Monday, August 06, 2007

Is it really all small stuff?

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or, The Fundamental Problem with Public Discourse Atrios got my attention, but the original post at Crooked Timber is the really interesti...
Sunday, August 05, 2007

The Truth about Denial

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That's Newsweek's headline , not mine. Which makes this very interesting: Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded...
Thursday, August 02, 2007

Work In Progress

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This is incomplete. It's a meditation, nearly a sermon, on the lectionary readings for last Sunday. I had in mind something more along t...
Monday, July 30, 2007

For your reading pleasure

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Working on a sermon about Abraham and Sodom and Gomorrah. In the meantime: Rorschach and Awe at Vanity Fair. ADDING: I heard the author of...
Saturday, July 28, 2007

Oh, those crazy British...

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MI6 believed it was close to finding the al-Qaida leader in Afghanistan in 1998, and again the next year. The plan was for MI6 to hand the C...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Shooting Fish in a Barrel

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This is almost too obvious a comparison. Four nurses and one doctor from Bulgaria are accused by Libya of intentionally spreading HIV/AIDS ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

If our national conversation is carried out in the media

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then I'd say Michael Moore has definitely changed the conversation. From the home page of latimes.com : Adults with no health insurance...
Monday, July 23, 2007

SiCKO

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George W. Bush speaks : The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to h...

Come Together

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From nowhere in particular :* The writer concludes that the "antigovernment activists of the right and the antiwar activists of the lef...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Back from the Harry Potter party

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Something I will never (have) to do again in my life. And I have to say: anyone who can engage so many people so completely in the products...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

We were talking....

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I am shamelessly plucking this from Mad Priest (via geor3ge ) just because it is so funny. And because it allows me to ride one of my favori...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Harry Potter, RIP

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I am clearly in my own universe now, having missed any opportunity to add to any discussion about Harry Potter (yeah, like there'll be ...

The wee small voice in the corner

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says, "No duh!" I think quite a few people who are deeply against the war realize that getting out may not be easy or quick. The i...
Monday, July 16, 2007

"I have to admit it's getting better..."

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It's like they read my blog . Or The Nation . Or listen to Pacifica. NPR, just this evening : One of the lessons learned in the past fou...

I'jaam

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So we're at the Israeli option : But I just want to say also that we’ve been embroiled in this debate about withdrawal. You know what? E...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

I've said it before

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and I'll say it again: what, exactly, does the Iraqi "government" govern? "Communal violence and scant common ground bet...
Monday, July 09, 2007

Once more, with feeling

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Watch the doughnut, not the hole : White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for Presid...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

Actually, I agree with David Broder

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Via Atrios : We don't need more convictions and pardons of government officials. We need scorn and shame for those who violate their oat...

Making something clear/making something ambiguous

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When do we listen to someone besides Tom Friedman, and figure this out? Number two is the problem of this perspective of Sunni, Shiite and K...