Max Boot on Seymour Hersh: Hersh, on the other hand, is the journalistic equivalent of Oliver Stone: a hard-left zealot who subscribes to the old counterculture conceit that a deep, dark conspiracy is running the U.S. government. In the 1960s the boogeyman was the “military- industrial complex.” Now it’s the “neoconservatives.” Hersh is the Chomsky … Continue reading “Another quote of the week”
Hersh, on the other hand, is the journalistic equivalent of Oliver Stone: a hard-left zealot who subscribes to the old counterculture conceit that a deep, dark conspiracy is running the U.S. government. In the 1960s the boogeyman was the “military- industrial complex.” Now it’s the “neoconservatives.”
Hersh is the Chomsky of journalism.
The front page of my local paper looks like this today: What does it mean? My guess is that with the election taking place in Iraq this Sunday, we’re down to the last few days of relevance for the Iraqi terrorists (and their buddies from Iran, Syria, and the rest of the Al Qaeda states) … Continue reading “What a shock”
The front page of my local paper looks like this today:
What does it mean?
My guess is that with the election taking place in Iraq this Sunday, we’re down to the last few days of relevance for the Iraqi terrorists (and their buddies from Iran, Syria, and the rest of the Al Qaeda states) so they’re desperate to make their mark. Zarqawi revealed – no surprise – that democracy is the enemy of his movement and condemned all who participate in the election. He does this because he has no popular support to speak of.
After the election Sunday the terrorists will have no ticket to the anti-imperialist, anti-occupation, anti-America sweepstakes, so it’s down to condemning democracy, and by implication, the very people that Zarqawi and his boys want to rule. If the people of Iraq say “no thank you, terrorist nutbag dudes, we can handle it without you” then Zarqawi is out of business, and he knows it.
So he may as well blow up all his bombs this week, because it’s all over but the shouting.
Now that brings us to the question of what sort of emptiness the Bush-hating papers like the Oregonian will lead with next week, after they’ve been deprived of their moral suasion as well. Teddy Kennedy’s troop withdrawl plan? Maggie Gallagher’s conflict of interest? The South Beach Diet?
UPDATE: Jeremy Brown has a much better version of this story at Michael Totten’s site.
This business that Howie Kurtz is manufacturing about Maggie Gallagher seriously pisses me off because I’ve met Gallagher, I like her, and I know that nobody had to give her a writing contract to say good things about marriage. My first contact with her was at a joint hearing of the Judiciary Committees of the … Continue reading “Howie Kurtz is an idiot”
This business that Howie Kurtz is manufacturing about Maggie Gallagher seriously pisses me off because I’ve met Gallagher, I like her, and I know that nobody had to give her a writing contract to say good things about marriage.
My first contact with her was at a joint hearing of the Judiciary Committees of the California Assembly and Senate in the 90s, where she was a featured witness alongside Gloria Allred. She probably cashed a check from the Democrats who ran the legislature for her appearance, but I don’t recall any whining.
She was invited because she’s been one of America’s foremost marriage advocates since the 80s, as you can see from the list of books Amazon.com has from her. So if she only writes in praise of marriage because of a token contract with HHS last year, she must be pretty damn prescient, not to mention determined. Can we imagine the dedication it took for her to embark, back in the 80s, on a course of writing a half-dozen books on marriage just to get a $21,500 check 20 years in the future?
Amazing.
Numerous critics point to Kurtz’ conflicts of interest, but that doesn’t matter to me because he’s obviously a moron with not enough on his alleged mind. His mother must have dropped him on his head.
UPDATE: This is absolutely hilarious: David Brock, of Troopergate fame, says Gallagher has irrevocably damaged her integrity and should be fired by her syndicator. Yes, the David Brock who’s been an attack dog for both Richard Mellon Scaife and George Soros.
What an odd world this is.
You don’t want to get George Will all riled up: …Someone like MIT biology professor Nancy Hopkins, the hysteric (see above) who, hearing Summers, “felt I was going to be sick. My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow.” And, “I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill.” She … Continue reading “The crucifixion of Larry Summers”
You don’t want to get George Will all riled up:
…Someone like MIT biology professor Nancy Hopkins, the hysteric (see above) who, hearing Summers, “felt I was going to be sick. My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow.” And, “I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill.” She said that if she had not bolted from the room, “I would’ve either blacked out or thrown up.”
Is this the fruit of feminism? A woman at the peak of the academic pyramid becomes theatrically flurried by an unwelcome idea and, like a Victorian maiden exposed to male coarseness, suffers the vapors and collapses on the drawing room carpet in a heap of crinolines until revived by smelling salts and the offending brute’s contrition?
