Bookmarked at Del.icio.us for 2007-02-26 Marginal Utility: Those Who Consciously Ignore the Past Condemn Us to Repeat It: Byron Calme's undermines his declaration of his paper's Intelligent Skepticism: "Mr. Gordon has become a favorite target of many critical readers, who charge that the paperâ (tags: 20070125 journamalism) Suburban Guerrilla: Ethics Roundtable: Sy Hersh on CNN: "John Negroponte was seen as too ethical to sign off on the things the State Department wanted him to do." (tags: 20070225 bushisms iran iraq middle_east) Inside Iraq: "the administrator of the adjoining hospital was abducted, and then killed. Snipers pick inhabitants and students walking from college to hospital or back. One car stops in front of the entrance, lets out one handcuffed young man, waits for h (tags: 20070225 bushisms iraq) BTU - Definition - British Thermal Unit: Definition: A British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree F." (tags: 20070225 btu energy bbq) The Reality-Based Community: "Welfare reform" without tears? Maybe not: the welfare-reformers have been crowing. Despite the vigilance of poverty researchers, they say, no one is finding the predicted horror stories. (That's partly, some of them admit, b (tags: 20070225 bushisms poverty inequality economics tanf afdc) Rodger Payne: The Comedy of Great Power Politics: Contemporary great power politics, by realist standards, seems more like a farce than a tragedy -- no balancing behavior, no great power war for decades, the US and China are major trading partners, NATO i (tags: 20070225 international_relations grand_strategy) John Quiggin: Discounting the future, yet again: The phrase “right for the wrong reason” is quoted by Leonhardt, and comes from Marty Weitzman’s excellent review of Stern, where he observes that Stern tends to overweight known risks as a way of deal (tags: 20070225 global_warming stern stern_report climate_change climate discounting economics social_welfare) MaxSpeak, You Listen!: YOUNG, FABULOUS, AND IGNORANT: Suze Orman: Orman says they'd like to get married, and both "have millions of dollars in our name. It's killing me that upon my death, K.T. is going to lose 50 percent of everything I have to estate ta (tags: 20070225 journamalism finance economics) Glenn Greenwald is shrill: Broder boasted: "You will find no one in the White House or on the Republican side of the House or Senate who thinks I have been propping up the Bush presidency." How about the White House official excitedly disseminating Broder (tags: 20070225 journamalism bushisms) Glenn Greenwald is shriller: This New York Times article today, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and John M. Broder, on the debate among Congressional Democrats over how to end the Iraq War, encapsulates so much of what is wrong with our national media. These are t (tags: 20070225 journamalism constitution democracy news politics war) Glenn Greenwald is shrillest: [T]his NYT article presents the perfect opportunity to make the only response worth making to the self-defense offered yesterday by Newsweek's Richard Wolffe, who continues to claim that the media criticisms voiced by blogger (tags: 20070225 journamalism) You can load a javascript object that contains your latest [Del.icio.uc] bookmarks, by including the following script... (tags: 20070225 computer software bookmarks) Seymour Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-Linked Groups: New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the “single most explosive” element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to stem the growth of Shiit (tags: 20070225 bushisms bush iraq terror al-qaeda impeach_george_w_bush_now)
