links for 2007-03-26 Kevin Drum: PURGEGATE FISHINESS SUMMARY....Is there, as Alberto Gonzales insists, a perfectly reasonable explanation for Purgegate? I guess there might be, but there are sure an awful lot of reasons to be skeptical. Here's a list off the top of my head... (tags: 20070324 bushisms) Max Frankel: And either way, reporters became central to the case. Their messy relations with officialdom were uncomfortably on display. We heard about celebrated correspondents routinely granting anonymity — better called irresponsibility — to govern (tags: 20070325 journamalism libby bushisms iraq proliferation wilson plame) Jonathan Chait: You can tell that some conservatives who want to fight global warming understand how the psychology works and are trying to turn it in their favor. Their response is to emphasize nuclear power as an integral element of the solution. Sen. J (tags: 20070325 bushisms utter_stupidity climate global_warming climate_change) War Nerd: 300: It's downright hilarious the way this movie punishes every smart character. Every time someone wants to argue with the war party in this movie, he's evil. Everybody who talks in a normal tone of voice is evil. Snyder shows two scenes where (tags: 20070325 film Greek history iran iraq movie politics propaganda psychology Review war Persia Xerxes Sparta Leonidas) Amanda Marcotte: This article from The Guardian where they interview three generations of women about their experience of motherhood is an interesting snapshot of the rapid changes that have happened with the invention of the birth control pill and the le (tags: 20070325 gender sociology motherhood feminism) Hilzoy: Metacognition in the Rat (tags: 20070325 philosophy) Jeffrey Smith: One of the eight former U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration said yesterday that White House officials questioned his performance in highly partisan political terms at a meeting in Washington in September, three months before his (tags: 20070325 bushisms justice attorneys utter_stupidity)
