Elections first!
The Middle East is in flames, so what’s Bush do today? Why, fund-raise, of course! Leadership.
Archive of entries posted on July 2006
Good marketing
I’m wearing a t-shirt that’s advertising The Original Tommy’s, a burger chain in California. I have another one from In-N-Out Burger. Sadly, I’ve never been to either burger palace, but here I am showing support for them. This is what comes of getting omiyage from family members in California.
Pedantics
Memo to the blogosphere (or blogtopia, and y!sctp!): Principle: 1. A basic truth, law, or assumption: the principles of democracy. 2. a. A rule or standard, especially of good behavior: a man of principle; b. The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments: a decision based on principle rather than expediency. 3. A fixed …
Stem Cell Veto
Charles Pierce on Bush’s veto: IT’S PERSONAL. It just so happens that I have a couple of really ugly-ass dogs in this fight over embryonic stem-cell research. Not many political issues are personal with me, but this one deeply is. I have watched slow death from neurological disease once too often in my life to …
Kitchen wildlife
Gecko Originally uploaded by Linkmeister. If he keeps killing insects like he’s supposed to, I’ll keep him around. No, he has no British accent and he did not try to get me to switch to GEICO.
Fun with Senator Stevens
In a discussion of net neutrality, which he doesn’t like, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) said the following: I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going …
Good shot
The MSM can be as snarky as the rest of us. From ABC’s The Note: On “Nightline” last night, ABC News’ Jake Tapper said, “If the president is going to curse on camera, is it too much to ask that he not appoint Federal Communications Commissioners who will fine us for broadcasting it?” For the …
Cheap
Bush’s fiscal conservatism includes charging Americans for their travel out of Lebanon. Americans have been told to wait for a telephone call that could come in hours — or days. They’ve also been told they can’t board a ship unless they’ve signed a contract agreeing to repay the U.S. government for the price of their …
Hard-boiled detectives lose a champion
Mickey Spillane has died. I admit I haven’t given Mike Hammer’s creator much thought since I was about 16, but it still surprised me. I remember reading I, The Jury and being astonished at the ending, when Hammer shoots the murderer in cold blood. That wasn’t the way mystery novels (and it was a mystery, …
US–Israel ties, the sequel
Back on March 18 of this year I suggested reading an article which postulated that the Israel lobby (AIPAC) exerts an inordinately large influence on the US government. It was published in the London Review of Books. Yesterday’s WaPo Magazine contained an article which is in part rebuttal, in part backstory, and in part analysis …