Not so heavy dish this morning because I spent one of the most enjoyable evenings in a very long time. Lecture by Steven Pinker at AEI, dinner afterwards, then off to “Lost In Translation,” the sublime Sofia Coppola movie. Then home to news of Arnold’s triumph. You have to savor days like this. Now to walk the beagle …
RAINES AWARD NOMINEE: “Behind a seemingly calm facade, with Damascus toothless to respond militarily to the deepest Israeli air raid in Syria in three decades, the Arab world was reeling Monday from the idea that yet a third major conflict could erupt in the Middle East. Already, the region is traumatized by the open wound that Israeli-Palestinian clashes have become and by an American-occupied Iraq teetering on the brink of bedlam.” – Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times. The “brink of bedlam?” And what evidence is there of that? None given. Gee, do you think MacFarquhar was opposed to the war? More anti-war spin from the NYT. The spirit of Raines is back.
The Dish 