I’ll miss G-Ry’s Brazenness.
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I’ll miss G-Ry’s Brazenness.
September 2002
Salon has a great article
Salon has a great article on Mozilla. I highly suggest giving it a try. I’m in love with it.
I guess I don’t get
I guess I don’t get the Joe Conason controversy over Andrew Sullivan writing for Salon. He can write great articles on occasion when he sticks to logic and avoids name-calling. When he starts random name-calling he is kinda funny like a parody. Of course, I always assumed they had Horowitz write because he is funny. Kinda like the whole Friday the 13th film series.
More bad news for J-Ry.
More bad news for J-Ry. Apparently Blagojevich is leading in most categories. It is very strange. J-Ry, despite being fun to ridicule over the name confusion, isn’t a bad guy. He may look the other way from time-to-time, but he has no worse of a reputation than Blagojevich.
Who knew, Blago would have the more attractive name….
The Washington Post has an
The Washington Post has an op-ed by Karen Armstrong. I’ve schlepped for her before and I’ll do it again. Read it and love it. And then be critical of it. I think her writing is some of the best when it comes to religion, but there are two problems with her article.
First, Iraq’s children haven’t been victimized by the embargo. They have been victimized by a fascist dictator who has chosen to spend money on weapons and refused to allow a market economy. I will certainly agree the perception is present that the embargo has killed children in Iraq, but that is a different question than what has caused the actual problem. The Kurdish zone is doing quite well under the same sanction regime. The problem is Saddam Hussein.
The above is not meant to absolve the US of years of backing despots in the region and she is correct in that criticism.
Second, attacking Iraq may be necessary. I would prefer to look at increasing aid to domestic resistance groups, but the current President doesn’t seem to want to even acknowledge the possibility. Hussein has attacked American interests and he will do so again. He is (probably) not responsible in any way for September 11th. However, trying to kill a former President of the United States is an act that should have clued us in to this guy.
It is true that we must deal with the Arab perception of our actions and the way to do that is with UN sanction. However, the President bungled this by allowing the debate to drift while he was on vacation. Going it alone would be disastrous. However, approaching it from a multilateral position focused on previous promises by Hussein gives us the ability to force him out while setting a reasonable precedent for future actions. Her point that we need other nations is essential, but also we must act.
And we must change how we interact with the Arab world. Fundamentalist dictators are never friends of democracy no matter how much oil they have underneath them.
Here is an exammple of
Here is an exammple of what is wrong with Mollly Ivins these days. She writes a decent column about Bush claiming credit when he doesn’t deserve it, but she doesn’t tie it back to his past history of doing so. Like she documented in the friggen’ book she wrote!
Bears win, Illinois loses. Looks
Bears win, Illinois loses. Looks like Champaign might have a good season, just with an unusual team…
Ryan should be careful about
Ryan should be careful about aboutbadrod.com or it might backfire. I’m all for airing the claims made as John Kass did back in February, but this sort of back handed attack has a way of raising more questions about the one doing the insinuation than the subject.
How bad are things in
How bad are things in Illinois for the Republicans? This article seems to indicate the Rs are losing endorsements they should be winning. Topinka is competent and reasonable. If the Ds are rolling over everyone this hard, pulling out the Treasurer or AG race are going to be damn hard in the fall for the Rs.