Friday, January 04, 2002
All right, vacation over. There's enough in the papers and on-line today that I can't really wait until Monday to get back in the saddle.
- An interesting letter on Salon by a man who studied with Taliban-American John Walker Lindh. Didn't we all know the guy who go so into something in high school or college and was so into it that he found everyone that wasn't insufferable? Didn't you also eventually find him insufferable?
- Krugman with a piece that is thought provoking about the shift in the political climate. Currently reading Too Close to Call by Jeffrey Toobin. These tie in because Toobin cites the recount in Illinois in 1984 where the Democrats rammed into the House an incumbent Dem that had lost his recount as the turning point in Republican thinking. From there on out, Toobin asserts, the Reps looked at all of politics as war. Through the 80's and 90's you see the Reps moving further and further right on the economy and some other issues, according to Krugman's source. Bears further scrutiny.
- Debka breaking that Arafat will declare a Palestinian War of Liberation within the next two weeks. It's got to come some time, so why not now? It's not a good time, but when is there a good time for an attempted revolution?
- posted by levinson @ 1/04/2002 10:24:00 AM
