Woody Allen is funny.
If you see an American abroad carrying an easel and some paints, he could be a CIA operative. And a good one, too.
I am only learning about Aaron Swartz now that he has hanged himself. I don’t know if an overzealous prosecutor is primarily responsible, but facing a long jail sentence probably didn’t help Mr. Swartz deal with his depression. Our country lost a very talented individual.
You may have heard of disturbances in Mali. Juan Cole explains what is happening.
I remember when Saddam’s regime fell, people looted all the armories. So, in Syria, I think people should be concerned about more than just the stockpiles of chemical weapons.
Wait! Hitler relaxed Germany’s gun laws? That’s not what the wingnuts told me. Also, too, Mahablog.
People like Arthur Silber are certainly necessary. I just don’t think they have really thought hard enough about two things. The first is that people differ in what animates their political activity, and making the decision to engage in electoral politics on the side of the left means that most psychic energy is going to go to winning that battle. If what you primarily want is to keep the crazy Republican Party out of power then you will behave one way. If what you primarily want is to stop the War on Terror and its attendant outrages, you will behave another way. But throwing charges of hypocrisy around willy-nilly is no more justified than it is convincing, Which leads to the second thing people like Silber need to think about. Who do they think they are talking to? Whose minds do they think they need to change? There are people who agree that Barack Obama is a serial murderer and a monster. But they aren’t the people who might actually change U.S. policy.
Mithras is making sense, although I’d rather give the Republicans pizza and soda than any kind of break on the Estate Tax.
Are you shocked that David Gregory won’t be prosecuted for violating DC’s gun laws? Yeah, me either.
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