Month: October 2004

Things sure are heating up in the blogosphere! Kevin at Wizbang is being threatened with a lawsuit for attacking the veracity of a Utah State professor’s rather valiant attempt to prove the forgery is not a forgery after all: …the newly proclaimed journalists of the blogosphere might want to pause for a moment and consider…

One of the things which traditionally distinguished the “politics of the street” from the politics of those in positions of responsibility was that the former tend to use insulting personal language, while the latter generally behave in something approaching a civil manner. Similarly, children are more likely to call each other names than are adults.…

Kerry and the Democrats have finally decided to play the Saudi card: In the final month of the campaign, Democrats are increasingly tying the White House to the Saudi Arabian royal family, a line of attack that they say is highly effective, but it has stirred concern among Saudi officials. Senator John Kerry and the…

Michael Moore is quoted at RatherBiased as saying that he had been offered the faked CBS memos during the production of Fahrenheit 9-11: “Back when I was making Fahrenheit, I was offered the same documents that were given to CBS but I didn’t use them because we couldn’t verify them,” Moore said following a speech…

Here’s a wonderful quote with which I wholeheartedly agree: GUNS AND GAYS: It’s often struck me that opposition to gay rights, and opposition to gun ownership, have a lot in common. So says Glenn Reynolds, whose remark that he’d be “delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of…

A friend who insists that Henry Kissinger is planning to vote for John Kerry (he won’t reveal sources but claims they’re reliable) has emailed me a link to something even more interesting — John Dean’s claim that Osama Bin Laden favors the Bush/Cheney ticket: Without Doubt Osama Would Like Bush and Cheney Reelected Can there…

….sometimes honor consists in admitting you fucked up. — Gary Indiana None other than the author of the above words recently advised me that I fucked up in a previous post, by misidentifying him as the author of Salo. Gary Indiana, it should be noted, is NOT the author of Salo the film, but of…

I thought about posting this at the Campus, but I haven’t posted here in awhile and the subject seems to be leaning this way. In David Brooks’ assessment of the debate there was my friend Kristin’s favorite classical reference, Archilochus fr. 201: πόλλ? οἶδ? ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ? ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα. “The fox knows many things, but…

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? —Cicero So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. —Cicero ….the craftier and shrewder someone is, the more envied and mistrusted he becomes when his reputation for honesty has been lost. —Cicero I patiently…

I’ve been bothered by what seemed like an apparent lie by Kerry, but the more I looked at the underlying facts, the more I realized it wasn’t all that much of a lie. Just a little error in explaining the timing of the error in the timing, more or less. A cultural misunderstanding which can…

60 Minutes original creator and producer Don Hewitt says he wouldn’t have run the Rathergate forged memo story at all: Speaking on a South Dakota Public Broadcasting radio show, Hewitt said the story was an old one that had already been dealt with in the 2000 presidential campaign. “I never would have done the story,”…

Dianne Feinstein has asked — and others want to know — who wrote Allawi’s speech? “I want to express my profound dismay about reports that officials from your administration and your reelection campaign were ‘heavily involved’ in writing parts of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s speech,” California Senator Dianne Feinstein wrote in a letter to President…