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Month: August 2004

  • Blogroll

    I have added a new weblog to El Blogroll. Steve Clemons is Executive Vice President of the New America Foundationand, in my spare time, serve as Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute. His bio is here. Interesting essay by Fukuyama causing a bit of a stir. Matthew Yglesias adds his thoughts too.

  • Fighting rages in South Ossetia

    Things seem to be descending into chaos in and around South Ossetia. Heavy fighting has broken out in Georgia’s South Ossetia region, shattering a two-day ceasefire. Two Georgian soldiers died as their base in the village of Eredvi came under attack from South Ossetian separatist forces early on Monday. The ceasefire was agreed on Friday…

  • Assessing blame for post-war Iraq

    Phil Carter, former operational planner in the 4th Infantry Division, isn’t very impressed with Tommy Franks.[Via Kevin Drum] Carter believes that General Franks was not as concerned as he should have been about Phase IV. He also should have been more forceful in his views with the Whitehouse and Pentagon. Carter notes: Wow… the “group…

  • McGreevy and his lover

    Crooked Timber points out that Jeff Jarvies is pointing out that NJ media may have known about the sexuality of the Governer McGreevy, and the apparent appointment of his lover to a State job should have prompted them to report. It is illegal is it not? It’s great that McGreevey came right out and told…

  • Fans and non fans: be prepared for the return of Slim Shady

    Fans and non fans: be prepared for Slim Shady’s return.

  • Astounding Benefit of Believing in Hell

    Believe in hell and you’ll get rich? Well, that’s close: http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/believeinhell/believeinhell

  • Held at gunpoint in Nablus: Orla Guerin

    Irish hack Orla Guerin writes about her recent experience with being held by IDF forces. …But before we found him, Israeli troops found us, forcing us at gunpoint into a disused room on the upper storey – first the cameraman, then the producer, then me. There we saw Rana, trapped in a chair in the…

  • Georgia wants Russian troops out

    Yet more news from Georgia: Georgia’s parliament has called for the withdrawal of Russian peacekeeping troops from the breakaway region of South Ossetia. The number of clashes has increased in recent days, including an attack on Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. The Prime Minister’s convoy came under fire while he was doing a tour of…

  • King Gordy's video "Nightmares"

    Among the music videos I have watched recently, King Gordy’s « Nightmares » has impressed me. Of course, the Detroit rapper’s video is not aimed at an oversensitive audience, because it might shock some people.

  • Kobe victim intented to seduce Eminem

    August 11, 2004 — A former college pal of Kobe Bryant’s accuser is defending the NBA star on the Internet, where she’s posted sordid allegations about his alleged victim’s past, including what she claims was a plot to have sex with the rapper Eminem: