosures ought to shut them up for good (it won’t, of course). “Our” side has both committed war crimes directly and has acquiesced, enabled, an
“I don’t think he really means to tie her to the bed and set the house on fire. I think he’s just trying to send her a strong signal, probably because she was cheating on him.”
“[L]udicrously wrong, Alessandra Stanley-grade wrong.” In fairness to Stanley, she at least usually confines her inevitable wrongness to a single field…
Shorter Verbatim Juan Williams: “It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought.” Yeah, the th