I’m surprised we haven’t heard much about the Madonna-Prostitute Complex in the Tiger Woods story. Maybe it’s because Elin, his wife, is such a babe that it just hasn’t occurred to anyone that Tiger’s story brings it to mind immediately. In classical Psychoanalytic Theory, the Madonna-Prostitute Complex has been related to the Oedipal Complex – […]
David Brooks is a conservative New York Times op-ed columnist with a brain. His offering today is thoughtful, and welcomed… The Analytic Mode New York Times By DAVID BROOKS December 4, 2009 Obama … cloaked himself in what you might call Niebuhrian modesty. His decision to expand the war is the most morally consequential one […]
We need a "recovery benchmark." I’ve picked Reagan’s Recession [first term]. For now, I’m cataloging the comparative changes in unemployment. After things settle, I’ll compare the cost. Reagan’s Stimulus was tax cuts and increased spending. Obama’s is the Stimulus Package. We’ll see, in the end, which is the more expensive approach…
We’re doing what any sensible persons might do given the holidays are coming. We’re flying to Cairo for three weeks in Egypt and Jordon, returning on Christmas day. Which explains why I’m talking about this past year a little early. What a year 2009 has been. Like most of us, I’m disappointed that we don’t […]
Andrew Sullivan, conservative blogger for the Atlantic Monthly, has thrown in the towel – this time the whole towel: Leaving the Right Atlantic Monthly The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan 01 Dec 2009 I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that […]
The UK’s Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War is fascinating. We have to read the British News to hear about our War in Iraq, but I guess that it’s better than not reading about it at all. Tony Blair isn’t looking too good. George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld are looking like complete idiots. And it […]
I awoke this morning with a moment of clarity about Afghanistan – do what Obama says. Why? The situation in Afghanistan really is the result of our own failures – inattention to the war because of a preoccupation with our Iraq misadventure; ineptness of our leaders; failure to deal with al Qaeda and the Taliban […]
And I find myself wondering what people would be saying this week if, instead of Tiger, we’d learned that his wife, Elin, was having simultaneous affairs with three ‘hot’ party guys – and then on Thanksgiving night, smashed her car into a tree in front of their house after Tiger found out? Somehow, I think […]
Manning memo proves Bush is guilty of murder DailyKOS by Christian Dem in NC Jun 01, 2008 … a meeting Bush held on January 31, 2003 with Tony Blair and six of Bush and Blair’s top aides to discuss the Iraq issue. According to a memo summarizing the meeting that was written by David Manning […]
[I sort of said this last night after the speech, but I want to say it again after thinking about it for a while] Most of Obama’s speech on Afghanistan was predictable. We’d heard all about it beforehand. But at the end, he got to the things that matter the most. Since the days of […]