How have some countries managed to persuade the rest of the world that when you visit, you have to wear their traditional garb or they will be gravely offended? I mean, this is just absurd: I propose that from now on, all foreign visitors be required to dress up like pilgrims. Or our forefathers- complete …
Archives for November 2006
Chalabi Redux
Notice this snippet from Peter Bakers’s conventional wisdom recalibration in today’s WaPo: In an interview last week, Perle said the administration’s big mistake was occupying the country rather than creating an interim Iraqi government led by a coalition of exile groups to take over after Hussein was toppled. “If I had known that the U.S. …
Steelers Beat Cleveland
Cleveland can take some consolation in knowing that the Steelers almost beat themselves again.
Casino Royale
I have to agree with Aravosis’s take on the film. Also read Anthony Lane at the New Yorker. My wife, not a big fan of Bond films, humored me and then couldn’t stop talking about it. Like any film chronicling the birth of an icon Casino Royale shows a familiar character in the raw, fundamentals …
Fish Or Cut Bait
The Economist blog caught a snippet of testimony from Gen. John Abizaid, commander of CENTCOM, that needs be underlined again. From today’s WaPo: In an unusual admission, [General John P. Abizaid, speaking before a Senate panel,] said there should have been more U.S. troops, as well as Iraqi and foreign forces, to stabilize the country …
Friday Wine Blogging
This is getting ridiculous: A drug already shown to reverse the effects of obesity in mice and make them live longer has now been shown to increase their endurance as well. […] An ordinary laboratory mouse will run one kilometer on a treadmill before collapsing from exhaustion. But mice given resveratrol, a minor component of …
Guest Blogging
Sorry for the lack of posts, but I am guest blogging at the Carpetbagger Report this week-end, and Tim and Tom will be holding down the fort here. I currently have two posts up- “The Tet Defensive,” and “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose.”