“Lost”
This dog has a real taste for homework. Glenn Greenwald highlights the pattern.
The New York Times, 4/12/07:
WASHINGTON, April 11 — Political advisers to President Bush may have improperly used their Republican National Committee e-mail accounts to conduct official government business, and some communications that are required to be preserved under federal law may be [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
Post-apocalyptic tribal music from Stomp: “Suspension”
Burn The Books
The neoconservative fight against government regulation, and against the knowledge that might inform it, has taken a frightening turn with the destruction of research libraries.
EPA gave itself a black eye and enraged librarians throughout the country last year, when, without public notice or congressional consultation, it began the process of dismantling its network of 26 [...]
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
RIP, Kurt Vonnegut:
His mother had succeeded in killing herself just before he left for Germany during World War II, where he was quickly taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge. He was being held in Dresden when Allied bombs created a firestorm that killed an estimated 135,000 people in the city.
“The firebombing of Dresden [...]
How’s That Surge Workin’?
Buried in this WaPo story is the unhappy, if not unexpected, news that the most recent escalation of the war in Iraq has led to ten percent more deaths.
Caldwell also painted a mixed picture of the violence in Iraq eight weeks into a security plan intended to quell turmoil in the capital. From January to [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“If money go before, all ways do lie open.”
—The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2.2.168
