Quiddity Quack diagrams the Project for the New American Century.
ugh.
(ugh directed at PNAC, not QQ)
Sunday, February 02, 2003
Eric Alterman's book comes out Tuesday. You can buy it here.
You can read the first chapter at the website.
You can read the first chapter at the website.
The Very Stylish Mary Rosh
Ms. Rosh makes the Style section. I thought the article bent over backwards to be fair to Lott.
And, Julian Sanchez tells us that US News will have another article soon.
Tom Spencer, Kieran Healy, Tim Lambert, and Mark Kleiman all have comments.
For those who think this is all about one survey, or an amusing tale of cross-dressing virtual onanism, now would be a good time to go read Tim Lambert's Lotts of Errors.
And, Julian Sanchez tells us that US News will have another article soon.
Tom Spencer, Kieran Healy, Tim Lambert, and Mark Kleiman all have comments.
For those who think this is all about one survey, or an amusing tale of cross-dressing virtual onanism, now would be a good time to go read Tim Lambert's Lotts of Errors.
Stupid Intelligence
It isn't just the fact that they're lying, it's also that they're shifting resources to try and prove that the square peg really does go into the round hole instead of actually trying to track down real terrorists. Incompetent dangerous bastards.
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At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's network. "We've been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said.
Three Jewish Guys go to Iowa
It's shaping up to be an almost all Jewish democratic primary! (well, sort of).
Kerry:
For years, US Senator John Forbes Kerry had sought to know the true story of his immigrant grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry, the patriarch who established the family in Boston and then mysteriously took his own life.
The senator searched phone books and the Internet and quizzed his cousins, but he was only able to learn fragments of family history.
The story, it turns out, began in a small town in the Czech Republic that once was part of the Austrian empire. Birth records there show that Frederick A. Kerry was born as Fritz Kohn to Jewish parents, according to a genealogy specialist hired by the Globe. Kohn changed his name to Kerry around 1902 and emigrated to the United States in 1905, eventually moving to Boston.
Clark:
Raised a Southern Baptist by his mother in Little Rock — his father died when he was 4, and his mother remarried — Clark is the grandson of a Jew, Jacob Nemerovsky, who escaped from the pogroms of Czarist Russia in about 1894-95. He remembers his father, Benjamin Kanne, a lawyer who served in Chicago's Corporation Counsel, as "a happy man who loved life." Still, it wasn't until he was in his 20s that Clark learned that he descends from "generations of rabbis" from Minsk, as he told the Forward in a telephone interview. "We did a genealogy," he said. He keeps in touch with a large Jewish family dispersed from Georgia to California.
And, of course, Lieberman.
Don't forget Mrs. Howard Dean!
Kerry:
For years, US Senator John Forbes Kerry had sought to know the true story of his immigrant grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry, the patriarch who established the family in Boston and then mysteriously took his own life.
The senator searched phone books and the Internet and quizzed his cousins, but he was only able to learn fragments of family history.
The story, it turns out, began in a small town in the Czech Republic that once was part of the Austrian empire. Birth records there show that Frederick A. Kerry was born as Fritz Kohn to Jewish parents, according to a genealogy specialist hired by the Globe. Kohn changed his name to Kerry around 1902 and emigrated to the United States in 1905, eventually moving to Boston.
Clark:
Raised a Southern Baptist by his mother in Little Rock — his father died when he was 4, and his mother remarried — Clark is the grandson of a Jew, Jacob Nemerovsky, who escaped from the pogroms of Czarist Russia in about 1894-95. He remembers his father, Benjamin Kanne, a lawyer who served in Chicago's Corporation Counsel, as "a happy man who loved life." Still, it wasn't until he was in his 20s that Clark learned that he descends from "generations of rabbis" from Minsk, as he told the Forward in a telephone interview. "We did a genealogy," he said. He keeps in touch with a large Jewish family dispersed from Georgia to California.
And, of course, Lieberman.
Don't forget Mrs. Howard Dean!
Saturday, February 01, 2003
Avedon Carol tells us about the problems with voting machines.
This is a big one folks. I don't care which party could be doing this - electronic voting makes it easy to commit massive electoral fraud with no oversight. Creepy.
This is a big one folks. I don't care which party could be doing this - electronic voting makes it easy to commit massive electoral fraud with no oversight. Creepy.
Persephone
Let me recommend my good friend Ooba's Gothic Romantic clothing business. Gets the Atrios Seal of Approval.
....there's also some very nice and affordable jewelery. Valentine's day is coming up!
....there's also some very nice and affordable jewelery. Valentine's day is coming up!
Can it for a day
What he said - and its more general implication.
You know - seven people died today. It's tragic. It's upset me - I've made that clear. But, I've also lived abroad when other countries have experienced their own tragedies. The US news coverage of them was frequently nonexistent. This sort of comment isn't simply inappropriate, it also demonstrates profound ignorance.
Tim Dunlop has related comments.
You know - seven people died today. It's tragic. It's upset me - I've made that clear. But, I've also lived abroad when other countries have experienced their own tragedies. The US news coverage of them was frequently nonexistent. This sort of comment isn't simply inappropriate, it also demonstrates profound ignorance.
Tim Dunlop has related comments.
I was gone for the day due to circumstances mostly beyond my control. Aside from the initial forgetting my keys part, anyway. But, probably the best. Wasn't much in the mood to be shuttle disaster central, nor was I much in the mood to go back to our regularly scheduled programming.
To those who think it's inappropriate to mourn some lives more than others - well, it's the only way we can mourn at all.
UPDATE: The Goblin Queen does a pretty good job of expressing why these few might get our attention. I started to write something along those lines, but didn't do very well so I gave up.
To those who think it's inappropriate to mourn some lives more than others - well, it's the only way we can mourn at all.
UPDATE: The Goblin Queen does a pretty good job of expressing why these few might get our attention. I started to write something along those lines, but didn't do very well so I gave up.
Damn
NASA has lost contact with the Shuttle.
CNN showing footage of re-entry which doesn't look good.
Appears to have broken up on re-entry. Unconfirmed reports of loud crash in Texas.
CBS has reported that in one of the last communications the crew radioed that they were getting insane tire pressure readings on the landing gear.
CNN showing footage of re-entry which doesn't look good.
Appears to have broken up on re-entry. Unconfirmed reports of loud crash in Texas.
CBS has reported that in one of the last communications the crew radioed that they were getting insane tire pressure readings on the landing gear.
Who puts the AA in AARLC?
Gene Weingarten tries to discover the truth about the African-American republican Leadership Council. This is an hilarious column.
Our media should be ashamed of themselves for providing a platform to organizations like this. In the endless pursuit of 'balance' they regularly pit, say, a spokeswoman from NOW, an organization with thousands of members and against a spokeswoman from Concerned Women for America, and organization with few actual members but big donors. Just say no to Republican front groups! Particularly ones as bigoted as the CWFA. They're hideous.
You can go and check out the hilarious AARLC website here. Don't miss the advisory panel.
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Still, it left me with a question. So I phoned the man identified as the group's political spokesman, Kevin L. Martin. Kevin had been quoted in the media a great deal in December, offering the opinion that Lott was railroaded and should be forgiven.
I told him that I enjoyed the site, but found myself puzzled by only one thing.
"What's that?" he asked.
"The African American Republican Leadership Council," I said, "does not appear to feature African Americans."
Our media should be ashamed of themselves for providing a platform to organizations like this. In the endless pursuit of 'balance' they regularly pit, say, a spokeswoman from NOW, an organization with thousands of members and against a spokeswoman from Concerned Women for America, and organization with few actual members but big donors. Just say no to Republican front groups! Particularly ones as bigoted as the CWFA. They're hideous.
You can go and check out the hilarious AARLC website here. Don't miss the advisory panel.
Punctured Bowel? Only a Flesh Wound
Roger Ailes gives us more about the doctor who was used as Bush's prop to push malpractice reform, which we first saw here.
But, leaving aside bashing Dr. Baker, this does raise the following question - how screwed up must the malpractice insurance market be if one state is offering it for $8,000 and another for $200,000?
There is likely an obvious answer which no one seems to be talking about. In fact, there was enough not talking about it that I hadn't even realized it until a few days ago - the insurance industry is exempt from federal anti-trust regulation.
Repeal that exemption. Or, simply cap the rates. Problem solved.
