Sunday, April 23, 2006
Glenn Greenwald and Others
Glenn Greenwald has the best series of stories on the Mary McCarthy story, as usual. I won’t rewrite what he covers so well. I must say, however, that I especially enjoy his stab at conservatives like Michael Ledeen who defended Larry Franklin, amusingly enough. I’d like to send a big shout-out to Michael Ledeen.
Porter Goss, Pat Roberts, and the heads of the Bush Administration consider secrecy one of their highest priorities. John Dean wrote an excellent book about it, Worse Than Watergate, though you shouldn’t need his perceptiveness at this point to already know about it.
I take an extraordinarily dim view of supporters of state torture and other dirty little state secrets. Porter Goss and Pat Roberts are fast headed past the peak of their long and ugly careers, although, as Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond taught us, there will always be ugly little corners of this country that will be willing to send bad senators to congress term after term in the disgusting twilight of their career.
Rick Santorum is sittin’ pretty at a 39% approval rating. Congratulations, you born-again psycho!
A great article about history at Huffingtonpost.com. “Deferring to history's judgement is postmodern wussiness at its most perverse.” Choice stuff.
And another at Alternet. This one is rhetorically shallow and unintellectual—but satisfying nonetheless.
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