The things we bring and the things we take.

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Posted at 30 March 07 at 11.03 in Guest Authors

The George W. Bush Presidential Plan for Iraq looks a lot like the scheme of the underpants gnomes on South Park. The ??? part of the Bush administration’s plan for Iraq is how, exactly, we get from a stable Sadr City with 140,000 U.S. troops in country to a peaceful nation with zero American troops in it.

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Posted at 27 March 07 at 20.03 in Politics

Outlook, the Washington Post’s Sunday opinion section, featured a lengthy piece by Zbigniew Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor) on the war on terror – or, more accurately, on the culture of fear created and perpetuated by the Bush administration and security contractors to maintain political power and make a lot of money. He’s got some great points.

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Posted at 25 March 07 at 17.03 in Politics, Culture

It was Spring Break Sophomore Year (SBY2K7)

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Posted at 25 March 07 at 12.03 in Guest Authors

A 21-year-old rambles…

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Posted at 24 March 07 at 15.03 in Guest Authors

There are two reasons one might want a job in Washington, DC. The ones who succeed at getting the job are the ones that have the right mix (or, I should add cynically, the ones that at least seem to).

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Posted at 23 March 07 at 17.03 in Politics

A YouTube video mashing up the infamous Apple Macintosh hammer throw/big brother commercial from the 1984 Olympics with Hillary Clinton speeches is getting a lot of press – even though it’s stupid.

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Posted at 22 March 07 at 19.03 in Politics, Obama 08

Friday’s Post carried a story reflecting on the 1967 march on the Pentagon that Lyndon Johnson’s attorney general says was a turning point in public opinion on Vietnam. Yesterday, forty years later, the march was repeated. My, how times have changed.

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Posted at 17 March 07 at 17.03 in Politics, Culture