That seems to be the way things are shaking down in Afghanistan. As Slateman Fred Kaplan notes, when Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta stated, rather offhandedly, on February 1 that “hopefully” the U.S. would be “transitioning” [that is, getting the hell out of Kabul] in 2013, rather than the previously announced/anointed victory year of 2014,…
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Felix Salmon: Suze Orman is a really big, really fat idiot!
Okay, it’s been at least a week since I last made fun of Felix and Suze O, so let’s get with it. Only three weeks ago, Felix wrote “I’m a big fan of Suze Orman.” Look at what he’s writing now: a post that’s headed “Suze Orman’s bad investment newsletter”! “Suze Orman’s bad investment newsletter!”…
Patrick Deneen is better than you are, or at least more pompous
Over at Front Porch Republic, a site that I’ve never visited before and probably won’t visit much again, Georgetown Poli Sci Professor Patrick Deneen announces that he’s leaving G-Town for Notre Dame, saying that “my family and I are looking forward to living in a community that is less hectic and less dazzled by the…
The Washington Post: Not entirely without honor, on occasion
I’ve pretty much lost count of the mean things I’ve said about the Washington Post,* but, by publishing “10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer The Land Of The Free” by George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, the Post has demonstrated that it still feels some obligation to present opposing views. Turley’s eponymous blog…
It was a slam dunk! An upside-down slam dunk!
Was the Bush Admninistration’s invasion of Iraq based on faulty intelligence? No, says Paul R. Pillar, deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center from 1997 to 1999, writing in Foreign Policy online. It was executed in the face of correct intelligence, to wit: “Had Bush read the intelligence community’s report [issued in October 2002], he…
The Obama Murders—Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Thanks be to God that we have a liberal Democrat in the White House! Now gays are allowed to serve freely in the military without shame! Without shame, that is, if they don’t mind being complicit in the Obama Administration’s “Mystery Murder” campaign in Pakistan, which has resulted in the deaths of, well, Janbaz Zadran,…
Chait and Frum, telling the truth all the way to the water’s edge
Over at NYMag, Jonathan Chait, liberal, and David Frum, conservative, take turns talking out of school and dumping on their respective parties. Chait has the easier task, because, as he tells it, it’s only the “liberals” who are out to lunch, but for Frum it’s the whole fucking party (which is totally fucking true). Chait…
Is rape the new toilet paper?
A little background. Back in the early days of the DVD era, I rented a disc with the specials that Rodney Dangerfield did for HBO back in the eighties. After sitting through three or four hours of standup, most of it not by Rodney, I could only imagine that when comedians got together for drinks,…
Rummy’s head revisited
Yesterday I had to eat a little crow after, well, after I crowed over the fact that Donny’s Little Hideaway, aka the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, was going to be abandoned now that all U.S. troops are being pulled out of Iraq, when, in fact, it’s being expanded, at least in terms of staff. I…
The Reagan Myth (Part MCCCLXXVII)
During last night’s Republican debate, Rick Perry, showing remarkable presence of mind when responding to a clip of Ronald Reagan arguing on behalf of higher taxes when coupled with cuts in spending. In his diary, Perry pointed out, Reagan wrote that the Democrats took the tax increases but never delivered on the spending cuts. Of…