September 2007
5 posts
Forging The Truth
Sidney Blumenthal writes of Dan Rather’s lawsuit vs. CBS in Salon yesterday:
“In making his case, Rather will certainly establish beyond reasonable doubt that George W. Bush never completed his required service in the Texas Air National Guard. Moreover, Rather’s suit will seek to demonstrate that the documents used in his “60 Minutes II” piece were not inauthentic...
We've Only Just Begun
With apologies to The Carpenters’ sublime sense of melancholy…
This is our stupendous narcissism at work:
“America Number One!”
We’re not leaving… no matter what any politician says.
Open As They Wanna Be
The whole idea of what constitutes being “open” in this crazy mixed-up world of software and operating systems, is, like so many things, so much more a matter of perspective, pragmatism, execution and context than many may consider. It seems to be a conventional wisdom of sorts that Windows has always been (and still is) more “open” than the Mac, despite how easily this...
Hope, Memory And Rage
I can’t think of anything more crucial to keep in my mind on this anniversary of September 11th than the hope that we will all remember how our national tragedy was so blatently exploited as justification for the needless destruction of human life in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last four years. How can we not all be absolutely incensed with rage over the biggest lie of them all? Why are we...
Jesus Campers
The other night, my wife and I freaked ourselves out watching Jesus Camp. Well worth a viewing, especially in light of the recent “revelations” (pun intended!) about Ted Haggard and Larry Craig. It seems the evangelical, psyche is basically a vicious cycle of child abuse. Sinead O’ Conner was right!