Vigils for the dead sons, daughters, husbands, wives
Kos has an open thread with stories of vigils nationwide.
Archive of entries posted on August 2005
Voice of America slanted too?
Is there anything these people won’t screw up? Yeah, I know. It’s purely rhetorical. Sanford Ungar was the Voice of America Director from 1999-2001: Meanwhile, employees in the VOA’s battered newsroom have tried to fend off directives from VOA director David Jackson and other political appointees, who have suggested that the network report more favorably …
Burning bushes
Adam Felber has found a copy of an inter-office memo from Jehovah. The other addressees are Israeli settlers.
Who served?
In the great “chickenhawk” debate, much has been made of the lack of military service by proponents of the war. Somebody at azcentral.com put together a bipartisan list of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and (gasp!) pundits (both on and offline) and their respective service time. It’s in no way complete, but it’s modestly instructive. What I …
PR machine falters?
I suppose it was a calculated political decision for Bush to do
New immigrant
Politics in Whistler, BC apparently is so unpleasant that its mayor is moving to Kauai. No worries, though; he’ll telecommute until his term expires in November. Great. We don’t have enough ex-politicians selling real estate out here already?
I’m hungry
There’s a serious market failure going on in the pre-packaged food industry. When I lived in Japan as a 23-year-old sailor, I became an amateur anthropologist, spending some of my evenings studying human nature. Much of this research took place in bars, and these observations often required that I myself partake of the products bars …
A robot named Stinky
The other day I was in a doctor’s office; there was a copy of Wired magazine on the table. I picked it up out of boredom (sometimes I think patients should be allowed to bill doctors for their time, just as doctors do for theirs) and read a wonderful and heartbreaking story. A bunch of …
Classless
Some of you may have seen references to a Pentagon-sponsored “America Supports You Freedom Walk,” with a performance by Clint Black. It’s to take place on September 11. There has been lots of outrage expressed, particularly at the continuing attempts to connect Iraq to 9/11. When I first read about it, there was seemingly only …
What’s wrong here?
On the left, Cindy Sheehan, deemed a national security threat for sitting in outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford. On the right, Osama bin Laden, deemed a national security threat for multiple terroristic acts including the murder of nearly 3,000 people on 9/11/2001. Mr. President, you’ve lost your mind. (Image juxtaposition concept stolen from Dark …