Foreign Policy gives us five reviews of Donald Rumfeld’s Known and Unknown. None of the five dares to tell the truth about Rumsfeld’s many crimes. Such cowardice! This is how establishments protect themselves. Yes, we learn that Rumsfeld was the “worst secretary of defense ever,” but do we learn about the lies he and the…
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Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd: “Nutty”
No liver, please—how to dress for success at Apple
It never hurts to look like the boss, does it? In a strikingly pro-Apple piece, the NYT highlights the Corps “deep bench” with this shot of COO Timothy D. Cook, looking strikingly like Steven P. Jobs. Tim definitely has the hollow cheeks shitty hair thing down pat, but can he top the iPad?* And I…
If you’re reading this, you’re not cool
New study explains why you will never amount to anything. Too bad.
Robert M. Gates, totally full of it. Totally.
“Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned on Thursday that North Korea was within five years of being able to target the continental United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile, and said that, combined with its expanding nuclear program, the country “is becoming a direct threat to the United States,” today’s New York Times reports. According…
Shootings are bad, the Obama Administration is worse
While the web echoes and re-echoes with the murders in Arizona, Glenn Greenwald provides massive evidence of the Obama Administration’s continuing/expanding invasion of American civil liberties. The Obama Administration’s basic promise to the American people: We probably won’t waterboard you (but we know people who will).
Brad DeLong, encountering turbulence
I’ve previously noted that Brad DeLong, an ardent neo-Keynesian operating out of Berkeley who puts out a terrific blog on all things economic, has a deplorable habit of censoring my comments when I say things Brad doesn’t want to hear. So I’m happy to say that Brad doesn’t censor everyone who criticizes him, an excellent…
Thomas Friedman, getting worser all the time
In his December 14 column, Thomas Friedman deplores China’s handling of the Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, now serving 11 years in jail for the crime of free speech. Noting that China would not allow Liu to attend the ceremony (not that surprising, really) and even went to…