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Friday, February 28, 2003 Jocularity, jocularityAri Fleischer acted personally offended by a question last Tuesday from a Mexican journalist, who suggested the U.S. had offered Mexico City a quid-pro-quo (as in, "We'll ease immigration restrictions if you vote yes on the war"). Ari said, "Think about what you're saying. You're saying nations can be bought. That's absurd," and the whole room of journalists openly laughed in his face. Ari bit his lip, gave a little nod, and walked out. Really. It's all on tape, at the end of a 28-minute segment on C-SPAN. Click the 2/25/03 Ari Fleischer White House Briefing and fast-forward to the end. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 9:30 AMThursday, February 27, 2003 GolgonoozaMy friend Steve Cahn has a new blog up called Golgonooza, which as I remember is the name for Blake's City of the Imagination. Steve's an editor in Southern California. He notes that Mr. Rogers has died. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 9:21 PMDenis Johnson... is a major writer in a few different forms -- poetry, novels, the stories of Jesus' Son. Now he writes plays, and premieres them right here in San Francisco. It's rare for our city to get such a jump on good underground material like this -- ahead of Chicago and New York -- so I wrote a feature about Johnson in last week's SF Weekly. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 8:51 PMTuesday, February 25, 2003 Speaking of Wesley ClarkA guy with the same name has a hilarious and sometimes poignant site called Avocado Memories documenting Burbank, California, during the ’60s and ’70s. One of my favorite pages is about Radio Free Burbank. Another good one is about La Cahuenga Pass and the Warlords of Burbank. Pretty sure this is not the same Wesley Clark who led the NATO assault in Yugoslavia. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 8:50 PMMonday, February 17, 2003 U.S. as a colonial power?I rather agree with this. Wesley Clark thinks the Bush administration has simply bungled the whole problem of Iraq, through arrogance and lousy leadership. It's not that Saddam hasn't earned himself a war, if only for the U.N. resolutions he's flouted in the last couple of months -- as Sullivan argues pretty persuasively here -- it's that any war on terrorism has to be a focused response to September 11, or else it becomes a stupid wild adventure with unintended (colonial) consequences. I've been ringing changes on the same tune for a while now, but obviously no one at the White House pays much attention to Radio Free Mike. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 11:06 PMFriday, February 14, 2003 Dolly the Sheephas died. I didn't realize she was named for Dolly Parton. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 9:19 PMThursday, February 13, 2003 Iraq & Al Qaeda, againPowell was so unconvincing last week about the connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda that I almost changed my mind about the war. Inspectors aside, Bush and his arrogance aside, war in Iraq is justified if Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. There's a lot of superficial evidence that Al Qaeda does work with Baghdad, but the White House can't come up with solid proof. Why? To me that's the most important question. If Bush thinks he can use other reasons to invade Iraq and just let the world trust that the invasion is an essential part of the "war on terrorism," well, that's arrogant. (And poor leadership. He deserves all the trouble he gets with NATO, frankly.) If he knows damn well that Iraq had nothing to do with the World Trade Center attacks -- which he might know, because what else has the CIA been working on all this time? -- then this is a war of convenience, an excuse to finish his daddy's work and to gain sway over some oil-rich countryside. Still, as long as Iraqi exiles are so emotionally in favor of ousting Saddam, most of us at Radio Free Mike have trouble siding with the International ANSWER-organized protesters who keep flooding Market Street in San Francisco. But the Bush administration is handling this whole thing, predictably, with ham fists. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 9:17 PM | |
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