Tag: politics
member name: Stephen Frug
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July 03, 2007 01:47 AM EDT --
This began as a comment at Making Light, but got long enough that I decided to cross-post it here. It's in reaction to a question that Jim Macdonald asked about Bush's obstruction of justice (via) . . .
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December 13, 2006 09:25 PM EST --
I've got a whole pile of exams to grade, so this will be quick, but John McCain is introducing legislation that will hamper the ability of blogs to function, in particular blog "communities" . . .
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March 29, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
Andrew Sullivan "fisks" David Brooks today. And in the course of so doing, he writes:
But bigger government always means less personal liberty. This is simply a fact, not an opinion. The trade-off . . .
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July 31, 2006 04:32 PM EDT --
Sometimes what implied is the real story.
Everyone seems to agree that, during its 48-hour "ceasefire" Israel has greatly diminished the number of attacks it is making, although it has not stopped . . .
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October 02, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
Given the incalculable damage that the Republican party has done to our Republic in recent years, I share the grim cheer of all people of good will about the recent Foleygate scandal. (Ongoing coverage . . .
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February 28, 2007 12:27 PM EST --
Hilzoy and Matt Yglesias both blog this horrifying story from the Washington Post:
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80
tooth extraction might have saved him.
. . .
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July 28, 2006 12:05 PM EDT --
Headline and blurb from the Independent, five days ago (via via):
Dying Forest: One year to save the Amazon
Time is running out for the Amazon rainforest. And the fate of the 'lungs of the world' . . .
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July 25, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
Some years ago, I was reading George Orwell's essay on Rudyard Kipling when I was struck by the following passage -- basically an aside in Orwell's opening argument that Kipling was not a fascist . . .
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July 26, 2006 05:26 PM EDT --
Writing in the Washington Post, Philip Gordon reports (via):
According to retired Israeli army Col. Gal Luft, the goal of the campaign is to "create a rift between the Lebanese population and Hezbollah . . .
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August 02, 2006 03:11 PM EDT --
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all . . .
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April 01, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
While I was off reading the NYT on health care, the entire liberal blogosphere (& beyond) has been talking about today's NYT interview with Mathew Dowd (who was Bush's 2004 campaign strategist) . . .
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June 01, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Quoth Drum: "[T]he Bush administration has, for the past four years in Iraq, been busily building permanent military bases the size of small towns to go along with an embassy compound more suited . . .
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October 19, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Not every crime is done out of evil motives.
Some people would go so far as to say that nothing, really, is done out of evil motives: that people always act out of an idea of the good, and sometimes they're . . .
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August 14, 2007 11:58 PM EDT --
From tomorrow's NY Times:
The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday. . . .
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October 02, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
It's a staple of the Buffyverse, and so many other fantasy/horror/etc genre pieces: a villain needs to kill someone -- often an innocent -- to gain power, to complete some demonic ritual, or simply . . .
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September 13, 2007 05:44 PM EDT --
I just finished reading Gene Wolfe's two-volume novel, The Wizard Knight, made up of The Knight (2004) and The Wizard (2005). The following is a long essay reviewing (in some sense) the work, focusing . . .
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August 19, 2006 11:27 AM EDT --
Via 3quarksdaily, I see that there is now a renewed call to boycott Israeli cultural institutions to protest the occupation of Palestine:
We call upon the International community to join us in the boycott . . .
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December 18, 2006 11:25 AM EST --
Over at the Lippard Blog, Jim Lippard quotes a recent Economist article on the global state of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians as follows:
Gays have the same rights as married heterosexuals, . . .
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July 12, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Via Andrew Sullivan, Jane Galt says that it was right to impeach Nixon and not Bush in part since
Nixon fell because his behaviour was inarguably criminal, and worse, petty criminal. And he had it all . . .
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October 09, 2006 12:57 PM EDT --
By way of extending a warm welcome to the newest confirmed member of the nuclear club, a quote fugue in the keys of Josh Marshall and Glenn Greenwald, with occasional grace notes from elsewhere.
For the . . .
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