That’s what that famous chickenhawk Michael Yon says Iraq is.
[Evening update]
Sigh. I hoped that the “chickenhawk” appellation was obvious sarcasm, but for those to whom it wasn’t, it was.
Born To Believe
Razib over at Gene Expression has an interesting interview with Heather McDonald on faith and conservatism, and her disillusionment with much of what conservatism seems to have become. I disagree with her that George Bush hasn’t damaged the cause of conservatism. While I agree that he’s not a conservative, and that his policies shouldn’t do so, the popular mythology is that he is a conservative, and so they will.
But more interesting to me is this tangent, brought up by the Derb:
I don’t want to rain on Heather Mac Donald’s parade, especially after the sweet compliment she paid me in that Q&A Ramesh linked to, but consider the following:
Must Be Global Warming
The California citrus crop may be wiped out from the cold. I blame George Bush.
Amazing
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve read in a long time:
The investigation determined that Hill and Duque had not been drinking before their fatal dive. One of their untrained tenders reported having one beer, while another reported drinking three beforehand.
“The problem here was that the recreational activity was taking place at the same time as an operational activity that involves risk and specialized training,” Wurster said.
“It was the combination of the two things that lends an air to the whole accident event,” he said.
The Healy was sailing through the Arctic with about 35 scientists to collect data that would help them map the ocean floor. Hill was the ship’s dive officer, as well as the liaison between the scientists and the crew.
As is generally the case in these things, everything went wrong, and just one thing going right would have saved them. How could a ship’s dive officer be so stupid as to overload with unjettisonable weights? At least, unless they were on a mix, they probably narced out pretty quickly at that depth and temperature, at which point they were feeling no pain.
Good News, If True
the Saudi government has partly subscribed to these critical trends and has taken a number of preliminary steps towards
Searching Deep Within Myself
…trying to find the slightest iota of sympathy for Sunnis in Iraq who complain about bodies being mutilated by decapitation. Especially this particular body.
Looking, looking…
Nope. No luck.
“Desperate To Avoid”
Ron Cass asks why the Sandy Burglar story isn’t one of the top political stories of the decade:
We all have a pretty good idea what the money was doing in Representative William Jefferson’s freezer. But the questions about President William Jefferson Clinton’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, just keep piling up.
It’s time we got some answers.
I can’t understand why the Republican Congress didn’t demand hearings into the Justice Department decision to let Berger off with a slap of the wrist. I can only surmise that it was because it was a decision of a Republican Justice Department. Now, they might be more curious, particularly with the new revelations, but they no longer control Congress, and I assume that the new majority will want to keep this dirt safely and deeply under the rug.
“Desperate To Avoid”
Ron Cass asks why the Sandy Burglar story isn’t one of the top political stories of the decade:
We all have a pretty good idea what the money was doing in Representative William Jefferson’s freezer. But the questions about President William Jefferson Clinton’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, just keep piling up.
It’s time we got some answers.
I can’t understand why the Republican Congress didn’t demand hearings into the Justice Department decision to let Berger off with a slap of the wrist. I can only surmise that it was because it was a decision of a Republican Justice Department. Now, they might be more curious, particularly with the new revelations, but they no longer control Congress, and I assume that the new majority will want to keep this dirt safely and deeply under the rug.
“Desperate To Avoid”
Ron Cass asks why the Sandy Burglar story isn’t one of the top political stories of the decade:
We all have a pretty good idea what the money was doing in Representative William Jefferson’s freezer. But the questions about President William Jefferson Clinton’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, just keep piling up.
It’s time we got some answers.
I can’t understand why the Republican Congress didn’t demand hearings into the Justice Department decision to let Berger off with a slap of the wrist. I can only surmise that it was because it was a decision of a Republican Justice Department. Now, they might be more curious, particularly with the new revelations, but they no longer control Congress, and I assume that the new majority will want to keep this dirt safely and deeply under the rug.
Three Years On
As Jeff Foust notes, yesterday was the third anniversary of the announcement of the Vision for Space Exploration. Jeff thinks that the next two years are crucial. I agree.
When the president made the speech from NASA HQ, I was staying at a motel in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, looking for a house somewhere in the area (we ended up getting a place in Boca Raton). I live blogged it using the wireless in the motel room on my laptop, and then had some further thoughts. I think they hold up pretty well.
In fact, there were several related posts over those few days. You can check them out by scrolling about halfway down here.