tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57079372011-04-21T14:18:24.237-04:00The Critical ConditionThe Enlightenment died today. Or, maybe, yesterday. I can't be sure.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.comBlogger2501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1134584585776698392005-12-14T13:22:00.000-05:002005-12-14T13:23:05.786-05:00Another changeI am now blogging over at The Apollo Creed with Wendy Ginsberg and several bloggers to be named later.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1133407508809772692005-11-30T22:25:00.000-05:002005-12-12T17:39:39.086-05:00Look at this pathetic blowhardYou have to wonder if he knows how he will be portrayed in the history books. The military historian Martin Ven Creveld believes that Bush committed the worst strategic mistake since the Roman incursion into Germany in 9 B.C. by invading Iraq, and a majority of the American people believe they were misled into a disastrous war that has gained them nothing but severalDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1133052990255850892005-11-26T19:56:00.000-05:002005-12-01T09:44:38.046-05:00What is wrong with these people?Ask yourself some questions about this picture: What sort of person gets up before 5 a.m. and lines up outside a Wal-mart in the blistering cold? What sort of company manipulates people in such a way? Isn't it in many ways sad that consumerism is perhaps the greatest aspiration of American culture?I don't care if they were offering $1,000 plasma televisions for a David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1132773110591011432005-11-23T14:11:00.000-05:002005-11-23T14:22:53.270-05:00Wednesday Cat Blogging Alyan has heard from his friend in the Marines, and he thinks your plan to pull out of Iraq is treasonous. And he doesn't care how many medals you won in some stupid war that took place like, 30 years ago. Cats only live 20 years!David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1130519438508725332005-10-28T11:47:00.000-04:002005-12-01T09:41:18.580-05:00Creeping Robber-BaronismThe new economy, also known as "the ownership society" is beginning to take shape. Someone at that noted humanitarian organization, Wal-Mart, leaked a memo outlining the steps the company will take to tackle its 300-pound health care linebacker: "rolling all employees from traditional insurance to health-savings accounts, reducing company 401(k) contributions by 25 percentDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1130128869622923872005-10-24T00:41:00.000-04:002005-10-24T00:49:44.830-04:00Sunday cat-bloggingAlyan hates that you Democrats are always trying to criminalize politics. He's said it before and he'll say it again: Objectively Pro-Saddam. David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1127271788851045982005-09-20T23:03:00.000-04:002005-09-21T08:08:33.026-04:00Tuesday Cat BloggingMiles believes we should use New Orleans as a ground-zero testing ground for crappy conservative ideas like vouchers and the flat tax. He also -- and he's very serious about this -- believes that "Brownie" did a heckuva job.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1126748443633431952005-09-14T21:17:00.000-04:002005-09-14T21:40:43.670-04:00Stiffen that upper lipIt always brings a smile to my face when Republicans argue that Democrats are the party of elitism. Apparently because the vanishingly small population of humanities Ph.D's favor the donkey, it means the Republicans are the party of the people. The trouble is that whenever you dig a little deeper, you see very quickly what the actual values of the Republican party are. They David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1126141903957011692005-09-07T21:11:00.000-04:002005-09-07T21:12:50.660-04:00Wednesday Cat Blogging Miles believes that state and local officials should own up to their responsibility for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina. And he's tired of you playing the BLAME GAME.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1126137491195954092005-09-07T19:58:00.000-04:002005-09-07T20:08:40.043-04:00Wednesday Cat Blogging Alyan resents your exploitation of Hurricane Katrina for partisan gain. Shame on you.(Yes, I'm ripping off The Editors.)David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1125886706259519672005-09-04T21:23:00.000-04:002005-12-01T09:43:18.966-05:00Left BehindSomething has finally come along to distract everyone from the apalling fiasco in Iraq, which is the heartbreaking and humiliating catastrophe on the Gulf Coast, and particularly in New Orleans. The most horrifying part of Katrina and its aftermath is that it could have been and very nearly was much worse. For 24 hours prior to landfall, experts were speculating that New Orleans was David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1125554419111547472005-09-01T01:59:00.000-04:002005-09-01T02:00:19.116-04:00Dead Louisianians would have loved their Iraqi freedomUnbelievable.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1124167452046221552005-08-16T00:27:00.000-04:002005-08-16T00:44:12.076-04:00Your fellow Americans are mugglesApparently George Bush's neighbors grudgingly admit that grieving mother Cindy Sheehan has the right to protest outside the President's "ranch." But they seem to have some funny ideas about terrorism:Many Bush supporters say the president has little to gain politically by meeting with Sheehan. "I have no problem with what these people are doing here. This is David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1123950574577527122005-08-13T11:26:00.000-04:002005-08-13T12:29:34.636-04:00The future of Iraq, the future of AmericaYesterday the price of a barrell of oil spiked up to $67, which is nearly seven times what it was trading for six years ago. Though the markets are nervous about Iran's nuclear program and the instability in