Apparently, Senator Feingold is going to call for a fixed date to remove troops from Iraq. This idea has been amply discussed in the blogosphere (short version of the criticism–it allows the “insurgents” to run out the clock, after which they can have their way with the Iraqis). But I need this explained to me:
An Amazing Thing
This ought to be framed, or perhaps displayed in a museum. It’s a (truly, perhaps in the best sense of the word) liberal reporter who actually seems to live up to the (usually absurd) claim that his politics don’t affect his reporting. He actually saw something wrong with the Al Franken gang diverting funds from poor children to their failed escapade. Can you imagine?
And his band of brothers in the press attempted to steal the story from him:
Last week Executive Editor Michael Horowitz called in to conservative radio host Sean Hannity
An Egyptian Secret Weapon?
Charles Lurio writes that they’ve apparently cloned Yasser Arafat:
Clearly the Islamo-fascists have a new weapon: cloning with quick forced fetus development. Take a look at the guy in the lower right of this pic from a NYTimes article on p3 yesterday about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
On the one hand they did improve him a bit: he’s not bald, as Arafat was under his kaffiyah. On the other, he’s clearly grown old too quickly once out of the womb, no doubt because they couldn’t turn off the accelerated development gene.
Or maybe it’s genetic damage from the laser poisoning.
I Wonder What Sheryl Crowe Is Thinking About This?
Lance Armstrong is going bike riding with the president in Crawford. Maybe that will give the media down there something to cover besides Mother Shaheen.
Just Stab Them, Dammit!
I’ve kvetched in the past about needlessly stupid things in science-fiction movies (needlessly in that they don’t even advance the plot, or necessarily add to the drama). Well, here’s someone who thinks the same thing about cinematic swordplay.
If the purpose of lightsaber fight choreography is simply to convey drama and excitement within the context of a story, then choreographers feel they’ve done their job well. But, from my point of view, if a lightsaber fight is supposed to convince the viewer that individuals of great skill are really trying to kill one another with laser swords while using supernatural powers that heighten their senses and physical abilities, well, they fail miserably.
[via Geek Press]
Next Year In Jerusalem
Lileks has some thoughts on the Gaza pullout, and Cindy Sheehan.
I think many on the progressive left would not be troubled much if Israel just
The Forty-Year Plan
Boy, it’s all Thomas James, all the time, at least this morning. He also writes that potential future Martians are too focused on science, and central planning.
Two Cults In One
Speaking of Thomas James, he has an amusing tale from the Mars Society Conference.
[Update a few minutes later]
I was about to do a radio interview with a German radio station about evolution and intelligent design when I posted this, so I didn’t get a chance to finish the thought with a similar supporting anecdote of my own.
I have a dear old friend (who will remain nameless) who is also a victim of the Mac cult. He swears by his Mac, and professes hatred of PCs and a mystification about why anyone would buy them when they could have a Mac. But when he shows me things on it, there are invariably problems with it that, if it were my machine, would cause me to toss it into the sea in frustration. Yet he seems almost blind to it, even as he asks for help in doing things that it won’t let him do.
It’s A Quagmire!
In Crawford.
[Update early Wednesday morning]
Thomas James advances Scrappleface’s ball further down the field in comments:
Mother Sheehan’s war is just a distraction from the Global Whinge on Bush. The left was arguably justified in going into the Plame/Rove scandal (remember that?) after the catastrophic 11/2 attacks which damaged Ohio’s electoral system and brought down the Twin Johns. But since then, they have squandered the unprecedented and heartfelt outpouring of support they once received from George Soros. The left went into this war on the basis of fraudulent estimates of Mother Sheehan’s capabilities as a weapon of mass media destruction, an “imminent threat” which has since been proved bogus, and their appalling conduct in this “illegal” ditch-occupation is serving as a recruitment tool for anti-idiotarian insurgents.
It’s A Quagmire!
In Crawford.
[Update early Wednesday morning]
Thomas James advances Scrappleface’s ball further down the field in comments:
Mother Sheehan’s war is just a distraction from the Global Whinge on Bush. The left was arguably justified in going into the Plame/Rove scandal (remember that?) after the catastrophic 11/2 attacks which damaged Ohio’s electoral system and brought down the Twin Johns. But since then, they have squandered the unprecedented and heartfelt outpouring of support they once received from George Soros. The left went into this war on the basis of fraudulent estimates of Mother Sheehan’s capabilities as a weapon of mass media destruction, an “imminent threat” which has since been proved bogus, and their appalling conduct in this “illegal” ditch-occupation is serving as a recruitment tool for anti-idiotarian insurgents.