Bush the Mole – A Modest Proposal
We yearn for a grand unified theory of Bushism that would put the two halves of the agenda together. Now, at last, with the revelation that Ahmad Chalabi has been passing intelligence information to...
Monthly Archive: June 2004
Slam Dunk Redux
One of the funniest recent lines on The Daily Show was Jon Stewart intoning “What the fuck *does* George Tenet have to do to get fired?”. Apparently, it was a slam dunk in the...
Journalistic Ethics
In an unusual arrangement, two months before the invasion began, the chief correspondent for the [New York] Times, Patrick E. Tyler, who was in charge of overseeing the papers war coverage, hired Chalabis niece,...
Chalabi’s Forgery Shop
In 1994, Baer said, he went with Chalabi to visit “a forgery shop” that the I.N.C. had set up inside an abandoned schoolhouse in Salahuddin, a town in Kurdistan. “It was something like a...
Hydrogen Hurdles
Suppose you load compressed hydrogen into canisters and put them on the back of tractor trailers: you will need fifteen of these trucks to serve the same number of vehicles as one gasoline tanker...
When “Bad” Wolves Go Good
Trainers brought four wolves to the set of The Day After Tomorrow … scenes were filmed using real wolves, and then later, in post production, [computer generated] wolves were substituted. A trainer put the...