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‘Star Trek’ Is Dazzling Fun
We got invited to a morning advance screening of ‘Star Trek’, the new J.J. Abrams re-imagining of the original Trek TV show. The movie is destined for accolades. It simply rocks — as the kidz say — on so many levels. The jaded pre-screening invitees (mostly media and then general assorted parasite types) offered rousing [...]
NIEs On Pakistan And Afghanistan: Same As It Ever Was
NIEs contradict DoD and CENTCOM’s optimistic spin in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nothing will change. Political-military tectonic plates are locked for another decade of war. The only viable possibility to change this outcome would be a possible external shock. One example? Foreign debt penalties imposed for U.S. fiscal recklessness. Otherwise, it’s done. As for granular merits [...]
Iranian Nukes And The Drumbeat For War 2: Armed & Fabulous
After two failed wars, a decade, thousands of deaths and a trillion dollars gone, you’d think the American political class would give the war franchise IP a rest. Hollywood studios, which are really just IP arbitragers, might have counseled it. But things change. And Hollywood could tell any White House 2012 is an eon away [...]
Clooney’s ‘The American’: We Saw It So You Don’t Have To (Slightly Revised)
WHAT: Focus Film’s Clooney vehicle based on Brit Martin Booth’s 1990 novel ‘The American’. WHERE: A state-of-the-art multiplex theater nested in the heart of an Imperial City suburban enclave teaming with massive defense contracting presences and nearby government installations. THE AUDIENCE: Theater 45% filled, average age probably mid 50s, three or so younger couples in [...]
Doktor – put this link in your “we’re all alike afterall ” file – What with the strong Euro bringing Euro tourists to NYC it’s only to be expected that Euro travelers wish to see the American Fat Man in his classic native garb of Homer Simpson t-shirt and sweats. They like to mill around city streets to get a photo of this picturesque classic American archetype.
But many Americans are the same – when they go to Vietnam, they like to photograph classic Vietnamese.
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/11/isnt_it_quaint.php
Watching David Brooks speak to swells at Hay-Adams – he praises HRC for basically being a “serious person.” He then went on in this vain describing who was “serious” and who was not. He must have used the word “serious” at least twenty times in less than five minutes.
This was all very immature status games – Brooks had divided candidates into levels of coolness based purely on electoral chances and perceived willingness to bomb foreigners..
These neocons are overrated intellectually – Not all of them, but many are. It’s so easy to immitate them and mock them. Serious. Waterboarding. Bell Curves. They have so few hobby horses outside the Middle East.
“My daughter’s favorite columnist.”
~David Ignatius 10-9-07
(Introducing David Brooks)
via Gibson’s blog:
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Outsourcing the art could increase the Doktor’s productivity severalfold with only a slight decrease in quality… therefore the market has spoken and it must be done (I miss Colbert)