News: December 2004 Archives
Happy 2005!
Patterico takes the Dog Trainer to task in his year-end review of my city's major "newspaper" -- it's definitely made of paper, but I use the term loosely. It's beyond me how he found the energy to sift through the necessary piles of rubbish to find these gems of garbagitude, and he promises that this is only part one of two.
Update:
Part two.
Michael Jackson is having a birthday party for busloads of kids. In other news: OJ hosts a soiree at a machete factory and Scott Peterson offers fishing lessons for expectant mothers.
(Join in! I'm sure there are plenty more jokes to be made along the same lines.)
This statement about terrorism by Tom Brokaw on the occasion of his retirement is astonishing to me:
His greatest regret was not covering international terrorism as thoroughly as he possibly could have before 9/11.I mean... yeah, you should have! And so should have our leaders in government, and so should have a lot of people who could have made a difference if they had been paying closer attention."I wish that we had done a better job in dealing with terrorism at an earlier stage," he says. "There were signs aplenty out there, attacks on embassies, the [warship] U.S.S. Cole, the Khobar Towers [in Saudi Arabia] — all those things. But we didn't connect the dots the way we should have."
Mr. Brokaw's lapse was minor compared to the neglect of earlier Presidential administrations (from Reagan on forward), but he's the first person I've seen actually apologize. Ultimately the terrorists bear the full burden of responsibility, but there are plenty of people who had the power to forsee and possibly prevent the attacks and failed to do so.
Scott Ott got an off-hand mention from Rush Limbaugh this morning while Rush was discussing the LA Times story about the military using American media to spread disinformation. He asked rhetorically whether author Mark Mazzetti is actually surprised that our military is trying to win with the fewest casualties, or if he's just ripping off comedy pieces from Scrappleface.
