Heartbreaking letter from Beirut, via Juan Cole … The AUB hospital sent out an urgent call for blood donations. Others were organizing aid to refugee families housed in schools and other make-shift shelters. A protest against the Israeli bombing has been scheduled for Thursday at 11 am in the city center. Will anyone be listening [...]
A brief word on vitriol. I mentioned in my last post that I sent a note to Josh Marshall the other day, objecting to a point he’d made about the Israeli incursion into Lebanon; and then, incredibly, I accused him of being in favor of murdering civilians. Every time I read over my note, that [...]
Josh Marshall, the brains behind Talking Points Memo, is one of the best things about the blogoverse. He’s smart, deeply knowledgeable, well-spoken, and just way cool. I often trust him to make up my mind for me. But, in a recent post about the Israeli attack on Lebanon, he said this: I think it is [...]
This is being blogged everywhere, but I just can’t resist mentioning it here. Ted Stevens, Senator from Alaska, took it upon himself to describe the Internet to us, in the course of explaining why he’s against Net Neutrality: I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in [...]
I met an angel today, in Target. I was there on important business, toaster over business. The only thing I know how to buy in Target is Advil and Tostitos, so I wondered disconsolately around the first floor for a while, failing to find toaster ovens. This was annoying because I had very important Frappuccino [...]
I admire soccer players. All that endless chasing after balls, kicking balls, hitting balls with your head, letting balls glance off your chest. Doing everything you can possibly do with a ball except the one thing you really want to do: pick the fucking thing up. Seriously, I don’t know how they stand it. It’s [...]
The House rejected the Net Neutrality bill last week, a huge blow to the notion of a free internet and a major notch in the belt of the corporate/government megalith that wants desperately to consume the one true egalitarian institution in this country. What makes this worse is that 58 Democrats voted against the bill [...]
Here’s my problem: I can’t sit and read at the same time. There’s something about stillness that shreds my concentration, just completely shatters my ability to focus. It wasn’t always this way. When I was small, I could inhale books no matter what position my body happened to be in. But then something strange and [...]
Last week I sat through the worst meeting in the world, and survived. It was a perfect cocktail of all the classic ingredients of unbearable meetings: powerpoint slides packed densely with unreadable text; a droning, inflectionless voice on the other end of a conference call reading those slides, verbatim; crushingly dull subject matter; and a [...]
Just came back from watching United 93. When I first heard that they were making this movie, I immediately jumped to lots of conclusions: that it would be exploitative, sentimental, sensationalistic. That it would be a callow vehicle for scoring cheap political points. That it would be hastily thrown together and shoddily, disrespectfully made. I [...]
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