Video of the Day

  • July,9th,2009 at 7:20 PM

District 9! Via Vulture.

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Photo of the Day

  • July,9th,2009 at 7:15 PM

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An "X" Shaped Recovery?

  • July,9th,2009 at 7:11 PM
Fmr. US Labor Secretary Robert Reich predicts that any real economic recovery from the depression can only happen in the event of a paradigm shift. I certainly hope that this is the case, although I think that this may take a long time to happen, as no policy-maker seems to realize that the system is fundamentally broken.
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Quote of the Day

  • July,9th,2009 at 7:04 PM

I have negotiated with queers, prostitutes, leftists, blacks, whites. This is my job, I studied for it. I am not racially prejudiced. I like the little black sugar plantation worker who is president of the United States.

- Enrique Ortez Colindres, Foreign Minister of Guatemala (appointed as a result of the coup)

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Video of the Day

  • July,9th,2009 at 10:40 AM

Am I the only one in the world who finds Megan Fox incredibly unattractive?

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Chris Eckert reviews the fifteen strips in the first issue of Wednesday Comics in Twitter format. Go Read It. It’ll only take a minute.
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Photo of the Day

  • July,8th,2009 at 7:17 PM

For the actual interview (which whets the appetite for the Alec hardcover this fall), click here.

For the actual interview (which whets the appetite for the Alec hardcover this fall), click here.
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Video of the Day

  • July,8th,2009 at 7:01 PM

By the time he left in 1968, McNamara knew the war to be unwinnable - he now says. But he did not speak up in 1969, as Richard Nixon prepared for four more years of combat; or in 1975, after America’s humiliating exit from Saigon; or through the 1970s, when Vietnam veterans were being reviled; or through the 1980s, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was being built and campaigns for reconciliation were underway. He remained silent in 1988 and 1992, when first Dan Quayle and then Bill Clinton were raked-over for having avoided combat at a time when McNamara believed - secretly - that combat was futile.

At any of those moments McNamara could have helped his country - saving lives, reducing recriminations - by saying that he had changed his famously powerful mind about Vietnam. And at every moment he failed to speak…. - James Fallows, Too Late to Say You’re Sorry,” April 11, 1995.

He did not serve himself or his country well. He was, there is no kinder or gentler word for it, a fool. -David Halberstam

In our business, we are lucky if we make the right decision 51% of the time. What I have noticed about Bob McNamara is that he makes an awful lot of right decisions. -Henry Ford II

[L]ogic forced McNamara to conclude that the United States would never benefit from using nuclear weapons against a nuclear-armed adversary. Doing so would be suicidal. -Peter Scoblic, on McNamara’s advocacy of disarmament and role in popularizing the notion of ‘mutually assured destruction’.

He [McNamara] focused the Bank on poverty reduction, he brought Communist China into the Bank, he introduced the practice of five-year lending plans, he significantly increased the Bank’s budget, he grew staff from 1600 to 5700, he favored sector-specific research, he raised money from OPEC, he strongly encouraged “scientific project evaluation,” and he started a largely successful program to combat “river blindness”; the latter may have been his life’s achievement. -Tyler Cowen

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Photo of the Day

  • July,8th,2009 at 3:00 PM

Wednesday Comics Day!

Wednesday Comics Day!
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Quote of the Day

  • July,8th,2009 at 12:02 PM

What bothers me is that they seem to be saying, ‘Some people we have good enough evidence against, so we’ll give them a fair trial. Some people the evidence is not so good, so we’ll give them a less fair trial. We’ll give them just enough due process to ensure a conviction because we know they’re guilty. That’s not a fair trial, that’s a show trial

- Rep. Jerry Nadler, on Pres. Obama’s proposed detention policy. For more, read Glenn Greenwald’s take.

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