Iraq, there is nothing obviously driving up the price -- no boycott, no massive disruption, just the slow realization that the oil is running out and David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1121369471348152442005-07-14T15:26:00.000-04:002005-07-20T11:55:41.383-04:00And we're only six months into the second termThe hour has finally arrived for the balance on the Supreme Court to be tilted to the right. I know a number of people who are greatly concerned about the upcoming fight for the confirmation of John Roberts, and I don't doubt that it will a long and important political battle. But I can't help but feel that this skirmish was lost 8 months ago when David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1121369149105146212005-07-14T15:23:00.000-04:002005-07-14T15:25:49.113-04:00New formatWhile I presume that most people have stopped reading this thing due to the paucity of posts, I'm going to unveil a new post here that I hope to stick to. Future posts are going to take the form of a weekly essay on national and world affairs, which is a better fit for me, since I was long accustomed to writing at that pace in college, and anyway, I don't have that much to say about theDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1118758092107164942005-06-14T09:09:00.000-04:002005-06-14T10:08:12.153-04:00Things are not going wellIt looks like we've passed so many turning points in Iraq that we've ended up driving around in a circle. For those of you who've been watching the news reports and wondering how the recent insurgency stacks up against the average month in Iraq, the news isn't good. An average of 2.57 coalition soldiers are dying every day as we head into the long, blistering summer. The David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1117569975013851252005-05-31T15:15:00.000-04:002005-05-31T16:06:15.060-04:00oil's endIt looks like some mainstream news sources are beginning to pick up on the impending oil crisis. The AP's Matt Crenson posted a story a few days back. He writes,And then it really will be all downhill. The price of oil will increase drastically. Major oil-consuming countries will experience crippling inflation, unemployment and economic instability. Princeton University geologist KennethDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1115421527828144572005-05-06T19:01:00.000-04:002005-05-06T19:18:47.940-04:00Bankrupt media: Exhibit ALadies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard many a blogger bloviate about the media, which they derisively call the "MSM" (that's Mainstream Media for those of you who don't read blogs two hours a day). Some of this is pure sophistry, Monday morning quarterbacking, and jealousy, but some of it sticks. The charge with the most stickiness is this one: journalists have David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1115322938424191472005-05-05T15:55:00.000-04:002005-05-05T16:06:29.416-04:00Knowing things helps you avoid stupid commentsLittle Green Footballs posts this picture of a Hamas campaign blimp under the headline "Suicide Blimp," and then leaves it esssentially without commentary. Readers are supposed to understand that this blimp is advertising suicide bombing for the deranged Palestinian masses or something, and we're all supposed to get a kick out of how superior we are David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1114749767107775092005-04-29T00:02:00.000-04:002005-04-29T00:47:58.873-04:00What to say?I haven't been around the blogosphere lately, partly because I'm extremely busy, but partly because I'm totally detached from the whole Pope business. Still, I can't help but feeling that the wheels are coming off this whole thing. Oil is still absurdly high, and some scientists believe we've hit peak oil, the point at which production will begin to decline as demand skyrockets. I David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1114010326769742262005-04-20T11:15:00.000-04:002005-04-20T11:18:46.770-04:00OH MY GOD, STOP EVERYTHING!The National Review -- The National Review! -- has published an article criticizing the salaries of corporate executives. And no, it's not a joke issue. I can just imagine the look on Donald Luskin's face when he loaded the web page this morning and saw his boss saying something negative about capitalism. I mean, it must have totally ruined his morning recitation of DowDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1113069057711962932005-04-09T13:50:00.000-04:002005-04-09T23:51:28.016-04:00Hang on there, Horowitz: Sliming via distorted photos and innuendoThis may have flown under the radar of normal people who don't think that John Kerry Hearts Osama Bin Laden, but David Horowitz and his creepy cronies at Frontpage have created something called DiscoverTheNetwork.org, which links people like the fanatical obscurantist terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with the eloquent liberal public David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1112411686270645172005-04-01T22:09:00.000-05:002005-04-01T22:26:20.083-05:00The full textHere is a link to the full text of Brendan O'Leary's address after September 11th. In the first paragraph he refers to the events as "apalling atrocities." He most clearly does not come off as a "terror apologist," merely as someone trying to understand what happened that terrible day. Shame on Laksin for not even linking to these remarks or providing the full context. However, we David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1112299213812233972005-03-31T14:56:00.000-05:002005-04-01T22:07:35.816-05:00My professors get slimedOne of David Horowitz's sleazy attack poodles has written an outrageous article smearing Professors Brendan O'Leary, Clark McCauley, and Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania. Lustick has been slimed by this crew before, particularly by Dan Pipes