Greenwald’s FISA Ad
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Glenn's Washington Post ad: Source: August 8, 1974 v. July 9, 2008 - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Greenwald’s FISA Ad", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/august-8-1974-v-july-9-2008-glenn-greenwald-saloncom/" });
The Dog-and-Pony Surge: Five Questions
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Arianna on the Surge: And the media -- and even a number of Democrats -- are swallowing this triumphalist nonsense whole, and washing it down with a pitcher of revisionist Kool-Aid. The result: a collective case of political amnesia. Everyone seems ...
Public Financing and Soft Money
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »And even though McCain has agreed to an $84.1 spending limit by accepting public funds--a decision he likes to portray as a principled stand against the corrupting influence of money on politics--at least double that sum will be dropped ...
The Sorrows of Old Mac
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Zogby Poll: Building Mo-bama! Democrat Leads McCain in Electoral College Tally, 273-160 The Democrat also leads 44% to 38% in the nationwide horserace test as Libertarian Bob Barr wins 6% Source: Zogby International And of course, always check fivethirtyeight.com. And then there's this: The ...
Pundits vs Facts
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »So called "liberal" pundits like Liasson are deathly afraid of the "radical liberal" label, statistics notwithstanding. Greenwald: This is the standard propaganda tactic of establishment media stars like Liasson, and she's hardly unique -- in this way or in any ...
Afghanistan, not Iraq
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Afghanistan is not something Mccain wants to discuss: WASHINGTON - John McCain has called Iraq the "central front" of the war on terror, a crucible of America's ability to defeat violent Islamic extremists the world over. But with ...
Nuclear Derangement Syndrome
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »It would take a book to discuss America's collective derangement about Iran. Thankfully, the Pentagon is not so docile of late: Nothing in the modern affairs of nations has been more exhaustively analyzed and debated than the utility and dangers ...
Lakoff: Why Moving to the Center Will Not Help Obama
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Not that this requires an explanation in terms of cognitive science: Values, authenticity, communication, judgment, and trust are not irrational reasons for voting for a president, even over positions on specific issues. The reason is that situations change, and ...
The Great Chain of Being — A Poem in Progress
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Perhaps it's crass to write a poem out in the open and explain it as I go. But that's what I'm going to do. Theme: The Great Chain of Being. Nothing is invisible -- We have our ways of casing the world: Tripods ...
Poetry Friday: Alexander Pope and The Great Chain of Being
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Cross-posted to Wellreadchild.com. The current issue of Lapham's Quarterly examines the theme of Nature, and includes this excerpt from Pope's Essay on Man: VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive ...
Nader and Ferraro: Left-Wing Racism and Right-Wing Feminism
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 1 Comment »Here's a legitimate criticism of the left: its identity politics can be a condescension to those it means to champion. Riddled with anti-racist and anti-sexist taboos on language, its politics doth protest too much. It's quite a spectacle to watch ...
The McEwan Delusion: The Pseudo-Threat of Islamism
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 3 Comments »As a novelist, Ian McEwan is talented to the point of self-caricature: he writes nothing that hasn't been dislocated on the rack of his talent. As the leader of today's "look-at-me-I'm-a-writer!" lolly-pop guild, he would never dream of sentence to ...
The Constitution and Obama’s Dissaopinting Stand on FISA
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »I have never seen the "halo" that others have claimed for Obama (usually his opponents, at the many moments they claim it has just been removed). But since my posts to this blog have been relentlessly pro-Obama, here's my chance ...
Obama and Public Financing — A Response to Stuart Roy
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »My Crossfit friend Stuart writes the following piece, with which I must respectfully disagree. With regards to Obama's "Messianic Image" and the claim that his supporters have "drunk the Koolaid" (or rather "taken shots" of it, far more suitable to the ...
Media Fairness and Hillary
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »Greg Sargent asks whether the media was unfair to Hillary, and goes on to list examples of an extraordinary amount of frivolous, crude, unfair, misleading, outright dishonest, and transparently mendacious media coverage that without question had a major impact on this ...
Down with Harry Potter
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 2 Comments »Since I've pissed off several friends already by forwarding this critique of Harry Potter, it's time to troll it up on the blog. I hereby admit that I feel nothing but revulsion for Harry Potter and everything he stands for. ...
A Brief Summary of Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Begin day. Pre-day. Brain Surgeon awakes suddenly "some hours before dawn." Opens window on London square from fancy big apartment. Condescending observation of square peons. Sees a distressed plane and its trail of fire cross the sky to an unknown ...
Poetry Friday: Hungover a Line (a sonnet)
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »My latest on wellreadchild: Ms. Tullo asked me to write a sonnet. So I did. Hungover a Line by Wes Hungover a line, to dry the crime I wring out little droplets of regret Last night dissolves below me, in the brine Today flies upward with my ...
Poetry Friday Challenge: The Aubade
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Today's WellReadChild post: We've done the aubade, and Wilbur, so I thought I'd combine them and turn it into a challenge. In Richard Wilbur's "Late Aubade," the morning departure of a lover has already been staved off. It's just ...
If we took a holiday …
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »It's interesting that the shameful pandering that is the gas tax holiday is being acknowledged as such by the establishment press; I can't remember such a broad consensus in the punditocracy about charges like that. Is that because Obama resistance ...
