Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
The Despair of an Activist
I finally read Cindy Sheehan’s farewell letter to the anti-war movement, and it’s quite a moving indictment, written from the perspective of a still grieving woman trying to understand her world, rather than a political actor trying to massage a message. I hope that leaving activism behind will begin to help her heal. She writes:
when […]
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
His Way
The saga of the dueling Hillary Clinton books continues with a highly unsual mid-week “preview” publication of Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.’s New York Times Magazine cover story on Clinton’s Iraq war vote and subsequent foreign policy moves. Oddly, the Times fails to disclose at the end of the adaptation from the duo’s […]
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Pretty as a Picture
Say whatever else you will about Ann Althouse, she’s a really fantastic botanical photographer.
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Elsewhere in the Muslim World
The major east coast dailies have been on a bit of a roll over the past week when it comes to covering the changing (for good and for ill) status of women in the Muslim world. In addition to today’s awful news from Syria, there was Michael Slackman’s front-pager from before the holiday on the […]
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Sickening
Let us never again listen to the administration’s facile, self-congratulatory talk of liberating Iraqi women without raising also the question of the refugees. War always degrades women. Always. The liberation of woman during the 20th century was one of the greatest non-violent revolutions the world has ever known. But war has always operated on contrary […]
