For those of you who’ve been asking, I’ve posted a bit of my (old) short fiction under “about” (upper right). At some point, I also hope to gather up my language and identity politics posts and place in them their own category. But not today I’m afraid. Because today was made for snowboarding. Or, if you’re me, for watching TV and eating chips while everyone else in Colorado is out
February 11, 2006
February 11, 2006
Litotical Constructs
From Reuters: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, days after calling Iran the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, ratcheted up the pressure on Tehran on Friday with fresh accusations of interference in Iraq. Rumsfeld, in Taormina, Sicily, for a meeting of NATO defense ministers, used an appearance in Europe for the second time in a week to talk tough over Iran, which the United States and European Union fear is covertly
February 11, 2006
NSA program (de)liberation?
In a change of course, the Bush administration on Wednesday and Thursday offered new operational details to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on the NSA foreign intelligence surveillance program, with press secretary Scott McClellan suggesting on Thursday that the White House would listen to ideas that lawmakers have about legislation, but that the President would resist any move that threatened to compromise the program. According to CBS News: The
February 11, 2006
It’s Friday, bro. And that can mean but one thing—
—Sorry. But the little guy read through some of today’s posts and immediately stuffed his rucksack with a physics primer and a few paperback anthologies on Renaissance revenge tragedies, then lit out for one of the nearby community colleges to “make my way in the world.” Because let’s face it: no punkass kitten fetishist is going to call him a failed academic—even if it means he has to has to