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July 19, 2010

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I know it isn’t as sexy as Sarah Palin making up the word “refudiate”, but Eli Lake, a respected foreign policy commentator, takes note of the possibility that Egypt’s president, Mubarak, will soon die of cancer at age 82 and what that will mean to U.S. interests in the MidEast.

A little sexy, if not as sexy as Blogblah’s convertible driving image, is the Washington Post’s opening of a series on America’s intelligence community, the billions spent in waste and redundancy and the hundreds of thousands of wankers shuffling papers in Top Secret.

Since I’m talking politics again today despite my realization of the total impossibility of it having any practical effect, there’s a smart look at the hard right turn of the GOP into the Tea Party by Jonathon Chait at The New Republic; it turns out there’s a downside to playing to the radicalized angry white south. More than that, it turns out that there’s a limit beyond which the public Tea Party leadership is unwilling to go — it won’t let talk radio host Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express express his “satiric” letter to Abe Lincoln from the NAACP’s “colored people”. The Tea Party umbrella organization kicked out Williams and his organization from their organization as the big tent gets smaller.

My review of “Inception”:
Freud goes into the Matrix, plot gets muddled but Escher climbs his stairs until Keanu…er…Leo DiCaprio goes “Whoa!”

June 10, 2009

Guard Killed, Shooter wounded in Holocaust Museum Hate Crime, the Washington Post story.

Shooting suspect has long history of ties to Neo-Nazis and extremists, according to CNN.

Was the Republican-criticized Homeland Security report about the dangers from the far right confirmed? There’s controversy?

Here’s a profile of the wounded suspect by Talking Points Memo, but if you really want to know who this guy is/was, you can see a fictional character based on the guy played by actor Stacy Keach in the Edward Norton tour-de-force “American History X”:

If anybody should be able to illuminate this guy, it oughta be the blogospheric right wing jabbermouths, right? Michele Malkin says he’s not really a true right wingnut, he’s as left as he is right because he’s just looney. Debbie Schlussel says it’s all the fault of the anti-Semitic Muslims we let walk around. Meanwhile, it appears the right of the right on the blogs, Free Republic, cunningly deleted from their pages a screed by the alleged shooter about Obama’s birth certificate and such. (You can’t link to what isn’t there and I’m not letting you guys go to such a scary site like Free Republic without someone to hold your hand and that’s final, don’t make me stop this car.)

This internet world can be a bit off-putting at times, don’t you think?

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News that interested me

Tiny Diamonds linked to Mammoth Extinction

This is a New York Times science story about how meteors may have hit North America 13,000 years ago and caused big changes, including the extinction of Mammoths and Sabre Tooth Tigers.

In Iraq, What Comes Next?

This is a Washington Post feature by Oklahoma City’s own Anthony Shadid about Christmas in Baghdad.

Hollywood Trimming its Sails in Economic Windstorm

The Los Angeles Times is freaked out over layoffs at the movie studios and the looming SAG strike.

Cold Front to Push Through Town

This is The Daily Oklahoman’s upcoming weather story.