Two thoughts which deserve two separate posts:

The first, which I thought of and should have posted yesterday:

President Bush may be right. He may be absolutely right. At least in Iraq we can kill the fundamentalists.

Vast right-wing conspiracy? Nah. Just a really organized ideological movement.They are young and bright and ardently right. They tack Ronald Reagan calendars on their cubicle walls and devote brown bag lunches to the free market theories of Friedrich von Hayek. They come from 51 colleges and 28 states, calling for low taxes, strong defense and dorm ( Read more... )

My friend and former coworker Casey, who is now a law student at UT, is spending his summer working with the Texas ACLU. Given that we're both stuck in front of a computer all day at work during summer, we've been trading e-mails to pass the time. Here's our latest exchange:From: Casey
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:21 AM
To: William
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There's truly heartening news from the Middle East in The New York Times this morning: By Middle Eastern standards, Jordanian schoolbooks are relatively free of bombast. But some textbooks used here to teach Islamic culture contain nefarious conspiracies that just will not go away.

There is the Western plot to divide the Muslim world. There is the ( Read more... )

While I'm reading Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Maxims and Reflections, I thought I'd share here the aphorisms I find most insightful, applicable and/or understandable. So check back for updates as I move through the book. I may add little thoughts beneath each aphorism as well. We'll see ( Read more... )

A friend sent me the following last night, and I thought it was interesting enough to share:I realize the comparison below might be overly dramatic, but it's hard ( Read more... )

On a lighter note:

My Armageddon's day (the day I am expected to die) is June 27, 2063. Twenty years of milking Social Security (if it's still around) for all it's worth! All right!

What's your Armageddon day?

So, if you're in D.C. today (I'm not), TONY BLAIR IS IN TOWN! I don't feel any personal excitement about the event, but my fingers wouldn't let me finish that sentence without putting the part about Blair in caps. Anyway, after their talk (wonder who played Monica) and monologues to the assembled reporters, one guy (probably British, but I ( Read more... )

While signing bills (one requiring parental consent for minors to have abortions and another that would define marriage in Texas as being between one man and one woman) at a huge church in Fort Worth yesterday, Gov. Rick Perry said, "Texans have made a decision about marriage and if there is some other state that has a more lenient view than Texas ( Read more... )

From The Atlantic Monthly:If she runs, will Hillary Clinton win the Democratic presidential nomination?

Yes (Democratic Insiders:) 49 (Republican Insiders:) 48
No (DI)14 (RI)8
DK (DI)2 (RI)2

Interesting. Check out the rest here.

I sort of wonder if the Republicans aren't trying to get her to ( Read more... )