All That Is Necessary

Month: January 2009

  • G.W. Bush Better Than Clinton on Gay Equality

    Have you heard about the (pro-) gay-rights bill our President signed right before Christmas? Probably not, if you rely on the mainstream media for news. In fact, even the blogosphere has been strangely quiet about it, although Gay Patriot launched an item about it this morning. His succinct wrapup (a reference to Don’t Ask, Don’t […]

  • Gaza Bromide: “Tweet, Tweet” Is Better Than “War, War”

    (Welcome, readers of TheDonovan.com, a.k.a. Castle Argghhh. If you’re a fan of “Jonah’s military guys,” you might be interested in my October post about that site, “In Praise of Milbloggers, and of the Iraqi Air Force”. And a warm welcome as well to Wired and Mudville Gazette readers.) In an earlier post (“Israel Turns to […]

  • Gaza, and Obama Derangement Syndrome

    Photo: Associated Press via Yahoo! News Caption: Muslim protesters wearing masks of, from left, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, take part in a rally against Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. I didn’t vote for Obama, but I wish him […]

  • Zbigniew Zblows Smoke at Joe Scarborough

    I got a little carried away commenting on another blog, so to justify the research time I’m repurposing the comment here. 🙂 At Politics After 50 (having been born in 1958 I think this is a great blog title), the author had this to say about the video clip embedded below: I know this is […]

  • Moral Clarity on Hamas and Gaza, from Krauthammer

    Time and again, after reading a Charles Krauthammer column, I find myself thinking, “why couldn’t I have written that?” It’s a combination of my admiration for the man’s craft and my nearly complete agreement, more often than not, with what he has to say. Today’s column is headlined “Moral Clarity in Gaza.” It’s hard to […]

  • Slain Hamas Leader Was Raising Next Generation of Terrorists

    My satisfaction at the news yesterday that Israel had taken out a top Hamas leader was tempered somewhat by the fact that his family died with him — today’s stories put the toll at four of his wives and 10 of his children. On the face of it, that sounds like a lot of “collateral […]

  • If You Haven’t Seen Slumdog Millionaire Yet …

    … turn off the damn comp and go see it, right now. (Or, whenever it’s showing in a theater near you.) It’s a thriller. It’s a love story. It’s a music video (don’t miss the dance scene after the credits start rolling). It’s a Bollywood-to-Hollywood crossover. It’s a multi-cultural morality play for the ages. It’s […]

  • Israel Turns to Social Media in Fight against Hamas

    Nick O’Neill has a good post at Social Media Today describing Israel’s use of social media in the current conflict in Gaza. Among other things, the Israeli Consulate in New York is engaging with supporters and critics alike, on Twitter. It’s reminiscent of Scott Monty’s efforts on behalf of Ford. Update: Also see this, at […]

  • Precision Strike Kills a Top Hamas Goon in Gaza

    “A senior Hamas leader, Nizar Rayan, was killed today with his four wives and two of his children in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, medics said,” according to an account in The National, an Abu Dhabi-based, English-language paper. (Photo: AFP/Getty, via CNN) The deaths of the wives and children are unfortunate, but Rayan knew […]