This guy has a lot of experience as a Foreign Service officer. And for instance, he was the ambassador in Honduras during the Contra war. So he clearly knows how to deal with clandestine operations. That was a pretty clandestine one for several years. And he didn’t end up in jail, which is a pretty [...]
Hunter S. Thompson is dead. Many people are hesitant to say he committed suicide, but most reports list cause of death as “a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.”
This is depressing. WaPo has an interesting anecdote:
His beat, he once said was “the death of the American dream.” Interviewers later suggested to him that [...]
I’ve been avoiding beating the hell out of you guys with social security because Schwarz and that other, more senior Josh are doing a much better job than I ever could.
However, there’s a very simple method of explaning what’s wrong with Bush’s plan, and I could no longer pass it up:
Seriously, it uses math. Check [...]
Jeff Gannon is someone I’ve been meaning to talk about for weeks now, but Bulldog has been doing all the talking that needs to be done for himself. Does his case matter ethically? It depends on where you draw the journalistic line.
There are very few “objective” news agencies left. Both sides can point [...]
Someone has finally paid me to write. You can see it in this week’s issue of Boston’s Weekly Dig.
Also, oh my god have I been busy. I will have big-um updates tomorrow.
PS. Email the Dig staff and let them know that if I were in the paper every week, you’d pay to read it. [...]