April 2009
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In our name
Dick Cheney, notorious will-o’-the-constitutional-wisp, would like to see classified documents made public, so long as they confirm the effectiveness of Bush-era torture. The Gabfest has noted that there’s a delicious element to the man who wouldn’t turn over his doodles to the archivist now taking this position. But the New Yorker’s Philip Gourevitch perfectly articulates...
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“[Kimberly Smith] argues that racial oppression, slavery, sharecropping and...”
– Being Black on Earth Day, from RaceWire
By the by, Melissa Harris Lacewell is my ultimate academic/theoretical crush (I’ve linked her before).
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"For seven years I have remained silent about the... →
Times editorial from Ali Soufan, FBI supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005.
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Dusty
HTTP visitors, pardon the appearance as I play around with some moderate layout changes to the site. As is my habit, I feel compelled to dig into code at just the same time I’m supposed to be digging into my end-of-semester papers and other projects (funny how that works). My attention wanders, is the point.
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Hendrik Hertzberg: I'm calling him a bigot?
'Factor' producer Jesse Watters: Yeah, you said he was a vicious bigot in the article, I have it right here... you don't understand how Newt was talking about people going into a church, screaming obscenities in front of children, throwing things around the congregation –
HH: 'Gay and secular fascism'? That does not exist. That is a slander and it is bigotry. And I dare you to use that bit on your show. You'll probably just use the bits where I'm wondering what the [REDACTED] is going on because some [REDACTED] comes up to me on the street.
JW: Are you going to apologize to Mr. Gingrich?
HH: No. Are you going to apologize to me?
JW: For what?
HH: For invading my pleasant morning.
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“The Obamas gave Queen Elizabeth II an iPod loaded with songs and videos — this...”
– Okay, I recognize this doesn’t look good for American savoir faire, but what DVDs were they? A box set of The Wire is totally equal to an anti-slave ship penholder, amIright? (from the Times.)