and his band of grade-grubbing whiners at Campus Watch, but this is the first attack I've seen on O'Leary, and it's David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111766012525924642005-03-25T10:51:00.000-05:002005-03-25T10:53:32.526-05:00QuestionWhat are Chuck Schumer and Frank Lautenberg doing on the board of an organization that unabashedly publishes Bush administration propaganda? That's what Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh are for!David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111764065647622452005-03-25T10:15:00.000-05:002005-03-30T16:17:34.220-05:00I'll have pre-emptive war on the rocksAt the Foundation for the Defense of George Bush's foreign policy U.S. hegemony completely unsustainable hypotheses Democracies, Cliff May says the history of the Iraq War is being twisted by Evil Liberals. You see, it really wasn't about Weapons of Mass Destruction at all, it was about those 23 other reasons that the U.S. Senate supplied as justification forDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111763334618863302005-03-25T10:04:00.000-05:002005-03-31T23:13:40.760-05:00Note to the convertedFor the 74% of Americans who think Congressional interference in the Schiavo matter is a political stunt, the 82% who would want to die in Schiavo's position, the 66% of Americans who disapprove of the job Congress is doing, and the 57% of Americans who disapprove of George W. Bush's performance as president, I have just one thing to ask you:Can someone vouch for your David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111466856735220452005-03-21T23:40:00.000-05:002005-03-21T23:47:36.736-05:00David Horowitz can't take a jokeThe narcissistic right-wing pundit and self-promoter David Horowitz, who spearheads the movement to destroy academic tenure by sending brainwashed young conservatives into classrooms in order to complain their way out of bad grades, objects to this satire by Billmon. He then goes on to pedantically point out the difference between Chinese Maoists and Students For David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111466447687594232005-03-21T23:26:00.000-05:002005-03-21T23:49:03.380-05:00Surprised and disappointedI thought that a few genuine, free-thinking conservatives would object to the actions of Congress in the Terry Schiavo case. I even thought that one or two of them might write for the National Review. Instead, it has published a series of hysterical and ludicrous articles by Andrew McCarthy, who argues that allowing Schiavo to die is "torture," and that those who take David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111445333819990502005-03-21T17:31:00.000-05:002005-03-31T23:14:13.130-05:00More Bush overreachI think that the GOP may regret tossing aside principle and precedent in the Schiavo case. A new poll says that an astounding 70 percent of Americans believe that federal intervention in the case is wrong, and 2/3 believe that this is a stunt conducted by the political right for electoral gain. Hack Republican legislators have seriously overestimated the constituency for David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111444174008505452005-03-21T17:28:00.000-05:002005-03-21T17:30:18.350-05:00Why don't you re-insert your feeding tube!Dahlia Lithwick is righteously pissed about Congressional overreach in the Schiavo case. Go read it.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111270292198681422005-03-19T17:09:00.000-05:002005-03-20T08:56:09.393-05:00ferchrissakesHow many times can the Enlightenment die in one year?I hope these posts offer sufficient testimony that I do not wish to ever be kept alive in a PVS (or even a Minimally Conscious State) by a feeding tube, nor do I wish for sanctimonious GOP legislators, acting out of nothing more than electoral calculation, probably without even reading the relevant medical documents and evidence, David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111269901239898992005-03-19T16:59:00.000-05:002005-03-20T10:30:00.810-05:00Medical opinions on SchiavoRespectful of Otters has what I think is the definitive smack-down of those who claim that Schiavo's videos contain evidence of purposive brain function. The key passage:So the presence of smiles, grimaces, vocalizations, and eye movements alone is not relevant to the question of whether Schiavo has retained any degree of consciousness or may benefit from therapy. They David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111268111052882082005-03-19T11:37:00.000-05:002005-03-20T10:30:56.543-05:00More thoughts on the Schiavo caseMatt over at Cognitive Dissonance wonders why the Schiavo case breaks down along left-right lines and argues that liberals are being inconsistent when they argue for the removal of her feeding tube:Others have argued with me that the doctors have declared that Terri is in a persistent vegetative state and that is good enough for them. Well, as is typical, the David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111165639877618622005-03-18T11:49:00.000-05:002005-03-31T23:15:16.660-05:00Someone slap the headline writerThe AP says that "GOP Asks Brain-Damaged Woman to Testify." Well, that seems reasonable enough until you read the story. You see, there's a big difference between brain-damaged and brain-dead. Rick Santorum and Ann Coulter are brain-damaged. Terry Schiavo is brain-dead.In a transparently procedural move, the radical clerics in Congress want to put off the date of David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1111014481726978492005-03-16T17:47:00.000-05:002005-03-31T23:16:02.093-05:00Explain why David Horowitz is a foolSomeone has finally caught the bloviating right-wing ideologue David Horowitz and his gang of student bellyachers in a massive lie. Horowitz has relentlessly flogged the story of the Colorado student who was asked on an exam to "explain why George Bush