Plead the First

I’m a little behind the curve, but last week I finally started reading Jerry Bledsoe’s “Cops in Black and White” series in The Rhino Times (pick through their archives to find the earlier installments). I’m about halfway through, but so far my initial take on it is that the News and Record should be embarrased […]

Ed Brayton highlights some choice portions of review of a PBS documentary and a Washington Post article, detailing the horrible lack of qualifications possessed by many of the people the Bush administration sent to rebuild post-war Iraq. In case after case, the ticket to Iraq seemed to be loyalty to the Republican party, rather than […]

The Talent Show points to a recent Newsweek article detailing some of the trouble the GOP has been having. According to a Newsweek poll, 51% of Americans think that Bush should be impeached: Other parts of a potential Democratic agenda receive less support, especially calls to impeach Bush: 47 percent of Democrats say that should […]

Perhaps spurred by TheCA’s quest to discover and “out” local commenter greendog’s true identity (the thread turns in that direction about 14 comments deep), meblogin wonders if he should reveal his own identity: I have been thinking about adding my real identity to my blog. Others seem to give more credit or seem to prefer […]

From my blog’s admin panel: Somebody comment on something! Quick!

John Robinson has one: One of the benefits of a geographic-based blogging community (as opposed to a subject-based one) is that there is wide diversity of opinion on virtually every topic. It’s tough to be close-minded because people challenge you. Exactly right. I’m sure it’s easy to think of others as well. One that jumps […]

Ed Brayton has some thoughts on the recent revelation that many of our policymakers don’t even understand the difference between Sunnis and Shiites: This is important. If you don’t know such basic things, you can’t possibly have any understanding of the situation over there and be able to evaluate competing policy options. And this is […]

Most local readers probably know this already, but for the benefit of folks who may be unfamiliar with events leading up to the recent RMA report brouhaha, here’s a bit of basic background. From Timeline: David Wray’s Career, in the News and Record (my comments are in [brackets]): July 2003: [David] Wray named chief [of […]