I watched the interview, along with 15-20 million other people. I’m still not sure what to make of it. It seemed to me that his objection to Cheney and Bush’s use of his phrase “slam dunk” was that he feels they were using his words to justify the war on Iraq, and that wasn’t what …
I remember reading a quote once in one of Roger Angell’s New Yorker pieces about a close baseball game; a player said something like “We really drug it through a knothole that time.” Well, the Dodgers and Padres did that today. 17 innings. Official time of game: 4 hours 55 minutes. The Dodgers used every …
When Peter begins chatting with Linda Ronstadt he and she discuss the cover of Time Magazine in 1977. Voil?!
It was hardly consumer-friendly of Gillette to make both their Atra and their Trac II razor blade cartridges look exactly the same. The only distinction is that the method of connecting the blade to the cartridge is different. This annoys me when I’m trying to find the correct package at the drugstore, particularly since the …
Somehow I have missed Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan books. Considering that the first one (there are about a dozen) was published in 1986, I can only conclude that I got out of the science fiction reading habit back in the 80s. On the one hand, I missed some wonderful stories; on the other, I …
Mannion directs us to a letter Kevin Tillman (yes, Pat Tillman’s brother, an ex-Ranger himself) has written to the American public. Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. …
Damn. Remember the old Supremes song “You Keep Me Hangin’ On?” Every time I feel a spark of liking for Juliet she calls Ben, which instantly makes me angry at her duplicity all over again. And how the hell can Mikhail be alive? And the outside world has, according to the parachute lady, recovered the …
From Majikthise via Pharyngula comes a link to this harrowing story of a pregnant woman, her husband, and the choice he had to face. I’m not gonna excerpt anything, because the entire post should be read.
There have been quite a few good histories of the American involvement in Vietnam, including Neil Sheehan’s “A Bright and Shining Lie,” Sidney Karnow’s “Vietnam: A History,” Michael Herr’s “Dispatches,” and Frances Fitzgerald’s “Fire in the Lake”. The one which really exposed American policy mistakes, however, was David Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest.” Halberstam …
Bush: “it was clear that the attorney general broke no law, did no wrongdoing” That’s the standard? If you don’t break any laws you ought to keep your job as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States? Impeach George Bush. Impeach him now.