Ok, traveling photographers, here’s one for you. A bottle-cap cum camera tripod. That’s right. It slips onto a bottle, according to this WaPo article. It’s “a rubber bottle cap topped by a ball-and-socket platform that screws into the bottom of your camera.” Is that too cool for school or what?
Organized religion causes more problems than anything else in the world. Case in point: After her family moved to this small town 30 years ago, Mona Dobrich grew up as the only Jew in school. Mrs. Dobrich, 39, married a local man, bought the house behind her parents? home and brought up her two children …
Does this guy occupy the same country I do? What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn’t kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything? Wasn’t the survival of Sunni men between the ages of …
Does the Israel lobby really work to Israel’s benefit? Maybe not. Peace and the territorial concessions entailed, including evacuating most of the settlements, is the best and perhaps only guarantee of Israel?s future. U.S. policy, under the influence of an unreconstructed Israel lobby of neoconservatives, fundamentalist evangelicals, and American Likudniks, is liable to follow directions …
I had an odd thought. When I was 25 I was reading a lot about Watergate (since I was overseas when it all went down, I wasn’t able to read/watch/listen in real time), and I can still tell you the names of many of the participants: Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Stans, Colson, Liddy, Dean, and Mitchell. 30 …
I used to think my country tried to do the right thing most of the time. I don’t think so anymore, not under the current Administration. It’s been pretty clear that the goal of our “diplomacy” in this Israel – Hizbollah mess has been to stall as long as possible, hoping that Israel could destroy …
Dear Israel, I know you think you’re doing the right thing in reducing much of Lebanon to rubble. I understand the provocations you’ve suffered, with missiles landing in your neighborhoods and soldiers being abducted. However, as an old friend and financial backer, I have reservations about your methods; I think they may backfire. From the …
It ain’t just the IRS estate tax division: From today’s Boston Globe: The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights, according to job application materials obtained by the Globe. The documents show that only …
If you can’t abolish the estate tax by way of Congress, what do you do? Why, you “cut the jobs of 157 of the [Internal Revenue Service’s] 345 estate tax lawyers, plus 17 support personnel, in less than 70 days.” I can’t improve on Kevin Drum’s sarcasm, so go read his.
Well, this should endear us to the non-Israeli part of the Middle East. The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday. [snip] The munitions that the United States is sending …