Monthly Archive: April, 2005

Just looking at this hurts. I’d say if you’ve just had a long winter break without any practice, you might want to keep those bayonets locked up until May or so.

Perhaps a Jewish boy is not the most qualified commenter on the legacy of Pope John Paul II, but even for those of us who felt that his church owed some debts to history, John Paul has made handsome payments on them. There is little question that in his best days, this pope was instrumental in the liberation of Eastern Europe and the transformation of Communism from global threat to just another discarded form of absolutism. History, for the most...

Perhaps a Jewish boy is not the most qualified commenter on the legacy of Pope John Paul II, but even for those of us who felt that his church owed some debts to history, John Paul has made handsome payments on them. There is little question that in his best days, this pope was instrumental in the liberation of Eastern Europe and the transformation of Communism from global threat to just another discarded form of absolutism. History, for the most...

Democracy! Whiskey! Sexy! –Iraqi man to reporter after the fall of Baghdad May this be the year the stranglehold of the dour anti-sex leaguers that darken the land from Kandahar to Amherst is broken by the Protest Babes, who shall cast off their veils, burkas, and hopefully those ridiculous Che Guevara t-shirts. Let them spread freedom from Beirut to Bishkek to Tehran, and then on to Beijing! Let us fervently hope for 2005 to be The Year of the Protest...

What kind of diplomatic response could the United States possibly offer to Roh Moo-Hyun’s astonishing announcement that South Korea will now seek to “balance” its long-time protector against the lean, hungry barbarians that surround it? It’s doubtful that any U.S. official could offer a response he’d want printed–particularly in the context of another deadlocked round of cost-sharing negotiations. That might explain why Washington let the Commanding General of the Eighth U.S. Army, Lieutenant General Charles Campbell, do the talking today:...

What kind of diplomatic response could the United States possibly offer to Roh Moo-Hyun’s astonishing announcement that South Korea will now seek to “balance” its long-time protector against the lean, hungry barbarians that surround it? It’s doubtful that any U.S. official could offer a response he’d want printed–particularly in the context of another deadlocked round of cost-sharing negotiations. That might explain why Washington let the Commanding General of the Eighth U.S. Army, Lieutenant General Charles Campbell, do the talking today:...