A Level Gaze

A Level Gaze

"What effect must it have on a nation if it learns no foreign languages? Probably much the same as that which a total withdrawal from society has upon an individual."
--G.C. Lichtenberg

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

I Command You!

Go some money to digby.

He's worth it.

posted by David at 12/20/2005 11:02:00 PM ::

Monday, December 19, 2005

The President Speaks:

It is true that Saddam Hussein had a history of pursuing and using weapons of mass destruction. It is true that he systematically concealed those programs, and blocked the work of UN weapons inspectors. It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. And as your President, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq.

Yet it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power. He was given an ultimatum – and he made his choice for war. And the result of that war was to rid the world of a murderous dictator who menaced his people, invaded his neighbors, and declared America to be his enemy. Saddam Hussein, captured and jailed, is still the same raging tyrant – only now without a throne. His power to harm a single man, woman, or child is gone forever. And the world is better for it.

(Emphasis added)

Shorter GWB: "I'm responsible for the war. He started it."

posted by David at 12/19/2005 08:03:00 AM ::

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Public Service Announcement

Please remember Athenae for next year's Koufax Awards for this post. Thank you.

posted by David at 12/14/2005 02:09:00 AM ::

Hacktacular Harris

Julia makes a very nice catch relating to the John Harris-Dan Froomkin contretemps here. It seems that the "conservative blogger" Harris used as a springboard to start this whole thing was the webmaster of the '04 Bush-Cheney campaign website.

It's interesting to note that Harris' attack is woefully short on specifics, that is, he doesn't so much have a problem with specific things Froomkin said in his column, as with the column itself. It's possible, given that White House Briefing functions largely as an aggregator of reporting and commentary about the administration, there could have been a problem with the links and citations rather than with the original content. But Harris doesn't cite anything concrete at all, not even articles or subjects that Froomkin didn't mention. All he does is wave the term "liberal" around threateningly, as though one column's having such a bias were an unpardonable offense in the paper that publishes George Will and Bob Novak.

Even as I watch the politics editor of the Washington Post openly carrying water for the Bush administration, I comfort myself with the knowledge that Dan Froomkin has nothing to worry about. If the Post were to try to make his life miserable, he could turn around and be a top-5 blogger within a week, just by doing what he's done all along. He'd probably make more money to boot.

posted by David at 12/14/2005 12:21:00 AM ::

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