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Donald Rumsfeld reads old Roger L. Simon posts from the podium at the Pentagon. Shades of Dick Cheney!
Weirdly, I felt safer when the freelance shills took their cues from our rulers than I do now that our rulers have started taking their cues from the shills. If Sinatra started asking Joey Bishop for advice, would [...]

If I were ever to actually get religion, it would be because of Gene Wolfe. Two years after Patrick and Teresa kindly sent me a reading copy of Gene Wolfe’s The Knight, I’m finally reading through it, and hit a very, very striking passage. All you need to know is that the narrator, the Knight [...]

                    ”I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”
Robert Frost, “The Death of the Hired Man“
According to the Associated Press, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi can’t go home again. I wonder if the tribes’ fellow Jordanians will be heartened or consider it too long in coming. I wonder how I feel about it myself. When he [...]

We all agree that Saddam Hussein is a wicked man. But does he really deserve Ramsey Clark??

Dear Washington Redskins: Footbal has four periods. It’s hockey that has three. Do you see any god damned ice around you? If not, you’re not playing hockey. So maybe you should stop kicking back after the third period, you heartbreaking bastards!
UPDATE: Morons.

On 20′ x 20′ Room, where The Littlest Offering and Offering Boy decide they “want to play a game like you do on game night.”

according to a comment downblog from the other day. Robin Wright explains just what “in sight” means, using three official State Department trips to the Iraq as a microcosm of the worsening security situation. The broad outline is that on each successive trip government movements around Baghdad were more constricted and more furtive. But beyond [...]

First snow of the year this evening in suburban MD, maybe an inch or so. For those keeping score at home. Done now, but kind of nice to have some snow the night before Thanksgiving.

Julian Sanchez had a really good report on the legislative arguments over torture and habeas corpus last week that I just got around to reading. Don’t delay any longer than I did. Excerpt:
All this is worth bearing in mind when reflecting on the Bush Administration’s claim that an amendment proposed by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) [...]

Drum. Never, ever make fun of The Corner. It’s their world. We just live in it.