I’m having an extremely difficult time posting today. I just can’t seem to think clearly. I don’t know what’s up with that.
I’m avoiding the gym tonight. I know it’s lame excuse but it’s always so crowded on Mondays it’s almost not worth going. I know it’s a lame excuse.
Anyway, […]
Via Spencer Ackerman, an honest assessment of US strategy in Iraq from a junior officer serving on the front lines:
[Name redacted],
I agree that the war was a great strategic mistake. The way I see it, Saddam Hussein was a secular leader and therefore a huge stumbling block to the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in the […]
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This is pretty unprecedented. No president in modern times is so widely hated by Americans.
Few media are reporting this landmark event. Here are a few you can trust.
ThinkProgress, HuffintonPost
The March 20 U.K. Guardian features an Iraq war commentary by former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix that for its trenchant economy could serve as an object lesson for every contributor to this blog.
As Blix says–and he would know–there was NO rational justification for this war EXCEPT the elimination of a brutal […]
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Here’s a little recap you can send around to your Republican friends who are hearing what they want to hear from the media.
After five years, 4,000+ US dead , 40,000+ US casualties, and at least 500,000 Iraqi dead and countless wounded – not to mention several million displaced – the current situation is […]
This post is part three in my series on good and evil.
In The Lucifer Effect Philip Zimbardo explores the way in which situational factors play a role in individual behaviors.
Zimbardo sums up his argument:
“Bad systems” create “bad situations” create “bad apples” create “bad behaviors” even in good people.
The point of course is simple - I […]
For the third straight day, the American and British war planes conducted air strikes in support of Iraqi security forces in Basra. About 30,000 Iraqi troops are fending off raids by Mahdi Army fighters, who control 70 percent of the city. British artillery batteries fired on Basra Saturday. The 1st Battalion Scots […]
I note that John McCain’s brief (three hour) trip allowed only a short version of his “speech,” given now for three years, raking in half a million dollars for the campaign, and a long talk with Steve Creamer, owner-head of the only private nuclear dump in the United States, and the only company with the […]
From the Washington Post:
U.S. Has Little Influence, Few Options in Iraq’s Volatile South
As U.S. warplanes attacked targets in Basra yesterday, Bush administration officials acknowledged that their hands-off strategy toward southern Iraq in recent years has left them with little knowledge of the conflicts among competing Shiite groups there and few ways of influencing them.
…Competition for […]
The cat beast in my house will walk to the door and stare it. Then look at me, meow, and turn back to the door. I open the door, she looks out but doesn’t step out. We wait for a minute, then she’ll sit down and groom her paw. If I […]
Walk up to every stranger you meet with a slightly happy but incredulous expression and say, “did you hear the news?” Your action will peak their interest and they’ll say, “no what?” Then say, “Cheney just died of a heart attack!”
Don’t be cruel though. Tell them it’s April Fools day.
From the London Times: Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides
“The Iraqi Army is already defeated from within. They come to Basra with fear in their hearts, knowing they have to fight their brothers, the sons of Iraq, because of an order from Bush and his friends in the […]
I find it difficult to fathom that Bob Mould’s genius and now classic Workbook was released almost twenty years ago. I know a lot of folks whose copy of Workbook is one their desert island list.
Great as Workbook is, my favorite Bob Mould solo has always been the less appreciated Black Sheets of Rain […]
How in the name of heaven or hell can we tolerate a media in their 24-7 news repetitions about Obama’s preacher (who, really, cares?) when we have civil war beginning, again, in Iraq? Shia v. Shia? And when that gets a bit hotter, in will come the Sunni’s. And Bush and McCain are […]
We knew this day was coming. I actually thought it wouldn’t happen until about five months from now.
From the London Times:
Areas of Baghdad fall to militias as Iraqi Army falters in Basra
Iraq’s Prime Minister was staring into the abyss today after his operation to crush militia strongholds in Basra stalled, members of […]
From day one, Hillary has presented a problem for progressive voters but we could support her. Her support of Bush and his failed policies always stank to high heaven of political convenience not principle. She is a good speaker and fundamentally she has the skills and smarts to be a a good president. […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment strongly suggests that moral and immoral behavior are hugley influenced by environment. It’s not so much that we change our morals from setting to setting but that the setting in which we function has the power to put our morality into neutral.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by Philip Zimbardo, suggested that in […]
Pat Buchanan wrote an op-ed that pretty much confirms there is an invisble white pointed hood on his head.
What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure? Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the more famous pscyhology experiments (another is the Milgram experiment) - it revealed an alarming ability of people previously deemed “normal” to engage in shocking, abusive, cruel behavior but also that similar persons would submit to that abusive behavior.
The SPE was planned and conducted at Standford University in […]
I thought it was odd that Ken B posted a comment about global warming in response to my post about the systemic dishonesty of creationists. I wonder if maybe there are connections between the dishonest means and methods of creationists and those who deny global warming. I haven’t really looked much at the methods used […]
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