Dr. Sanity tackles that old bugaboo, Bush-Derangement-Syndrome (BDS), and tries to drive a stake into its vigorously beating heart. Her post is a good description of how the psychological mechanism of displacement functions in deflecting the hatred and fear of … Continue reading →
Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran has scored a surprising amount of popular success, currently ranked around #300 at Amazon, and amassing close to 300 comments there as well. For a fairly literary and even somewhat didactic work subtitled “A … Continue reading →
I’ve come so late to this game it’s almost over, but why not play anyway? There’s only one more day left, and so I’m playing mega catch-up. But there’s a competition over at aaron’s. It’s a poll to elect women … Continue reading →
I’m visiting family today and am taking the day off. I plan to be back posting tomorrow. The weather is lovely, and I’m about to go out for dinner, so that’s good. I’ve only been online for a few moments … Continue reading →
The well-known “Arab street” has spoken recently, and it seems to be angry at al-Zarqawi . The hotel bombings have outraged Jordanians, apparently even some who ordinarily don’t support the king’s Western ways: The Amman protest was organized by Jordan’s … Continue reading →
…therefore never send to know “for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee… (Via Roger Simon.)
Continue reading →Yes, indeed, I am that old–old enough to remember when Veterans’ Day was Armistice Day. The change occurred in 1954, when I was very small, in order to accommodate World War II. Since then the original name has largely fallen … Continue reading →
Like Dr. Sanity and the Anchoress, I’m tired, tired, tired of the “Bush lied about WMDs” meme, which is itself a lie (or at least a grave error). Fortunately, though, Norman Podhoretz isn’t as tired as the rest of us. … Continue reading →
Varifrank posts a fine rant about those modern-day prognosticators who never seem to be called to account for the failure of their predictions of doom and gloom to come true (with, of course, the sole exception of Bush and the … Continue reading →
Things that pique my interest are things that don’t make sense at first, that cause me to wonder what’s going on because something doesn’t quite jibe. One of those things is that two of Saddam’s defense lawyers have now been … Continue reading →
Lost in the sound and fury of the French riots is the story of one of the main players, Nicolas Sarkozy. The story of the conflict between Sarkozy on one side and Chirac/Villepin on the other has its own drama, … Continue reading →
I don’t usually do a whole lot of linking. But there are so many interesting posts dealing with the riots that I thought today I’d list a few that caught my eye through my very brief trip around the blogosphere. … Continue reading →