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My goal with "Dr. P's Words ..." is to create an exo-toxic meme. As a personality, he's a bit inside the beltway, but breaking Rove, Wolfowitz, etc. into mass culture, revealing the men behind the curtain, should be a goal of anti-neos. Just yesterday David S. Broder advised in an oped that his friend Rove keep a low profile.
The good doc's words made a little headway towards meme-dom today with a link from bartcop E!
At least there's something buzzing in there.
I ran across this while chasing down some Wolfowitz links at Eurolegal.
January 16, 1997
ALBERT WOHLSTETTER, R.I.P.
In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, editor Robert L. Bartley took note of Wohlstetter’s death by reprinting a 1991 account of his long association with Wohlstetter. It gave only hints of the extraordinary role Albert played during the most critical years of the Cold War, which was then just coming to an end. It did point out that two of the most public men of the last three decades who have been identified with shaping strategic counterforce policy, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, were Albert’s protégés. If you would connect the dots to others who were under Wohlstetter’s spell, you would soon find the late Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, Senator Robert Dole, and in London, Margaret Thatcher. For all practical purposes, every editorial on America’s geopolitical strategy that appeared in The Wall Street Journal during the last 25 years was the product of Albert’s genius. If Henry Kissinger was the principal leader of the "dove team" in foreign policy over much of this period, stressing diplomatic strategems, Wohlstetter was the undisputed leader of the "hawk team," which stressed military moves of breathtaking creativity and imagination.
six eye columbia
Just in case you want to live it all over again: 20 days in spring 2003. Download the pdf or click the arrow for the web version. I don't know what to think about it really. Some nice graphic work for sure. (via environy)
Total lunar eclipse on Thursday night. If it's clear, we'll have a good view from north eastern U.S.
John Horgan makes the case for therapeutic (and other) uses of psychedelics. Kind of surprising fare for the stuffy Slate.
Wasn't someone (Bruno?) wondering if google had any misspellings of a word that returned more hits than the correct spelling? I can't find the original question. But anyway, along with some other interesting misspelling info, this post finds such a case: the incorrect "transexual" (2860k results) is the more common than the correct spelling of "transsexual" (1660k results.)
The suppressed story of the broadcast feed from the carrier Abraham Lincoln being altered in real time earlier this week during the President's bravura visit. ;-)
faith popcorn - we got your trends
In my little Syria project, there are many stories that get a rise out of me, but sometimes there's one that just seems surreal.
Thought this was sort of interesting: newspaper circulation numbers. I can't believe the Daily News is bigger than the Post.
the next best thing to the cat psychic, and she's right here in nyc. rex's troubles may soon be over.
Happy Birthday Jim, Right?
While doing my usual trolling for Syria, Lebanon, Hezbollah and Hizbulla in news.google.com, I came across an interesting article. And then it disappeared. But I managed to catch the full text of the original before it vanished.
Friday afternoon: UPI -- Rice blocked plan for raids on Syria
Fiday 7:54 PM: UPI -- Rice actions on Syria disputed
had to clip this one from gawker stalker --
Sunday afternoon, Paul Simon and Lorne Michaels walking together in Central Park, listening to the annoying 'Guitar Man from Central Park' peform Simon's own 'Homeward Bound.'
warblogs being covered on newshour, ch 13
The rock at the root of the tree.
WFMU www.wfmu.org
91.1 fm, 90.1fm
Rocket From the Tombs
June 10th
3-6pm
Brian Turner's show
Only recently have legit recordings surfaced from this legendary Cleveland
70s proto-punk gang, and 27 years after they broke up, they're in the WFMU
studios playing live yet again. They're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, but they're responsible for undeniable punk classics like "Sonic
Reducer", "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" and "Ain't It Fun" (covered by Guns and
Roses for crying out loud). Richard Lloyd of Television takes over guitar
duties for the late Peter Laughner, and David Thomas (visionary of Pere
Ubu among other things), Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys), Steve Mehlman and Craig
Bell are all in the WFMU studio today, fresh from a jawdropping appearance
at Thomas's Disastodrome fest in L.A. Holy hell.
In case you missed it.
They sure don't make treehouses like they used to.
felice bryant passed on too. she co-wrote a slew of songs for the everly brothers and others. she is probably best known for "rocky top" a tune about a fictional mountain in Tennessee, once described to me as the "proud mary" of blue grass numbers. I'm constantly blown away when this happens, belatedly putting a face on music written in the 20c that seemed to have been around forever in its perfection.
"With inconsolable sadness we let you know that Dr. NINA SIMONE has passed away."