Song for a Sunday

A warning – this one contains words of dirt and hate:

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The Friday Freebie

The Friday Freebie is where I share an online, open-access resource that I think readers might find interesting and useful. Each week, I will introduce a free resource that I think will be useful to teh angry Leftists – books, podcasts, web sites, etc. The aim is to compile a toolkit for understanding and advancing [...]

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Bush Legacy Project

With just a few days remaining in George W Bush’s Presidency, we’re seeing plenty of retrospectives and evaluations. Half of them are being delivered by Bush himself; the other half are by members of the reality-based community.
To recognise this historic point in history and celebrate the departure of this administration, I thought we should collect [...]

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I will say no more

No links; no pictures; just a few quick comments:

John Winston Howard – I’m glad you enjoyed the ceremony and the kind words your mate had for you. But when an unpopular lame duck gives a medal to a leader who lost his own seat, don’t be so foolish as to think it reflects the views [...]

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Book Review

“Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power“ by Fred Kaplan (Wiley, 2008).
I just finished reading this book last night and posted a review to my weRead app on Facebook; here’s a copy of what I had to say:
(4.5 out of 5)
An excellent examination of the foreign policy ideas that drove the Bush [...]

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Bizarro Awards

An expert panel made up of George Walker Bush has decided that John Winston Howard should be recognised for his “efforts to promote democracy, human rights and peace abroad.” Apparently, engaging in a military invasion counts as promoting peace abroad, and supporting another country’s use of torture enhanced interrogation techniques and long-term detention without charge, [...]

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More W-R-O-N-G-!

So, this is becoming a pattern:

The Australian reports something about Government communications based on anonymous sources.
The Opposition insists that the matter be investigated and explained.
The Government and corroborating sources (e.g., the Treasury Secretary, the White House, etc.) refute the original report.
The Opposition continues to insist that the matter be investigated and explained.
The Opposition looks foolish.

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What’s an investigation?

Andrew Bolt is gunning for Krudd (if I may use the vernacular). He has been running a series of blog posts calling on the media to investigate “Rudd’s betrayal of Bush“. I have had several thoughts in reaction to this:

What a shame that Bolt apparently doesn’t have the skill or motivation to perform his own [...]

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Heckuva job

Boss Man’s all over this one. He’s on the phone, holding the red “Classified” folder, not shooting finger-pistols at the photographer. Awesome Presidenting.
You can’t say he doesn’t learn from his mistakes. Destroy one of my cities with a hurricane while I throw a party for John McCain once, shame on you. Destroy one of my [...]

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The Bush administration and South Ossetia

A couple of interesting perspectives on the position the Bush administration has created and how it affects their response to the war in Georgia:

Brandon Friedman notes that America’s military entanglements, particularly in Iraq, weaken both its moral authority and its military capacity to deter Russia.
Fred Kaplan looks at how the Bush administration led (and continues [...]

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