Bolton vs. Lincoln
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Why do humorless Republicans make fools of themselves on comedy shows? Bolton is a sitting duck for John Stewart and Doris Kearns Goodwin.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bolton vs. Lincoln", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/bolton-vs-lincoln/" });
Christ 2.0 (A Parable of Innocence)
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in Religion, Right Wing | 2 Comments »The death penalty and Iraq have proven that it is not killing per se that vexes right-wing fundamentalist Christians. Rather, they make a fetish of helplessness and innocence: the thought of unadulterated fetuses sucked unceremoniously back into the void is ...
Liberal Education and America
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 Posted in Education | No Comments »A kind of education that's just no longer in fashion. which Levine succinctly calls "the cultivation of human powers." To reach this end requires first of all the recognition that it is unending, in the sense that "the purpose of school ...
I Heart Huckabees (Attack)
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »The I Heart Huckabees blowouts, unlike the movie a beautiful thing.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "I Heart Huckabees (Attack)", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/i-heart-huckabees-attack/" });
Petty Cruelties
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Bush Administration, Gonzales | No Comments »Really just a metaphor for the Bush administration's entire tenure: The dismissal process itself, the documents show, was chaotic and spiked with petty cruelties. Two senior officials joked caustically about U.S. Attorney Carol Lam in San Diego -- who prosecuted the ...
Exactly What Christopher Hitchens Means to Say
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Essays, Hitchens, Iraq | 5 Comments »What courageous humility is exemplified by Christopher Hitchens, who ... strike that, reverse it, I misread his recent article in Slate. To revive a different motif: what a sack of shit is Hitchens, who now trots out his anemic debate ...
Not Distinguished
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Bush Administration, Of Interest | No Comments »We're surprised to learn that Prosecutor Fitzgerald is not distinguished. Notice that the Bush administration does not make competence an issue, because competence is precisely the standard you want to avoid when you're building an organization of mindless cronies. And ...
Self-Hating Zionists
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | 1 Comment »Soros in The New York Review of Books on playing the anti-Semite card and the recent vilification of him by The New Republic (a great magazine if you're only interested in the regurgitation of squeamishly moderate, tail-tucked conventional wisdom): Rosenfeld resorts, ...
Building the new (and massive) Airbus A380 in 7 minutes
Monday, March 19th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Another amazing machine. [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=LbEiHGZtCFA]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Building the new (and massive) Airbus A380 in 7 minutes", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/building-the-new-and-massive-airbus-a380-in-7-minutes/" });
Pathologies of Hope
Monday, March 19th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | 1 Comment »Pathologies of Hope by Barbara Rhrenreich Harper's Magazine Notebook (February 2007) I hate hope. It was hammered into me constantly a few years ago when I was being treated for breast cancer: Think positively! Don't lose hope! Wear your pink ribbon with pride! ...
Sontag — Words Worth Recalling
Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »The disconnect between last Tuesday's monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in ...
Honey, I Created a Jihad
Saturday, March 17th, 2007 Posted in 9/11, Iraq | No Comments »If you're interested in how a century of British and American (and generally Western) involvement in the Middle East led to the mess there we now face see Barry Lando's excellent book Web of Deceit (and ses also his blog: ...
Trump to Bush: You’re Fired
Saturday, March 17th, 2007 Posted in Bush Administration | No Comments »The Rosie treatment, hilarious, here.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Trump to Bush: You’re Fired", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/bush-administration/trump-to-bush-youre-fired/" });
The language of war is victims
Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in Torture, War on Terror | 2 Comments »This will seem like a victory only to those who are not disturbed the fact that these confessions originate from a military tribunal, under conditions we can only assume include torture, in the legal netherworld of Guantanamo. Or for those ...
Protecting Republicans from Themselves
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in Bush Administration | No Comments »"Mistakes were made," Gonzales says without irony -- by whom, we are left to guess. Have they forgotten that the phrase should be used only as parody? When those tough, aggressive Bush henchmen are put to the test, we see ...
This is a Wahr! (A Tale, Told by an Idiot, Full of Shock and Awe ….)
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 Posted in Essays, Iraq, War on Terror | 1 Comment »Another Washington Journal moment: "This is a Wahr," the old woman reminded us. "This" -- not two wars, the war on terror and the war in Iraq, the first a made-up fantasy and the second elective folly. The first not ...
A Brilliant Anti-Clinton Ad
Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »HereSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Brilliant Anti-Clinton Ad", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/a-brilliant-anti-clinton-ad/" });
hiatus
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »On vacation with minimal internet access; this blog will pick up again on mar 11!SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "hiatus", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/hiatus/" });
You’re a Democrat and it Shows
Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Posted in Essays, Partisanship | 2 Comments »I wake up to Washington Journal in the morning because the irritation I immediately feel prevents me from going back to sleep. There's nothing like the application of senility to politics. More and more frequently the elderly callers on the Republican ...
What Went Wrong (9/11 and Schizophrenia)
Friday, March 2nd, 2007 Posted in 9/11, Of Interest, Schizophrenia | No Comments »Here: This mirror of "What Went Wrong" wouldn't be a story on the same scale, but it has the main theme in common. It would be about Westerners who had their reality bubble pricked by people from an alien culture, and ...
