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July 1, 2010
Why Does Trig Matter? Ctd
A reader writes:
As a woman and a mother I am deeply offended by your reader's suggestion that Sarah Palin ought to be given privacy about whether she really gave birth to Trig because "women lie about pregnancy/birth/parentage all the time." Give me a frickin' break. If a woman lies to her mate about whether she's carrying his child, that's between them. But if Sarah Palin lied about giving birth to Trig and then goes around talking about his birth in her book and in speeches, that's a...
Palin-Johnston Feud Update
Mercede responds to Bristol's Facebook musings:
I am also NOT on food stamps! And that was an unnecessarily ugly thing to say.
Facebook - Recreation - Collecting - Bristol - Bristol Palin
Politics As Total War, Ctd
I should add that this is not always on one side of the political equation. This story - about a gay journalist infiltrating a private therapy group in order to out and expose a conflicted minister - is just as disgusting a violation and should not have been published, in my view. Why? Because if a twelve-step group's confidentiality is violated, then all bets are off. No hypocrisy was involved. But if the paper also offered a reward for others to infiltrate such counseling sessions in order ...
If Krugman Is Right
David Frum fears that Paul Krugman's doubts about the strength of the recovery are justified. But David is not convinced that a second stimulus is the answer:
If Krugman's direct government expenditure is not a very good policyanswer, his dire economic warning remains a haunting policy question.What can we do to accelerate economic growth and job creation? Forthose of us on the free-market side of the debate, the question is evenmore haunting: What's our countervailing idea? And if...
Malkin Award Nominee
REPORT:
GOOGLE to pay gay employees more than straights... - Drudge.
The reality:
As it is now, Mountain View-based Google offers benefits to the spouses or partners of both straight and gay employees. However, the married straight employees don't get taxed on those extra benefits -- but the gay employees do as part of the federal laws.The pay raise will be retroactive to the beginning of 2010 and will apply only to employees in the U.S. Heterosexual employees with long-term partners won't...
The NYT: We Changed Reality Because Cheney Wanted Us To
An amazing admission from a NYT spokesman:
"As the debate over interrogation of terror suspects grew post-9/11, defenders of the practice (including senior officials of the Bush administration) insisted that it did not constitute torture. When using a word amounts to taking sides in a political dispute, our general practice is to supply the readers with the information to decide for themselves. Thus we describe the practice vividly, and we point out that it is denounced by international...
Another Reason To Love Dogs, Ctd
A reader writes:
They fetch.
Hosting - Web Design and Development - Free - Object-Oriented - Sports Related
"Make A Bomb In The Kitchen Of Your Mom"
Ambinder gets his hands on a copy of al Qaeda's first English-language magazine. Massie follows up:
Ambinder says the US is a little worried by AQ's publishing ambitions,
not least because they're aimed at native English-speakers. And perhaps
they're right. Nevertheless, this sort of caper also makes AQ seem
somewhat ridiculous and, really, rather like a kind of terrorist
version of Alan Partridge or something.
Al-Qaeda - English language - Alan Partridge - Terrorism - Magazin...
The Legacy Media And Torture, Ctd
Adam Serwer's on the cowardice of the American press differs from mine:
I think it's actually the conventions of journalism that are at
fault here. As soon as Republicans started quibbling over the
definition of torture, traditional media outlets felt compelled to
treat the issue as a "controversial" matter, and in order to appear as
though they weren't taking a side, media outlets treated the issue as
unsettled, rather than confronting a blatant falsehood.
But this doesn't work...
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