. . .but two quick items. First, I posted this short piece on Joe Biden’s Washington Post oped this morning over at TPM Cafe. Also, I don’t know what to think of this, but check out the Durex global sex issues survey.
Fascinating. A British Parliament Member has offered to do jail time to get the controversial Bush/Al-Jazeera memo into public view. Someone please slip him a copy.
Yesterday in a Wall Street Journal article, “Plan for Iraq: Shareholders Don’t Shoot Each Other,” Charles Wolf, Jr.
This is an interesting geographic depiction of George W. Bush’s favorability levels. It’s not all that surprising that Bush’s popularity is worst in “blue states” and markedly better in the south and midwest. However, if the election in November 2004 had been held tomorrow, George W. Bush could not win with a map like this….
This is rather big news in Japan. A senior government panel in Japan has decided that women should be allowed to ascend to Japan’s imperial throne.
The White House has stated that claims that George Bush suggested bombing Al-Jazeera’s Qatar-based headquarters are “outlandish.
I just wrote this piece for TPM Cafe and invite any debate about what I’m suggesting. I have recently received some friendly criticism for focusing on things that are “too inside DC.” I think my writing and commentary are pretty diverse — but I’ll think about broadening the subject matter in coming months.
President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been failing in their efforts to “set the record straight“, as their press team calls it, on the subject of Iraq-related WMD intelligence access before the invasion. I am rushing off to a meeting tonight, and the material I’d like to comment on is piling up.
Just about every government in the Middle East has been ticked off at the reporting by Al-Jazeera. This fact, more than anything else, indicates that Al-Jazeera is doing a lot right. I have made no secret of my respect for Al-Jazeera and its ability to dominate the Middle East media market with its reporting.
