There are a lot of things that used to make me afraid of getting old.
Doesn’t it make you wince when you watch an old flick and think, “Man, he used to look like that? And now he looks like this?”
It’s bad enough to watch relatives age, but seeing it happen to impregnable famous athletes and movie stars is more sudden dispiriting [...]
Posts tagged Janos Marton
On Aging, Fear, Magic and Technology
There are a lot of things that used to make me afraid of getting old.
Doesn’t it make you wince when you watch an old flick and think, “Man, he used to look like that? And now he looks like this?”
It’s bad enough to watch relatives age, but seeing it happen to impregnable famous athletes and movie stars is more sudden dispiriting [...]
Why I Hate Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman made news this week by helping ruin healthcare.
This deeply distressed and depressed some of the Democratic faithful, but not me.
No, I’ve loathed the man for so long that his antics only make me mad at his enablers, in this case Obama and Reid.
The man who said during the 2006 election that he was with the Democrats ̶ [...]
Obama’s Afghan Troop Surge: Fiv...
Tony Karon’s new Time Magazine defiantly denounces President Obama’s call for a troop escalation.
Its title, Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama’s Afghan Surge, says it all, and the piece itself summarizes concisely points that this site and many others have been arguing for months:
1. Expanding the ground war against the Talib [...]
Afghanistan – A Foggy Future
Quickly reviewing all major post World War II wars, the New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg asks a series of tough questions he would like the president to answer on Tuesday:
Does it make sense, for example, to spend lives and treasure trying to eradicate “safe havens” in Afghanistan when Al Qaeda has so many other—well, options, from Sudan [...]