Month: April 2007

Second guessing cops

I’ve taken a news story and put the facts in a different order.  The story essentially starts with the last point, and organizes the facts based on that point.  I’ve put the last point last, because it’s an after-the-fact conclusion that should not color the report.  I wonder if you’ll agree

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Freudian slip

James Taranto, in writing about the Pelosi/Lantos idea that the two them should begin dealing with Iran, caught John Kerry in a telling Freudian slip.  (You know those:  when your secret desires slip out in ill-chosen words.) Meanwhile at the Puffington Host, John Kerry* defends Pelosi’s junket to Syria: We

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A world without cars

I blogged about a world without cars when I put up the post about Critical Mass, the monthly anarchic bicycle takeover of San Francisco streets.  There, I noted that one promoter of the critical mass idea wrote really longingly of a world without cars.  I suggested that it would be

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