Hopkins’s sufferings, although severe, were not incapacitating: She somehow found strength quickly to share them with the Boston Globe and the “Today” show, on which she confided that she just did not know whether she could bear to have lunch with Summers. But even while reeling from the onslaught of Summers’s thought, she retained a flair for meretriciousness: She charged that Summers had said “that 50 percent” of “the brightest minds in America” do not have “the right aptitude” for science.
A nice conclusion to a week of false consciousness about science, gender politics, and the human brain.
Here are the 13 dissenters on the appointment of Dr. Rice to Secretary of State: Akaka (D-HI) Bayh (D-IN) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Dayton (D-MN) Durbin (D-IL) Harkin (D-IA) Jeffords (I-VT) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Levin (D-MI) Reed (D-RI) There are some real legislative giants in this list, aren’t there? Bobby Byrd’s anti-Rice … Continue reading “Rice confirmed 85-13”
Here are the 13 dissenters on the appointment of Dr. Rice to Secretary of State:
Akaka (D-HI)
Bayh (D-IN)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
There are some real legislative giants in this list, aren’t there? Bobby Byrd’s anti-Rice vote goes down in history alongside his unmatched opposition to both Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall.
Morristown, Tennessee is a sleepy little town outside Knoxville where I grew up. Spurred by rising cable TV prices, the hamlet has embarked on an ambitious program to provide fiber to the home: The new network should be available to all Morristown customers by the summer of 2007. Then the utility will use financing based … Continue reading “Sleepy little broadband town”
Morristown, Tennessee is a sleepy little town outside Knoxville where I grew up. Spurred by rising cable TV prices, the hamlet has embarked on an ambitious program to provide fiber to the home:
The new network should be available to all Morristown customers by the summer of 2007. Then the utility will use financing based on revenues it’s receiving from city customers to extend services to the county, Swann said.
He said the network will deliver service superior to the cable companies’ current offerings because it will consist entirely of fiber, or tiny glass cables, connected directly to the customer’s home or business — cables that can deliver video and data, such as the Internet, at lightning speed both coming and going.
Most cable companies, including Charter, supply service through a hybrid fiber coax system. While fiber comprises the bulk of the network, cable and Internet is delivered to customers via copper wires. These connections provide slower upload than download speeds and can be upgraded only to a point, Swann said.
With the fiber-to-the-home network, as technology improves, the utility will be able to deliver data services more and more quickly, potentially improving on today’s broadband speeds by more than 100 percent, he said.
I don’t generally approve of government doing things that the private sector is capable of doing, but I also don’t approve of getting screwed by the cable company, so I’ll be watching this with great interest.
H/T Isenberg
Creationists who believe the earth and everything in it was created by the Christian god some 6,000 years ago are called “young earth” creationists. One of them is also a young blogosphere believer: And the political bloggers have been there for four years. We were the first ones to get there. But now business is … Continue reading “The young blogosphere theory”
Creationists who believe the earth and everything in it was created by the Christian god some 6,000 years ago are called “young earth” creationists. One of them is also a young blogosphere believer:
And the political bloggers have been there for four years. We were the first ones to get there. But now business is rushing.
Actually, political blogging has been going on for close to ten years; here’s an entry of mine from 1998 via the Wayback Machine, and one of Mickey Kaus’ from 1999.
One of the most amusing up-and-coming left-wing blogs is Notes in Samsara, the recipient of Christian charity. It’s ranked 7000 and something in the Ecosystem, and its most authoritative inbound link is from Evangelical Outpost, a creationist site. The editor is one Mumon, who’s been described as Joe Carter’s own leftist quasi-troll. We know him … Continue reading “Notes in Samsara”
One of the most amusing up-and-coming left-wing blogs is Notes in Samsara, the recipient of Christian charity. It’s ranked 7000 and something in the Ecosystem, and its most authoritative inbound link is from Evangelical Outpost, a creationist site. The editor is one Mumon, who’s been described as Joe Carter’s own leftist quasi-troll. We know him as John K.
Classic.
Following in the footsteps of Nancy Hopkins, the MIT biology professor who had a nervous breakdown when Larry Summers touched on the subject of sex and biology recently, California’s junior senator has done gone hysterical her own self: Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is the real victim of last week’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of … Continue reading “Barbara Boxer breaks down and cries”
Following in the footsteps of Nancy Hopkins, the MIT biology professor who had a nervous breakdown when Larry Summers touched on the subject of sex and biology recently, California’s junior senator has done gone hysterical her own self:
Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is the real victim of last week’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, yet continued yesterday to question the national security adviser’s honesty.
“She turned and attacked me,” the California Democrat told CNN’s “Late Edition” in describing the confrontation during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
Poor little Miss Boxer, the cool girls are all so mean to her.
