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Unfortunately while I was in Oregon there were several conversations we never got to finish because we had to call it a night at 10PM. One of those was about whether something as dramatic as the 4th turning could really happen.
Overall, it seemed that TJ and Dorr have a very high confidence in modern [...]

The Scooter Libby indictment is sort of a mixed bag in terms of its importance.
Obviously, it’s very important to Libby, who appears to be in serious trouble if he has been caught in the kind of flagrant lying alleged in the indictment. I would assume that the reporters challenging his account of their conversations have [...]

I’ve had this same thought, Dean. We’ve already seen a pretty drastic change in style from the WWII era politicians of Bush I and Dole to the boomer politicians of Clinton, Gore, Kerry and Bush II. What will this next generation be like? Thoroughly post-modern and ironic democrats? Irreverent and iconoclastic Republicans?
I think the best [...]

There’s a lot to agree with in Pat’s assessment of the President, but it goes a little overboard.
there’s little question that while Bush may be a cagey and craft politican, he’s not an exceptionally deep thinker prone to probing analyses. And he is utterly incapable of presenting complex issues in a coherent way. This has [...]

I got an email this morning inviting me to come in and try to stir up an otherwise lethargic Dorrk blog,
or at least that’s how I understood it.
I’ve been thinking about something for a while without coming to any conclusions. I thought some
of you might be able to offer some input.
I turned 35 this year [...]

On the flight home I watched Oliver Stone’s "Wall Street" for the upteenth billionth time. I even own the movie now.
That is a great movie and a very tight script. This time I focused on just listening to the script and seeing the way the story unfolds. There’s not a wasted [...]

Got interrupted by a toddler……I haven’t been following the Scooter Libby scandal at all. I just started hearing some of the details 2 days ago in transit. Some people at NRO Corner sure seem unconcerned….
With this mess mostly behind him (again, assuming nothing big is out there), Hurricane Katrina becoming a distant memory, [...]

As the war bogged down…..Bush continued to spend like a randy Clinton in whoretown. By not reigning in Greenspan’s reckless market magic and encouraging spending on every level (when we need to be saving) Bush became more of a spending Democrat than Democrats. Bush, like the post-coitus-internicus Clinton avoided Press Conferences. That [...]

Andew Sullivan and his readers called it….the investigation that is going on is really aiming at Dick Cheney. Yet another nail in the coffin of the unbelievably incompetent Bush administration. Count me in as a non-supporter of George W. Bush. While I continue to agree with the realist components of his foreign [...]

Wow. This blog is about as active as Greg Dorr’s high school sex life. Glad some new people are joining the board.
On the flight back from the USA, I read most of Cintra Wilson’s novel "Colors Insulting to Nature." The paperback edition includes an interview with our much beloved M.E. Russell. [...]

Before we all forget about her, I wanted to put out a few of my lingering thoughts on the troubled, and now withdrawn, nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
There’s been a lot of spin in the last two days attributing her withdrawal to venomous attacks from the "the extreme right wing." This is [...]

Again, sorry for the dead silence around here lately. Our blog’s Hong Kong correspondent has been visiting recently, taking up far more time than he deserves, and I’ve been spending too much time troubleshooting two new (well, one new and one re-purposed) computer systems. It’s time consuming. The re-purposed machine is now a Windows Media [...]

Maggie turns two next week, and so far she’s been a fiesty but fairly easy daughter to raise. Really, once her baby spit-up phase passed, the only messes she has made have been food related. Even the day she had an upset stomach and threw up twice, it was remarkable clean and almost cute puke.
The [...]

Readers of National Review’s The Corner should take note of a pithy and insightful reader email by yours truly posted today by Jonah Goldberg re: Hugh Hewitt’s contradictory defense of the Harriet Miers nomination. (Mine is the first of the two e-mails quoted.)

That neat little phrase of broken English is the title of a recent Nigerian pop hit celebrating "419" scams, which we intimately know as erzatz pleas from desperate diplomats promising us riches in return for our help.
I thought that the Nigerian origin of these e-mail was probably subterfuge, but this LA Times article give an [...]

For those not tuned into to this kind of stuff, the disagreement
between Conservatives/Republicans and their like over the nomination of
Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has blossomed from strong difference
to a fanatical intra-culture war. On substance, most of the defenders
of the Miers nomination say that on previous evidence we should trust
Bush’s pick, as the President [...]

I’ve always thought that would be a good name for a band.
On that theme, I reviewed one of the more interesting "Robots with feelings" movies on DVD last weekend: 1977’s Demon Seed. It’s fun camp that takes itself so seriously it could almost be mistaken for a much better movie. Not quite as good sci-fi [...]

A week without any posts?
I hold myself responsible, but will blame others for fun. One-man blogging dynamo PRN is visiting from Hong Kong and temporarily removed from the Internet, so we must struggle to fill the void. I predict: failure.

Unsettling news from the final preparatory meeting for next month’s World Summit on the Information Society:
Old allies in world politics, representatives from the UK and US sat just feet away from each other, but all looked straight ahead as Hendon explained the EU had decided to end the US government’s unilateral control of the internet [...]

I thought PRN would find this interesting
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1114381,00.html