Complicit Enablers

Referring from Glenn Greenwald, McLatchy journalists have a very good column that refutes the claims by the complicit enablers, as Scott McClellan calls the media, that they did what they could in challenging the Bush administration in the run up to the Iraq war.

Aggie Softball Team Wins

In their opening College World Series game, the Aggies got a big win yesterday, 1-0, over Virginia Tech and their player of the year pitcher. Obviously, it was very close, winning with a Hokie throwing error.


Good luck to the Ags in the rest of the series!

English football

England defeats U.S.A. in a friendly yesterday, 2-0.

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The Fall of Conservatism

George Packer has a better than expected article in last week's New Yorker. I say better than expected because I thought the title was a bit much (things are still pretty conservative). But Packer provides a good chronology from the 60's and 70's up until today and some insightful writing. Conservatives are pretty worried about November, rightfully I guess, but until a Democrat (preferrably Obama) is back in the Oval Office, my emotions aren't yet that up even with those good prospects.

On a personal note, when I started noticing Packer's name in the media a couple of years ago, namely in the New Yorker and for his Assassin's Gate book about Iraq, it took me awhile to realize that I had known this guy before. Turns out we had played a few summers together on a softball team in the Boston area almost 20 years ago. I didn't know him too well, but I remember him being a writer. It's interesting to learn of the impressive accomplishments that he's made since then.

Looking at the Media

Glenn Greenwald has a good post today regarding the media examining itself during the run up to the Iraq war. For the first time in awhile, I actually admired Katie Couric in this video that Greenwald references.

This is coming about because of the new Scott McClellan book which has some scathing remarks about the Bush administration. Could he and all these other former Bushies and generals have ever stood up when it counted???

Still, nothing on the tube about the NYTimes article on the Pentagon's military analyst program and the willingly duped media. I don't think even Olberman has said anything.

The media's still got to do alot of answering, or just get better.

Weezer: Pork and Beans

For some completely different video

Barack Obama at Wesleyan Commencement Ceremony

Ok, the video

Barack Obama's Weslayan commencement

Transcript of his very good commencement speech. I'm hoping to get a video link to it.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGBPzl

New here

I have no idea what I might blog about but was curious about what blogger was. Since the setup was easy (signed in with my google account), here it is. I'd like to think that I would have insightful or profound thoughts to actually make something of this. If anything, it'll be about politics, possibly references to other political blogs. If nothing, this'll be my one post. But with the seemingly endless amount of digital storage these days, maybe no one managing blogspot will notice, either way. Come to think of it though, they probably have an inactivity checker and will delete inactive blogs after a certain period.

Whoo ho, I'm having a feeling of a bit of a blogger!!