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I woke up in my own bed yesterday to the sound of a Philly garbage truck, and in my haze, I thought the sanitation workers were shouting in Arabic. I’d been in Fes, Morocco for only a week, yet my consciousness was pretty well altered. I’ve finally got it together enough to provide photo-album links on Shutterfly, not only of
Back from Morocco…
…and an unforgettable experience at the Fès Festival of World Sacred Music. Writing will ensue. But first, unpacking and regrouping. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Pause
I’m going abroad tomorrow for a week. Posting will resume again soon.
“Boo hoo”
That is the published view of Michael Goldfarb, John McCain’s new Deputy Communications Director, on the matter of torture techniques once practiced by the Khmer Rouge and the Soviet secret police. Another example of torture-opponent McCain’s lack of principle. By the way, it’s time to pull the mask off McCain’s “I was wrong” routine — his apology for backsliding on the
Point-counterpoint on “naïve”
It’s frustrating to see liberal hawk Oliver Kamm recite John McCain’s talking points on Obama’s supposed foreign policy naïvete. The argument, as we know, centers around Obama’s assertion during the July 2007 YouTube debate that he’d be willing to meet with hostile foreign leaders. Yes, this was an answer that I criticized myself. I still think it was hasty and
The far left attacks
Via Gene at Harry’s, we find that left extremist John Pilger, an apologist for Palestinian suicide bombers and Hezbollah, a declared supporter of Iraqi insurgent fanatics, is now assailing Barack Obama as a warmonger, an Islamophobe, you name it. I love this bit: An Obama victory will bring intense pressure on the US anti-war and social justice movements to accept
The week on disc (19)
In case you missed the last one… John Ruocco, Am I Asking Too Much? (Pirouet) Warren Wolf, Raw (ind.) Samuel Blaser Quartet, 7th Heaven (Between the Lines) Harry Allen-Joe Cohn Quartet, Stompin’ the Blues (Arbors Jazz) Jon Irabagon, Outright! (Innova) Connie Evingson, Little Did I Dream: Songs by Dave Frishberg (Minnehaha Music)
“America, this is our moment”
I endorsed Barack Obama in July 2007, and it has come to pass. Between now and November, this blog will devote as much energy as possible to the election of Obama, a man of true intellectual substance and democratic temperament, as President of the United States. For now, however, I’m speechless. Forward into battle.