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August 5, 2010
Face Of The Day
A Japanese girl holds candle to pray for victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome (background) at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on August 5, 2010. The Japanese western city will mark the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic attack on August 6. By Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images.
Hiroshima - Nuclear weapon - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park - Japan - Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Gay-Baiting At Drudge
For a very long time now, the Drudge Report has called Janet Napolitano "Big Sis." Fair enough, I guess, as a variant on Big Bro, but the lesbian inference is pretty clear. In case it isn't completely clear, here's how the site portrays a story that some police agencies in Florida had stored body scanning images at a court house:
The Drudge headline: "Big Sis Admits Storing Naked Body Scans". The story, however, contains this quote:
TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz told CNET on Wednesday that...
Israel's Bubbles
A fascinating conversation with Benjamin Kerstein over at Totten's that emphasizes the psychological forces at work in Israel that impede any reconciliation with the Palestinians. I disagree with the notion that the US should not and cannot demand a freeze of the illegal settlements on the West Bank - or that this is so utopian it cannot be taken seriously. But there's a lot of nuance in the discussion - and candor. Money quote:
MJT: What do you think will happen here if Iran gets nuclear...
A Daughter Grizzly?
Michelle Cottle perks up:
I'd written off young Bristol as too tiresome even for late-nighttabloid reading, a throwaway quote from her lawyer in Wednesday's WaPomade me reassess her whole relationship with Levi. Offering hisarmchair analysis of the love bird's most recent troubles (beyondJohnston's being a juicy slice of trailer trash, of course), attorney Rex Butlermused: "[Bristol:] doesn't want him in Hollywood. … She wants him tosort of be like Todd Palin in the background while she does...
Paul Rudd: Behind The Laughter
Paul Rudd: Bat Mitzvah DJ from Jewish Forward on Vimeo.
Winning The Wrong Way?
Allahpundit, who supports marriage equality, doesn't like the Prop 8 decision:
If the goal of gay-rights activists is to make same-sex marriagepalatable to the public, then embittering opponents by torpedoing ahard-fought democratic victory seems like … an odd way to go about it.The response to that will be that equality can't wait, just as itcouldn't wait vis-a-vis school desegregation in the 1950s. Except that(a) no one, including gay-marriage supporters, seriously believes thatthe harm...
Why Didn't Maggie Take The Stand?
Jason Kuznicki is still amazed at "how extraordinarily weak the expert testimony for the defense was" in the Prop 8 case:
I asked myself — couldn't they have gotten Maggie Gallagher to testify?She comes across as reasonable most of the time. She might have offeredone of her frequent catch phrases, that societies that "lose themarriage idea" die out. As a sound bite, it's frightening and oftenconvincing. But at trial, she'd have been asked the obvious follow-upquestion — name just one such...
Mental Health Break
Rajnikanth, the Chuck Norris of India:
Mental health - Health - Oceania - Australia - Web Design and Development
What Broke The Senate? Ctd
Douthat pushes back against Packer:
Liberal commentators often point out that this White House's approvalratings — and, by extension, its legislative agenda — are hostages tothe unemployment rate. That's true, up to a point. But it's also truethat the Obama White House placed a bet,on the policy substance and politics alike, when it made the stimuluspackage the centerpiece of its response to the recession. And havinglost that bet, they've arguably been fortunate that more of theirlegislative...
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