A reader writes:
"Just a report back. The emails have been coming in around 10 to 1 against allowing comments. I’ll take it all under advisement."
Yeah, sure you will …
It’s readers like that who make me want to keep the current format – if only so their well-honed sarcasm doesn’t get drowned out by obscenity and flaming and spam. After Coulter and Imus, I tend to think restraining the impulse to allow any comments any time might be a good thing for a while.
The French entry in this year’s Eurovision song contest:
"The evidence is sufficient that we should move toward the most effective possible steps to remove carbon from the atmosphere," – Newt Gingrich, debating John Kerry on climate change.
The latest from the world of Rove.
Just a report back. The emails have been coming in around 10 to 1 against allowing comments. I’ll take it all under advisement.
A brutal bombing. Analysis here.
(Photo: A man tries to help a seriously injured man after a huge blast in the Government Palace in the center of Algiers City 11 April 2007. At least 17 people were killed and scores injured in a series of car bombs that rocked the Algerian capital, including one that targeted the government headquarters. By Fayez Nuraldine/AFP/Getty.)
A Cornerite criticizes a Republican thus:
He’s a bonapartist or, as Grover puts it, a caesarist. I don’t mean just that he has a big ego and thinks he’s the greatest thing since the hula hoop — that’s pretty much a job requirement for politicians. Instead, (and again, this is just the vibe I get from him, I don’t have any youtube videos to point to) he acts as though he’s the embodiment of the General Will, the personification of the Nation, "the man on the white horse", as the French say. I don’t mean to sound unhinged about the man, but his character — his political temper, at least — is simply incompatible with republican institutions.
George "We Do Not Torture" Bush? Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney? Rudy "Kill The Ferrets" Giuliani? Nah. Those caesarists seem to have made the cut. It’s McCain who summons up these feelings. Sigh.
John Day stands outside his shed on his plot on the Manor Garden Allotments at the heart of the 2012 Olympic site on April 11, 2007 in London, England. John has had an allotment on the site since 1972 growing vegetables for 35 years. Manor Gardens, bequeathed 100 years ago to be allotments ‘in perpetuity’ by their original owner Major Villiers, sit in the proposed North central section of the Olympic Park and are to be removed to make a footpath to the stadium. By Matt Cardy/Getty.
One small editorial comment: this really is the end of England.
A reader writes:
My mom died of lymphoma almost 8 years ago at the age of 72. Never sick a day in her life before this diagnosis. Never smoked, was very active, thin, and otherwise healthy. She ate tons of fresh fruits and vegetables, not because it was healthy but because she preferred them to junk food. Very little meat, lots of fish.
Anyway, she had indolent lymphoma for three and a half years. No symptoms except for small lumps on her neck which came and went. Never missed work. Then, out of the blue, her lymphoma became very aggressive. She was given chemo, but died five weeks after her lymphoma was known to be aggressive.
All the statistics were in her favor – we were told that indolent lymphoma usually, but not always, does not become aggressive. Mom would probably die of old age before the lymphoma. With lymphoma (I don’t know about other cancers) you just have to wait and pray. You just don’t know.
"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus, but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude," – Barack Obama, today.
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