Couldn’t Help But Notice (111407)
Ralph Peters understands his journo colleagues, their changing Iraq coverage tactics now that there is appreciable success, and the deeply cynical nature of the Hollywood elites trying to tell us how to see things over there.Read the whole, awesome thing. Then compare and contrast with the over-the-top defensiveness of Time’s Joel Klein, if you can stand it.
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The Chicago Tribune and Michelle Malkin wonder where the Jena 6 defense fund money went. Malkin: “….. much of the money can’t be traced, while some of the defendants are literally rolling in race-hustling dough.”
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Rolling Stone Magazine is celebrating its 40-year anniversary. Dennis Prager makes a very apt observation:
….. the amount of public cursing on the left and the way curse words are accepted as part of public and formal discourse may be as significant to understanding the left as anything the left says. It is the left’s way of showing rejection of the values of the middle class and of America’s Judeo-Christian civilization.
Exactly.
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Is it too soon to demand Eliot Spitzer’s recall or resignation? If so, not by much:
Gov. Spitzer’s former communications director, Darren Dopp, asked another Spitzer aide to lie about the origins of the Dirty Tricks Scandal - including the governor’s own allegedly extensive knowledge of the plot to smear the Senate’s GOP leader, a well-placed source told The Post yesterday.
….. Dopp also insisted at another meeting that “the boss,” as he called Spitzer, had been kept fully informed “from the start” about the anti-Bruno effort, which dated back to the spring, the source said.
Such a claim, if true, would contradict Spitzer’s repeated insistence that he didn’t learn about the anti-Bruno plot until shortly before it became public - and had even made an unsuccessful effort to stop it.
Someone need to explain how this isn’t acquiescence to, or active participation in, obstruction of justice.
As Spitzer’s poll numbers collapse, the real question is whether he is, or ever was, fit for executive public office.
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Thomas Sowell, on too-early and too-often incorrect diagnosis of autism:
There have already been many casualties in the crusade against autism, and there may be far more if recent recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics are carried out to have every child tested for autism twice by age two.
….. The initial evidence on which a diagnosis of autism was based may be nothing more than a checklist of characteristics of autistic children, often administered by someone with nothing more to go on than that checklist.
The fundamental problem is that many items on such a checklist can apply to many children who are not autistic. A study of gifted children, for example, found many of them showing the kinds of characteristics found on checklists for autism.
….. The very definition of autism has been expanded in recent years to include what is called “the autism spectrum.” What this means, among other things, is that there is now far more wiggle room for those whose diagnoses have proved to be wrong, who refuse to admit it, and who are now even more unaccountable than ever.
Excuse me if I detect the distinct aroma of a victim-creating, society-blaming industry. If it takes a bunch of false diagnoses and lifetime stigmas to create a hysteria, too bad, so sad.
Update: Suspicions confirmed.
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Occam’s Razor tells me that there’s an easy explanation for Ted Strickland’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton: After a painful series of virtually non-stop gaffes and missteps by her, her husband, and her campaign, she and her poll-obsessed operatives knew that her internal poll numbers were in free-fall, and that it was only a matter of not much time before an external poll would show her statistically tied with BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama).
