Archives for January 2008

have a closer look, it’s blood. Artist Life During Wartime, says that before the invasion of Iraq he was fooled into believing “it was going to be a short, ugly, bloody war and that American influence in the Middle East was going to be triumphant.” scholarly works to his credit.) But candor is typical of […]

Center for Public Integrity collects the aaaeulcan lies that took us to war in Iraq. One section highlights write: President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years […]

Just because the NYT editorial these two questions appeared here on Friday. But so what? Ditto for the Noah Feldman article Analysis: Whatever happened to the war? EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Does it matter to the pols running for prez? Does it matter to the people voting for the pols? Let’s see whether the 655,000 estimated earlier by researchers from Johns Hopkins. Yes, the numbers are all over the lot, depending on the source and methodology. Here’s a count of whatever.

The flag-waving has begun, if it ever stopped: After so many years of fear and loathing, we had almost forgotten what it’s like to feel good about our country. On Thursday night, that long-dormant emotion came rushing back, like an old dream that pops out of the deepest recesses of memory, suddenly as clear as […]

The hungover staff realizes it cited the supreme lowlight of 2007 Best Yummy, Best Bulletin, Best Collage, three Best Oldies (Y) and Best Rupe, Best Ghost, Best Beast and