The Superbowl ad from focus on the family was, on the surface, reasonably benign. It directs us to the web site where you can watch the Tebow Story. I’d actually recommend watching it. It’s an interview with Tebow’s parents. The Story: The father, a missionary in the Philippines at the time, had the vision to […]
In my attempt to hear the testimony of Jack Straw today, I realized that there was a lot being said that went over my head. I looked into what the British Press said, and reprint this guardian article in full as a resource for the music behind the words. Chilcot’s Straw man argument Until all […]
Who cares if she can’t remember her lines? The mark-out is the most important thing on her handwritten notes. She [or whoever was prompting her] started with budget cuts. I suppose if you’re a fiscal conservative, that makes sense, though Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II did not do that. Then she […]
Usually a straw man argument is a filtered, simplified story created to make the it look foolish. In this case, that’s not what Jack Straw is trying to do, but he succeeds anyway. He creates a story that looks quite foolish, only he’s passing it off as the truth. Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary in […]
the saints symbolic win for new orleans…
I’m beginning to feel like there might be something wrong with me that I’m transfixed by the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War currently underway in the UK. Am I an anglophile, secretly envying their formality, their tweeds, their historic Monarchy? Did I never get over the "British Invasion" Rock and Roll? Am I starstruck […]
Will the petulant Foreign Secretary, the Right Honorable Jack Straw, ignite when the sparks begin to fly? Or will Sir Michael Wood go up like kindling? Tune in at 9:30 AM EST tomorrow for Masterpiece Mystery Theater [the Chilcot Inquiry]. Angry Straw to tell Chilcot he didn’t ignore Iraq advice The Independent Furious Justice Minister […]
A very bad thing happened in our lifetimes. The United States of America and the United Kingdom invaded a sovereign country without a just cause, without going through the United Nations. There is no question that Iraq was run by a Tryrant who had been a thorn in the side of the world for decades. […]
Fiscal Scare Tactics New York Times by Paul Krugman February 4, 2010 These days it’s hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a news program without encountering stern warnings about the federal budget deficit. The deficit threatens economic recovery, we’re told; it puts American economic stability at risk; it will undermine our influence […]
How does ‘recovery’ look? Here are the last four ‘recoveries’ plotted on the same time scale after a peak [blue is now, red is previous recoveries]: Slower than we’d like is the answer looking at the usual cases. And there’s the nagging question, "Is this one different from the ones before?"…