03 June 2006

Of bombs and balconies . . .

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Many of my previous posts have, I admit, reflected a certain contempt for our news media, much of which I consider to be on the whole thorou...
15 May 2006

Zzzzzz. . . .

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. . . . what was that? Oh, same old shit . Go back to spleep. . .
23 April 2006

What ever happened to that Iranian offer to negotiate . . . ?

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Oh, yeah, now I remember . . .
03 April 2006

Based on the situation at the time

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Well, strike me with a feather! The Economist edges towards mea culpa ville? On reading the valedictory message of departing editor Bill...
01 April 2006

Our greatest jurist . . .

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. . . truly a genius .

Teensy tip of the iceberg

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In the great "jaded" vs. "complicit" debate, I vote for the latter .
27 March 2006

Unhinged

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He's really on a bender these days .

Scalia again

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He's a genius , they tells me . . . As Atrios points out, I love how Scalia orders the press around.

Yeah, yeah

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Not bad . . . . . . but it's the second comment that strikes the right chord. Here it is reprinted in its entirety: Too little, too l...
26 March 2006

Shaken not stirred

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Want to know where our Supreme Court's heading? Justice Scalia has hardly been shy about his intent. Here's his speech at the U of ...
25 March 2006

I think the logic is perfectly sound

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It's simple, really: emergency war powers become permanent when the president deems us to be in a permanent state of war. I wonder if ...
19 March 2006

Part Four -- Lexington and the Iraq War

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Picking up from where I left off , let's move on to The Economist's unpardonable coverage of and support for the Iraq war. In direct...

Right on

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I couldn't agree with Kevin more . The so-called social security crisis is a charade.
18 March 2006

Part 'tree -- Mens Rea Exposed!

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The Economist is perhaps the standard-bearer of classical liberalism in the global media: it is a 160-year old magazine (scroll down) that ...
15 March 2006

"We don't call them elitists for nothing"

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. . . quoth Joe Scarface. Yes, who oh who will be held accountable ?

Wow

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Can it get any more corrupt? Has anyone attempted to compare our current era of sleaze with those in the past? I wonder how we'd comp...
12 March 2006

The inmates are taking over the asylum

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Oh, those crazy guys and gals in congress . Will they never stop with all these kooky, out-there antics? "What the president did by co...
10 March 2006

I Love/Hate The Economist, Part II

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And now for the long-awaited follow-up to my previous post in which I declared my intention to embark, quixotic, on a mission to unmask cer...

Remedial Epistomological Despondency

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If all the right-wing hacks in the the forest collapsed under the collective weight of their bloated egos c ould you still hear yourself sc...
13 February 2006

Yer doin' a heckuva job, Kevvy

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Gol-DAMN - here's another one ! Well, at least this guy can't do too much damage. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Sy...