Is there anything more frightening than leaving your pet at the vet for “observation”? Tigger’s 12 and has a touch of arthritis, or so the vet said three weeks ago. This morning she couldn’t make her back legs work. Now they’ve called to say there’s some kind of neurological problem with her hips.
On May 6 I wrote about a memo (now being called The Downing Street Memo) which surfaced during the recent UK elections. It indicated that the Bush Administration intended to invade Iraq as early as Spring 2002, even if the justification for that action included slanting and/or falsifying intelligence. Now a coalition has been created …
How did Memorial Day begin? Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans – the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) – established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John …
I was watching the National Memorial Day Concert on PBS this evening, and I saw that Colin Powell was in the audience. I couldn’t help wondering if he felt any regrets about his testimony to the UN as he heard stories like these. Then I wondered if President Bush was watching, and I imagined a …
Anyone been to a major league baseball game this year? I see that the Yankees (at least for Sunday Night Baseball games) are still trotting out a tenor to sing “God Bless America” at the seventh-inning stretch. I haven’t noticed that being done in other games I’ve watched on TV this year, so I’m curious …
I love this. CJR Daily interviewed Tim Golden, who wrote the Afghanistan abuse stories (Part 1, Part 2) in the NYT last week. In the course of it, the interviewer asks about the timing of the articles so closely following the Newsweek kerfuffle: A few conservative bloggers and pundits have questioned the timing of the …
This story has been floating around for a while, but it’s just now hit the NYT. A Republican fundraiser in Ohio somehow convinced the state’s Workers’ Compensation Fund to invest $50 million bucks in rare coins, and now some $13 million has gone missing. Putting aside the guy’s innocence or guilt for a moment, what …
Here are a couple of columns discussing the Bush Administration’s manipulation of the press. One is from Terry Neal in the WaPo a few days ago; the other is from Eric Alterman in the Nation. Reading those, one might get the feeling we should just sit around and wait for the barbarians.
I find it unconscionable that the Lost producers left us with no answers, more questions, and not one but several cliffhangers to puzzle over until the new season begins. Where does that shaft lead (I have visions of the film version of Journey to the Center of the Earth)? What’s the deal with kidnaping the …
Store Wars. (from Solonor.)