is a war criminal." The student claimed that she, instead, explained why Saddam Hussein is a war criminal, andDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110610592782718072005-03-12T01:56:00.000-05:002005-03-12T02:03:16.223-05:00Today's Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper Prize:"The Democrats might thereby mature from the insistence of too many that nothing be done about pressing questions (such as Iraq). They might grow beyond limiting their support for "choice" to issues such as abortion. Indeed, by returning to a positive mode about fixing Social Security rather than unadulterated negativism - by rejoining the debate - they David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110609785165505032005-03-12T01:31:00.000-05:002005-03-12T01:46:33.520-05:00No one understands LebanonOne of the things you notice pretty quickly when surveying the press coverage of Lebanon is that not only do reporters and pundits not understand Lebanese politics, they don't even understand Lebanese political institutions. A case in point -- the most recent column from Trudy Rubin, the resident foreign affairs columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. I like Rubin, and David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110492613642855432005-03-10T17:10:00.000-05:002005-03-10T17:42:15.330-05:00The right appropriates hot Lebanese womenLike a bunch of fatuous, drooling dogs, neo-con armchair revolutionaries are falling all over themselves to genuflect before the doe-eyed lady demonstrators in Beirut. I knew before that sex is used to sell pretty much everything in this world, but this is something entirely new. The sex appeal of Lebanese women is being used to drum up support for the David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110428206266554292005-03-09T23:11:00.000-05:002005-03-09T23:21:01.223-05:00Wow, wow, and wowFriends and neighbors, you absolutely have to read this article in The New Republic about health care. Arnold Relman, a Harvard prof. and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, methodically demolishes conservative claims about the health care "market" and the solutions currently being proposed for our health care crisis. To make a long story short, he argues that David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110426559924288862005-03-09T22:48:00.000-05:002005-03-09T22:49:19.926-05:00My blog needed a haircutThe old layout reminded me of Black Tuesday and all the Kerryblogging I did. It had to go. Hope you like the new look.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110390183223876982005-03-09T12:36:00.000-05:002005-03-09T12:43:03.226-05:00The good guys win for a changeThe University of Pennsylvania announced recently that it might bring a Taco Bell onto campus, which touched off a controversy due to the company's ongoing battle with Florida tomato pickers, most of whom make subhuman wages and work in deplorable conditions. The DP's Alex Koppelman writes:Florida's tomato industry, which supplies Taco Bell, has been the site of someDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110348089864909342005-03-09T00:46:00.000-05:002005-03-09T01:01:29.866-05:00While you weren't lookingRepublican corporate enforcers and their Democratic fellow travelers are about to enact an aggressively regressive piece of legislation that "reforms" bankruptcy law. To make a long story short, GOP thugs don't like the fact that some people are able to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which wipes out your debts and ruins your credit. To make sure that credit card companies David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110303142346405352005-03-08T12:16:00.000-05:002005-03-08T17:46:33.843-05:00Tom Friedman strikes againFriedman takes a lot of abuse, partly because he manages to infuriate people on both sides of the political spectrum with his foreign policy commentary. But sometimes that abuse is justified, as in yesterday's NYT column. He writes:For the life of me, I simply do not understand why President Bush is objecting to the European Union's selling arms to China, ending a 16-David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110260810291152882005-03-08T00:46:00.000-05:002005-03-08T00:55:25.753-05:00Today's Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper Prize:"In the produce section of the grocery store, the lowly cucumber is about to achieve an elevated position in some Montgomery County, Md., public schools. Montgomery County has long been known as a "bedroom community" in the affluent Washington, D.C., suburbs - an appropriate moniker given what young students are about to be taught.The school system David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1110159688501051172005-03-06T20:08:00.000-05:002005-03-06T20:42:01.336-05:00The fourth wave?Foreign policy wonks are understandably excited about the goings-on in the Middle East. January's elections in Iraq have now been followed by Mubarak's opening of the presidential elections to other political parties and Lebanon's popular agitation against its Syrian-dominated government. Aside from really wanting to be in Beirut right now, I've been trying to gather together someDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1107303633618019112005-02-01T19:19:00.000-05:002005-02-01T19:20:33.616-05:00The new blog
It's called Secular Crackers, and it's located here. I'll be sharing posting duties with several people, which hopefully will keep the content flowing.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1106970151669241322005-01-28T22:41:00.000-05:002005-01-28T22:42:31.670-05:00Going dark again
I'm starting a new site with a few of my very brilliant friends. I'll post the link soon.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1106409574197599452005-01-22T10:24:00.000-05:002005-01-22T10:59:34.196-05:00Am I a Crazy Lefty?
