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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Animania

At AOTP, Sympathy for the Pigeons. Kind of. For the record, shooting the pigeons above Wimbledon doesn’t strike me as an especially grievous sin, though one shouldn’t waste game: perhaps Wimbledon should switch to badminton, with the plunge to earth of each new victim counting as the serve. I’d rank it well below fighting dogs [...]

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

When After All the Surges . . .

In addition to everything Larison says about how the so-called "success of The Surge" misleads one from the larger questions about the worth of the war in the first place, I’d add that the practical meaning of "The Surge" has changed while the pretended meaning has stayed the same.
The pretended meaning is, The US increased [...]