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We Say Again: “Pardon Our Dust”

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If you've been away from your computer for the holidays (and how could anyone tear themselves away from TMV?) you may have missed our note explaining that this site is now in transition. And it still is. We've moved off of Powerblogs (a company with which we had a great experience and are honored to include as our friends their tech support folks) and now we're at … [Read more...] about We Say Again: “Pardon Our Dust”

Images telling tales with the help of a few words

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Before going further, recall that "moderate" does not equal "centrist" nor "balanced" but instead an attitude that acknowledges the possibility that maybe, possibly, one just might be wrong. Cross-posted to Random Fate. --- President Gerald Ford gave David Hume Kennerley access to the White House to take unstaged photographs of the President at work. From the MSNBC … [Read more...] about Images telling tales with the help of a few words

Literary Quote of the Day: Epicurus

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Today's literary quote of the day is from Epicurus's letter to Menoeceus: Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by … [Read more...] about Literary Quote of the Day: Epicurus

Double Dutch

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An interesting article at the BBC about The Netherlands. An ongoing battle over language in The Netherlands is being fuelled by the country's New Year's word lists. The Little Green Book, or Het Groene Boekje, the official Dutch spelling guide, was published this year. But it is being boycotted by public broadcasters, who say it is too silly for words. Instead, … [Read more...] about Double Dutch

Somalia Waving Islamists… Goodbye(?)

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Good news from Reuters: Defeated Somali Islamists fled their last stronghold and headed toward the Kenyan border on Monday in what looked like the end of nearly two weeks of war with the Ethiopian-backed government. Several thousand Islamist troops, who abandoned the capital to take a stand 300 km (186 miles) to the south near the port of Kismayu, melted away again … [Read more...] about Somalia Waving Islamists… Goodbye(?)

The Media & Saddam: Onward Into the Past

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It's kind of sad but not surprising that many mainstream media reporters and most definitely their editors still cannot factor the blogosphere into a major breaking story like Saddam's Sayonara. An example is Alessandra Stanley's "TV Watch" column in the Sunday New York Times on the pre-execution death watch by the cable news channels and networks and then the scramble to … [Read more...] about The Media & Saddam: Onward Into the Past

And So 2007 Is A Babe In The Woods: Can We Get It RIGHT?

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As you read this, 2007 is an innocent little year (well, almost if you scroll down Google). Like most infants, it absorbs its environment: the words used, the events it sees, the way people treat it...the very tone. It may be naive to say this, but even with powder-keg issues in politics, passionate issues that people want to write about on weblogs...in the interest of … [Read more...] about And So 2007 Is A Babe In The Woods: Can We Get It RIGHT?

Vengeance, not justice

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I don't have much more to say about Saddam Hussein's execution. I wrote about it extensively before it took place -- see here -- and, at The Reaction, Creature wrote the words I was searching for in a subsequent post -- see here: "I feel sad, not for Saddam, but for what we have become." This was America's doing, and America should not have allowed it to happen. To the … [Read more...] about Vengeance, not justice

The Good in the Current Administration

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I realize the title of this post, alone, will anger a lot of readers and, as a result, some of them will take time to leave comments here, pointing out that the bad in this Administration far outweighs the good. And that's probably true. But it doesn't change the fact that on this subject, the Administration got it right. Cheers to Captain Ed for this reminder. … [Read more...] about The Good in the Current Administration

“Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada”

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Joe made an important observation in an earlier post on the differing interpretations of the Saddam execution. The conventional wisdom is that Shi'ites and Kurds are happy that Saddam has died, and Sunnis are despondent that the last leader who privileged them in Iraqi society has now passed away. But anybody hoping that the trial and execution would help the Iraqi nation turn … [Read more...] about “Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada”

GOP and Survival of the Fittest

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The Washington Times featured an interesting post election analysis that showed that Republican Senators gave far less money to struggling candidates than did Democrats. I believe that this is relatively true in the House races as well. It was not that they soberly calculated that they were going to lose in a landslide and decided not to throw good money after bad. They just … [Read more...] about GOP and Survival of the Fittest

Theater Review: ‘The Vertical Hour’

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“The Vertical Hour,â€? David Hare’s timely new play, refers to that moment in combat medicine when you can be of some use after a soldier is critically wounded. Julianne Moore makes her Broadway debut as an American foreign correspondent turned Yale University professor who finds herself caught in a romantic triangle with Bill Nighy, who plays an esteemed British … [Read more...] about Theater Review: ‘The Vertical Hour’