This is an excellent, surprisingly well-linked, op-ed by the NY Times' Frank Rich on race issues in this year's US election. I particularly like this quote:
If we're to judge black candidates on their most controversial associates — and how quickly …
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This is a brilliant op-ed / media criticism by Elizabeth Edwards for the New York Times. It's remarkably well-written, and I particularly like this quote:
Watching the campaign unfold, I saw how the press gravitated toward a narrative template for the …
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Fun, if slightly snarky (and a little late?) op-ed by Gail Collins in yesterday's NYT:
We're really past expecting anything much, but in times of crisis you would like to at least believe your leader has the capacity to pretend he's in control. Suddenly …
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A group, Physicians for a National Health Program, has an interesting press release, distilled from an "open letter" signed by 250 doctors in Massachussets. (I learned about it from CJR, which says that it's not getting any media coverage.)
The ostensible …
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Today is Canada Day, the Canadian answer to the 4th of July in the US. (I still occasionally get friends or relatives in the states asking me if they have the 4th of July in Canada. Yes? No? Not exactly? Still not sure how to answer that one...)
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In the middle of a NYT story on a deadly bombing in Iraq:
Many Iraqis, beleaguered at every turn, said they saw the bomb as an attempt to aggravate sectarian strife and as one more piece of evidence that the Americans could not protect them from extremists …
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Sam Brownback, Republican Presidential candidate extraordinaire, tries to explain why he wants to have his cake and eat it, too... Er, I mean, does and doesn't believe in evolution.
I mean, it all started out so well:
The scientific method, based on reason …
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Q: The President awarded the Medal of Freedom to George Tenet, among others, just a short time ago. It was Mr. Tenet who told the President that it was a slam-dunk case for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq . Has the President simply forgiven …
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According to defective yeti:
In anticipation of the film, I bought The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, and was surprised to find that the titular story was not alone in predicting the foibles of the Bush administration. In fact, the story immediately …
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