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| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
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Book fact 
| | First, the 2006 edition doesn't appear to be listed at all. And how come they're not in any kind of order if they're supposedly ranked by "relevancy"? To what? To my complicated query "cia factbook"? And why is the next most relevant volume after 2006 (you'd think) -- World Factbook, 2005 -- ranked at #12? Do these people know what they're doing over there? And they're planning wars and shit? Man, I'm stating to get a real bad feeling about our Central Intelligence Agency. |
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| | Last night at dinner J.D. Lasica asked me if it's true that I "no longer read blogs". No, I said. I still read plenty of blogs. What's different is that I no longer subscribe to specific blogs. Rather, I subscribe to subjects. For example, since I spent the last two days at the Santa Barbara Forum, I subcribe to searches for that, and for the tag sbforum. I'm also still following LinuxWorld and F2C. |
| | I didn't ask, but I'm guessing that J.D. was responding to this March 4th post. In it I said (among other things) that the only blog I read every day is Dave Winer's Scripting News. |
| | I bring this up because there's another blog I've been reading every day as well: Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish. Andrew leans conservative (read his remembrance of Ronald Reagan), but he belongs to no echo chamber. His observations are always sharp, even when he is deeply conflicted about their subjects. |
| | As I've watched the Bush Administration slowly fail, I've come to rely on Andrew to help make sense of it. Take, for example, yesterday's Revenger's Tragedy? and today's A Bush Collapse. From the latter: |
| | Historians will figure this out, but my own view is that Katrina did it. Katrina was the equivalent of Toto pulling back the curtain. Once Bush's passivity, indolence and arrogance were put on full display, once it was apparent that the government was not working, and that Bush was the reason, people figured out why the war in Iraq was such a shambles. And so the mystique required to sustain patriarchal authority was shattered. I think this is largely irreparable because it's about a basic assessment of a single man. What worries me is that we have almost three more years. If we face a confrontation or a crisis, this president will not be able to carry Americans with him. Our enemies will take comfort from this. Which is why re-electing him was such a terrible risk. |
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