Not With a Bang But a Whimper (In the Press)
Writing for Slate, Tim Noah nails exactly why the possible destruction of the Earth later this year when the Large Hadron Collider is switched on isn't getting much attention in the press: I can well understand why the Times doesn't want to give sustained big play to the possibility that the world will end on or around Labor Day. In addition ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 1, 2008 10:56
Obama = Charismatic = Hitler = Armageddon
Arthur Silber is, as am I, fascinated by the cult of personality surrounding Barack Obama. He notes some anecdotal creepy gushing on a local radio show and then Reactions of this kind to Obama are fairly common. No, they are not this extreme much of the time, but such statements are far from unusual. And many of Obama's less obviously deluded ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 1, 2008 08:19
John McCain ‘Honored’ To Receive Endorsement From Bigot
Yesterday, John McCain announced that he was "honored" to receive the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, a Texas-based preacher who can probably be most charitably described as "pro-Apocalypse". McCain lavished praise on him for being "pro-Israel", but as Sarah Posner (via Matthew Yglesias) points out, what he actually stands for is the destruction of Israel in order to facilitate ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 29, 2008 12:14
Caption Contest Winners
The Smell Our Dairy Air Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla) THE WINNERS First: MikeM - Why, yes, we ARE glad to meet you. And that's no bull! Second: charles austin - No one was amused that Phil used three fake teats. Third: radio free fred - "Mad Cow Disease Or Just Pissed Off?" HONORABLE MENTION yetanotherjohn - Democrats found ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 10, 2008 19:27
Michael Bay Doesn’t Suck
Matthew Yglesias seeks to justify his "reputation in the blogosphere as a leading Michael Bay apologist" by providing a video of a Levis whereby readers might "truly glimpse the man's skillz." The commercial is rather entertaining. Then again, I'm not sure where the near-consensus among movie critics that Michael Bay makes terrible moves comes from. For example, a profile in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 6, 2007 14:01
Terrorized by ‘War on Terror’
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, argues that the phrase "war on terror" has "created a culture of fear in America" which is wasting billions of dollars, innumerable man hours, and aiding the terrorists. The culture of fear is like a genie that has been let out of its bottle. It acquires a life of its own -- and can ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 26, 2007 12:37
Samuel Alito: Modest, Brilliant, and Nice
A lengthy profile of Judge Samuel Alito in today's NYT paints him as an uncommonly decent, modest man who, while very conservative is not an activist. After a Career of Quiet Focus, Alito Is Leaving the Background One weekend in 1986, two young lawyers working for Samuel A. Alito Jr., then a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, faced a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 1, 2005 06:21
War Powers in the Age of Terror
Andrew Bacevich has an interesting op-ed in today's NYT arguing that recent events demonstrate that Congress needs to take back more control of the war power. War Powers in the Age of Terror WHEN senators this month asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about possible military action against Syria or Iran, she recited the administration's standard response: all options remain "on ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 31, 2005 14:28
