Nice little lesson on John Coltrane, as Lincoln Center is doing a retrospective of his music:
The repertory for the Lincoln Center shows has doubtless been chosen to break down Coltrane into his various strengths: his kind of blues, his kind of modal jazz, his ballad styles and his superstudious paradigmatic pieces, stuffed with quickly moving chords. This encapsulates the official Coltrane, the period that brooks few arguments about its merits.
Elvin Jones rocks.
The GOPs have a new section of their web site, called "demfacts," apparently dedicated to strawman arguments and proving Democrats correct. Take this page, in which they compare statements of prominent Democrats before and after the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Here's an example:
Chairman Dean's Prewar Statements:
DNC Chairman Howard Dean: "There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. ... [I]f Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it." (CBS' "Face The Nation," 9/29/02)
Chairman Dean In 2005:
Chairman Dean: "Saddam Hussein was never a threat to the United States." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 6/29/05)
First of all, none of the Democratic statements, things like "we have to do something about it," mean unilaterally bombing and occupying another nation.
But, more importantly, aren't these statements entirely explainable by the fact that we, those of us in the reality-based community, now know the White House completely fabricated the "facts" on the threat from Iraq? They cherry-picked the intel, they leaked it to the press, and then they referred to those press reports when giving backup regarding why Saddam was a threat.
In effect, now that we all know it's bull, this site just proves how only the Democrats are saying the things that most people believe -- the Iraq war was a mistake, that Bush is handling it all wrong, and we never should have invaded in the first place, and we need a timetable to get out.
Now, sure, this page is intended to play to their base. But, even so -- if this is the best the GOPs have got, they're in worse shape then I thought.
So, Scholastic has decided to redo their PT911 material. Good for them. Decency is still alive.
Five bucks says within two days, a right wing blog will "find" how someone at the top of Scholastic gave money to Democrats, worked for Clinton, or somehow, someway has a liberal agenda and bias.
Takers?
Senate to release WMD report:
Republican members of the intelligence committee declined to comment on the report Thursday, but Democrats, who have been pushing for its release, said it backed up their argument that Bush's case for war in Iraq was misleading.
No comment by the GOPs?
Surely, this report must completely exonerate the Bush Administration, proving no intel was misused.
Up is down, isn't it?
