links for 2007-07-22 Hilzoy: Media Morons On Parade: This has been a particularly loopy day for the media. I learned, to my amazement, that Hillary Clinton has breasts the Washington Post has the journalistic standards of a dung beetle Boing Boing: Wow -- not only are lighters allowed on US airplanes again, but Kip Hawley, the guy who runs the TSA, has described the ban on lighters as "security theater." The term "security theater" is Bruce Schneier's, and has been used exclusively by c Terry Teachout: Was I gushing? Yeah, I guess so--but if a show like that doesn't make you want to gush, even in the sober pages of The Wall Street Journal, you're in the wrong business. Of course the trick is to call your shots: if you blow your top every Rising Hegemon: Shorter Chuckles Krauthammer: "We've finally hit on the right course in Iraq. Find somebody like that Saddam guy! And arm 'em to the teeth" Think Progress » David Brooks: ‘I’m so confused’ about what to do in Iraq: Fresh off his hero worship of President Bush, New York Times columnist David Brooks said last night on the PBS Newshour that he’s more confused than ever about Iraq. “Le Matt Feeney: Check out - if you dare - this transcript of a Washington Post chat with Cornel West. One of the strange features of the academic as celebrity activist is that the closer he gets (or imagines himself to get) to concrete political action, the Fester: Wow --- I just finished my first read of the Deathly Hallows and it is a great conclusion to a wide ranging story act. At the end, there is a slight bit of hokiness which was not necessary but wow. Thoreau: Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns: I will blog about this book as a window on three decades of Afghan history. Although it’s primarily about a few screwed up families, and it’s hard to see these families being happy in any circumstanc TVEyes TBogg: Shorter Fred Hiatt: The glaring lack of an exit strategy from Iraq is entirely Harry Reid's fault. Robert's Stochastic Thoughts: There are known exceptions to a very simple random mutation plus selection version of the neodarwinian synthesis. Many organisms contain what appear to be retrovirus genomes (or something similar). They do not help the host b Robert's Stochastic Thoughts: The key point is that [Mark] Kleiman wrote only about "adult" understanding of religion and declared most people to be non "adult". Thus he certainly shares [P.Z.] Myers' contempt for most Americans[' religious beliefs], an o Isaac Chotiner: The Cheney Chronicles, "Who Is Really in Charge?" Edition The Minor Fall, The Major Lift: Ayelet Waldman Describes Her Day Greg Sargent: Breaking: Gates Distances Himself From Edelman's Attack On Hillary Clinton Glenn Greenwald: In late May, former Reagan defense official (and current CAP fellow) Lawrence Korb wrote an Op-Ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer detailing some clearly partisan and "misleading" behavior in Petraeus' recent past concerning his claims of "pr James Fallows: Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq Charles Ferguson: High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars Galaxy Quest Trailer Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals: Mao's Last Revolution Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature David J. Linden: The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God Galaxy Quest E! Documentary
