Friday, May 05, 2006
‘08 Potentials Speak at College Commencements (05:55 PM) - I posted earlier this week on Dartmouth’s commencement speaker (Elie Wiesel) and the other announced speakers at peer schools. Dartmouth probably has got itself the best in this group. But the real winners in the graduation speakerstakes are the ones…
Escape from the D.C. Seraglio (03:33 PM) - It was a close one but, no, Pat Kennedy didn’t do anything wrong, see: He’s being checked into rehab for addiction to painkillers, his father praises his honesty, and the spotlight is searing Ambien….
Ahmadinejad Mounts the Hussein Media Strategy (01:12 PM) - The familiar old dance—that between a dishonest, unstable, extremist Muslim land and the sane part of the world, and danced over the question of the former’s weapons systems—continues with Iran. And she’s only getting better at the game. Iranian President…
Old Console Ops Don’t Die, They Write Tell-All Books (11:45 AM) - Recording guys are some of the swellest you’ll meet. They love music, they know music—they suffuse the musician’s heart with the engineer’s brain—and though they contribute as much artistic effort to a release as the players themselves, engineers don’t get…
The Note’s Prognosis (10:01 AM) - Mark Halperin and friends, writing in their daily e-mail briefing to ABC News’ political unit:Cable and then the broadcast evening shows will be all over the Kennedy story today, but, in the end (within 72 hours, we mean), it will…
“The Only Man in the Courtroom” (09:30 AM) - The circus-like Moussaoui trial provides John Derbyshire cause to claim again that we are all doomed. Except the part about Moussaoui being locked in a cage for the next 95.83% of his hours on Earth with no way to communicate…
New is Better (08:24 AM) - In just a handful of days Dartmouth will be host to something called “The Festival of New Musics”. Evidently the thing has been running for twenty-seven years. I can’t imagine any of it will be any good. How do I…
Perhaps If We Just Stop Making Electricity and Unbuild the Cities and Slay for Apollo a lamb… (08:07 AM) - A funny thing about liberals, especially when they stray off the Big Government pathway and into the tall, tall grass of left-wing energy policy, is that at their core they are conservative. Very, very conservative. Nuclear power? Too newfangled. Coal,…
Hallelujah (07:56 AM) - The New Hampshire state senate has, according to the Dartmouth, passed a bill that will require college students and other transients to actually change their domicile in order to vote as a New Hampshire resident. Previously, college students could—and did—vote…
A Tragedy in One Act (07:05 AM) - At 2:45 in the morning, at the intersection of 1st and C streets in the District of Columbia, there sat a crashed green Ford Mustang driven by a member of the House of Representatives. When a police officer, who had…