Synnott should have taken a lesson

I rise to object to your tone--no one needs to teach the Brits anything about the Iraq free fire zone.

Not for nothing did one Sunni insurgent group take as it's nom de guerre the 1920 Revolution Brigade.

(BTW, you can do worse, for your "resident communitarian" than Prof. Etzioni.)

Posted at July 3, 2008 10:36 AM in response to The Lessons of Basra

this continues to happen in the heart of my city and community.

As a meta-question, can we imagine a level of public insecurity like this persisting in any great European capital?

How can it be beyond the deep and vasty resources of the Federal Government (for crissakes) to guarantee safe passage on the streets 24/7?

Does this betoken:
a)antipathy towards all things urban unreasonably favored by our senate/electoral college arrangements?

b)antipathy to all things African American as intrinsic to Republican electoral strategy?

c)Both?

(answer, c)

Posted at July 3, 2008 12:40 AM in response to Well Known Liberal Blogger Shot In Washington, D.C.

Tin Foil Hat Time

Are you a shiny side in or shiny side out guy?

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

Posted at July 2, 2008 2:04 AM in response to Bill Clinton Confirmed Drug Dealer

Rabbikitty

I knew a Rabbi named "Kitty" once, but she was a reform rabbi, whereas I am in no doubt that our chimerical interlocutor is orthodox...and I believe that nose came from a surgeon.

Posted at July 2, 2008 1:04 AM in response to The REAL Barack Obama--Unmasking the Beast

so presumably, it's not a typo.

I betcha it is...

Posted at June 27, 2008 1:21 AM in response to Richard Perle is Back (IRAN!!!) and Joe Klein Skewers Neo-Idiots. The Iraq War Gang is Back!

I post there all the time

Why am I not surprised?

Posted at June 21, 2008 9:12 PM in response to What The F@#k Is WRONG With This Site?????

"You're talking about predominately?" the congressman then asked, before venturing: "Predominantly – probably Shi'ite."

Hey, he had a 50-50 shot. On the SAT, they always tell you to guess if you can get it down to one out of three.

As for Rockefeller, when his girlfriend took that cellphone picture of him with the ball gag in his mouth, and IMed it to her cousin who was "vacationing" on a yacht that was docked in Dubai, the jig was up. (Well, maybe if she hadn't encrypted the damn pictue, it wouldn't have attracted attention. She probably hadn't heard how they can bust any encryption by freezing (literally, with liquid nitrogen) the disc head.)

Now that Cheney has that picture framed in his top desk drawer, he also has Rockie's stones in a jar.

Posted at June 21, 2008 5:05 PM in response to Why I Voted Against the FISA Amendments Act

brick and mortar archival research

Omigod!

He is one of the Old Ones. Somewhere, his name is labeled over a Library *carrell.

*Kind of like a monk's cell kids, google it...

Posted at June 21, 2008 4:57 PM in response to What The F@#k Is WRONG With This Site?????

As far as "user-friendly" features availble free from, eg, Myspace, they dwarf the crap here since the change (I refer particularly to the lame archive function, the utterly absent edit/preview function, and the back channel email which we have not got.)

Of course, on Myspace I don't get any ad revenue for posting--oh wait, here neither.

Posted at June 21, 2008 4:28 AM in response to What The F@#k Is WRONG With This Site?????

ditto....ditto

Posted at June 21, 2008 4:24 AM in response to What The F@#k Is WRONG With This Site?????