In the interest of science…
Found over at Shelley’s place.
Archive of entries posted on June 2005
What’s your is mine
I’m no lawyer, but it sure seems to me that the Supreme Court decided incorrectly when it said that cities can take private property to give it to other private interests, even if the new private interests offer higher tax revenue to the city. Taking it for a road, a dam, or some other public …
SWM Seeks work
I need a new client or two. I do market research, provide background info on competition, investigate SEC reports, and subscribe to industry-specific newsletters and journals and pull pertinent data from them. Anybody know any startups who need that kind of work?
Insularity
Back on December 3 of last year I wrote a little bit about Patrick Henry College, which is a non-denominational Christian college and de facto training ground for conservative pols and staff workers. The New Yorker has an article which goes into much more detail than did the one I’d read back then. This paragraph …
Lies and the lying liars…
I was gonna write about our friend Ken Tomlinson, his attempts to politicize CPB, PBS and NPR and the new information which has just come to light, but Media Matters beat me to it. …newly released email messages prove Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), “extensively consulted a …
Promotion through screwup
In yet another example of failing upward (see Wolfowitz, Bolton, Rice et. al.) here’s an interesting news item: General Ricardo Sanchez is up for promotion. From a March ACLU press release: …a memo sent by Lt. Gen Sanchez flatly contradicts sworn testimony given by him before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in which he denied …
Father’s Day
A pithy parental remark I won’t forget: “You do what you think best; I’m sure you’ll do the right thing.” Thanks, Dad, I try.
Retread at the NYT
Oh, for cryin’ out loud. Tierney hasn’t even been at the NYT for two months, and already he’s writing that familiar conservative column about how men are portrayed on television? Recycling this material? Look at the date of the second article. Any plagiarism here? Or did he and the author of that one just get …
The NABA defense
It was to be expected that one-half of the universe would immediately seize upon Senator Durbin’s use of the words “Nazi”, “Soviet gulag” and “Pol Pot” at the close of his statement cited below in attempts to discredit what he said. Fred Clark of Slacktivist has a response to that half. Not As Bad As. …
Fawlty Towers
Reagan memorably called America a shining city on the hill. It’s being pulled down bit-by-bit, stone by stone. Only the foundation is left, and it’s cracking (pdf). This is what Senator Durbin (D-IL) said on the floor of the US Senate yesterday: To win the war on terrorism, we must remain true to the principles …