Yet Another Disgruntled Fellow At this rate, soon it will be hard to find anyone in Washington who is gruntled. So far the list of the disgruntled includes Jon DiIulio, Rand Beers, Paul O’Neill, Joe Wilson, and Richard Clarke. While he’s not yet an ex-emloyee, I expect Richard Foster to soon join this list: The […]

The Must-Read Interview of The Year Actually, it’s not really the must-read inteview of the year but rather an interview of me. Also, it’s not so much an interview as an overview based on an instant-message interview by Stirling Newberry of bopNews.com last week. Click here to read the whole thing. Overall, I think it’s […]

Scientists for Science If you read CalPundit or Crooked Timber, you’ve probably already seen this, but it’s worth re-plugging. About a dozen scientists have created the latest group blog, The Panda’s Thumb, a blog “dedicated to defending the integrity of science against all attempts to weaken it, distort it, or destroy it.” Much of the […]

You Gotta Like Clarke’s Style Dana Milbank, describing Clarke under questioning by Republican commissioner John F. Lehman, in Thursday’s Washington Post: The gallery drew quiet when Lehman questioned Clarke. “I have genuinely been a fan of yours,” he began, and then he said how he had hoped Clarke would be “the Rosetta Stone” for the […]

Who do we have to invade? … to get some cheap gas around here? AB

The DOD Inspector General The Inspector General at the Departmnet of Defense must be disgruntled: According to the report on the inspector general’s Web site, procurement rules were not followed in 22 of 24 deals awarded by the military on behalf of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad and its now-defunct Office of Reconstruction […]

Free Trade In a thorough and convincing (to me, but I was already convinced) article in Foreign Affairs, Dan Drezner makes a good point that I hadn’t heard before: Offshore outsourcing is similarly counterbalanced by job creation in the high-end service sector. An Institute for International Economics analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data […]

In the Loop Richard Clarke, in an interview with Salon, seems none to happy with Cheney: QUESTION: Vice President Cheney told Rush Limbaugh that you were not “in the loop,” and that you’re angry because you were passed over by Condi Rice for greater authority. And in fact you were dropped from Cabinet-level position to […]

Fundraising Update I haven’t mentioned donating to Kerry in a while because we were doing so well: Total Donations: 15 Total Dollars: $1141.78 Average Donation: $76.12 That includes $350 from Kash and I. So Angry Bear readers have ponied up $800 so far to help spread Kerry’s message and fight Bush’s attacks! Remember that after […]

Too Funny Usually I prefer not to post an entire piece of someone else’s work, but it’s hard to excerpt a cartoon and this one from Tom Toles is too funny: AB