Tom Tomorrow got his hands on a declassified slide presentation given to Bush and Rumsfeld by the US Central Command in the Fall of 2002.Some notable excerpts:-By Spring of 2005, they expected to have 25,000 troops left in Iraq.-By the end of 2006, they expected only...
Adieu. That was painfully drawn out....Indeed:But to comprehend his doomed-ness and what to make of it, one needs to step back. Why was he given the job in the first.
Douglas Kmiec. Answer to title question: "No. No, they can't."
Not to put too fine a point to it, but zoos are depressing, y'all.Alaska's only elephant had to be hoisted to her feet for the second time in a week, renewing concerns about the health of the 7,500-pound animal.Maggie was down for six or seven hours...
Ann Friedman, despite being a figment of my imagination, points us to this piece by the mythical Katha Pollitt:The video, originally posted on jebar.info, a Kurdish website, is now plastered.
( . . . for anyone who thought this post title was clever, it was -- when Scott first used it back in November . . . My bad!)The laughing-stock.
This thread reminds me to finally get around to articulating the following principle:As a discussion thread on a liberal blog grows longer, the probability of a troll indulging his (or, in rare cases, her) consuming obsession with Amanda Marcotte irrespective of her relevance to the thread...
Thers quotes the first half of the Scalia quote approvingly cited by Ann Althouse. I'd like to deal with the second:"What Shakespeare is to the high school English student," Scalia.
On Air America's website, the brilliant Mark Green (the newest incompetent owner) has an open comments thread so you can let him know what a great job he's doing. I.
This is a very good list, granting that #4 should probably be #1. Becks offers a good alternate suggestion. I would like to add this, which courtesy of Rob and frequent commenter JRD remains the greatest joke gift of all time. (And yes it does consist...
Some international relations analysts worry that the Bush regime has destroyed the prospects for nation-building. It's a variant of the "Iraq syndrome."Never fear, however, Bush allies have solved the problem:.
So Wolfie is now holed up in his office with a shotgun and a year's supply of Twinkies, and he's not coming out without a deal, ya stinkin' pigs.Meantime, Rick.