reblogged from johnness
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Tom Ricks is already tearing it up, and it’s only his first day.
(failblog, via Zack)
I call this opus: “Firstie Parade.” Commenter PANINI really seals it.
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In a rare feat, John Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations, publishes an op-ed piece in both the WP and the NYT. Along with John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general, Bolton argues in the NYT that Obama, unlike past presidents, shouldn’t forget the Constitution’s Treaty Clause that requires treaties to be approved by two-thirds of the Senate. Yes, that’s right, Yoo, who spent much of his time in the administration arguing that the president had pretty much unfettered power to run the so-called war on terror as he saw fit, now says that a simple congressional majority isn’t enough to pass a treaty because the Constitution must be respected at all costs.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
For much of Deerhunter’s Microcastle — and yeah, I’m only listening now because so many people put it on year-end lists; sue me — I don’t know what I’m listening to. It’s a giant mix of stuff, about 40 percent of which I recognize, 60 percent of which I don’t, the end effect being that I very much like something that I don’t understand at all.