You could wake from a nap to find that your son has poured an entire bottle of wood seal on your new dog. He got to it by ripping the eye hook out of the pantry door, then scaling the shelves You could find that the wood oil has been tracked on the carpet, on both rugs, and all throughout the house You could then find that you are completely
April 5, 2007
April 5, 2007
Secular Piety and the New Age Orthodoxy
Rocky Mountain News editorial page editor Vincent Carroll, on the latest issue of Time Magazine: Time magazine continues its descent into a parody of the 1970s’ Whole Earth Catalog with its current issue highlighting “The Global Warming Survival Guide.” To be sure, Time’s list of “51 Things You Can Do to Make a Difference” manages to engage a few serious topics, such as a possible carbon tax vs. the “cap-and-trade”
April 5, 2007
“My Dinner with Andre (the Giant)”: from the protein wisdom conceptual series
me: “Memory is a slippery thing, you know? I mean, for Proust, memory was a living dichotomy—either conscious, and owing to human intelligence and the mechanism of directed recall, or else involuntary, born of sensory cues. Conscious memory, for Proust, could never really capture the essence of the past, given that it was always by nature being mitigated and filtered—and so remains only partial or, at worst, corrupted. Whereas involuntary
April 5, 2007
Jimmah!
It’s like the guy watches Munich on an infinite loop and internalizes all the nuance. From KUNA: The United States cannot be a Mideast peacemaker if American government leaders are seen as “knee-jerk supporters of every action or policy of whatever Israeli government happens to be in power at any particular time,” former President Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday. “That is the essential fact that must be faced and, unfortunately,
April 5, 2007
Oh, the Humanity!
Not that I care one way or the other whether Daimler-Chrysler purges itself of Chrysler (just so long as the company that acquires Chrysler continues making Jeeps and Crossfires), but this bit from the Washington Post’s Sholn Freeman, describing the company’s problems, is rather interestingly worded: […] “This supposed marriage made in heaven has turned out to be a complete failure,” said Richard Schmitz of the German Association for the
April 5, 2007
Bush’s Own Easter Gift?
One Iranian ambassador, dyed a nice pastel green. What? Iranians are people too, are they not? Just ask Rosie. So really, why shouldn’t they get to gather up a few eggs? I mean, WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? Still, unless we have something big in store for Iran—and British assistance is crucial to our plans—this sends all the wrong signals. Unless you happen to be Jimmy Carter. In which case, tits!
April 5, 2007
Non-representative commenters on moderated “progressive” website call for violence against Rove; website’s diva silent, waits for Glenn Greenwald to cook up some kind of ridiculous defense she’ll deem “brilliant” in exchange for, like, a really expensive watch or some such
We discussed this yesterday, did we not? Eggs. Omelets. What is it you stupid neocons don’t understand about TOUGH LOVE, anyway? **** (h/t Patterico and CJ Burch, who writes, “I hear the WaPo is considering another strong condemantion of LGF in response.” BECAUSE OF THE TU QUOQUENESS!)
April 5, 2007
“HBO promises ‘fair’ recount movie made by Dem donors”
Truthiness in Technicolor! HBO is planning to make an unbiased film, titled “Recount†and scheduled to premiere early next year, about the 2000 presidential election. That could be difficult, if not impossible, to pull off, because the director, executive producer, and writer of the movie are all Democrats. Oh, and Colin Callender, the president of HBO Films, is also a D. The Hollywood Reporter this week quoted Callender as saying