Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s two weekend must reads on Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side, The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
First check out the review by Andrew J. Bacevich, in the WaPo: Collateral Damage:
In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, documents [...]
3 Comments »
Filed under: Books, Bush Admin, Congress, Conservatives, George W. Bush, House of Reps, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Iraq, Neocons, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Republicans, Senate, Torture, WaPo, War
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Since I have just received my DVD of this great film, I thought I’d re-post the review I wrote at The Global Sociology Blog.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a wonderful and harrowing adaptation of the book of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby (”Jean-Do”, as everyone calls him). Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor [...]
1 Comment »
Filed under: Arts & Entertainment, Books, Democratic Daily, France, Frenchdoc, Health, Healthcare, Movies
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Elizabeth Pisani’s The Wisdom of Whores - Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS is a great book (along with a great website ). Elizabeth Pisani is an epidemiologist with years of experience working on HIV/AIDS (or sex and drugs, as she puts, which sounds a lot, well, sexier) at a variety of agencies, including [...]
Comments Off
Filed under: Bigotry, Books, Bush Admin, Democratic Daily, Foreign Policy, Frenchdoc, GLTB, George W. Bush, Health, Healthcare, International, Religion, Science, Sexism, Sociology, Women's Issues
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Standard Operating Procedure is a book co-authored by Philip Gourevitch (also author of the great We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and writer for the New Yorker) and Errol Morris (director of the great documentary The Fog of War [...]
1 Comment »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Bush Admin, BushCo, Foreign Policy, Frenchdoc, George W. Bush, Iraq, Military, Movies, Scandals, War
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Former Bush Administration press secretary Scott McClellan has written a memoir: “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” that is a harsh critique on “the man he served for close to a decade.” Confirming what we all know at this point, McClellan writes in his memoir that “the Iraq war was [...]
7 Comments »
Filed under: Books, Bush Admin, Conservatives, George W. Bush, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Iraq, Neocons, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Republicans, Scandals, WaPo, War
Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Via Le Monde , this is a common topic for sociologists and for right-wing hacks. For the latter, poor boys, they whine, are doing worse in schools because their masculine nature (biologically encoded) are repressed by the feminized liberal teachers. Schools (especially public schools, of course) have been perverted by [...]
3 Comments »
Filed under: Books, Education, France, Frenchdoc, In The News, Sexism, Sociology, Women's Issues, World News
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
You can call this a “post-dated” Round-up. I am very likely preoccupied and taking advantage of my conjugal rights, as SSG Dizzy has very likely arrived from Iraq, for RnR, by now. I decided to post today’s Ten Post Round-Up anyway, so you wouldn’t come a-knockin (wink-wink):
1: Retraining our brains [...]
3 Comments »
Filed under: Arts & Entertainment, Barack Obama '08, Books, Civil Rights, Congress, Democratic Daily, Democrats, Dizzy Dezzi, Election '08, GLTB, History, House of Reps, In The Blogosphere, In The News, John McCain '08, Movies, Political News, Political Parties, Racism, Religion, Republicans, Scandals, Senate, World News
Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Andrei Cherny was on The Colbert Report last night discussing his new book, The Candy Bombers, with Stephen Colbert.
Andrei is co-founder and co-editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a former White House speechwriter and Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Sphere: Related Content
Comments Off
Filed under: Al Gore, Books, Democrats, History, In The Blogosphere, In The News, John Kerry, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, TV
