Two thoughtful, very very different, sets of thoughts inspired by the recent decision of certain Catholic Bishops to instruct their parishoners how to vote:
Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog, pens an obituary for Western Civilization:
Western Civilization. Born 3500 B.C. in early Mesopotamian city-states, Western Civilization developed numerous complex systems of political governance, conquered most of the inhabited world, and invented the hot air balloon, the nuclear bomb, and the ice cream cone. Died May 17, 2004, of a gay agenda in a Massachusetts court house. It is survived by isolated anarchist survivalist camps and nomadic bands of flesh-eating zombies.
I complained yesterday that the Pentagon issued a non-denial denial about the New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh. Today we get a full-bodied denial: Pentagon: Hersh report 'journalist malpractice'.
Update: To ice the cake, the DoD changed the original press release.
Here's a useful service, provided by WashingtonPost.com (Dan Froomkin dept.): All About the WMD Commission.
In More on the Justice Department, the Pentagon, and the Supreme Court, Eric Muller is asking the right questions about whether the Justice Dept. misled the Supreme Court, either on purpose or (more likely) due to incompetence or manipulation.
Two months ago I would have been confident that of course no one in the SG's office would knowingly lie to the Supreme Court. I still think that's more likely than not. But when your government will torture people, everything has to be on the table.
Just another Internet identity mystery story? But this is an unusually good one: The Search for Isabella V. Here's “her” blog, she's a flight risk.
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