Category: Miscellany

  • Talking Points Memo taking flak

    For an analysis of the growing scandal [Isn’t scandal a bit strong for a story that can be spun multiple ways? –ed. {Who the hell are you? Go back to Kaus’s blog! –xian}] around the idea of Rumsfeld and other politicos ignoring the best advice of the military brass and needlessly exposing our servicemen to…

  • I'm sorry, but the '80s bit

    Over at Hyperbole, Jim Haefele reminisces about what he refers to as his decade. Well, we can’t choose the time and date of our own birth and one’s own memories always end up entangled with the cultural detritus of the period, plus he’s in Tunisia and I know when you are away from home, it…

  • Ain't no thesis like a

    Ain’t no thesis like a P-Funk thesis…. Is the academic world ready for the awesome power of a fully operational mothership? Scot Hacker reports that an article he wrote on Parliament-Funkadelic for a book by Pagan Kennedy has inspired a master’s thesis. Now maybe his seminal writings on Liberace will finally get the attention they…

  • Breaking the logjam

    As my to-do list grows (book project, consulting projects, conference coming up, taxes to do soon, clients deals to do, and more) I’ve had one of those two or three day periods of just trying to do the same things over and over. First there was a recalcitrant zip file that was showing up corrupted…

  • The o-dub roundup

    Oliver Willis objectively supports rounding up Bon Jovi fans.

  • The emperor's new subcontract

    I know this war can’t be about control of oil, and we’re supposed to look past Dick Cheney’s revolving-door history from first gulf war to Halliburton, where his contacts in the gulf came in somewhat handy, back into the government in time fo rthe next gulf war and hey, look, if it isn’t ol’ Halliburton…