West Bank Story
Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »[youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=1BwwewWGGss]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "West Bank Story", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/west-bank-story/" });
An Oscar Hangover Cure
Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »And now it's time for a bunch of catty nonsense about the Oscars. It's the same bad review every year. It's as if the bitchiness of the red carpet rubs off on everyone: "oh, what a horrible outfit; oh, what ...
It’s Not Evidence of Absence
Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in Evidence, Iran, Of Interest | No Comments »More bogus weapons claims from an administration that has no shame: officials call the best evidence yet that the deadliest roadside bombs in Iraq are manufactured in Iran, but critics contend that the forensic case remains circumstantial and inferential. Sound familiar? We ...
Nietzsche Family Circus of the Day
Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." More here.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nietzsche Family Circus of the Day", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/nietzsche-family-circus-of-the-day/" });
The Iran-Qaeda Scandal
Sunday, February 25th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »I wish they would just make up their minds: To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, ...
But We are Sisters!
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Bill Kristol: You Can’t Just Suddenly Use Force
Sunday, February 25th, 2007 Posted in Iraq, Of Interest, Punditry | No Comments »I just heard Bill Kristol use the phrase "you can't just suddenly use force", talking about Iran and the recent Bush administration rhetoric trying to lay the foundation for a bombing campaign. He said it of course, with that usual smugness: ...
The Persecution of Competence
Sunday, February 25th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest, Torture | No Comments »It's one thing to get rid of people because you want political syncophants, but sometimes one gets the feeling that Bush and Friends simply dislike competence: Internal Justice Department performance reports for six of the eight United States attorneys who have ...
Little Houses
Friday, February 16th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »I want one.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Little Houses", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/little-houses/" });
Gundon
Friday, February 16th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Britain increasingly looks like America: The London Evening Standard reported Friday that Billy Cox was killed in a turf war between rival crack cocaine dealers. It published a photograph of the teenager before his death wearing a pearl-like ear stud and ...
Drew Gilpin Faust
Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Heather MacDonald, whom a reader calls a "right-wing hit-woman", complains about the new president of Harvard: Faust runs one of the most powerful incubators of feminist complaint and nonsensical academic theory in the country I have no idea whether this critique is ...
Pan’s Labyrinth on the Art of Torture
Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in Essays, Torture | No Comments »In Bomber Harris' description of the effect of aerial power on Kurds, and Barry Lando's comparison to Guernica, I am reminded of the recent film by Guillermo Del Toro which has its setting in Franco's Spain. Pan's Labyrinth is about torture, ...
Air Power and “Them”
Monday, February 12th, 2007 Posted in Essays | No Comments »To revisit Bomber Harris' description of use of airpower to supress rebellion: it describes an approach to war that might be called cowardly. Most surprising is his glee over four or five machines which offer them no real target, no ...
The Fate of the New American Century
Sunday, February 11th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »From the frighteningly titled Project for the New American Century June 3, 1997: American foreign and defense policy is adrift.... We aim to change this. And change it they did. Code-name: "hubris". And aptly, here is the fate of the Project as ...
The Ineffable “They”
Sunday, February 11th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Barry Lando, whose book Web of Deceit I have on order, reminds us of the brutality of the British in putting down Kurdish uprisings with air power. Here is Wing Commander "Bomber Harris" in 1924: [T]he Arab and Kurd ...
