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Daily Archives: November 27th, 2007

Soft bigotry of no expectations

In today’s Times we learn that Bush still eschews the hands on approach to Mid-East peace that Bill Clinton took in his final days in office. Besides the reflexive position that anything Clinton did was bad, there’s another consideration motivating Bush. He’d be risking visible failure, and he doesn’t like to do that. Unlike Clinton […]

Weapons of mass distraction, Courant edition

I was so disappointed this morning as I perused the front page of the Courant. Not a single story about a disabled person struggling mightily against their particular disability. But I perked up soon enough, because there in the place where I expected my daily dose of pathos was a vitally important story about three […]