Andrew decides to revisit his remarks regarding the President and faith that we discussed in detail yesterday, and given extra time to think (drink?), he gets it wrong again: Did I over-react? It’s worth looking at the full quote as produced by the Washington Times: “I fully understand that the job of the president is …
Archives for January 2005
Friedman’s Rules
These make sense: Rule 1-Never lead your story out of Lebanon, Gaza or Iraq with a cease-fire; it will always be over by the time the next morning’s paper is out. Rule 2- Never take a concession, except out of the mouth of the person who is supposed to be doing the conceding. If I …
Food for Thought
As part of a series of lifestyle changes that I am undertaking to add to assist my healthy and longevity, I am finally breaking down and visiting a dietician/nutritionist. At any rate, whenever I discuss diets/dieting with my mother, she invariably mentions her favorite diet of all times, one that one of her co-workers always …
Spelling
In the comments of this post, Rick Lee asks: Dude… what’s up with your spelling these days? Are you on pain killers or something? A couple lame defenses: 1.) It ain’t my spelling, it is my typing. I rarely make spelling errors (other than the occassional homonym mix-up, which appears to happen more often as …
Something to Mock
I am posting this Robert Scheer piece from the LA Times only because it has not received the level of derision and mockery that it richly deserves: Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist? To even raise …
The Daily Dump
Andrew Sullivan, 11:41 am today: I’m particularly worried that the blogosphere has become far more knee-jerk, shrill and partisan since the days when I first started blogging. Some of that’s healthy and inevitable; but too much is damaging. Several hours later, Coy Andy reads this quote from President: President Bush said yesterday that he doesn’t …
The Torture Myth
Anne Applebaum discusses what should be the most salient issue regarding theuse of torture, particularly for the ends/means crowd- There is little evidence torture works. It seems to me the efficacy of an action should be debated prior to any ethical or legal argument, and rom what I have read from numerous sources, there is …