It looks like the usual warmongers want a mulligan: Some senior Bush administration officials and top Republican lawmakers are voicing anger that American spy agencies have not issued more ominous warnings about the threats that they say Iran presents to the United States. Some policy makers have accused intelligence agencies of playing down Iran’s role …
Archives for August 2006
New Dishwasher
I got a new dishwasher yesterday. I had been washing my dishes by hand for 2 years, and I just wanted to say that now that I have a dishwasher, only insane people wash their dishes by hand. That is all. *** Update *** FYI- a funny anecdote. As an undergrad many years ago, in …
And the Fake Ethical Debate Continues
As science moves on, the knuckle-draggers will have to come up with a new objection: Scientists have for the first time grown colonies of prized human embryonic stem cells using a technique that does not require the destruction of embryos, an advance that could significantly reshape the ethical and political debates that have long entangled …
Some Things Have to Stop
I am more than a little upset with some of the behavior in the comments section as of late, and it looks like they have devolved into nothing less than the sewer that is Eschaton. Yesterday, in a post about Deb Frisch, it took about exactly 13 minutes and 2 comments for some of you …
Not Comparable
I am honestly not getting what is so offensive about this story: Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, whose re-election campaign is pressing for tighter immigration controls, referred to his house painter as “a nice little Guatemalan man” and suggested that worker as well employees of a roofing company he hired might be in the country illegally. …
The Sad Case of Deb Frisch
Via the Instapundit, I see that Deb Frisch is in trouble for stalking and other charges: The saga of Deborah Frisch, long-time comment troll and all-around kook, took another troubling, but not exactly unforeseeable turn in the last 48 hours. As far as we know, she is now the first troll of the political blogosphere …
The IRR Call Up
As many of you are aware, I have soured on this administration, and in general, the Republican leadership. On a daily basis I look at the hardliners in my party, and feel like they are not even speaking the same language as I am. I still, however, do not feel like the Democratic party is …