Category: Miscellany

  • Just can't leave it alone

    I’ve already overcommented on the Burningbird: Boys with Toys thread (and related) at BurningBird, but I went back and read the three entries and their tails of comments again and I still feel that the various points of view are largely talking past each other, partly because they (we) are also having a metaconversation. The…

  • Hyperventilating about Flapdoodle

    On today’s New York Times op-ed pages, Bill Safire applauds the bipartisan shackling of the proposed TIA and gives cover to libertarian-inclined right-wingers waiting for a signal on Patriot II: the wrath of Ascroft. Over on the opposite side of the page Bob Herbert notes the stealthy way the Bushies are defunding “compassionate” priorities while…

  • Michael Lerner reconsidered

    OK, so wait a minute, is Michael Lerner (of Tikkun) “deeply silly” or not?

  • More on closed-source voting machines

    Every warblogger’s favorite idiotarian rag, The Guardian, has a little article today on voting-machine paranoia: One is Georgia, where all the votes in 2002 were cast on Diebold screens. The sitting Democratic senator and (to general astonishment) governor were both defeated in the election. Nine of Diebold’s 12 directors are listed as Republican donors. The…

  • Bob Weir was outvoted. Joel

    Bob Weir was outvoted. Joel Selvin covers the changes in Grateful Dead-land today: The decision to change the group’s name was not unanimous. “At least a couple of the guys really wanted to do it,” said Dead guitarist Bob Weir. “I think it’s a bit premature. I was just fine being the Other Ones. If…

  • You haff your papers?

    Ken Layne is concerned that airlines may be dropping the ID check at the gate. He calls it “one of the only sane security checks—is the guy with the boarding pass the same guy who cleared the first security gate?” John Gilmore sees it the opposite way. He points out that “People in the US…