One woman’s experience – and the vulnerability we still have to Jihadist terror.
FIFTY-SIX DECEITS: In “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Dave Kopel has the goods.
BUSH’S MEANS: Jon Chait tackles what he believes are the undemocratic impulses of this administration:
Bush and his allies have been described as partisan or bear-knuckled, but the problem is more fundamental than that. They have routinely violated norms of political conduct, smothered information necessary for informed public debate, and illegitimately exploited government power to perpetuate their rule. These habits are not just mean and nasty. They’re undemocratic.-
Read the whole thing. (Speaking of which, it’s good to find that the poor souls arrested for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts were finally released.)
THE TORIES CRUMBLE: It should have been easy: Tony Blair is on the rocks and a protest vote in two by-elections should go to the main opposition party. But it went to the left-wing Liberal Democrats. The Tories sank from second place to third, winning only 17 percent in one seat. Bottom line: Blair’s main threat is from his own party, not the opposition.
ARTHUR “KILLER” KANE: Of early punk rock fame in the New York Dolls. Another classic Brit obit – this time of an American. Money quote:
Their music was brutal, degenerate, loud – amplified by maximum distortion and feedback, and terribly, terribly bad; their one-time manager Malcolm McLaren (who went on to manage the Sex Pistols) described them as “chaos incarnate”. They released only two albums, including the presciently-entitled Too Much Too Soon.
Nice one.
The Dish 