At Memeorandum, this proclamation from Aussie Andrew Bolt: THERE is a reason Iraq has almost disappeared as an election issue. Here it is: The battle is actually over. Iraq has been won. I know this will seem to many of you an insane claim. Ridiculous! After all, haven’t you read countless stories that Iraq is …
Archives for November 2007
Mission Unpossible
Fredd Kaplan sort of answers the question I was asking the other day- what the hell did Karen Hughes do? Turns out, not much: Hughes initially embraced the job with relish, but she dived in way over her head. Some who know her say she eventually realized her inadequacy and altered her approach—away from being …
Dog the Negro Hunter
Duane “Dog” Chapman, who makes an ass of himself on A&E on a regular basis, has really stepped in it this time: A&E has suspended production on its hit reality series Dog the Bounty Hunter in light of some—to put it mildly—racially insensitive remarks its star looks to have made during a phone conversation with …
Co-Blogging
Assuming John is still whining about being tired and having to “get things done,” this seems to be a good time for me to step in and introduce myself. Apparently, my one-liner about bathrooms on Hewitt’s cruise was enough to get me an invitation to blog here. That’s sad, but I graciously accepted. Anyway, about …
Karma
NYC plans to investigate whether Rudy Giuliani’s mismanagement of the emergency response system caused unnecessary deaths on 9/11. The investigation apparently follows a recent film publicizing the most credible allegations against him, but given the bitter taste that Giuliani’s administration left in New York (one among many, many examples) I doubt that too many will …
Perverting Justice
Surprise! On the wall of Hsiao Yen Wang’s apartment, a cramped, 17th-floor public housing unit on the city’s Lower East Side, are photographs of her husband, David Guo, a cook who specializes in Fujian cuisine. One photo stands out: Guo shaking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s hand, a memento from a $1,000-a-person fundraiser for the New …
Did I Not Get The Memo?
An intriguing comment from Michael Goldfarb in this American Prospect roundtable on the future of the Air Force: I love the bit about taking apart government institutions that “outlive their usefulness or fail as experiments,” and I’m loathe to discourage the Prospect from staking out such a bold, Reaganesque position, but the Air Force makes …