Over at the Washington Post David Ignatius, has a great essay on Obama’s political faults vs. Obama’s management style. I agree with Ignatius on most of this but suggest that the word “covert” is misplaced. Dick Chaney was a covert commander in chief. Barack Obama is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
September 7th, 2011 - 11:27 pm § in Politics
Seattle Times Dumb Stand on “E-cigarettes”
Ed The Seattle Times, with all the factual fiction that can fit, is now on the hobby horse to ban “e-cigarettes. ” I smoke (we call it “vape” )an excellent e-cigarette called a JOYE. My Joye is wonderful, contains no carcinogens, puts out a harmless vapor flavored with such e[...]
September 2nd, 2011 - 9:10 am § in America
Where are the tramps?
Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 6/24/11 | Berkeley Blog One image of the Great Depression was of the tramps, the hobos drifting from town to town. Folk singer Woody Guthrie sang many a lyric on the theme, such as “the highway that’s our home / It’s a never-ending highway / For a dust [...]
The Universe Is Getting Stranger
Anti-matter! In space!, from Pharygula Science fiction dreams may come true: a small, thin band of stable anti-matter has been discovered near Earth. It was predicted theoretically, but now emissions from the annihilation of these particles has been observed. The existence of a significant flux of a[...]
An Arab View of Bachmann
Ayoon Wa Azan (I Fear That While Her Gaffes Affect America, Her Sins Shall Affect Our Own Countries) Wed, 13 July 2011 Jihad el-Khazen Six months separate us from the first primary elections to choose the Republican Party’s presidential candidate. The contenders for the nomination are many. Howeve[...]
The UW in Comments at the Seattle Times
A colleague on the AAUP Listserve bemoans the criticism he finds in comments on the blog run by the Seattle Times,. I think my colleague is worried about the wrong problem. The Times itself is a relic, a wrecked ship afloat on the remains of Blethen family fortunes. The website is likely better [...]
A Tolly Story
Some of you may know that we own and have restored the Aquila, a beautiful 1981 34 ft Tollycaft Tricabin. Tolly is the builder of our boat and a hero to many of us. At 100 years old, he is quite an amazing man. If you do not boat, however, you may not understand our […][...]
May 16th, 2011 - 12:04 am § in America
Faux Fox Phacts About Climate Change
from Media Matters 1. Global warming “doesn’t exist” 2. 2009 was “the coldest year on record” 3. “Nearly all of the [Arctic] ice has returned” 4. “How can there be global warming if it’s snowing and it’s bitterly cold?” 5. “The [...]
May 10th, 2011 - 10:03 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Salman Rushdie: perhaps the time has come to declare Pakistan a terrorist state and expel it from the comity of nations.
Are we really supposed to believe that Pakistan didn’t know Osama bin Laden was living there for five years? Salman Rushdie from the Daily Beast, excerpted: Osama bin Laden died on Walpurgisnacht, the night of black sabbaths and bonfires. Not an inappropriate night for the Chief Witch to fall off [...]