In the time it takes you to read this post, an eclectic mix of writers and C-list celebrities at the Huffington Post will have uploaded 23 new entries demanding that President Bush meet with grieving mother Cindy Sheehan—some of them long, some of them short, and one by Jim Lampley that consists of nothing more than a photo of the cable boxing analyst’s saggy junk with the legend, “Just say
August 2005
Barbar-iranians at the Gate
LGF has the text and video of an interview that aired August 4 on Iranian TV in which Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Hosein Musavian explains how re-entering nuclear negotiations was meant to buy Iran time to finish building the Esfahan nuclear processing facility. An excerpt (via MEMRI TV): […] Thanks to our dealings with Europe, even when we got a 50-day ultimatum, we managed to continue the work for two
The Para(noid)llax View
Writing at Townhall, conservative filmaker Jason Apuzzo reveals a few of the politically-themed projects Hollywood has in the pipeline. From “Hollywood’s New War Effort: Terrorism Chic”: Slow to awaken after the 9/11 attacks, Hollywood has finally come around to contributing what it can in the War on Terror: namely, glossy, star-studded movies that sympathize with the enemy. Hard to believe? Here’s the pitch: with box-office numbers trending down, studio executives
More Cindy Sheehan fetishizing from Arianna’s assorted “celebrity” nutbag
Here, for instance, is author and Vogue TV critic Joan Juliet Buck, who pens a lovely piece suggesting how Cindy Sheehan—a woman trading on her grief to help legitimize leftist groups such as the virulently anti-Zionist Crawford Peace House—is just like that brave student protester who in 1989 famously refused to budge before the rolling steel monster of China’s tyranny. From “Simple Actions That Can Change the World”: There are
In which I provide a brief (and, I hope, persuasive) reply to the socio-cultural musings of long-time anti-war activist, political strategist, and founder of the popular leftist website “afterdowningstreet.org,” Steve Cobble—who, appearing at Huffington Post, writes:
Lexington. Selma. Crawford? 40 years ago, speechwriter Richard Goodwin wrote these inspiring words for President Lyndon B. Johnson, so he could introduce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Congress: ”At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was at Appomatox. So it was
A revelation
So I’m outside with my kid a few minutes ago, torturing the poor little guy by making him chase a foam-rubber baseball all over the lawn like some bumbling, two-legged Border Collie—when suddenly it hits me: war really is hell! Damn you, Hollywood liberals! Damn you for complicating everything!
“The yin and yang of intimate interpersonal relationships post, 16” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
yin: “Do these jeans make me look heavy?” yang: “The jeans? No. But all that extra fat on your ass is a whole different story.”
Odds, Ends
1. The brilliant Anthony Perez-Miller, a PhD candidate in history and philosophy of science (whose dissertation happens to be an analysis of the structural flaws in ID arguments) weighs in on the evolution and ID debate that continues engage the blogosphere. For those who need reminding, my position on the matter is here. 2. Tom Elia writes, “DNC chair Howard Dean once again has said that having Social Security personal
Dems and Racial Politics, #237
From the WSJ Online (subscription only, so I’ll excerpt at length) Liberals have been beating their collective breast in recent years over the Bush administration’s post-9/11 assault on civil liberties. But Michigan Democrats—from Gov. Jennifer Granholm to the State Board of Canvassers—have joined ranks with a radical, 1960s-style Trotskyite group to deny state residents the most basic of all rights: the right to vote. The group, which lives in a
And so it begins…
From the International Herald Tribune: The British government, moving against suspected Islamic extremists after the July bombings, said Thursday that 10 foreign nationals seen as a “threat to national security” had been seized for deportation. The foreigners, thought to include Abu Qatada, once described as the spiritual ambassador of Al Qaeda in Europe, were detained in early-morning raids across Britain by police forces in London, Leicester, Luton and the West
