If conservatives seem ridiculously hyperbolic about what the public option does and does not do–it does not, for example, increase costs (it could decrease them) or mean a government takeover of health care–some progressives have been a bit confused about what a public option might actually accomplish. Here’s Ezra Klein, who has established himself as [...]
Not as bad as we seem to think, argues Peter Bergen, who knows a lot about the place. Which is not to say that we shouldn’t be concerned about the current trajectory–and, above all, the possibility that average Afghans won’t consider the Karzai government legitimate, given the flagrant examples of fraud we’ve heard about in [...]
There’s a depressing sameness to them, but these kinds of stories can’t be told often enough. Today, the Washington Post has a front-page look at yet another:
He had to go, no question. And it wasn’t just that he signed a “truther” petition, which suggested–ridiculously–active Bush Administration complicity in the events of September 11, 2001. (I believe there was Bush culpability, but it was passive–a consequence of Dick Cheney’s inability to understand or credit the Al Qaeda threat, despite vehement warnings from [...]
…from the master William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath’rin’. And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him As they rode him in custody down to the station And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder. [...]
Juan Cole has a post up about the most requested books at the Guantanamo prison library: 1. Harry Potter books 2. Don Quixote 3. Dream From My Father by Barack Obama Two reactions: How long before Glenn Beck makes something of this? And…Don Quixote?
