Interesting discussion in the NYT this morning about sentencing triggered by the commuting of Libby's sentence. It appears that people are treating it not like a one-off for a political hack but an act of governance which actually has some substantive value in a broader context:  •  “The Libby …

I am a bit at a loss at the political plan - you know, the plan to get re-elected. If making everyone unhappy is the road to electoral success, it seems the Not Pre-existing Government is doing a great job:  •  “The receding tide of electoral support for MacKay defies most of the rules of politics …

Yesterday Jay wrote the following about his own comment:  •  “David, my bad...  •  If the CPC wants to advertise on Pam Anderson's left nipple it's cool with me. (But it was a fun rant nonetheless.)”  •  My immediate reaction was that he would never have written that if we had been talking about a …

By focusing so completely on avoiding international law, by presuming what has gone before is inapplicable or wrong, it's tough not to mess things up:  •  “...the chief military defense lawyer here, Col. Dwight Sullivan of the Marines, said he viewed the decision as having broad impact because it …

Last night, listening to the ever excellent Tony Paige on WFAN at 3 am, I was listening to callers list any number of reasons to support or decry what Jason Giambi said last week and what should be done about it. It struck me that we've been though quite distinct waves of sports and drugs over the …

Being not a small person since I was little and perhaps having the look of someone whose soccer training might be transferrable to headbutting in a pinch, I have not had the need to deal with a moment like this since the horror that was the junior high locker room:  •  “Before I had a chance to …

I am as knee jerk as the next guy. I avoid buying Nike and got rid of anything with Eddie Bauer on it years ago. Heck, we were into a ban of French products in the early 70's when I was a kid - due to nuclear testing. But, like any one flipping one way or another according to how the wind blows, I …

Marvel Comics had a comic series in the 1970's called "What If..." or maybe it was "What If???" I actually have a box of comics within reach that likely has a copy but I am too lazy to reach out my arm to answer the punctuation question. Which goes to show I have my priorities and values right on …

...and what are we becoming? I know I go on but this new report on the state of privacy and surveillance technologies in the UK reminded me of this one about blogging, especially this passage:  •  “...before the telegraph, for example, almost all ordinary people read entire newspapers and were …