Over at Right Wing News, they've designed a quiz to see if you're a commie-loving softie. Most of the questions are patently absurd, but let's have fun with it anyway. Here goes:
1) Do you think a significant percentage of prominent Republicans would secretly like to see the US become a theocracy?
No, but I do believe there a number of prominent Republican lawmakers and David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1106323714503460222005-01-21T11:05:00.000-05:002005-01-21T11:08:34.503-05:00Group blog?
Ok, so I've been toying with this idea for a while now. The problem is that I don't have the time, energy, or resources to post to this blog every single day, which is what it takes if you want anyone to read you. I go through streaks of posting six times a day, but then my advisor cracks down on me and wants a prospectus draft (the nerve!) and so I have to disappear for a while. Not David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1106323223268732322005-01-21T10:59:00.000-05:002005-01-21T11:00:23.266-05:00Aren't they supposed to be tougher in the red states?
Heel-high snow paralyzes North Carolina.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1106322933441479932005-01-21T10:53:00.000-05:002005-01-21T10:55:33.440-05:00Great news, everyone!
There are officially less than 4 years left until we inaugurate a new president. Well, 1,460 days, to be precise. You can make your own calculations here.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105820081102600702005-01-15T15:06:00.000-05:002005-01-15T15:14:41.103-05:00In order to save Fallujah...
The L.A. Times reports from Fallujah:
"It's kind of bad we destroyed everything, but at least we gave them a chance for a new start," said Navy corpsman Derrick Anthony, 21, of Chicago.
Remind anyone of any famous quote from the Vietnam War? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that maybe Arnett made it up, but no one can actually prove it.)
I also think the headline writersDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105818946712866182005-01-15T14:50:00.000-05:002005-01-15T14:55:46.713-05:00Moral clarity
Boy, that Iraq war really revolutionized the political landscape in the Middle East, didn't it? I guess Jordan didn't get the memo that freedom was on the march. But I'm sure we can all agree that since King Abdullah typically toes the U.S. foreign policy line, we don't really care about repression in his country.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105716546118459682005-01-14T10:17:00.000-05:002005-01-14T10:29:06.116-05:00Dear Constituent: F*** You!
So a few weeks ago Christine sent a letter to our man in Harrisburg, Rick Santorum, about the President's idiotic and dishonest "abstinence only" education programs, better known as "Lying to ourselves and our children about sex." Let's just say that she doesn't approve of these programs. Yesterday we received a letter from Senator Homophobe that reads:
Dear Ms. David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105574755453728212005-01-12T19:02:00.000-05:002005-01-12T19:05:55.453-05:00Department of East is West
From the AP:
While Washington insists it has a "strong dollar" policy, many analysts believe the U.S. government is content to see the dollar fall because it makes U.S. exports cheaper. Comments reaffirming the "strong dollar" policy this week by U.S Treasury Secretary John Snow were seen by markets as indicating a hands-off approach and failed to strengthen the David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105418777266493572005-01-10T23:30:00.000-05:002005-01-10T23:46:17.266-05:00Stratfor says its over
Via Andrew Sullivan and James Wolcott, the hawkish strategic studies outfit Stratfor believes that the United States has lost its counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq. I don't have a subscription, so I can't peek, but Sullivan quotes:
The issue facing the Bush administration is simple. It can continue to fight the war as it has, hoping that a miracle will bring successes inDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105416543379672602005-01-10T23:06:00.000-05:002005-01-10T23:09:03.380-05:00They like, take pictures of you in New York and junk?
Randy Johnson takes exception to a tabloid photographer. Oh Big Unit, the world shakes its head with you at the incredible cruelty of the New York media. It almost makes a person want to play somewhere calm and friendly, somewhere like...Phoenix.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105334204640382052005-01-10T01:11:00.000-05:002005-01-10T00:16:44.650-05:00Thank Christ
I can watch baseball this year. Beltran signs with the Mets, negating my "No Baseball if the Yankees get Johnson and Beltran" pledge. That was a hollow promise if ever there was one, so at least now I don't have to be exposed as a liar.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105215153414624572005-01-08T15:09:00.000-05:002005-01-08T15:12:33.413-05:00What's a "nasty list"?
From the AP:
Unable to find a candidate willing to oppose the independent-minded Egyptian diplomat, Washington is now quietly lobbying other member states in ElBaradei's International Atomic Energy Agency in a bid to unseat him by June, opening the way for a replacement more to the Bush administration's liking — one harder on Iran and other nations on the U.S. nasty list.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1105127495960343262005-01-07T14:50:00.000-05:002005-01-07T14:51:35.960-05:00Look on the bright side!
