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I would guess that very few pundits know enough about Newtonian mechanics to misapply it. Typical pundit ignorance extends a lot farther than that, as when Norman Podhoretz, back in 2002, asked Jeffrey Goldberg “What’s a Kurd, anyway?”
Knowledge is irrelevant, in any case. In the be vast majority of cases, a pundit’s job is to [...]
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Presented humbly in the World section of The Washington Post today, is the story of two American officers, a military doctor and a physician assistant, who have spent the last year — on their own time — scrounging about for resources to send ailing Iraqi children overseas for critical medical care still unavailable to [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Uncategorized, War
Apropos of nothing…except that I can’t forget it.
Last weekend I was in Trader Joe’s—a confession sure to cheer those certain that my aversion to FoxNews means I’m a closet liberal. (Worse, I bring my own canvas shopping bag. I might as well carry around a copy of Das Kapital while I stock up on fair-trade [...]
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Three pieces appearing in today’s Washington Post and New York Times reveal the fundamental problem in changing America’s failed foreign policy. The voters who gave Barack Obama his margin of victory want an end to the continuous warfare that has characterized the post 9/11 world but have been sold down the river. The politicians and the their media claque want [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Uncategorized
In a press release, the British Transport Police has encouraged the UK’s notorious football (soccer) hooligans to take inspiration from Barack Obama’s success and mend their thuggish ways.
“The election of Obama to the White House has turned a page in world history – now’s the time for football fans to do the same,” [...]
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We just got a much anticipated phone call from our daughter, who is on a junior year abroad program in a city near Mumbai. She’s fine. But, she told us, she had been at one of those bars hit by the terrorists a few weeks ago. Deeprak Chopra is on the TV. Among [...]
Filed under: Events, Foreign policy, Religion, Uncategorized
One benefit from a generally terrifying economic crisis may be the demise of political correctness. Notice the lack of serious complaint over the appointment of Larry Summers to one of Obama’s top economic advisory positions. Three years ago, Summers was forced out of the presidency of Harvard because he noted that biological difference [...]
Filed under: Culture, Uncategorized
Patrick Ruffini is one of the most prominent of the few Republicans of the Millennial Generation. But in being so it’s meant a pretty good gig as a point person for articles explaining why the GOP is so far behind the times when it comes to Internet activism as opposed to mere blogging for example. He brought more [...]
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I’m reading the long New York Times piece on Citbank’s demise. Deep into it there’s this paragraph:
<<To make matters worse, Citigroup’s risk models never accounted for the possibility of a national housing downturn, this person said, and the prospect that millions of homeowners could default on their mortgages. Such a downturn did come, of [...]
Filed under: Culture, Economics, Uncategorized
Happened to surf by Oliver Stone’s “JFK” last night and stuck with it. I had seen the movie when it came out, even wrote a NY Post column about it — have no idea what I said. But in 1991 I was a good deal less inclined to credit the possibility of [...]
Filed under: Courts, Events, Uncategorized