Today, reading Fausta’s reminiscences about the coming-of-age party for girls in the Hispanic community known as the quinceaé±ero, I was reminded of–well, of lots of things, which I’ll get to in due course. But first, Fausta quoting the NY Times … Continue reading →
How best to understand Ahmadinejad’s letter to Bush? I’ve already noted that the letter seems to have worked nicely as propaganda for many people; the evil Bush seen as rejecting the “process” (as in “peace process” or “process of dialogue … Continue reading →
Alexandra of All Things Beautiful’s take on Ahmadinejad’s 18-page letter to Bush emphasizes the fact that it was a good propaganda move for the Iranian President. She writes: Thug-In-Chief Ahmadinejad scored quite a success with his 18-page letter to President … Continue reading →
More evidence of time’s relentless passage.
Continue reading →While researching my recent series on questioning authority, I got the idea to write a post about the seminal Milgram experiments on obedience to authority. When I was a psych major back in college, part of our learning experience involved—as … Continue reading →
Mudville Gazette covers the killing of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat (see NOTE below). If you haven’t yet read a description of how this 30-year old woman was brutally and tortuously murdered, I warn you that it’s very strong stuff. I … Continue reading →
It was another lovely Sunday, and I basically took the day off from blogging (except, of course, for this post). For now, I’ve turned off anonymous commenting. That was actually my policy early on; I required registration with Blogger in … Continue reading →
Yesterday, commenter “sally” posted this on the Zarqawi thread: Something to bear in mind in all of this is that terrorism itself is a purely ideological and propagandistic form of warfare. Sudden, random, and otherwise pointless acts of mass slaughter … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but this reminds me of a “Saturday Night Live” bit: The videotape released last week by the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed him firing long bursts from a machine gun, his forearms sprouting from … Continue reading →
The sole survivor of the night of the marauding squirrels/deers/gophers has bloomed: That’s it for my tulips this year. It stands, forlorn and alone, a profile in courage. It’s a beautiful day today, though, one of several unseasonably warm ones … Continue reading →
The jury deliberated, and the verdict for Moussaoui is life without possibility of parole. I think that’s actually the best possible outcome for this extraordinarily strange case. Moussaoui himself is a pernicious person, his rantings devoid of even a drop … Continue reading →
In a way, my post today on Juan Cole and the Left is really about denial. Well, Dr. Sanity’s the expert on that. And if she ever quits her day job, she has a future as a lyricist. Here’s still … Continue reading →