Sunday, October 29, 2006
“The whole thing smells bad to me.” (05:25 PM) - Tom Temple has voted ‘no’ on the proposed constitution for Dartmouth. I personally hope you, dear reader, will do the same. There are two more days of voting. Find instructions on how to vote at AlumniConstitution.org….
William & Mary Removes Cross from Wren Chapel (04:43 PM) - Even as Dartmouth, in a soft concession to dignity, reinstalls the famous Tiffany and Royal Bavarian stained glass at Rollins Chapel—the biblical windows were removed in 1965 “out of concerns that they were letting too much light into people’s eyes…
Perhaps he was reading the netroots (03:21 PM) - The estimable Tory Fodder commends this funny little Dilbert cartoon, which makes an awfully good point. But it also provoked some memories. Computer nerds my age and older are often wistful for the early days of the Internet. When you’d…
Didn’t Even Get the Puppet Regime (02:32 PM) - On news that Iraq’s prime minister declared that he is a friend of the United States, but not “America’s man in Iraq,” Scott Ott reports: “Rep. Pelosi, the presumptive House Speaker after November’s elections, said, ‘Bush and the Republican Congress…
“Warfare skills eroding as Army fights insurgents” (02:28 PM) - David Wood, one of The Balitmore Sun’s wayward souls, has constructed what is possibly the very stupidest premise in the dense and ancient annals of biased anti-war news coverage….
People Who Don’t Have to Pay Rent Are the Best at Raising It (08:53 AM) - The New York Daily News reveals (It was news, at least, to me.) that New York Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer “has lived rent-free with his family at 985 Fifth Ave. for 13 years.”…
A Toast to Defeat (08:48 AM) - Peggy Noonan is uncertain if a Republican victory next week would be a negative thing. And in the process of communicating that thought, she makes a few keen observations on why the Bush White House is losing steam….
The Elephant in the Room (08:22 AM) - The New York Times prints an article this chilled Sunday morning about pre-election political fervor tearing apart daughters and mothers, families and their friends, because of a tendency to view folks on the other side of the fence as inherently…
He Yelled Himself Hoarse (08:04 AM) - There is a lot for which President Bush will be eternally criticized, once he bids to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a sweet parting. But among those things which history will judge exemplary in Bush: His rolled-up sleeves. For a half-century now,…