P.J., at his best: IF YOU PLAN not to read this summer, “Living History” is just the book. Hillary Clinton’s new memoir is more than 100,000 pages long. At least I think it is. There are only 562 page numbers, but you know how those Clintons lie. A mere ream of paper could not contain …
Archives for July 2003
The Day is Soon Coming
Every time I hear stories like this, I get infuriated: If July 4 is a little sweeter in Fresno this summer, it’s for good reason. Only days ago this California city was the site of an early Independence Day, when 24-year-old Sarah Saga stepped off a plane onto the first American soil she’d touched since …
Why Investigate?
Love the Euro-trash: Oxford University is investigating whether a university geneticist, Andrew Wilkie, violated its anti-discrimination rules by rejecting an Israeli student’s application to work in his laboratory on the basis of the student’s nationality, citing disapproval of Israeli policies toward Palestinians. In a brief message last week rejecting the application from the Israeli student, …
Nice Rhetoric
This is irritating. I think discriminating against homosexuals is wrong, but I think PRIVATE organizations should be able to discriminate and to choose who is part of their organization. Thus, this rhetoric is just a touch annoying: WHAT’S THE difference between the Taliban and the Boy Scouts? This is not exactly a rhetorical question, but …
What’s Missing?
Guess what is missing from the D-Day memorial at Normandy? *** Update *** I have no idea what the hell to make of this. *** Update #2 *** The Frogmen clears everything up– we were blaspheming the French wrongly here. Not that I like the French, now, or anything.
Bitching Soldiers
I am still one of the few people out there who does not think that everything in Iraq is going to hell in a handbasket, even when I read reports like this: To Staff Sgt. Charles Pollard, the working-class suburb of Mashtal is a “very, very, very, very bad neighborhood.” And he sees just one …
The Real Party of the Rich
Interesting admission from the NY Times: The public may be surprised to learn these results, but Democratic Party leaders are not. In getting behind the badly needed drive to end soft money as a device for buying candidates and favors, the Democrats knew they would have considerable catching up to do to broaden their base …