A certain kind of fire
On April 3rd, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke to a Memphis crowd of a march in support of striking city sanitation workers. He was killed the next day, having long faced death threats, but he proclaimed himself unafraid in the speech (listen to the audio for the full effect). If you [...]
Cui bono?
Radar Online answers “whatever happened to…?” with respect to high-profile pundits who came out early for and against the war in Iraq. It should come as no surprise that the big bucks go to those who were very, very wrong:
So we selected the four pundits who were in our judgment the most influentially and disturbingly [...]
Hole in the Résumé
An important topic came up last week during congressional hearings on the war in Iraq:
At one point [Secretary of Defense] Gates, just three weeks on the job, told lawmakers, “I would confess I’m no expert on Iraq.” Later, asked about reaching the right balance between American and Iraqi forces, he told the panel he was [...]
Sold Out
Cenk Uygur writes that Connecticut’s Senator Joe Lieberman has reneged even on the half-hearted promises he made on last year’s campaign trail, supporting both a new escalation of the war in Iraq and a Katrina cover-up:
This man claims to be a moral standard-bearer and then deceives the very people that trusted him to protect their [...]
Fortuitous Video Feed
Bill O’Reilly’s “shut up” dodge is contrasted with Dr. King’s call to speak out against war.
Shakespearean Daily Reminisce (Dream Edition)
“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.” –Hamlet, 1.2.187-88
