Sully is having a real hard time. He’s not an idiot, meaning that he can’t believe that the project in Iraq is going well. On the other hand, he’s arrogant and not terribly flexible, which means that he can’t admit he was wrong to support the war. Thus, we occasionally get bits like this, which […]
One of Juan Cole’s finest: President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country. What would America look like if it were
Between Kristof and Beldar, I’d say we’ve asymptotically approached the truth enough for there to be not a whole lot of interesting argument left. Two of Kerry’s Purple Hearts are sh
Paperwight does a damn fine job of pointing out how all of the above are a better use of time than trying to answer the specific charges of right wing bloggers: You know what the right wing response would be to a charge like that (if the liberals in this country could get their act […]
I am pleased to note that the fine folks at W.W. Norton sent me a copy of the 9/11 commission report, unsolicited but welcomed. In addition, Phillip Roth’s new novel The Plot Against America
At some point in my life, I was mildly amused by some scenes in a National Lampoon movie, the one with Chevy Chase. I can’t speak for most of their releases, except to say that they look pretty
This little item from Kos is interesting, and gives me an excuse to relate a dream I recently. In the dream, I was lazing about the house one morning, and turned on CNN. So far, the dream is dogme-95 realism–it went down as it actually does, many days, except I’d probably watch FNC, not CNN. […]
Circumstantial evidence suggests that The Ethicist(tm) might be listening to my advice (or Paperwight). Still, I’m not in the mood to be terribly magnanimous. The first two “corrections
Kos asks if he has no shame. The answer is clearly no, but the more interesting question is has he ever looked at voting demographics in this country?
Apparently we’ve decided that Cuba doesn’t have an offensive bio-weapon program. Considering that they’ve been sitting off the coast of Florida for forty-three years and haven’t attacked yet, I’m not convinced that Cuba should have been on our list of concern, anyway. Via Crooked Timber, Michael Shifter argues in an op-ed that the Bush administration may not […]
Laura Rozen excerpts a Salon interview with Sy Hersh: Jacoby: Is there someone who is the Henry Kissinger in this administration? Hersh: Oh, believe me, I pray for one [clasps his hands and looks bese
Fred Kaplan has a characteristically excellent column about the technical difficulties presented by the current missile defense system. For those who haven’t had the chance, read Kaplan’s