Has there ever been a United States Administration as deluded as this one? Bush, today: Five years into this battle, there is an understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting, whether the fight is worth winning, and whether we can win it. The answers are clear to me: Removing Saddam Hussein from power …
What if Ann Coulter had liveblogged the Gettysburg Address? via Ezra Klein.
One of the giants is dead. Arthur C. Clarke wrote an awful lot of books and short stories, many of which I’ve read. I always felt he was great on science; less good on characterization. His imagination was spot-on, however. He’s the man who envisioned telcomm satellites above the earth in 1945, ten years before …
E.J. Dionne follows up my thoughts from yesterday: The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed out by government from their own incompetence, and from the deregulatory regime for which they lobbied so hard. They have lost “confidence” in each other, you see, because none …
If your home has gone into foreclosure because you can’t pay the mortgage, if you are watching your minimum payments on your credit cards rise because the interest rates are going through the roof, if you are paying five bucks for a half-gallon of milk, you might wonder if you’re going to get a bailout …
Has this person never heard of doing homework for her job? From Think Progress, which has a video link: On Fox News Sunday today, White House press secretary Dana Perino was named the “Power Player of the Week.” She explained to host Chris Wallace that, in addition to the pressure to look good, she faces …
Continue reading ‘What is it with Republican women, anyway?’ »
Melina Mercouri, from the 1960 film of the same name.
Marti Webb, from an Andrew Lloyd Webber play I’ve never seen. She originated the role and was followed by Sarah Brightman and Bernadette Peters, among others. I happen to like Webb’s soprano over Brightman’s; I find the latter a little too breathy for my taste.
A while back Senator McCain hosted a bunch of journalists at what they subsequently described as a “cabin” in Sedona, Arizona. The Arizona Republic described it as a “rustic cabin”; National Public Radio described it as a “weekend cabin”; The New York Times called it McCain’s “cabin near Sedona, Ariz.”; the Associated Press called it …
Item on my dental insurance statement advising me what the insurance paid and how much I owe to the dentist for last week’s adventure: Crown-Porc W/Noble Noble what? An Earl, a Duke, a fir tree?