http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ en-us calpundit@cox.net 2005-11-07T23:34:09-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007514.php CRIMINALIZING POLITICS....A FOLLOWUP....A few days ago I wrote a post wondering who had first coined the term "criminalizing politics," and I'm sure that since then you've all been waiting on the edge of your collective seats for the answer. So... 7514@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-07T23:34:09-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007513.php ALL ABOUT CHENEY....Over at Slate, Daniel Benjamin regales us with yet another tale about Douglas "fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth" Feith and his approach to marketing the Iraq war:Larry Wilkerson recounted the story of a meeting... 7513@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-07T21:11:14-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007512.php LEVIN ON IRAQ....Over at TPMCafe, Ivo Daalder says that Senator Carl Levin has been "more right on Iraq for a longer period than just about anyone else." So what does Levin think our plan should be? In the Washington Post... 7512@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-07T14:00:03-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007511.php PROPOSITION 77....As regular readers know, I routinely vote No on all California ballot initiatives unless they strike me as overwhelmingly positive. I'm not sure that I'd vote for any of the initiatives in tomorrow's special election even under a looser... 7511@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-07T12:45:43-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007510.php "WE DO NOT TORTURE"....President Bush today:Any activity we conduct is within the law. We do not torture.Fine. Then shut down the black sites, tell Dick Cheney to stop lobbying against the McCain amendment, and allow the Red Cross unfettered access... 7510@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-07T12:26:29-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007509.php TORTURE AND THE VICE PRESIDENT....PART 2....Dana Priest and Robin Wright report today that Dick Cheney is rapidly finding himself isolated on the issue of government sponsored torture of prisoners:Cheney's camp is a "shrinking island," said one State Department official who,... 7509@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-07T00:13:59-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007508.php CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS....This comes under the heading of "too much time on my hands," but I feel like sharing this. Do you know how many constitutional amendments have been proposed in just the past year? According to Thomas, there have been... 7508@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-06T19:44:47-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007507.php INTROVERTS AND EXTROVERTS....Ann Althouse informs us that the most emailed article at The Atlantic's website this week was Jonathan Rauch's "Caring for Your Introvert," written two years ago. The title is a bit of a misnomer, though, since Rauch's advice,... 7507@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-06T15:53:08-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007506.php NSLs....Since the Washington Post was nice enough to create an excellent graphical summary of Barton Gellman's front page story about the skyrocketing use of "National Security Letters," I'm going to reproduce it here instead of writing my own summary. When... 7506@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-06T13:26:46-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007505.php THE PARIS RIOTS....Over at the European Tribune, Jérôme à Paris writes that the Paris rioting has hit his aunt's neighborhood, and he has something he wants to clear up:One thing to note is that these neighboroods are not ghettos. My... 7505@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-06T13:02:21-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007504.php TORTURE AND THE VICE PRESIDENT....As I mentioned yesterday, Sunday's New York Times carries a story about Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, an al-Qaeda prisoner captured shortly after 9/11. According to a newly declassified memo, not only did al-Libi provide us with false... 7504@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-06T02:27:26-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007503.php MISUNDERSTOOD PHRASES....In a comment to a previous post, James E. Powell says the following about Marshall McLuhan's famous phrase, "The medium is the message":The phrase, and the analytical thought behind it, is second only to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in the... 7503@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-05T19:33:38-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007502.php MOVIE REVIEW-ETTES....I saw a couple of movies last week: In Her Shoes was terrific, one of the best films I've seen this year. Toni Collette did an outstanding job as Cameron Diaz's good girl sister and, unlike so many movies... 7502@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-05T18:19:50-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007501.php MARKETING THE WAR....UPDATE....Via Atrios, this is an example of what I was talking about yesterday. It's a preview of an article in Sunday's New York Times by Doug Jehl:A newly declassified memo...shows that an al-Qaeda official in American custody was... 7501@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-05T15:58:14-05:00 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007500.php THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE....Check this out:With only days before Tuesday's special election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to jolt the campaign by taking unscripted questions from voters on live television appears to be stumbling....It's pretty depressing that this is a... 7500@http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ 2005-11-05T13:11:40-05:00