To the extent that news media and blogs recycle news reports and opinion they are doing the same thing. That basically is what happens here. On balance you might be forgiven for assuming that journal… more →
DUCKPONDwmmbb wrote 1 month ago: To the extent that news media and blogs recycle news reports and opinion they are doing the same thi … more →
wmmbb wrote 3 months ago: Speaking in Prague, Obama’s call to remove nuclear weapons from the planet sounded good. In p … more →
wmmbb wrote 1 year ago: In every Olympic year the Olympic Torch is lit in Greece and carried by relay to the host city. This … more →
wmmbb wrote 1 year ago: Then they lie about it. “We don’t do torture”. Indeed. Tell that to the guards. T … more →
wmmbb wrote 1 year ago: This is the season for assertion of faith, for debates about the truth and belief, that seems to des … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: One side’s terrorist, is another’s freedom fighter. One side’s insurgent is anothe … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: I do not know the answer, but the question ought to exercise our collective minds: Which is the grea … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: Dr Greer reports in The Guardian that she was awarded a Golden Bull award by the Plain English Camp … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: It is not the people, it is an accent. You too have probably had the experience on getting on a trai … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: Gore Vidal proclaims that these midterm elections are the most important elections in his lifetime … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: George Lakoff is Professor of Cognitive Linguistics at UC Berkley and Senior Fellow, Rockridge Inst … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: Kevin Drum bemoans the state of free speech in the world, not just the land of the free, and he sure … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: Harvey Mansfield is an academic of some distinction, and since he writes for the Boston Globe he mig … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: Kevin Drum makes the case, that despite the mess in Iraq and the abject failures of the Bush preside … more →
wmmbb wrote 2 years ago: Duckpond is supposed to have – if in my mind only – a resonance of “duckspeak … more →
wmmbb wrote 3 years ago: As I recall John Lukacs, the writer of Five Days in London, was of the view that Churchill’s g … more →
wmmbb wrote 3 years ago: Much like Howard really. But I had thought that Blair’s fate would be decided six months on … more →
wmmbb wrote 3 years ago: Technology keeps moving on, not least in its application to matters political. Now it seems that br … more →
wmmbb wrote 4 years ago: This is the Duckpond right. Now this story about animal behavior appeared in The Guardian appearing … more →