drat fink
View current page
...more recent posts
Sunday, Aug 29, 2004
protest music
morning spy musings:
Saturday, Aug 28, 2004
umm, unconventional thinking?
"The art and design of political conventions are advancing before our eyes. The old forms are breaking up. The stage is literally coming apart. New ideas are emerging in how to "carry" the convention to the rest of the nation-- and how to get people to watch.
The latest news confirms it. Once they built a stage for the convention. And on that stage a raised platform, a dias, with a microphone. This was an idea about authority, and clear sight lines. But some ideas are changing."
chock to the gills
i guess i can try the rheingold swill. i hope their politics match their ads. plus they were the ny mets beer sponsors before schaefer before budweiser. id slag fresh direct but i just got an order this morning.via rheingold beer
truth out (of the way)
i know nobody reads eschaton so ill post this here, too. bob dole only lies while the red light over the camera is blinking, then its back to reality. tv news, a dumb show for idiots.
blame eloise
in case you havent seen it, heres the plaza hotel banner aloft.
che's us
moore guevara tees
iran to get you
this (iran, israel, feith) must have been the big story josh marshall was barking about a few months ago.
aipac of thieves
juan cole delves deep into the israeli spy at the defense department story. jeez, i would hate to see anyone held accountable for this. maybe if there was a purple heart involved.
Friday, Aug 27, 2004
convention
"That brings us back to 1940, and the convention that had it all--the five days in Philadelphia during which the Republicans took six ballots to select a candidate. Not only was the convention exciting, but the stakes were also high: Would this country keep its head in the sands of isolationism, or would it face the menace of Adolf Hitler? "
its rainesing again
"I was not the first, nor will I be the last writer to break his pick on that stone. But in reviewing what I wrote in 1982 after two years of close observation of Reagan on the campaign trail and in the White House, I saw a couple of points that seemed worth revisiting as Reagan's self-appointed heir seeks a second term. I characterised Reagan as a "political primitive" who valued "beliefs over knowledge" based on verifiable facts. The White House spin was that this was a positive in that it represented "rawbone American thinking". I also noted that Reagan had a "high tolerance for ambiguity" as to the outcome of policies that proceeded from such rough-hewn thought.
That strikes me as a different - less troubling - trait than what Brookhiser sees as Bush's refusal to recognise the mere existence of ambiguity. In general, I've come to feel that what we have in George Bush is a shadowy version of Reagan's strengths and an exaggerated version of his intellectual weaknesses."