Via Sullivan, this quote in the NY Times: In the giddy spirit of the day, nothing could quite top the wish list bellowed out by one man in the throng of people greeting American troops from the 101st Airborne Division who marched into town today. What, the man was asked, did he hope to see …
Archives for April 2003
Congrats are In Order
Everyone head over to Matthew Yglesias’s site and extend him a hearty congratulations for being newly hired as a writer for The American Prospect.
Quip of the Day
From the minefields around Najef, Iraq: American troops found that the fleeing Baath Party and paramilitary forces had set up minefields on roads and bridges leading out of the city. Late today an American engineering team was clearing the third of such fields, this one with 30 mines, by detonating them with C4 explosives. Lt. …
Getting It
Many people have emailed me and asked me why I consistently and frequently speak positively about Jeralynn Merrit’s TalkLeft, since on the face it appears that we have nothing in common politically. While it may appear that way, it is most certainly an inaccurate perception- we agree on a number of important issues (which I …
Short Film of the Year
Who is Katherine Hall? Beats me- but if you go here, you can watch her in all her drunken glory (click on the picture below the drink count). I don’t know her, but I KNOW her. (Via the ALWAYS entertaining Oliver Willis)
From the Mouths of Babes
Atrios, on the recovery of Jessica Lynch: Apparently she was rescued from a hospital. I assume that means she was getting medical treatment – if so, it gives some hope that some of our POWs may not be as mistreated as one might fear. That explains it all about the opposition to this war- despite …
The ‘Elite’ Republican Guard
From Reuters and IOL: United States Marines seized a key bridge over the Tigris river in central Iraq on Wednesday and took control of the main Highway 6 from Kut to Baghdad, a senior Marine officer said. “That’s the last big bridge we needed for an advance on Baghdad,” the officer told Reuters correspondent Sean …