Bill Simmons the genius sums it up well:On paper, I'm not sure how they're still chugging along. Their star quarterback has been pounded like Mick Foley in his prime. Their lead running back probably couldn't outsprint Eddy Curry to a hot … [Read more...]
How the Democrats voted on Iraq in 2002
A bit of recent history since, until I was corrected by 2.5 cats in a comment below, I was under the incorrect impression that a "vast majority" of Democrats in Congress supported the 2002 Iraq war resolution. Turns out it was only a … [Read more...]
Frank Rich: Hammer, meet nail head
Frank Rich has an excellent piece in today's NYT, which is worth reading: "Lying Like It's 2003." He calls the Bush administration out on the outrageous fabrications they have offered in recent weeks: the recent troop expansion did not … [Read more...]
Bloggers flex their muscles in China
Located along ancient paths that were for centuries off limits to anyone but emperors, concubines, eunuchs and court guards, the coffee shop has drawn amazed stares and comments from many of the 1.6 million foreign tourists who visit the … [Read more...]
R.I.P. M.L.K.
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, built in and around the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on 4 April 1968, is a wonderful memorial to the leader: a two-building history lesson packed with information. … [Read more...]
Child Labor, Vicious Exploitation, Remembered in Mass.
The article continues:Under Massachusetts law, schooling was compulsory for children under age 14, but poverty forced many parents to lie about their sons' and daughters' ages and send them to work in the mills. One boy, asked if he'd like … [Read more...]
Chronicle Takes a Hammer to Reeves
"Questions remain after Reeves' explanations," is the headline for the paper's latest news report, published today. There is an accompanying editorial. "[T]he city of Cambridge is prolonging a farce by not making Ken Reeves explain how he … [Read more...]
Cambridge Mayor May be in Trouble Again
The Cambridge Chronicle is steamed:Mayor Ken Reeves, whose office promised more transparency this week, slapped the Chronicle with a $167 bill to find out how Reeves spent more than $40,000 in taxpayer money in six months of cross-country … [Read more...]
“Symbolic” Rubbish on Iraq
The "symbolic" disapproval of Bush's Iraq policy floated by some Democrats is exactly the kind of tentative wishy-washy approach that has gotten the Party into such trouble in recent years. It is reminiscent of Kerry's shifting Iraq … [Read more...]
The Voice of an Embittered Iraqi
Iraqi blogger Riverbend offers some year-end commentary: "My only conclusion is that the Americans want to withdraw from Iraq, but would like to leave behind a full-fledged civil war because it wouldn't look good if they withdraw and things … [Read more...]
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