One-Liner: The quiet good bye
June 30, 2009
For all the column inches and TV time given to promoting the need to attack Iraq, the beginning of the (sort of) pull out of U.S. troops from Iraq has been met with the resounding sound of crickets from the U.S. media.
–WKW
One-Liner: Critical thinking on Iran
June 21, 2009
Is it conspiratorial or skeptical to wonder how Iran protesters had protest signs in English so quickly? Between that and Twitter, it’s like they’ve done a whole version of the conflict with subtitles.
–WKW
One-Liner: A new strategy for Iran
June 12, 2009
After years of “Ahmadinejad is a madman dictator that wants to destroy Israel!” today, the right will move to “You know, the Ayatollahs run everything there anyway. And they want to wipe Israel off the map, too.”
–WKW
One-Liner: Tortured attention span
June 12, 2009
That national debate on torture ran out of steam pretty quickly, didn’t it?
–WKW
One-Liner: Elections matter
June 11, 2009
The Iranian presidential election between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Hossein Mousavi is one of the biggest international stories going, but with Carrie Prejean, David Letterman and Sarah Palin in the news, many in the U.S. may not even be aware. One thing the election will surely give us? A better time line for when Israel will launch its strike.
–WKW
One-Liner: Let Extremism ring
June 10, 2009
On Jan. 21, the United States was a progressive, forward-thinking nation. Now it seems the next four years could be dominated by backward-thinking extremists.
–WKW
One-Liner: Obama’s rivals
June 4, 2009
Why is it that whenever Barack Obama speaks these days, a “rival” steps up to give a rebuttal designed to terrify American citizens? First Dick Cheney, and now Osama bin Laden. Can’t we go back to letting Bobby Jindal give rebuttals to Obama?
–WKW
One-Liner: Paging Liz Jong-Il
May 28, 2009
People always talk badly about North Korea. But I withhold judgment until I hear the opinions of Kim Jong-Il’s daughter.
–WKW
One-Liner: Channeling Nixon
May 18, 2009
Shorter New York Times: It’s not unethical if Maureen Dowd does it.
–WKW
One-Liner: Say hey
May 7, 2009
Watching the New York Times stumble through its final days as a print powerhouse has been somewhat eerie in its similarity to the end of Willie Mays’ career in New York. Both were giants of the game, but the game ultimately passed them by, even though they took a long time to realize it and flailed away with increasing impotence on each swing.
–WKW
One-Liner: When Google won’t help
May 7, 2009
If you ever have a report on “Anal sex attitudes of young adults,” my advice is to avoid looking to Google for help. It really skews the data.
–WKW
One-Liner: Headlines
May 5, 2009
A headline you will likely not read today: “More than 6 billion non-swine flu sufferers panic over every sniffle.”
–WKW
One-Liner: Angels
May 5, 2009
If there really were angels, they’d have to be placed under the protection of Hate Crimes Legislation. Because people are messed up like that.
–WKW
One-Liner: Framing the debate
May 4, 2009
Dear Democrats – please note how President Barack Obama framed the debate in his speech about corporate tax shelters. See if you can pick up on that a little.
–WKW
One-Liner: An incompetent CIA
April 30, 2009
Torture apologists have made one thing abundantly clear – they believe the CIA and its interregators are incompetent and unable to do their jobs keeping the nation safe without using torture, regardless of what any memos may say.
–WKW
