The Imperial City And The World
The Stiftung conducted a recon in force up the 95 corridor. We clearly have a mole. Someone alerted the Center City, Philadelphia Front. Our arrival was anticipated. Every roadway turned into savage anti-tank traps capable of eviscerating the … [Continue reading]
This take by TNR's Michael Crowley on HRC's start at State seems perceptive although tending towards soft HRC bashing. Its opening is appropriately evocative: The seventh floor of the U.S. State Department is a generally dreary place. Its … [Continue reading]
The CSPAN 'historians' list of presidential rankings offers the usual suspects: 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. George Washington 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt 4. Theodore Roosevelt 5. Harry S. Truman 6. John F. Kennedy 7. Thomas … [Continue reading]
We spent most of Friday the 13th liaising or otherwise gabbing with a part of our Movement network. Our gossip centered on the Obama cabinet two steps. Our conversation partners? Lurkers from the Movement Id's dankest recesses. These are long … [Continue reading]
It's an old geek conceit that their latest infatuation is genius for 'the dude who rocks da eyballs to the skull, man he has a *plan*!' All those seemingly disjointed false starts the last 9 episodes? Critics stop harshing! It's in the plan, man. … [Continue reading]