It’s a new week, so a new page up at Wanderlost. Ongoing back and computer problems pretty much keep posts to this blog limited to a weekly basis. So let me take this opportunity to unload random shit that’s been bugging me. Isn’t that what blogs are for? The NY Times recently reported what any [...]
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October 27th, 2010 · No Comments
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“Iranian Threat” – Don’t Question It
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Iran is a threat because Washington says so. Certainly, WaPo accepts the charge at face value: Iran’s ambitions, which have cast a long shadow over the greater Middle East, may serve as a common bond keeping a frail peace process intact despite threats that have arisen even before the negotiations open Thursday at the State [...]
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Bouncers at the Club Door
August 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Yup. Yet this is hypocrisy to which we’ve grown so accustomed that nobody seems to notice it any more. The nuclear club is meant to be exclusive. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty recognises the five permanent members of the UN security council as “nuclear weapons states”, committing them to act as bouncers at the club door. [...]
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Not a Withdrawal
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments
The story of U.S. counterinsurgency “success” and military withdrawal is a bed-time tale told to put the American public to sleep. So argues Hannah Gurman in a Salon piece that punctures several propaganda balloons floated by the ObamAdmin, GOP and Dem hawks, and the usual right-thinkers among the commentariat. Here is one to keep in [...]
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In Case You Didn’t Hear it the First Kabillion Times….
July 27th, 2010 · No Comments
So the ObamAdmin’s response to the WikiLeaks papers: “We are in this region of the world because of what happened on 9/11,” Mr. Gibbs said. “Ensuring that there is not a safe haven in Afghanistan by which attacks against this country and countries around the world can be planned. That’s why we’re there, and that’s [...]
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We Will Fight the Heathens
July 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Taliban claims to have captured two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, while U.S. missiles kill 16 “militants” in Northwest Pakistan. Meanwhile my kids’ school district is cutting over a hundred jobs and consolidating schools. Unemployment remains at about 10 percent (which translate up to 16 percent, at least) when it took Congress 7 weeks to [...]
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The Point is What?
June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
Oh, Daily Beast, you are a wonder. When I tire of the right wing war blather, there you are, serving up the liberal equivalent. But first, I agree with Atrios — Peter Beinart has a point: Last summer, he tried to split the difference—surging in Afghanistan while simultaneously pledging to retreat on the theory that [...]
Help! The President’s Dick is IN DANGER!
June 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
ONOZ. Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge on why [McChrystal] must be fired—and how Obama is in danger of becoming a wuss. Not a wuss! At first I thought this choice of words came from the Daily Beast editors, no strangers to crass and reductionist language. For most of the column, Hoge himself takes the long [...]
Wanderlost Page Up … and Feiffer
May 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Click to read the whole thing. Glad to update Wanderlost on time for once. I disrupt Sheldon’s escapism with some hard truths coming from home. I hope it isn’t too maudlin. Thank goodness for Tuvia to provide a punchline of sorts. Speaking of neurotic comics, CNN has a profile of Jules Feiffer to publicize his [...]
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Weasel Column
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments
I hate opinion pieces like these. Peter Beinart advances the useless notion that President Obama’s address to the West Point Academy wasn’t stirring enough: Obama is clearly trying to ensure that the Afghan war no longer be run on a blank check. That’s why he famously brought OMB Director Peter Orszag to be photographed at [...]



