I’m going to be traveling almost continuously from now until August 4th. It’ll be a thing, hopefully fun. I may post some from Netroots Nation and expect I’ll probably be back, but I’m considering an open-ended sabbatical from online politics and don’t plan to announce anything more about it (I know, you were just hanging on this news, anyway.) It’s just not clear to me what my goals are in all this anymore. Even if blogs don’t suck , they’re a medium with structural constraints that have become more apparent over time. Fwiw.
Anyway, in the meantime, Chairman Markey of the House Global Warming Committee has a few choice words for the White House ’editing’ of this year’s report on global warming . Also, some guy named Tom Slee is taking techno-utopians and free market fundamentalists to task for their blinkered approach to environmental concerns, and rescues stories like "that there are 7-level residenti...
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Admiral FallonFrom: pacificviews.org
Post Date: 2008-03-11 18:02:55
Today, Admiral Fallon resigned his position as head of Centcom . To put this in more common terms, he was the head man for the Iraq war. Some people asked in early days why a Navy man was being put in charge of a land war. Fallon was certainly a capable man, but he ran afoul of his own testimony before the Senate, and was reported to be in favor of exhausting all diplomatic avenues before fighting in the Middle East. Many thought that this meant he was unenthusiastic about some administrat...
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