Horrific calamity reverses beachside development.
Yeesh.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1104783749355031262005-01-03T15:19:00.000-05:002005-01-03T15:22:29.356-05:00Worst job on Earth
Is there a more perilous organization to work for in the world today than the Iraqi National Guard?
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1104706412903017482005-01-02T17:49:00.000-05:002005-01-02T17:53:32.903-05:00Conservative values
The winger-dominated Ayn Rand Institute says: You may use my tax dollars to invade and occupy Iraq, but you may not use them to help innocent victims of major natural calamities. Got it?
Via Hullabaloo.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1104705817211796992005-01-02T17:21:00.000-05:002005-01-02T17:44:32.086-05:00Right-wing math
Hugh Hewitt whines about people criticizing the amount of GNP the U.S. devotes to international aid:
Of course this approach [Hewitt's aid scheme] won't be adopted, because every country would want to team with the United States because not only is it the richest country in the world, it is the most generous country, whether measured by public or private giving.
The idea is thatDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1104703922776002142005-01-02T17:02:00.000-05:002005-01-02T17:12:02.776-05:00Novel solutions for tsunami terror
And you thought that greater investment in early-warning systems was one of the solutions to future natural disasters. Well my friend, you haven't spent enough time reading wingnuts. Because of course the problem in Asia was that people weren't rich enough. Those poor, silly brown people and their tendency to live in "ramshackle" housing near the ocean! What David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1104703151087346712005-01-02T16:54:00.000-05:002005-01-02T16:59:11.086-05:00Meanwhile on the lunatic right
Daniel Pipes retroactively supports the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II. Why? Because Michelle Malkin, the second-rate, right-wing propagandist columnist-turned-historian says so! But of course, this in no way means that he supports the internment of Muslims in America, right? Right? Well, actually, the whole controversy illustrates "how directlyDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1104451200852145992004-12-30T18:54:00.000-05:002004-12-30T19:00:00.853-05:00Not one game
So the Yankees have pried Randy Johnson away from the Diamondbacks. I have lost all respect for Mr. Johnson. If he really wanted to play for a winner, he would have okayed a trade to a number of different contenders. It seems that what he really wants is an extension from Steinbrenner's infinitity-and-beyond checkbook. I hope he blows out his knee in spring training and never throws David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1104188311868473552004-12-27T17:57:00.000-05:002004-12-27T17:58:31.866-05:00Meanwhile in South Asia
22,000 brown people die in Tsunami. More tragically, several dozen white people seem to have perished as well. Via Pandagon.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103931541634287462004-12-24T18:30:00.000-05:002004-12-24T18:39:01.633-05:00Why does George Bush hate freedom?
The American government is conspiring with the authoritarian rulers of Egypt to suppress the latest Arab Human Development Report (AHDR). The document, assembled with great effort and courage by Arab scholars and other experts, apparently criticizes the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the continued Israeli domination of Palestinian lands, and the dictatorial practices David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103914091464156112004-12-24T13:11:00.000-05:002004-12-24T13:48:11.463-05:00Can the mess be cleaned up?
Tom Friedman, who is so very irritating so much of the time, actually gives it to us straight for a few paragraphs (before reverting to demonizing "the Europeans"):
What is terrifying is that the noble sacrifice of our soldiers, while never in vain, may not be enough. We may actually lose in Iraq. The vitally important may turn out to be the effectively impossible.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103834773547188042004-12-23T15:41:00.000-05:002004-12-23T15:46:13.546-05:00Was the election stolen?
I've read so many posts in the last two months about how the election was stolen that I can barely remember the details of any of them. Everythingsruined has a nice post up today with a petition asking for a recount, which seems like a reasonable idea.
I have an idea. Why doesn't one of the heavies (Gallup, American Research Group, etc.) do a simple little poll with two David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103806455321407982004-12-23T07:53:00.000-05:002004-12-23T07:54:15.323-05:00Local man decides not to write Christmas cards
There's a reason the Onion is so funny. It's because newspapers continue to print stories that belong there.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103806355512567672004-12-23T07:49:00.000-05:002004-12-23T07:52:35.513-05:00Back soon
Apologies for the dearth of posts here this week. I've been buried under an avalanche of term papers about Abe Lincoln. I'll be returning to regular posting duties very soon.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103436154213281512004-12-19T01:24:00.000-05:002004-12-19T01:07:16.343-05:00Best...scandal...ever
Slate's Michael Crowley offers what I think is a definitive smack-down of all the hemming and hawing about the U.N. Oil-For-Food scandal. I was intrigued by the hilarious Fred Barnes quote he unearthed, so I tracked it down for context. Here's Barnes, a proud member of the 27th Fortified Keyboarders Brigade, on Fox News:
On the other hand, what has changed is a scandal, David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103436838431127892004-12-19T01:08:00.000-05:002004-12-19T01:13:58.430-05:00Yankees lock up 2005 AL Pennant
The Yankees are on the verge of pulling off a trade for Randy Johnson, only the most dominant left-handed pitcher in the last 20 years, and perhaps the most fearsome pitcher ever. Here's my question -- why do teams continue to trade their best players to the Yankees? They almost never get anything out of it. It's like small business owners offering their property David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103436393453698532004-12-19T01:04:00.000-05:002004-12-19T01:06:33.453-05:00Bush to Axis of Evil: Stop Being Evil!
