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One of the Post's top photos of 2009 - Circle of Light
Lynn's Little Bit of Trivia -- Lake Worth | December 27th 2009 by Lynn Anderson
Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill giving statementOne of the highlights of 2009 was Suzanne Mulvehill'sCircle of LightThe Lake Worth Casino.On 2/22 at 2, citizens of Lake Worth circled the casino in support of restoration and pride in our history. Thr read more
El año de los muertitos
MOSTERIO, la Cueva del Mostro | December 22nd 2009 by El Mostro
Así será recordado sin duda el 2009. Hubo para todos los gustos.Músicos: Luis Aguilé Enrique Dumas Michael Jackson Julio Martel Sixto Palavecino Les Paul Francis Smith Mercedes Sosa Eric Woolfson Alejandro Sokol Maurice Jarre Mari Trini Kok read more
One Brain Fits All
Fashion Copious | December 22nd 2009 by Fashion Copious
Today I would like to be as smart as Einstein. So, go on, make me as smart as Einstein."To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody." —George Washington"Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciate read more
Sometimes even the paranoid conspiracy theorists are right
Belligerati | December 22nd 2009
A (quite liberal) blogger Daniel at Crooked Timber starts off a post by saying something fascinating; Let’s try and put ourselves in the shoes of a member of the John Birch Society, circa 1968. What would the basis of such a person’s political wo read more
Can Ants COUNT?!?
Videolicious.tv Daily Video Blog | December 13th 2009 by David Erickson
Yes, it turns out: Desert ants have a nifty way of finding their way back home after a foray out of the nest to find food — they count their steps. To prove it, some scientists devised a creative experiment that showed just how the little guys read more
Cinema Autopsy on the 2009 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards Winners
Cinema Autopsy: Film reviews, criticism and discussion by Th… | December 13th 2009 by Thomas Caldwell
Samson (Rowan McNamara) and Delilah (Marissa Gibson) from Samson and Delilah While I would have liked to have seen Balibo pick up a few more of the major awards at the 2009 Samsung Mobile Australian Film Industry Awards, I am nevertheless thrilled by read more
Los Visitantes (2002)
BlogHorror | December 3rd 2009 by Gustavo
Genero: Terror - Suspenso Pais: USA Duracion: 96 mins Director: Brian Gilbert Guion: Anthony Horowitz Reparto: hristina Ricci, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Kerry Fox, Simon Russell Beale, Robert Hardy, Harry Forrester, Jessica Mann, Peter McNama read more
Jonathan Schell Deconstructs the Delusion of a "Political So…
The Free Speech Zone | November 27th 2009 by Tyler Durden
I was about to write that there can be no military solution to the war in Afghanistan, only a political one. But I almost fainted with boredom and had to stop. So begins Jonathan Schell's brilliant deconstruction of possible "political solutions" in read more
Weed and War: We Were Wrong.
Prison Abolitionist | November 25th 2009 by Margaret J Plews
Stepping out a little further on my limb of late, perhaps, but this seemed appropriate to post, since there's a petition to get medical marijuana on the AZ ballot for 2010. Here's the DOJ's Drug Threat Assessment on pot in Arizona, by the way - just read more
Maya Lin Discusses The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Videolicious.tv Daily Video Blog | November 11th 2009 by David Erickson
Artist Maya Lin discusses the meaning behind her once-controversial design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Found at YouTube from ForaTV. Similar Posts: Memorial Day Video Memorial Day Gas Prices Hogs Roll Through DC On Memoria read more
Right Question, Wrong Answer
Dream Steps - a Bloneironic | November 9th 2009 by Michael Patton
An opportunity was missed in a dream last week... I asked the right question... ...but gave myself the wrong answer. In the dream... ...Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, is called in by the U. read more
A Nearly Apocalyptic Workaround?
Lean Blog | November 8th 2009 by Mark Graban
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine:There was a fascinating article in a recent WIRED Magazine about Cold War nuclear response and defense systems. This one sidebar struck me as a classic workaround, if the story can be believed.When: 1960 read more
The Australian Film Institute nominations for 2009
disassociated.com | October 29th 2009 by John Lampard
The nominations for this year’s Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards have been announced, with Balibo by Robert Connolly, and Samson & Delilah by Warwick Thornton, taking out the most individual nominations. Robert Connolly’s Balib read more
Bits and Pieces - October 19, 2009
Phronesisaical | October 19th 2009
Errol Morris is at his historical studies of photography again, this time of the Rooselvelt administration during the Great Depression. I don't see the alarm-clock connection yet.Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy on how Vietnam might have been diffe read more
U.S. violations of nuclear non-proliferation
Why We Worry | October 12th 2009 by Clint
Robert McNamara, head of the Department of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, offered the following analysis in 2005: “I would characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary and read more
Movie Monday - Five Creepy Flicks & A Short
Caffeinated Joe | October 11th 2009 by Wings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hallowed Ground (2007)[Jaimie Alexander; Brian McNamara; Ethan Philips; Chloe Moretz; Hudson Leick]After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's fo read more
A Lesson From McNamara
Foreign Policy Watch | October 11th 2009
Having been thinking about the Afghanistan-Vietnam parallels recently, I have been digging in to Robert McNamara's book, In Retrospect, about the lead-up and the execution of the Vietnam War. The book, in many ways, is McNamara's self-indictment for read more
Reinventing A Broken Wheel
Evolving Excellence | October 9th 2009
by BILL WADDELL Both Ford and Boeing strike me as companies that have an intellectual understanding of lean, but have yet to really internalize the principles and make a commitment. Kind of like the recovering alcoholic who knows he shouldn't drin read more
Nuevo Orden Mundial: The Fog of War
Devoción Católica | October 8th 2009 by marcelino
Imperdible documental que, através de la experiencias de Robert S. McNamara en diversos cargos dentro de la maquinaria de guerra yankee, nos revela la verdad acerca de los crímenes y guerras de exterminio emprendidas, por al país del norte, durant read more
The Fog of War
Free Documentaries Online | October 1st 2009 by Tim Stokman
In this documentary Robert S. McNamara discusses his experiences and lessons learned during his tenure as Secretary of Defense under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He talks about his work as a bombing statistician during World War II, his brief ten read more
Review of Birding the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
Birdfreak: The Bird Conservation Marketing Blog | September 30th 2009 by Eddie
Birding the Great Lakes Seaway Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the 518-mile Freshwater Birder’s Paradise Along America’s Byways in New York and Pennsylvania. Published by: Seaway Trail Foundation. Written by: Gerald A. Smith with chap read more
Afghan Precipice: Obama’s disaster
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | September 28th 2009 by Moin Ansari
THE most intriguing, and possibly most fateful, news of last week could not be found in the health care horse-trading in Congress, or in the international zoo at the United Nations, or in the Iran slapdown in Pittsburgh. It was an item tucked into a read more
Why don't celebrities die more often?
Binkie McFartnuggets' Mansion of Mania | September 8th 2009 by Swine Flew
When I ask this question, most people assume I hate celebrities. They think "Oh, you must want them to die otherwise you'd see their immortality as a good thing and leave it be!" Well, that's not the kind of person I am. I want to know WHY they have read more
The democracy that we have exported to Afghanistan...
Delaware Libertarian | September 5th 2009 by Steve Newton
... is on par with the democracy we once established in South Vietnam.Now I'm down to waiting a few years to watch scenes of the last American helicopters departing Kabul, because Harmid Karzai is turning into the Taliban's secret weapon.My only rema read more
The Fog of War – Savaşın Sisi
blog.yerbilimleri.com | September 4th 2009 by bahad1r
Robert Strange McNamara.. İşin aslı bende bu belgesel yüzünden tanıdım kendilerini, malum tarih bilgim zayıf. Bu adam Birleşik Devletlerin Savunma Bakanıymış. Amerika tarihine elinden geldiğince yön veren bu adamın yaşam öyküsü kar read more
Mourning Mary Jo
Paleocon Strikes! | August 26th 2009
I choose to mourn Mary Jo Kopechne instead. Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) Chappaquiddick: No Profile in Kennedy Courage By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMESAug. 26, read more
The Real Ted Kennedy Legacy
84rules | August 26th 2009 by 84rules
I know that for the next several days that people are going to heap praise after praise on Ted Kennedy. They call him the "lion" (I would say "liar") of the Senate and other such things, but what has he really accomplished?Apart from being one of th read more
Bush White House Lied? So What Else Is New?
OUR GARDEN EARTH | August 21st 2009 by gardenz
Former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, who served as head of homeland security for the Bush Administration, has written a book, The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...and How We Can Be Safe Again. In this book he reveals that the Administrati read more
Robert Novak DIES
TPI News Daily Update | August 18th 2009
Robert Novak has died, he was 78 years old. Novak was a well known columnist and panelist in different TV shows. He lost today a battle with brain cancer he had been living since it was diagnosed on July 2008. Novak was nicknamed the “Prince of D read more
Robert S(trange) McNamara (junho de 1916 a julho de 2009): a asce…
Mundorama | August 17th 2009 by Antônio Carlos Lessa
No presente ano se assistiu à derrocada parcial de um dos setores mais tradicionais da economia norte-americana: o automobilístico. No século passado, o segmento havia proporcionado ao país boa parte de seus avanços tecnológicos e de suas inova read more
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