An email from a friend who works with the military: Just had an interesting conversation with a fellow who just returned from the theater and I mentioned my theory about the Prez going nucular about the supplemental funding resolution and its pullout dates because he was going to pull a lot of troops out next …
Poetry Slam!
I’m not that big a fan of honoring every random thing with its own calendar slot,* but I like poetry so it seems fitting to send off National Poetry Month with at least one post on the topic. The whole idea of favorite poets does a disservice to the art, since we go through times …
Open Thread
On the upside, it’s Friday. On the downside we’re living in the Oscar calendar shadow when studios dump the turkeys that they can’t afford to cut up and burn, as much as they might want to. Weirdly enough The Lives of Others looks pretty good, so I may break out of my beer-and-a-Blockbuster-DVD funk* long …
Iraq Poll
ABC has a poll of the Iraqi population, with some interesting results: An ABC News poll in Iraq, conducted with Time magazine and other media partners, includes some remarkable results: Despite the daily violence there, most living conditions are rated positively, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds …
9/11
It is hard to believe it has been four years since 9/11, and the anger is still there but the hurt has seemed to fade a little. That may not be atypical: The first year was marked with a moment of silence, the tolling of bells and a reading of the names of the nearly …
The Filibuster Lives
It looks like a some level-headed centrists managed to forge a coalition and end the nonsense about the filibuster, and it appears that they were led by the venerable Senator from Virginia, John Warner. As usual, I have quite a few opinions about the issue. First, I have felt that all along that nominees deserve …
Distinctions
I knew I was going to get comments and emails like this: I’ve enjoyed your site in the past, John, but despite the fact that I’m satisfied if not 100% comfortable with the outcome of the case, your latest diatribe is so hateful and indefensibly stupid that I’m afraid you’ve lost me as a reader. …