uspolitics

it’s been a bad few months; ritchie, jobs and now hitch. love him or hate him, he forced you to think and digest things. i largely loved his columns and his books but i took issue with his iraq war stance. i never wrapped my mind around the falklands bit and didn’t square with his socialist leanings. (real socialism, not the shit tea party definitions) that said, i rarely missed the opportunity to read him....

an interesting nugget dislodged from the reading queue re: the second order effects of intervening in libya. ...

i’ve often found myself wondering if W was really as obtuse as he seemed publicly. ...

a highly recommend essay by neal stephenson. ...

but the insanity and the darkness that follows is deeply disturbing. ...