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RT @peterbakernyt: Forget Syria & spy scandal: Sergei Lavrov expresses outrage over supposed vote theft at Eurovision singing contest. http… - @TimothyNoah1 FTFY: "Liberals [sic]". @LOLGOP
- @MarkGaleotti Agree w/ conclusions a bit but should consider the operational tempo in Moscow and regime's fear of success. @themoscownews
- @edwardlucas Unfortunately Nemtsova's typical travelogue narrative misses most of the salient issues. Symptomatic of that site.
- Agree with it. “@mbk_center: Fascinating argument from @PowerVertical on Kudrin's campaign of indirect criticism. http://t.co/EB5jmTyCMR”
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Shrug
Curmudgeon that we are, we watched the tech and mainstream (drive-by, per El Rushbo?) media’s gyrations over the Apple new doohickey with great bemusement. By all accounts, the iPhone 2.0 is an incremental improvement over its last over priced incarnation. Yet whether out of pavlovian conditioning or truly demented fixation on the trivial, a phone [...]
Libyan Aftermath
Who will care to tweet about Libya now that the bombing is over? The Starbuckian brigades look to Egypt convinced their power to Tweet and change history undiminished. Our bet? No one.
Rightist Collective Narcissism And Why Obama’s Own Fantasy Of Rational Dialogue Is Doomed
(N.B.: this originally was posted in the comments section but upon reflection think it deserves its own post. No worries, no effort to impersonate Krauthammer or a certain Senate Majority Leader with the deliberately stylized prose. Just some observations). Narcissism is an occupational hazard for political leaders. You have to have an outsized ambition and [...]
Prayers For The Fallen
We feel only grief for the fallen at the CIA Afghan base while noting tragically events confirmed our long standing concerns about the Agency’s [sic] operational skills. Our hearts go out to the individuals and their families. Institutionally, however, this catastrophe demands answers to hard questions. You know things are grim when Old Institutional Conventional [...]
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