Our illustrious president has warned Iraq's neighbors to stop the flow of weapons and cash into Iraq.
Because we all know how easy it is to control borders.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103322763758733552004-12-17T17:30:00.000-05:002004-12-17T17:32:43.756-05:00Speaks for itself
Nearly 900 American children have lost a parent because of the Iraq War.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103215072356120312004-12-16T11:25:00.000-05:002004-12-16T11:37:52.356-05:00Your friends and neighbors are insane racist mass murderers
I followed a link from a conservative blog to a site called Progressive Conservative. I found perhaps the most sickening entry I've ever seen on a blog, and that's saying something. Someone called Markkind had this to say about his vote for George W. Bush:
During this past election cycle when befuddled friends and family asked me why onDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103174533140931982004-12-16T01:14:00.000-05:002004-12-16T00:22:13.140-05:00Not so fast, Bud
It's nice to see the righteous stamping out naked greed every once in a while, especially since things usually seem to work the other way around. D.C. city councilwoman Linda Cropp insisted that the Expos/Nationals new owner pay half the cost of the new stadium, which is estimated at over $500 million. Taking the perfectly sensible, and popular, view that the disgustingly rich David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103135942563982442004-12-15T13:27:00.000-05:002004-12-15T13:41:32.696-05:00Shocker of the day
Our missile defense system doesn't work! The most interesting passage from BBC's story:
In earlier tests, target missiles have been successfully intercepted in five out of eight attempts. Wednesday's trial had been put off four times because of bad weather at launch sites and, on Sunday, because a radio transmitter failed. Now, I'm no defense contractor, but wouldn't you want David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103040536635194562004-12-14T10:57:00.000-05:002004-12-14T11:08:56.636-05:00Republicans are trying to strangle Philadelphia
Because of its partisan gerrymander under Tom Ridge in 2000, the GOP still controls the Pennsylvania legislature and its congressional delegation, despite having a Democratic governor and voting Democratic in the last four presidential elections. It was massive and unprecedented turnout in Philadelphia that gave Pennsylvania to Kerry this time David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103038914191169542004-12-14T10:29:00.000-05:002004-12-14T10:41:54.193-05:00The Times and Iraq
Something I've noticed since the administration launched this debacle in Iraq is that the The New York Times seems reluctant to report on anything except Iraq, Israel-Palestine, and to a much lesser extent, Iran and Syria. And when they do write anything about countries other than Iraq, it is usually driven by whatever hardline blather is coming out of Rumsfeld's mouth at the David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1103038068911930442004-12-14T10:10:00.000-05:002004-12-14T10:27:48.910-05:00The indispensable Digby
On Beinart and cowering in fear of our own principles. Must-read.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102976359751018762004-12-13T17:19:00.000-05:002004-12-13T17:45:55.830-05:00
Who's in your coalition?
There's been a lot of hand-wringing in Democratic circles lately about Michael Moore and various other leftists that certain thinkers in the party find unsavory because of past comments they've made that may have been tinged with varying degrees of anti-Americanism. For the most part, I think Moore himself is a straw man, because he has no official position in the party,David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102893097743371382004-12-12T18:02:00.000-05:002004-12-14T10:06:27.123-05:00I hope Kevin Drum doesn't stand for this
Just as I suspected, the Beinart article in TNR has now become conservative shorthand for "liberals aren't serious about terrorism." All Kevin Drum did was ask his readers if they thought "Islamic totalistarianism" is as great a world-historical struggle as communism, and Goldberg takes that as an opportunity to suggest that Drum doesn't think it's a David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102875503669981342004-12-12T13:11:00.000-05:002004-12-12T13:18:23.670-05:00Opium wars
I see that the topic of Afghanistan turning into a "narco-state" has finally begun to garner some press. There's no question that drug cultivation is a major threat to Afghan democracy, since it inevitably transfers wealth, power, and weapons to a series of unelected drug pushers and international narco-terrorists. However, would it kill the press to ask, just once, where most of the David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102804009494718622004-12-11T16:22:00.000-05:002004-12-11T17:26:49.493-05:00Beinart and the "softs"
I finally got around to reading Peter Beinart's much-discussed article in The New Republic, which recommends a purge of the anti-war left from the big tent. While he makes some good points, I remain largely unconvinced by his analysis. I don't think Beinart really understands what motivates the trepidation some liberals feel about some aspects of the war on terror
BeinartDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102743736831023222004-12-11T01:42:00.000-05:002004-12-11T00:45:29.986-05:00
Today's Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper Prize: "Federal officials are concerned that terrorists could try to down aircraft by blinding pilots with laser beams during landing approaches." -- Curt Anderson, AP.
