Sam Goody’s Bring It On! (Tie) 10 Things I Hate About You! / parking lot of the “American Idol” auditions, Colorado Convention Center, Denver CO Sister Lipsky’s 10th grade gym class (Ramona Convent Secondary School, Alhambra CA) The Limited Express Row 4, seat 19, Back Street Boys 2005 World Tour (Reliant Arena, Houston, TX) Mary-Kate and Ashley, two cases of Heineken, and a 2006 Winnebago Vectra (with waterbed) Crossroads (2002)
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December 1, 2005
Disastrous partisan payback?
Breaking news from Roll Call, “GOP Lawmakers Float Ethics Probe of Murtha”: Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his brother’s lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee. From a GOP standpoint, the timing here is absolutely terrible—and so hamfisted as to be laughable. True or not, such a probe, should it happen, will certainly be spun as payback for Murtha’s
December 1, 2005
The Island of Misfit Toys, updated for 2005 (and given a slightly left-liberal slant)
polka-dotted elephant: “So. Who should we sue first?”
December 1, 2005
Defining the terms: racism, feminism, and the problem of identity politics
An obvious problem with the grievance aspect of identity politics is that the grievance needs to be perpetually maintained in order to justify the identity aspect of the politics. And in an era of academic specialization wherein just about every individual identity group has its own set of researchers and theoretical champions—as well as a widely accepted generic narrative of grievance—the observation that continued relevance (which translates into political power)
December 1, 2005
“Broken, worn out”
Newly-minted Democratic uber “hawk” John Murtha, on the US military and Iraq: Most U.S. troops will leave Iraq within a year, and the Army is “broken, worn out” and may not be able to meet future military threats to the country’s security, Rep. John Murtha said. Two weeks ago, Murtha created a storm of comment when he called for U.S. troops to leave Iraq now. The Democratic congressman spoke to
December 1, 2005
A post that explores what life might be like if oatmeal could speak, 5
oatmeal: “Let me put it to you this way: whoever it was who pieced that Frankenberry cat together? Hooked him up big time.”
November 30, 2005
The incoherent Democratic message
Former DNC Chairman Terry Mcauliffe, appearing moments ago on FOXNews’ “The Big Story,” laid out Democratic criticism of the administration’s GWOT strategy (paraphrasing): 1) We now see that the Taliban is reorganizing in Afghanistan—all because Bush (the inaccurate argument goes) “pulled the troops too soon” and “rushed them into Iraq” before the Afghan job was completed. In short, leaving to allow a sovereign Afghanistan to try to stand on its
November 30, 2005
sometimes being a CITIZEN JOURNALIST requires making difficult decisions, and sometimes we choose unwisely
Case in point: after staying up into the wee hours of the morning investigating the Natalee Holloway disappearance (I spent six hours staking out the Spice channel and am sad to report finding no sign of the missing Alabama teen—though with my wife out of town, I plan to dig more this evening), I overslept today’s Presidential Strategy speech for the War in Iraq—a speech that John Kerry and others
November 30, 2005
Thin Reid: Usama bin Crushed Under Crumbling Pakistani Rock?
Nice roundup at Pajamas media of Harry Reid’s…er, revelation? speculation?—no one seems quite sure—to a Nevada TV station that Usama bin Laden was been killed in last month’s major earthquake in Pakistan (video here). Here’s how PJM frames the story: […] More than the news itself that the No. 1 Most Wanted could be dead—it’s not the first time the speculation arises, and at least until now it has been
November 30, 2005
The Way We Weren’t
More Katrina-coverage post-mortem, from Reason‘s Matt Welch: On September 1, 72 hours after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, the Associated Press news wire flashed a nightmare of a story: “Katrina Evacuation Halted Amid Gunfire…Shots Are Fired at Military Helicopter.†The article flew across the globe via at least 150 news outlets, from India to Turkey to Spain. Within 24 hours commentators on every major American television news network had