Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
What’s Up in Waziristan
I asked a source with expertise in the region for thoughts about the David Ignatius Waziristan column that we’ve been discussing [on Tapped] today. The reply:
Nothing in there that’s new. I don’t think Washington is lacking for disgruntled ex-gov’t employees with ideas how to solve this crisis or that… of course, Crumpton is smoking crack […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
The Need for Tightening
We’ve all heard about lax mortgage lending rules but this is ridiculous:
It was a little baffling when Jose F. Lara got a check in the mail for almost $2,800 from a bank in Arlington County in December. When the bank told him that it was the overpayment on his second mortgage, things got really baffling.
He […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Wear a Hat
People are asking what it means that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a “benign idiopathic seizure” yesterday, his second in 14 years. According to the Associated Press:
By definition, someone who has had more than one seizure without any other cause is determined to have epilepsy, said Dr. Marc Schlosberg, a neurologist at Washington […]
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
Which Way the Wind Blows
A friend informs me that the Hillary Clinton YouTube video I didn’t cotton to last week is actually referencing this Bob Dylan video, which started the signs in video trend. Perhaps:
If so, it seems an odd reference to have made in a YouTube debate, as YouTubers tend not to have been born in the ’60s […]
13 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Garance
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
A Prediction
Lindsay Lohan’s new movie I Know Who Killed Me is going to be helped by her recent legal troubles and the terrible reviews it’s received, and be received as a piece of camp trash, rather than a bomb. I’ve never seen a Lohan movie in theaters but I’m going to go see this one just […]
