Monthly Archives: October 2004

Strutting, not fretting yet.

Posted on October 17, 2004 by acb

From a New York Times bore-a-thon analysis: In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Hating America

Posted on October 16, 2004 by acb

I just found this, from Tony Judt, in the NYRB: “With our growing income inequities and child poverty; our underperforming schools and disgracefully inadequate health services; our mendacious politicians and crude, partisan media; our suspect voting machines and our gerrymandered … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Hey, we could do the pogrom right here!

Posted on October 16, 2004 by acb

Sometimes, to tell a story, an editor just needs to step out of the way. The Guardian’s op-ed page made a great catch with this rant, originally printed by David Horowitz, and warmly endorsed by Melanie Phillips. Among the key … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Gibson blogs again

Posted on October 14, 2004 by acb

And remembers a conversation with a smart military man, seven years ago, and how it filled him with hope for the US Army: One actually has to be something of a specialist, today, to even begin to grasp quite how … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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All evil not clever enough

Posted on October 14, 2004 by acb

You know you’ve made it when you have to install MT-blacklist. I had misconfigured the bloggery here a little so that I wasn’t getting messages when comments were posted to the Changeling. I thought of this, as I was translating … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Not evil not good enough

Posted on October 14, 2004 by acb

Google desktop search is obviously wonderful. “Google for the hard disk” is something one has wanted for years. But it’s not wonderful enough to get me using IE, which is the only browser it works with at present. I’m rather … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Torture update

Posted on October 10, 2004 by acb

According to the Washington Post the proposal has been dropped, and replaced by one which would allow suspects to be detained indefinitely, without trial, at the whim of the immigration authorities. According to the official site the amendment passed on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Emmanuel Todd on Israel & the USA

Posted on October 6, 2004 by acb

This is an argument both sinister and persuasive. In essence, he says that Israel once attracted the Left because of its egalitarian ideals. Now it is attractive to the right precisely because it seems to have become a militarist, aggressive … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Torture: they’ll say anything

Posted on October 6, 2004 by acb

The torture bill referred to in yesterday’s post is still going to congress. One of the Presiden’t lawyers, Alberto Gonzalez, wrote to the Washington Post denying that Bush wanted torture legaised: The president did not propose and does not support … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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outsourcing torture

Posted on October 5, 2004 by acb

I don’t normally do this, and perhaps I should, but here’s the week’s wormesye. It matters. Continue reading →

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