I have to admit I’ve got a ton of sympathy for Presidential candidates. The campaign seems at times to be a two-year marathon of travel, speeches, handshaking, exhaustion, and exposure to the howling wolves of the press who are always … Continue reading →
Al Qaeda is a secret organization. It doesn’t publish statistics on how many members it has, and if it did we wouldn’t believe them anyway, because for al Qaeda propaganda trumps veracity every time. And yet lack of specific knowledge … Continue reading →
Watching a tape of Sarkozy walking through a crowd, I noticed that he is not a tall man. This got me thinking as to whether Sarkozy is following a trend I analyzed about two months ago: the rise of the … Continue reading →
I couldn’t be happier about this news. I first wrote about Sarkozy here, during the riots in France. He seemed a fascinating character then, and even more so now, a breath of fresh air in a France that has been … Continue reading →
Recently I saw an ad on TV for a product designed to fix a problem I previously hadn’t known existed: saggy earlobes. At first I thought it must be a joke of some sort. Saggy earlobes? Of all the available … Continue reading →
It’s too busy a day today for me to post much, but I just wanted to comment on the debate last night—the one I didn’t watch. Others did, and from the variety of their responses I’m reminded that beauty—and Presidential … Continue reading →
One arena in which even Bush’s opponents would probably agree he stands out is that he’s the rare public figure who really doesn’t much care what the majority thinks when he sets his agenda; he does what he thinks is … Continue reading →
The Sanity Squad mouths off again. This time it’s about Tenet and the new loose-lipped trend for former intelligence agents, Israel and the investigation into last summer’s war with Lebanon, Bill Maher’s notion of humor, and a miracle pill. Join … Continue reading →
I’ve long been puzzled by the need of the antiwar and/or anti-Bush factions to give Saddam the benefit of enormous doubt in the buildup to the Iraq War, and to give Bush and his administration none. It’s not so much … Continue reading →
George Tenet has written a tell-all book, another example of the talk show mentality that has pervaded this country in recent years. Correct me if I’m wrong (I know you will!), but I don’t recall that it used to be … Continue reading →
As the Democrats declare the Iraq war moribund and failed, others are not so sure. General Petraeus (oh well, what does he know?) reports that Sunnis are turning away from support for al Qaeda, and that the number of killings … Continue reading →
WordPress tells me that so far I’ve written 1,266 posts, with 32,417 comments from readers. Whew. When I do the math, this means that the average number of comments for a single post here has been 25 and a fraction. … Continue reading →