Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo:

This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.

Whatever you do, don't impugn this man's character. He did something worthy 40 years ago which allows him to say any nasty thing he pleases and then lead the entire political establishment in a group whine if anyone calls him on it.

And let's hear no more about how modest the maverick is. When's the last time you heard a candidate, much less a certified, unassailable hero, bragging about how courageous he is?"

Insurance Company Rules

Norman Thomas

I'm so into Rick Perlstein I'm going to read three biographies of Norman Thomas.

Well, not really.

When?

Nice touch with the music. I've never heard something that was sinister, halting, and in 6/8 time before.

Hendrik Hertzberg on McCain

Hendrik Hertzberg: Online Only: The New Yorker:

McCain wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how many Americans get killed achieving that goal—that is, the goal of not getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we’ll stay.

Sunny bed

Sunny bed, originally uploaded by chrismealy.

The gaura is just starting to bloom. The sage is now blooming in white instead of red.

I planted a tiny serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia). To its right (out of the picture) I planted some shrubby natives: twinberry, mock orange; red, evergreen, and mountain huckleberries. The hairy honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula) finally found a home there too, after sitting in a pot for a year, and even propagating itself.

Streetsblog � Contented Streets: Why Copenhagen Is the World’s Happiest Capital

Streetsblog - Contented Streets: Why Copenhagen Is the World’s Happiest Capital: 

"'if you don't have enough nice spaces, you can see these [become] overcrowded spaces. Then you should just make more spaces.'"

Lordamighty

An Expert Reveals Chinese Origins of Interrogation Techniques at Guantanamo - NYTimes.com: 

"What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency."