[links] Link salad for a day when I have my computer back

[jaylake]

Seizure: from bedsit to paradise - Growing one’s own crystal cave. (Thanks to danjite.)

lillypond, a/k/a my sister, with some Portland car art - Shot right before our lunch together on Thursday. I apparently walked right past this beauty without even noticing it, which is most unlike me.

Hammer and Tongs 1943 - Shorpy with some awesome industrial

Comments

[martyn44]

Glory? About three pence ha'penny a pound in old money.

[farmgirl1146]

Question of the day: What price glory?

My answer: Honesty and facts.

David Brooks, a staunch Neo-con pundit whose column is cited in the blog The Anatomy of Conservative Self-Deception, is quickly redefining the terms of this defeat, and this is important because words, and the choice of words, shapes the story. Brooks is telling the story. The "Neo-cons" (and he is reputedly a true believer), are renamed "Traditionalists." I have been a watcher of the Republicans for over 30 years. I was fascinated by the parallel rise of the Neo-con ideologues and the Lee Atwater founded dirty tricks group (anything is fair in war and politics is war), but enough on that, now

[ext_119583]

Where are you getting the idea that Goldwater was an early neo-con? Goldwater was just a plain old conservative--he was active far before the neoconservative movement ever took hold. There is a distinct difference between the two philosophies. Neoconservatives and conservatives are not the same thing.

Additionally, you're rewritten his (Goldwater) intentions as something completely contradictory to what he both said and believed. His reasons for not supporting the 1964 bill had to do more with his stance on government's role in interfering with business. He believed it was unconstitutional.

I would be greatly interested in knowing what source informed you that his reasoning had anything to do with driving poor white southern voters to the Republican Party. That's an interesting take, one I had not considered and have never heard put in that particular light. Perhaps I've missed something in my studies of the man.

[aries_jordan]

"I’d go. Would you?"

No. If there's one thing people on the moon or Mars won't need, it's a lawyer.

[jaylake]

You could be the law west of the Pecos!

Erm, above the Pecos!

Erm, nowhere near the Pecos!

what NASA needs to learn...

[dirkcjelli]

NASA needs to figure out how to kill astronauts and talk about the three letter "s word" before they're allowed to talk about saving the human race...

Hell, we might be better off just funding the Russian space agency instead.

Benn there, done that

[scarlettina]

Wow. I wrote a dedicated entry about Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails back in April. It's an excellent book. A shame you didn't know about it until now. It's a quick read and the sort of thing I think you'd appreciate.

Re: Benn there, done that

[jaylake]

I am a bad lj friend...

Re: Benn there, done that

[scarlettina]

Bad, bad you. There will be spanking.

Re: Benn there, done that

[jaylake]

Promises, promises.