There's no panic yet, actually, maybe because I don't think this message is getting heard. I saw this interview with the American academic and retired army colonel Andrew Bacevich last night, and wondered how his message would resonate in The Forvm, which seems to content to slavishly follow mainstream narratives. Discussions on the day to day minutia of campaign ads etc abound.

For something more than a little different, the transcript and video (50 min.) with Bacevich is here:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html

Given Obama's very weak CV, I would have thought for sure that Obama would have touted his executive experience in pushing educational reform in Chicago during the 90s. It must have been an oversight or am I missing something?

You know you wanna.

I love old stuff...so a hearty hat tip to Tyler Cowen for pointing to Andrew Sullivan who points to this priceless collection of color photos.

Sullivan also provides a link where you can scroll through many on one page....St. Louis, Baltimore, Altanta, Wichita and many more.

And here we are again.

(1) Some of the worst movies ever made were the various & several travesties of Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, way back in the 1960's.

The best of these worst, by all accounts, was The Masque of the Red Death (1964) - a camp classic, if ever there was one.

via Wired -- the Orwell Prize has set up a little pseudo-blog starting today, where it will post Orwell's diaries as blog posts:

I'm willing to post this so we've got one location to talk about how we shouldn't be deigning to talk about this:

Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate

Personally, I don't think this amounts to anything for anyone else in politics -- just means Edwards won't be getting anything significant down the line if Obama wins.

A talking head said:

Hyperbole much? He's just another charming politician who screwed around. Doesn't hurt me.

an interesting synergy Obama is opposing a plan he vote for and McCain voted against. imagine that.

The quick summary:

it wasn't all that long ago that Joe Biden was selling the partition of Iraq as the only solution. others offered alternatives, all of which would have diminished the opportunity of the people of Iraq to govern themselves.

apparently, the Iraqis had a different idea, er the Iraqi awakening or as the subject notes, "i (not TtWD) am an Iraqi" as the following details.

Iraqis no longer ask, 'Are you Sunni or Shiite?'