Windmill Tilting
The demented dwarf from Cleveland has introduced articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. Dana Milbank has the (hilarious) story:
A reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer encouraged USS Kucinich to contact planet Earth. “But Nancy Pelosi says this is not going anywhere,” she pointed out.
“Have you talked to her today?” Kucinich shot back.
“Yes, I did,” she replied.
Kucinich had not expected that answer. “Then I would say I have not talked to her,” he acknowledged.
It was not an auspicious beginning for the impeachment of Richard B. Cheney.
How Appropriate
A fake rock band reunites to save us from a fake crisis. I guess they figure someone turned the heat all the way up to eleven.
Incompatible Viewpoints
Tony Blankley writes about the two radically different points of view on the war:
For those of us who support the great struggle against radical Islam, the world reality could not be plainer. The threat of radical Islam is not merely a few thousand terrorists using small explosives to kill a few dozen people at a time — usually in the faraway Middle East. Rather, it is an historic recrudescence of a violent, conquering old tradition of Islam that almost overwhelmed the world from the Seventh Century until as recently as the 17th century. It is radicalizing the minds of increasing numbers of the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims to be very aggressive culturally, as well as violent — from Africa to Indonesia, to Cairo to Ankara, to Paris, to Rotterdam to London to Falls Church, Va.
Unfortunately, in addition, the debate is poisoned, almost rendered futile, by the irrational blind hatred that so many harbor for George Bush.
Running Out Of Time
As noted in comments here, T. M. Lutas says that the Democrats’ bet is looking pretty shaky:
I expect at least 3 more provinces to get handed over between now and the height of campaign season 2008. I’d like to think that at least 6 more would make the transition by then (obviating the need to explain Kurdistan’s special situation in the stats). The defeatists have to change the natural progression of Iraqi government and security institution building and do it soon or they’re going to be in deep trouble in 2008.
Interesting Rumor
Is Ares 1 on life support?
Between rumored Ares performance issues and Orion weight growth, shrinking budgets, and a growing uprising among the space science folks (not to mention Richard Shelby), Dr. Griffin seems to have an unsolvable Rubik’s cube. Something will have to give. I hope that it’s The Stick. I wonder if they’re on the verge of bowing to the inevitable, and reconsidering Atlas? And as commenters point out, what’s the significance of May 23rd?
The Way We Age
An interesting, but somewhat depressing look at the upcoming crisis in geriatrics, over at the New Yorker.
What struck me about it was the assumption that the decline is inevitable, and that we have to focus on managing it, when in fact we need to put a lot more effort into technologies that can stop aging, and even reverse it. The assumption is that living too long is a problem, and it is, if we don’t figure out how to maintain and restore the ability of the body to repair itself.
[Via Alan Boyle]
Reducing The Pull Of The Gravity Well
An interesting essay on insurgency, and counterinsurgency.
“They Lack A Sense Of Irony”
I recall reading in The Economist, many years ago, a leader (editorial to the Yanks) that described an anecdote about the British Foreign Service, in which one of the people was describing some benighted Third World former colony. “The problem they have, is that they lack a sense of irony.”
Apparently Reuters has the same problem.
Hey, one man’s anti-violence protester is another man’s Jihadist.
Any of my trolls going to try to defend this one?
And let’s see how long it stays up in that form.
[Update]
Oh, ye of little faith.
Here’s the link, Bill, from Yahoo. I’ll keep a screen shot of it, for when they decide to memoryhole it.
“They Lack A Sense Of Irony”
I recall reading in The Economist, many years ago, a leader (editorial to the Yanks) that described an anecdote about the British Foreign Service, in which one of the people was describing some benighted Third World former colony. “The problem they have, is that they lack a sense of irony.”
Apparently Reuters has the same problem.
Hey, one man’s anti-violence protester is another man’s Jihadist.
Any of my trolls going to try to defend this one?
And let’s see how long it stays up in that form.
[Update]
Oh, ye of little faith.
Here’s the link, Bill, from Yahoo. I’ll keep a screen shot of it, for when they decide to memoryhole it.