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Thursday, Feb 12, 2004
big bopper
chris lydons radio show seems worth a listen tomorrow at 10 est.
Wednesday, Feb 11, 2004
false pretenses
i give little credence to the anecdotal but these "reagan republican"soundbites were worth savoring, even if theyre cherry-picked..
Monday, Feb 09, 2004
curb your bush
first chapter of The Book on Bush by mark green and larry davids new best friend.
cheney gang
"As Defense Secretary, Cheney developed a contempt for Congress, which, a friend said, he came to regard as “a bunch of annoying gnats.” Meanwhile, his affinity for business deepened. “The meetings with businessmen were the ones that really got him pumped,” a former aide said. One company that did exceedingly well was Halliburton. Toward the end of Cheney’s tenure, the Pentagon decided to turn over to a single company the bulk of the business of planning and providing support for military operations abroad—tasks such as preparing food, doing the laundry, and cleaning the latrines. As Singer writes in “Corporate Warriors,” the Pentagon commissioned Halliburton to do a classified study of how this might work. In effect, the company was being asked to create its own market."
talking pointed
funny fake SOTU
Sunday, Feb 08, 2004
lying down
"Only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war."
Saturday, Feb 07, 2004
why did i eat that?
dont forget to watch timmy and the prez tomorrow morning on meet the dent.
epistles of st paul
krugman reviews suskind and phillips in the nyrb.
Friday, Feb 06, 2004
on the jon
mag wheelies
left guard
"A number of posts in various places lately have raised the question "Who are the Left?". The ambiguity on this point goes all the way back to the origin of the term, when the Jacobins and their allies were seated to the left of the chair in the National Assembly while the conservatives sat on the right. From this beginning the term "Left" has been used to refer both to the more radical half of any political spectrum (arguably the natural interpretation, if the symmetry between left and right is to taken seriously) and to the conscious or unconscious heirs of Jacobinism, that is to revolutionary vanguard groups."