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 Thursday, August 15, 2002
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Subscribed to The American Prospect
Regular readers of this blog (Hi Mom) know that since discovering Tapped a few months ago (in a link from Eugene Volokh, praising them for their intellectual honesty), I have turned to Tapped more and more often for links and stories. It is now first on my daily reading list. It is like reading The New Republic before Andrew Sullivan, when TNR was actually a liberal magazine, and TRB made sense.
Today I decided to put my money where my mouth was and to support Tapped by subscribing to its parent magazine, The American Prospect. At $14.95 for a year, it is affordable, even for the marginally employed. Chances are that it will join the backlog in the bathroom, along with old copies of Wired, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and countless freebie Tech trade rags, but maybe I'll read every issue in paper. Maybe.
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The Ministry of Homeland Security
Micah Wright has put up this wonderful site with posters done in the style of US WWII propganda posters. Here are reduced versions of two of my favorites that he did. Go to his site to see the full size versions. Recommended (although he says that the site, hosted on Apple's iMac service, is frequently taken down towards the afternoon as it exceeds bandwidth limitations).  
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The Economic Summit
This is William Saletan's take on Bush's so-called economic forum:
This afternoon at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, President Bush and Vice President Cheney sat side by side on the stage of a packed auditorium for more than an hour. That's the first time they've been that close together for that long in public since Sept. 11. Evidently they're no longer afraid of terrorists. What they're afraid of is Americans.
Like plantation owners, the employers on hand spoke for their employees." One CEO told Bush, "they are so happy to have jobs."
I wish I could write like that, funny, with an edge, and concise.
Tip o the hat again to Tapped, who has some good coverage of the summit.
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Scooped by Tapped
I had the experience tonight of spending about an hour writing up my thoughts about Judge Doumar and the Hamdi case, because I feel strongly about it. Then I start my nightly troll through news sources, and what's the first thing I run accross? A write-up on the same subject, but better written, exceprting even more of the Post article, and calling Doumar a hero, by Tapped. Today's issue of Tapped is really good.
What does this mean:
- Great minds think alike?
- I should apply for a job with Tapped?
or
- I should just go to bed earlier and leave the journalism to professionals?
Feedback (email is fine) wanted.
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Some other people get it too
It is nice to see the broader segments of our society opposing Bush's war on civil liberties.
The Washington Post, in an editorial today, Two Pages Are Not Enough, asked "What burden does the government have to shoulder before it can lock away an American citizen indefinitely without charge as an enemy combatant?" and concluded that it was certainly more than a two page declaration consisting entirely of assertions by a government official who does not purport to be offering firsthand information.
The American Bar Association voted yesterday to oppose the Bush administration's secret detention of foreign nationals after the Sept. 11 attacks, urging that their names be disclosed and they be given immediate access to lawyers and family members.
And there was the previously blogged Newsweek story about the paucity of evidence that Jose Padilla was up to anything besides coming to the US to see his kid.
Update: and there is this LA times Op-Ed piece, Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision by somebody who evidently feels even stronger than I do. Tip o the hat to Tapped.
While I don't labor under the misapprehension that the Bush administration pays a lot of attention to what the Washington Post or Newsweek or the ABA say, it seems like wider and more mainstream groups are starting to see the danger in the usurpation of legislative and judicial power by the Bush administration. That's gotta be good.
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© Copyright 2002 Tim Bishop aka Geodog.
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