The Spoons Experience offers a handy chart outlining the differences and similarities between the Enron scandal, the Martha Stewart scandal and UNSCAM, the U.N.'s oil-for-palaces program.
The Spoons Experience offers a handy chart outlining the differences and similarities between the Enron scandal, the Martha Stewart scandal and UNSCAM, the U.N.'s oil-for-palaces program.
Along the same lines of my post earlier this week regarding the news media and the images of the dead returning in their coffins, is this cartoon by Jeff Danziger.
It's just not a good idea to walk around toting a rocket-propelled grenade in Fallujah, even if you think no one's watching, because some Marine snipers just might be looking at you. In the past three weeks, two sniper teams attached to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment have shot down 90 people who have […]
The New York Times' David Brooks gets it exactly right. The media isn't paying nearly enough attention to what's going to happen next in Iraq. Instead, they're obsessed with the past at the expense of the future. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did at least hear testimony last week on the political transition […]
Extensive use of facts is not really necessary if you're a columnist at the New York Times. Case in point: Paul Krugman. Krugman, a former adviser to disgraced energy giant Enron, starts out with an interesting claim. [T]here's a deep mystery surrounding Dick Cheney's energy task force, but it's not about what happened back in […]
Last week the Web site The Memory Hole posted hundreds of photos of fallen soldiers in their coffins returning to Dover AFB. (Included in the photos were those of the fallen astronauts, mistakenly published by some newspapers.) Many newspapers ran the photos not because it was news that fallen soldiers were coming home, but because […]
Time magazine has another excellent article on NFL player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg has made a tidy sum from his collections of "Bushisms" -- verbal flubs made by President George W. Bush. For those of you who missed it, Eugene Volokh over at the Volokh Conspiracy demonstrated the how far, and how lame, the Bushisms have sunk -- hoisting Weisberg on his own petard. […]