STREET FIGHTING IRAN: “According to reports from Iran, serious clashes between the rank and file supporters of the Ayatollah Khamenei and the supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad erupted on Saturday, with many protesters severely injured with clubs and machetes.”
Archive for 2011
May 8, 2011
ON THE ROAD TO 2012:
- Jennifer Rubin: “Rick Santorum ‘doesn’t understand America’”
- Stacy McCain: “Herman Cain: Viva Las Vegas!”
- Caffeinated Thoughts: “Mitch Daniels Jumps The Shark on Education.”
- The Politico: “Mitt Romney’s South Carolina hesitation.”
- The WaPo: “Jon Huntsman, former ambassador to China, tests a 2012 presidential candidacy.”
There’s a lot of that going on these days.
ONLINE GULAG MUSEUM launched in France. (Via Claire Berlinski.)
SHAMELESS PLUG: Sol Stern gives The Road to Fatima Gate
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, MOM.
Assessing the regulation of systemic risk in the financial system: Duke University’s Steven L. Schwarcz (with whom I’m co-authoring a book on financial regulation reform) gives a clear, short statement of where we are today. It is an address, rather than an article, not too long … and it makes sobering reading.
As Greg Mankiw calls it, the inanity of rent control in San Francisco: Bay Area Citizen on increasing rental vacancies as small landlords give up on taking on tenants at below market rents in perpetuity.
THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CELEBRITIES: The Lady Gaga/President Obama connection, revealed!
DAVID ZARING: How’s the Implementation of Dodd-Frank Coming Along? Not well, apparently.
IN THE MAIL: Reagan’s Journey: Lessons From a Remarkable Career.
TIME TO CELEBRATE? Yes, but I would have preferred a more gradual adjustment to the festivities.
SECRETARY CLINTON, CALL YOUR LAWYER: John Bellinger, who was Harold Koh’s predecessor as Legal Adviser to the State Department, asks why the administration has not more clearly laid out its legal rationale for the OBL raid. “Perhaps assuming that everyone will applaud the killing of Bin Laden, Administration officials have confined themselves to stating that the killing was justified in self-defense and to providing facts to support their argument (with which I agree fully) that Bin Laden posed a threat. But these general statements are not the same as detailed explanations as to why the Bin Laden killing was lawful under both domestic and international law.”
GAY PATRIOT: On covering gays in the conservative movement.
WHERE THE WORD “Blunderbuss” comes from.
USS MICHAEL MURPHY CHRISTENED YESTERDAY: Named for the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in the war in Afghanistan.
AT AMAZON, deals in electronics.
The Great Books According to Me: Arthur Rex, by Thomas Berger. This witty and profound reflection on the virtues needs to reissued, including on Kindle.
SPIDER SEX MOVES are very intense. And don’t you think the spideress — drugged in the video — makes a strong — implicit! — argument for female passivity? (That’s the conversation I’m starting over on my blog this morning.)
I HATE HOROSCOPES but I love newspaper blackout poems.
A CENTURY (OR MORE) OF MARTINIS: This Website claims that the Martini was invented a century ago; the late, lamented Wired Cocktail Website (sadly now only available via the Wayback machine, or on dead tree in a now-out-of-print book) notes that its origins go back longer than that, to its predecessor cocktail, the Martinez, of the 1880s. In any case, the cocktail’s origins — and its proper mixology — are well worth debating over a Martini or two. Or three, unless you’re Dorothy Parker.
(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
LINDA CHAVEZ: Reward, Don’t Punish CIA Interrogators. So the administration takes a victory lap thanks to the CIA – while not ending the investigations?