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Interesting Krugman NYRB reviews of Phillips' and Suskind's books on the Bush family.

- jim 5-17-2006 6:53 pm [link] [add a comment]

Comment of the Day -- on a thread about conservative battle wanking fatigue


Son, we live in a world that has blogs, and those blogs have to be guarded by men with computers. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Waring? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Reynolds and you curse the Keyboarders. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Reynolds’ existence, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that blog. You need me on that blog. We use words like “fisk,” “indeed,” “heh” … We use these words as the backbone to a life spent at home defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a woman who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the endlessly self-important invective that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a laptop and start to post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!

- mark 5-16-2006 6:36 pm [link] [1 comment]

Girl in the Bubble

- mark 5-16-2006 1:08 am [link] [add a comment]

Batiste
, WSJ page A1 (saturday edition)
- mark 5-15-2006 10:57 pm [link] [add a comment]

kos booksigning wednesday on the bowery.

- dave 5-15-2006 5:07 pm [link] [1 comment]

frogmarch time?

- steve 5-13-2006 7:09 am [link] [add a comment]

ponies too cheap to meter

- mark 5-12-2006 6:53 am [link] [add a comment]

"Sadly, No!’s responses to Mark Kleiman’s response to Atrios’ response and Digby’s response to Ana Marie Cox’s response to Stephen Colbert’s routine at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner went way over the line of civility."

- dave 5-10-2006 4:54 pm [link] [add a comment]

sometimes people get exactly what they deserve. right, michael kelly? this is what he had to say about a speech al gore gave in the time leading up to the war in iraq. the speech is excerpt in the link, and was dead on. if you recall, kelly was an eager embed who died in an accident in the desert.

Gore's speech was one no decent politician could have delivered. It was dishonest, cheap, low. It was hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts--bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was
contemptible.


- dave 5-10-2006 4:51 pm [link] [add a comment]

the new drum beat from the right is that the left is angry. it started with hil and now everyones getting called on it. its too easy. better angry than mad.

But the message in this case truly is the medium. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated. --r.cohen
and so on.
The whole "angry left" myth is a copout, an escape-hatch for those who are confronted by fact and choose to respond by attacking the messenger rather than the message. It's a cowardly tactic that originated on the radical right (see Malkin and the "moonbats"); lately, we have seen its use on the rise in the traditional media. It is, indeed, a pathetic diversionary tactic. Instead of addressing the substance of the critique, those who use the easy-out "angry left" defense avoid addressing the true issue at hand.

- bill 5-10-2006 12:28 pm [link] [add a comment]






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