Tête-à-Tête-Tête

A byproduct of the Gates nomination was my stumbling across this interview, that really makes me wonder if Jimmy Carter was such a great guy after all, and makes a few more things I wouldn’t put past our own government. 1998 interview with Carter’s NSA, Zbigniew Brzezinski, translated from French:
Q: Despite this risk, you [...]

Like Buck, and many others, I was baffled by the post-election departure of Donald Rumsfeld. It finally clicked this morning… I have no supporting evidence so consider this irresponsible speculation. Bush knows something about Rumsfeld he is afraid might come to light during oversight investigations, something that might also put himself in impeachment [...]

I started with a very dim view of the practice of “Speaking in Tounges”. It still freaks me out a little bit. But after having a loved one join a charismatic church where the practice was common, and after my initial freaking out, I talked to a psychiatrist friend at my church who [...]

“Cease fire, friendlies, I am Pat (expletive) Tillman, damn it!” the NFL star shouted, again and again.
How do we know this? I am not questioning that just to be a jerk. I would really like to know who reported that Tillman was screaming to identify himself. Surely not the guys who were shooting at him. [...]

This is a pretty cool site.
You can keep up with the progress of any small aircraft flight provided you know the number that identify’s the plane.
It is also interesting to watch all flights coming into and going out of America.
Lots of people traveling to and fro.

My own initial reaction, and probably a lot of political liberals, to the troubles of Ted Haggard, included at least a small sense of schadenfreude. But the matter is bigger than politics, bigger than religion.
I mostly sat on my hands and wondered to myself how the fundamentalist right would react. While I was [...]

I had trouble placing him when he was announced. Turns out he’s one of the Iran/Contra unindicted conspirators. He’ll fit right in. Watch out, Daniel Ortega, and any Nicaraguan Nuns who value not being bombed & raped!

Conservatives are fed up with Bush. All it really took was for him to fire Don Rumsfeld. Because Rummy has been doing such a great job these last 4 years.

Everyone is celebrating & rightly so. I just want to point out one of the downsides (though there were more than one). Hate amendments flourished yesterday, with Arizona the possible exception. Tennessee (80-20!), South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Colorado, Idaho… my goodness. Or badness, in this case. And Tennessee the hatefulest [...]

What Joe Public has done here is rather admirable, both in style and substance. In the same vein, I offer my own suggestions. Just as Joe does, I urge you to make your own informed decisions after due reflection, and by all means - go vote. I will not offer predictions, [...]