An interesting point about Bush criticism, when a liberal like me criticizes Bush these days you mostly get weary sadness and a sort of sardonic cynicism. Sure I was outraged once, back around the time that he got elected the first time, but that steam blew off a long time ago. I have long since …
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Friday Beer Blogging – Great Beer Movies
Stealing shamelessly from a Guns & Ammo filler piece that I skimmed at the doctor’s office (no, he wasn’t a trauma surgeon), I thought that it would be cool to do a feature on the five greatest beer movies of all time. The problem is that I couldn’t decide whether to order them chronologically, in …
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Goss Out
Yikes – From Christy Smith at Firedoglake, MSNBC reports that Porter Goss has resigned as CIA director. I have no idea what that means or whether it connects with the Watergate hooker story, but this sort of sudden resignation usually comes just before some variety of bad news. Whether Dusty Foggo follows Goss out the …
Nationalism Ate Libertarianism
Sounds about right to me. This helps explain how “libertarians” and “conservatives” buried everything that they supposedly stood for – small government, limited governmental intervention in private lives, limited federal government power in general – when their governing coalition found itself in power. On a similar note, I never thought that we would seriously ask …
Plame Flame War Thread
Punchlines that write themselves: Valerie Plame Wilson, the Central Intelligence Agency covert officer whose name was publicly disclosed three years ago, is shopping a book proposal among a small group of publishers, according to two people familiar with the project. Both people were granted anonymity because their publishing companies have signed nondisclosure agreements about the …
Open Thread
Question – do any neuroscientists read this blog? I have an idea for a short series of posts but I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of professionals. Also, the latest casualty of global warming appears to be the Pacific trade winds. [S]ince the mid-1800s, the Walker current had weakened by 3.5% and was …
Another Soon-To-Be Vacant Office In DC
The sooner William Jefferson (D-LA) retires to focus on his legal defense the better. He is a living embodiment of DC graft and it pisses me off twice as much when it happens in my own party. Jefferson probably does not represent an organized sleaze network along the lines of Jack Abramoff and Mitchell Wade/Brent …