January 12th, 2005
The more you read, the worse it gets. Curious how the Thornburg-Boccardi panel decided that the Killian memos might be real? Read here for the startling answer.
0 commentsCaptain Ed, working overtime
January 11th, 2005
In case you missed it, Captain Ed has a monstrous, well-written essay on the the CBS Report which is really required reading. A word of advice: Don’t be intimidated by the length, it reads like a breeze.
0 commentsThe New Atlantis
January 11th, 2005
It’s always a happy day when the new New Atlantis arrives. You should subscribe right away, but barring that, turn to Christine Rosen’s article The Age of Egocasting. It’s about TiVo, the iPod, and modern life. Like everything else Christine has written lately, this is a homerun.
0 commentsReal Men
January 11th, 2005
This guy’s my hero. Practically every major thinker of modernity bemoans the small-souledness of bourgeois man, then you come upon these incredible examples (like the heroes of Flight 93) in which ordinary guys prove themselves capable of true bravery and selflessness.
0 commentsLast Year's Team Player
January 11th, 2005
The 2004 edition of the conventional wisdom column got Colin wrong. Here’s the entry in its entirety: “The Good Soldier loses West Wing fights and never goes public about his doubts. From future prez to sad footnote.” Never goes public? How bout when he said, in retrospect, he would have opposed going into Iraq? And on several other occasions, in Europe and the Middle East, Powell worked at cross-purposes with the administration, knowing always that his entire cachet depended on not being perceived as one of Bush’s yes men. Puh-leezza.
Also, a chip in my brain sends a signal whenever a phrase like The Good Soldier has the wrong literary ring, in this case to Ford Maddox Ford’s 1915 classic of adultery and declining morals.
0 commentsInaugural Pissing Contest
January 11th, 2005
I’m sympathetic to the view that it’s a dubious move by the White House to ask the District to draw funds from their homeland security budget to pay for the extra security required by the inaugural festivities. WashPost gets it right. Put it this way: Why should the residents and many professionals working in and around DC be any less safe in order to pay for a second-term inauguration? Especially when the nation’s at war.
0 commentsJanuary 11th, 2005
John Podhoretz has a very good piece about the details of political bias in the CBS report.
0 commentsHalf Moon Over Lambeau
January 11th, 2005
Michael Wilbon provides some context on the Randy Moss mooning that I wasn’t aware of:
By the way, most folks outside the NFC Central, as it used to be called, probably don’t know there’s a little tradition of Packers fans actually mooning opposing players on the bus ride away from Lambeau after a Packers victory. Tony Dungy, who spent all those years with Tampa Bay when the Bucs were in that division, recalled seven such mass moonings in Green Bay.
See this way, Moss’s faux mooning is actually pretty clever and harmless. Mooning isn’t giving someone the finger or riding the pony–it’s something 10-year-olds do. All things considered now, I think Moss’s antics are pretty funny and he should be left alone on this one. (He should not be left alone for walking off the field with time left against the Redskins; that’s pretty unforgivable.)
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