If a tree falls in a forest and I’m too busy to blog it, it still crushed a squirrel. Discuss.
RIP R.W. Apple
An institution has passed:
R. W. Apple Jr., who in more than 40 years as a correspondent and editor at The New York Times wrote about war and revolution, politics and government, food and drink, and the revenge of living well from more than 100 countries, died early this morning in Washington. He was 71.
The cause was complications of thoracic cancer.
With his Dickensian byline, Churchillian brio and Falstaffian appetites, Mr. Apple, who was known as Johnny, was a singular presence at The Times almost from the moment he joined the metropolitan staff in 1963. He remained a colorful figure as new generations of journalists around him grew more pallid, and his encyclopedic knowledge, grace of expression — and above all his expense account — were the envy of his competitors, imitators and peers.
He led an interesting life.
Open Thread
Joementum Comes to PJ
This actually is kind of interesting- PJ Media interviewed Joe Lieberman.
And before the catcalls start about me bowing to my corporate masters, I like the way things have evolved at PJ as far as the design.
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Open Thread
For anything other than gloating about the Steelers’ loss. There is a thread for that already.
* Progress in Iraq? This comment at Kevin Drum’s provides a handy resource.
* Don’t eat fresh spinach. Like most agricultural E. coli outbreaks this one will eventually be traced to poop getting in the food stream. Which spinach grower is using uncertified fertilizer? We will find out soon. It is also worth pointing out that much of America’s cheap produce comes from countries which use human waste in agriculture on a routine basis.
* Fast feet.
* Pakistan releases all of its Taliban/al Qaeda detainees, including the killers of Nicholas Berg. This deserves a post of its own but that will wait until I see the story picked up by a source whose credibility I can verify.
* Creationism abroad. We already knew that stupid is contagious…
* Willie Nelson busted. For what? Guess.
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* George Allen holds an ethnic rally, but not the kind that you’re thinking of.
* John Yoo thinks that the American Constitution only works when there isn’t anybody shooting at Americans anywhere in the world. I hear that happens all the time.
* Hewlett Packard really stepped in it with privacy violations.
* I didn’t watch the ABC movie. Apparently neither did a lot of people.
* Speaking of ABC’s mendacious mockumentary, at least two lawsuits (note the word ‘defames’) seem possible.
* Write the ultimate blog post.