David Adesnik at OxBlog reports that his neighbors across the street have seen the Union Jack displayed in his window and responded with a big “Stop the War” sign. He comments:
While bigger is often better, I think the folks in no. 32 have embarrassed themselves and their cause by putting up a sign distributed by […]
George Kennan has a brief letter in the Washington Post today:
I am extremely concerned about the shameful, almost total passivity of Congress during the period of preparations for our military attack on Iraq. (I recognize as exceptions Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s noble statement in the Senate [In Brief, March 20] and the belated but […]
A passing mention from Cursor.org led to more than 20,000 hits, or about 7,000 unique referrals, from that site yesterday. I hadn’t heard of Cursor.org before. They’re worth checking out.
Here’s an excerpt from an interview by CNN’s Aaron Brown yesterday. He is talking to Hafez Al-Miraz, the chief Washington correspondent for Al Jazeera.
BROWN: Look, I’ll play this as directly as I can. Explain to me the rationale that your network had for displaying what can only be described as the most gruesome of […]
A new batch of books for the Reading List to the right. San Francisco has some very good bookstores, by the way.
Let me sing the praises again of MTAmazon, the Movable Type plugin that makes it trivial to switch out the books on the list. It’s great. And if you buy one of these […]
Over at the Volokhs, Philippe de Croy congratulates the New York Times’ editorial judgment in moving Frank Rich to the Arts & Leisure section. Coincidentally, the Head Conspirator has been exercising a little editorial judgment of his own, sending Clayton Cramer back to his own blog, after an exceedingly brief tenure as a contributor. In […]
Always wanted to say that. And it’s true! I’m back at home in my new role as a respectable married man.
I strongly second most of Jim Henley’s observations about What He Won’t Be Doing now the war has started. (It’s about time Jim got added to the blogroll, incidentally.) The efforts of Sean-Paul Kelley […]
Though Glenn Reynolds has a strong desire to believe the anti-war movement is dying (as evidence he cites the small size of the anti-war protest in that traditional protest-flashpoint of Knoxville today), your typical San Francisco resident is likely to tell you that anti-war sentiment is alive and well and blocking his commute. This […]
William Saletan’s brief observation about self-defense and aggression is worth reading.
I was just reading the first chapter of Albert Hirschman’s Shifting Involvements, which I picked up this morning, when I heard President Bush’s short announcement. As it happens, Hirschman has this to say about war:
Modern wars are such overpowering events that they make greater attention to public affairs virtually compulsory, but their outbreak is usually […]
It’s probably morally wrong to blog on your honeymoon (Laurie and I got married on Monday) but what can I say? I wanted some news on the impending war, but our hotel room has no TV. On a whim, I turned on my PowerBook and checked to see if there were any open wireless access […]
Here’s a St Patrick’s day weekend/ blogging/ media convergence. Stephen McKinley’s this story in the Irish Echo is all about blogging. I get quoted, along with MIck Fealty of Slugger O’Toole. They didn’t spell my name properly, alas, but I suppose that’s the price of fame.
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