Image via Wikipedia There is more than a superficial appeal to the calming voice. While it sounds reasonable, and it appears to spy a path from lost to found – “if you can keep your head when all around you” and all that – it also reassures. Often it is the still center that saves […]
The Insurrectionism Timeline
Not that I lack a proper regard for my own intellectual product and scribble, but today will be a day for sharing some better reads of the past twenty-four hours or so. Image via Wikipedia After Representative Gabrielle Giffords and others were shot in Tucson two weekends ago, some on the Left, repelled by two […]
Stuxnet, WikiLeaks, and the Cold War
Everyone’s talking about an extraordinarily well report article in The New York Times this weekend that finally begins to put together the story behind the Stuxnet worm and its attack on the Iranian nuclear program. Apparently, to no one’s surprise, it was an American-Israeli coup accomplished with the probable help of Britain and Germany, including […]
My Political Calendar for Friday, January 14, 2011
6 a.m. Morning in America 6:30 a.m. Exercise 1st Amendment right 2 tell liberal neighbor he’s an asshole. 7 a.m. Exercise 2nd Amendment right: target practice (neighbor leaves 4 work) 7:30 a.m. Morning Joe 8:30 a.m. “Rush” Hour 9:30 a.m. National conversation about race 10:30 a.m. Seek the better angels of our nature in a […]
Death to Incivility
Please. I kid incivility. We should be more civil in our intimations of deadly force. Amid all the angry and confused debate since the Tucson shooting – confusions in personal values and in the terms of the debate – the fairly simple and genuine subject of greatest import actually arose quite clearly at the start. […]