Politics

FRANCE….After I wrote yesterday’s post about getting rid of all my Franco-Germanic possessions, I got a couple of emails from people assuming I was serious. I quickly added a note making it clear that I was joking. Now, I take full blame for not being Neal Pollack-ish enough to pull off this kind of satire, […]

AN “ALIEN-SNAKE HYBRID”?….C’MON, KEN, TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK….Ken Layne pretty much sums up my opinion of the campaign to recall Gray Davis ? and much more entertainingly than I could. I guess I don’t dislike ‘ol Gray quite as much as Ken does, but he gets bonus points for both poetic license and […]

OURS NOT TO REASON WHY….It’s possible that the justification for this holds water in some theoretical way, but the timing sure sucks: As thousands of sailors and Marines are sent abroad for a possible war with Iraq, the Bush administration is proposing to cut education funding for many children of military families. The president’s plan […]

FOREIGN REACTION TO 9/11….Yesterday I wrote a short post about a French radio host who claimed that most of his callers after 9/11 thought that the terrorist attacks “served us right.” I got a few responses and thought I would share them: From an Australian: I have to say that I found much the same […]

AN OP-ED WHERE?….“Rightwing commentator” Glenn Reynolds has an op-ed in the The Guardian about the blog phenomenon. It’s pretty good.

AFTER THE WAR….The news on the war front is not good. I suspect that many reluctant hawks like me have held their noses and supported the war because of the possibility that, aside from ridding the world of a dangerous and unstable dictator, we might also make Iraq ? and eventually the rest of the […]

NORTH KOREA AND THE UN….What happens if the UN refuses to approve military action against Iraq and we invade anyway? Does that prove irrevocably that the UN is indeed irrelevant, as George Bush keeps saying? And if it does, what happens in North Korea? Iraq, for some reason, is a matter of “weeks, not months,” […]

DINI UPDATE….Mark at Minute Particulars updates us on the Michael Dini evolution controversy. Dini’s old website said this: I will ask you “How do you think the human species originated?” If you cannot truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer to this question, then you should not seek my recommendation for admittance to further education […]

A CLEAN BREAK….It was a difficult choice, but after considerable prayer and soul searching Marian and I finally decided last night that we could no longer continue living a lie. So we’re making a clean break and disposing of all Franco-German products in our house. Here’s the complete inventory: An ?douard Boubat print of a […]

I WAS AFRAID THIS MIGHT HAPPEN….Uh oh, looks like D? is going native (scroll to “Coffee-break length Steven den Beste”). We might need an intervention here, folks. And a note to Blogspot users: check the permalink for your most recent post if you have any hopes of other people linking to it. If it doesn’t […]