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Daily Archives: August 24th, 2008

Grammar issue

Sunday, August 24, 2008

This morning’s Doonesbury makes note of a phenomenon that, upon reflection, I think is quite real. Why is it that just about everyone who makes reference to Bush’s last place finish puts periods in the phrase “Worst president ever”? We all do it and we all understand why, even if we can’t articulate it completely. […]

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Missile defense

Sunday, August 24, 2008

One of the eternal mysteries of American domestic and foreign policy has to do with the missile defense system, which we learned recently will be deployed in Poland. The system has never worked, and indeed, it seems almost impossible for it to ever work. It is sold as a defensive system, which will shoot down […]

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A brief follow up

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Just before I left for Vermont I noted in a post that the New York Times had failed to even mention Ron Suskind’s book, The Way of the World, or his charges that, among other things, the Bush-Cheneyites ordered the CIA to forge documents implicating Iraq in the events of 9/11. While perusing the Times […]

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