acceptance speech, he has also provided us with cover to post what may be the most incredible item — truly the hardest to believe — we’ve ever put up. It’s not only about genocide, which we’ve written about before, it’s about “the coming genocide of the Sunnis in Iraq,” to quote a friend of ours, […]
Archives for December 2005
NO PENETRATION
The “amazing progress” made there during the past two-and-a-half years. ROCKS I think that I shall never push A rock as stubborn as George Bush. A rock whose lopsided bottom Is covered over with something rottem. A rock that looks at God all day And has no rational thing to say. A rock that thinks […]
READING VAN CREVELD
A mathematician we know, who evaluates weapons systems for the U.S. military, sent us a message about a Van Creveld’s article ran in the Forward on Nov. 25. What popped up yesterday in The New York Times? Bingo! An article headlined “Why Iraq Will End as Vietnam Did.” Most of it details at great length […]
TIMES BOOK FAVES AND A BIG NON-FAVE
When it comes to the last year’s picks (four of 58). 10 Best Books list, however, which restores a tad of credibility to the Book Review’s picks. For a minute there, we thought we’d have to come up with an exposé. Even so, counting all journalists whose books made the notable non-fiction list — a […]
NON-EXPERT OPINION
A reader writes, in re: that item is a nice comment, too, on why you occasionally look at As to the to the contrary, he still has to be dragged kicking and screaming toward reality. That’s our totally unsourced take on him, without benefit of expert opinion.* For us, he’s still a four-letter word working […]
PLAN FOR MORE BULLSHIT
“Mission Accomplished” on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to Bullshitter-in-Chief when, in fact, it means the exact opposite: We’re going backwards. The slogans say it themselves. talking-points prez on rewind, left, weren’t enough to make you throw up, how does this “the same tired argument that everything’s going just fine.” Even USA Today, the […]