Is there no end to the terror? Apparently, the evil geniuses who have decided to destroy our democratic civilization and replace it with an Islamic caliphate have allied themselves with criminalDavid Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102742986750541792004-12-11T01:22:00.000-05:002004-12-11T00:29:46.750-05:00This is your sport on drugs
Everyone is atwitter about the news that Barry Bonds has been implicated in baseball's steroid scandal, as well as the Yankees' Jason Giambi. I don't know quite why, but I find it impossible to get exercised about this sordid little drama. Anyone with a photo archive from 2003 to 2004 should have known that Giambi had stopped juicing after years on the sauce, because David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102742185239372232004-12-11T01:15:00.000-05:002004-12-11T00:16:25.240-05:00I knew the dollar's plunge would be good for exports
U.S. to step up sale of wild horsemeat.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102741975179204462004-12-11T01:12:00.000-05:002004-12-11T00:12:55.180-05:00To paraphrase The Onion
Dead and dying Fallujans would have loved their freedom.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102474417053039622004-12-07T21:49:00.000-05:002004-12-07T21:53:37.053-05:00Powell lays the smack-down on the Russkies
Well, at least he's going down swinging. Today in Bulgaria he criticized the Red Menace for not withdrawing troops from various unimportant countries near Russia. He said:
Russia's commitments to withdraw military forces from Moldova, and to agree with Georgia on the duration of the Russian military presence there, remain unfulfilled.
After which, the David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102349243078696722004-12-06T10:59:00.000-05:002004-12-06T11:07:23.080-05:00I agree with the National Review!
In an amazing and mathematically improbably convergence, I must admit that I am in total and unconditional agreement with something written in the foremost conservative publication in America. The editors, in rightly praising the magnificent, non-violent revolution in Ukraine, actually acknowledge that the Bush administration has tilted too far toward Putin's David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102195388263083412004-12-04T15:17:00.000-05:002004-12-05T00:32:28.036-05:00Academic neo-fascists
The Left Coaster is all over this story about the Cal State undergrad who created a firestorm with accusations against her left-wing English prof., namely that he tried to indoctrinate the students and then gave her a bad grade for not enjoying or understanding Fahrenheit 911. You can read the student's account here, and you can check out the prof.'s approved book list here.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102116621768751772004-12-03T18:29:00.000-05:002004-12-03T18:30:21.770-05:00This doesn't make me feel any better
Bush's Ohio margin shrinks to 119,00.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102116221475627852004-12-03T18:12:00.000-05:002004-12-03T18:27:06.526-05:00This is so tendentious it makes me want to cry
Iraq War apologist and colonial booster-extraordinaire Max Boot, writes in today's L.A. Times:
Even in a best-case scenario, however, the bombings and beheadings won't end the day after the vote. It can take a decade or more to defeat an insurgency (Colombia has been fighting Marxist guerrillas since 1966), and even a small number of determined David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1102113250527802992004-12-03T17:27:00.000-05:002004-12-03T17:34:10.526-05:00Sense and Censorship
After all the phoney outrage about the T.O.-Desperate Housewives stunt on ABC a few weeks ago, and the increased FCC prudishness under the rule of Michael Powell, you can expect to hear more about censorship in the months and years to come. When Republicans have nothing better to do, they usually can gin up some support by joining their fundamentalist wing with the David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1101878927846529272004-11-30T23:54:00.000-05:002004-12-01T10:35:44.680-05:00I've digested the election and it still tastes like week-old cheese
I'm not going to sit here and deny that I've been in a depressive funk since November 2nd, better known now as Black Tuesday, because quite frankly, I have been, and people have noticed. Today someone told me I needed to "get some sleep" despite the fact that I snoozed for 9 hours last night. Part of the funk has been a natural David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1101838446994632672004-11-30T13:11:00.000-05:002004-11-30T13:14:07.010-05:00Wal-Mart sales down
Earth's #1 union-buster takes a dive. How upsetting.
David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0