So. What are we to make of this, do you think…? (via Drudge)
August 2005
August 5, 2005
The Cancer of Partisan Rage
An email sent to Kathryn Jean Lopez and posted on The Corner (re: preliminary attempts by the New York Times to have the adoption records of SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ children forcibly opened): How stupid are you? Wait, don’t answer. Roberts’ adoptions are relevant because he has two adorable, white blond kids. He probably exerted pull to get them, leaping ahead of the tens of thousands of other adults who
August 5, 2005
A brief message from John Bolton’s mustache, “Regis”, to the Ambassador from Syria, who, it turns out, is not quite the alpha male he thought he was
Yeah, that’s right, I’m looking at you. Little bitch.*
August 5, 2005
McCain to America: “Do as I legislate, not as I, uh, violate the spirit of said legislation in an attempt to ready myself for another presidential run in 2008”
Ryan Sager, who has been a dogged critic of McCain-Feingold, invites us to take a closer look at McCain’s own Reform Institute—a non-profit “think tank” that just so happens to reside in “the same Old Towne office building as McCain’s re-election committee (Friends of John McCain), his PAC (Straight Talk America) and his adviser’s lobbying firm (Davis Manafort & Freedman).” From “The Horse McCain Rode In On,” in today’s New
August 5, 2005
Paradise Regained
From the Washington Post: Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday announced new deportation measures against those who foster hatred and advocate violence, as his government tries to counter Islamic extremists in Britain. Blair said the government would draw up a list of extremist Web sites, book shops and organizations and said that involvement with them could be a trigger to deport foreign nationals. Hmmm. Galloway. That’s a Scots-Syrian surname, isn’t
August 4, 2005
My third brief interview with Karl Rove’s breakfast burrito
Me: “So, did you see where Bob Novak stormed off the set of CNN’s Inside Politics today?” Karl Rove’s breakfast burrito: “Didn’t catch that, no.” Me: “Yep. Cursed at James Carville, took off his mic, and left the soundstage in a bit of a huff.”* Karl Rove’s breakfast burrito: “How unfortunate.”* Me: “CNN suspended him almost immediately. And now, John Aravosis at AmericaBlog is floating the theory that Novak’s meltdown,
August 4, 2005
A brief message from John Bolton’s mustache, “Regis”, to the Ambassador from Cameroon, who thinks he’s being tactful but really is not
Stop staring already, would you? Jesus—you’d think you were raised in a barn or something.
August 4, 2005
Amnesty International: “US torturing detainees in secret locations”
From ABC News Online: Amnesty International has accused the United States of complicity in the torture and detention of terrorism suspects in secret locations around the world. In a report to be released later today, Amnesty International details the stories of two Yemeni men who were both tortured for four days in Jordan before spending 18 months in secret detention. Amnesty says the men are still being held in prison
August 4, 2005
Film reviews in five words or less, #28
Blood, Guts, Bullets & Octane (1998) Directed by Joe Carnahan. Stars Joe Carnahan, Dan Leis, Ken Rudolph, and Dan Harlan. Film reviews in five words or less: Blood, Guts, Bullets & CompletelyderivativeofTarantinobutneverthelessenjoyableforalowbudgeteffort
August 4, 2005
Cave paintings (or, rhetoric probably DOES matter, but so what? SOLDIERS ARE DYING!)
Anybody else find it curious that Ayman Al-Zawahri, one of the leaders of a medievalist death cult bent on reestablishing the caliphate and spreading Shari’a law at the tip of a sword, is on tape talking about a “war for oil” and likening the US campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq to Vietnam? I mean, you’d think he’d be more interested in, say, Andalusia and the Crusades. Not that I’m suggesting