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Dr. Denise Baker of Bradenton sat behind first lady Laura Bush Tuesday night as President Bush asked Congress to limit medical malpractice awards in "frivolous lawsuits."
Baker said lawsuits against her were partially to blame for higher insurance rates that forced her to quit delivering babies. She has settled four malpractice claims since 1998, totaling more than $600,000.
Bradenton resident Bill Bartram and his wife, Phyllis, filed one of those lawsuits.
"Frivolous? (My wife) almost died," said Bartram, 61. He and his 55-year-old wife settled their suit in December 2000.
"My wife has a scar on her stomach as big as a fist," after an operation in 1998 in which her bowel was punctured, Bartram said. Bartram said he saw Baker's picture in the paper Wednesday and was outraged.
"I'm a Democrat, but I think the Republicans are putting politics in their medicine without checking out their doctors," he said.
In an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, Baker referred to none of her patients by name, but she described a case in which she slightly punctured a woman's bowel during laparoscopic surgery.
Mainly because of those claims, Baker's annual insurance premiums rose from $58,000 to $200,000 last year, she said.
Instead of moving to another state, where she could get coverage for about $8,000 a year, Baker kept her gynecology practice in Bradenton.
But, leaving aside bashing Dr. Baker, this does raise the following question - how screwed up must the malpractice insurance market be if one state is offering it for $8,000 and another for $200,000?
There is likely an obvious answer which no one seems to be talking about. In fact, there was enough not talking about it that I hadn't even realized it until a few days ago - the insurance industry is exempt from federal anti-trust regulation.
Repeal that exemption. Or, simply cap the rates. Problem solved.
Defining racism down to the basement...
Apparently, expressing objections to interracial marriage is simply expressing a 'controversial opinion.'
You know, I love the power of the Middle 'C' and all, but there's something really wrong when this site is the #7 when you search google for "Emmett Till."
OOPS: Update - A reader notes the incoming search page had me at 117, not 7. That makes a lot more sense.
OOPS: Update - A reader notes the incoming search page had me at 117, not 7. That makes a lot more sense.
Eschaton Flashback
Someone in my comments recently jokingly used the term 'Saddamite.' I doubt I coined the term, but I believe I did once find the best use for it - when referring to Fred Phelps' trips to Iraq.
Here's Fred's love letter to Saddam:
We understand that Iraq is the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets without fear of arrest and prosecution. Alas, the United States no longer allows the Gospel to be freely and openly preached on the streets, because militant sodomites now control our government, and they violently object to the Bible message...The same majoritarian sodomite tyranny that now guides the Clinton administration's repressive policies toward Gospel preaching on America's streets, is apparently responsible -- at least in part -- for the merciless slaughter by starvation of 400 innocent Iraqi babies each day in your country. If our government and laws will allow it, and at the invitation of your government, we would like to send a delegation from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, to preach the Gospel on the streets of Baghdad for one week in the near future."
-- Fred Phelps, in a letter to Saddam Hussein,
November 30, 1997
to which I responded: Does this mean that Fred Phelps is a Saddamite?
Well, I thought it was funny...
Here's a picture of Fred 's gang doing the Lord's work in Baghdad.
Here's Fred's love letter to Saddam:
We understand that Iraq is the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets without fear of arrest and prosecution. Alas, the United States no longer allows the Gospel to be freely and openly preached on the streets, because militant sodomites now control our government, and they violently object to the Bible message...The same majoritarian sodomite tyranny that now guides the Clinton administration's repressive policies toward Gospel preaching on America's streets, is apparently responsible -- at least in part -- for the merciless slaughter by starvation of 400 innocent Iraqi babies each day in your country. If our government and laws will allow it, and at the invitation of your government, we would like to send a delegation from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, to preach the Gospel on the streets of Baghdad for one week in the near future."
-- Fred Phelps, in a letter to Saddam Hussein,
November 30, 1997
to which I responded: Does this mean that Fred Phelps is a Saddamite?
Well, I thought it was funny...
Here's a picture of Fred 's gang doing the Lord's work in Baghdad.
Navel Gazing
Hey, 300,000 sitemeter determined 'unique visits' for January.
But, as long as Andrew Sullivan gets more visits than me the terrorists are winning!
But, as long as Andrew Sullivan gets more visits than me the terrorists are winning!
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