铁姑娘自己也是军人吧。她不是Reserve里面的major吗。Knowing wrote:
在NPR里听一个义愤填膺的军人说你们平民老说adultery 不犯法，这不对，adultery是犯军法，可以被判刑的！靠，我马上明白过来为什么老P承认了他和铁姑娘的奸情但是一直坚持说是退伍去中情局以后才开始的。
我看见McCain说她"misled the American People"，which is true，但是没看见他说intentionally misled the American people，这么讲的是极右的一小撮人，fox news这么讲的时候用的是问句。这种质疑我也不觉得过分。还是用公司的例子，一开始发言人说错了数据，投资人质疑"公司管理者故意mislead investors"完全正常。另外Rice上电视告诉大家一件事，结果证明错了，她重新上同样的节目跟大家澄清才对，为什么不能这么做呢？公司如果跟股民讲错了事实，应该用同样的形式更正，没听说让股民自己放狗搜一下的。其他人，比如Jim Clapper，没认错，不等于Rice没认错就是对的。国会也不单揪着Rice不放，现在要调查那个talking points了。Jun wrote:共和党揪着 Rice 不是要她承认当时的情报错了，而是要她承认 she lied and intentially misled the American people to help Obama get re-elected.
再说了，CIA 从来就没承认自己 fucked up，老P也没承认在他的领导下 CIA fucked up，国会 intelligence committee 还爱他爱的死脱。
Jim Clapper 承认当时的说法是他告诉白宫的，到现在也没见他出来承认这个说法是错的。倒是老P现在不在 Clapper 手下工作了，清清白白地对国会撇清 “我早知道了是恐怖分子，DNI 的官方说法跟我没关系 ...” 哇塞，你早知道了，当时怎么没给使馆增加警卫涅？
首都里那帮人我真的没见过一个对事实正误对错特别坚持的，特别坚持事实正误特别讲理的人早就被淘汰掉了。
嗯，共和党是立意要把这事儿搞大，弄个scandal出来，不过也搞不出什么来Knowing wrote:jim clapper 出来认错他们会接着揪住jim clapper 攻击，最好是牵扯出白宫有直接示意cover up 的证据。干脆stonewall 他们就完了，bush 咋干帅哥就咋干，还跟他们讲什么理费什么劲。
嘻嘻，这期new yorker 封面叫Camouflage. 这期comment 专栏盛赞老P的绯闻简直是“Fifty Shades of Khaki”，借用phillip roth 的名句深深感叹出了jun 的心声：在美国写不出好的讽刺小说，不管怎么发明，现实生活都能迅速赶超！
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012 ... fe-advice/
......I approached Roth. Holding out Balls as a numbness set into the muscles of my face, I spoke. “Sir, I’ve heard you say that you don’t read fiction anymore, but I’ve just had my first novel published and I’d like to give you a copy.”
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Then Roth, who, the world would learn sixteen days later, was retiring from writing, said, in an even tone, with seeming sincerity, “Yeah, this is great. But I would quit while you’re ahead. Really, it’s an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it’s not any good. I would say just stop now. You don’t want to do this to yourself. That’s my advice to you.”
只怕他自己忍不住不动笔呢。 ）来说，写小说真的是吃力不讨好的事儿。作者呕心沥血地付出自己和生命写出一大坨字儿，读者花了半小时就草草读完，大多数时候如石沉大海，没啥反应，还不如打个水漂溅个水花。但还是有人前赴后继自作多情地讲故事写故事，也不知是什么心理。这段话毛姆在月亮与六便士里也说过类似的。Jun wrote:写小说真的是吃力不讨好的事儿。作者呕心沥血地付出自己和生命写出一大坨字儿，读者花了半小时就草草读完，大多数时候如石沉大海，没啥反应，还不如打个水漂溅个水花。
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/c ... movie.htmlIt showed restraint and perspective, which seem to be in short supply in this scandal, and the set of questions it raised (Who exactly was excluded from this scandal? Who was given access to classified information? Is this, in fact, entertainment? Is it appropriate for us all to know about it?) remained with us long after we chuckled appreciatively at its compressed set of puns.
Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success … They are more likely than all American adults to be married (59% vs. 51%); their newborns are less likely than all U.S. newborns to have an unmarried mother (16% vs. 41%); and their children are more likely than all U.S. children to be raised in a household with two married parents (80% vs. 63%).
Jews are an even wealthier American ethnic group than Asian Americans, and they also have strong family values and are highly educated, are they are more prominent in business and government than Asian Americans even though they are an even smaller percentage of the American population (2 percent versus 6 percent). No longer are they newcomers. They have arrived! (Milton Friedman couldn’t understand why they weren’t all Republicans.) Yet Jews gave 69 percent of their votes to Obama in this past election, not far short of the Asian-American percentage, and this despite the fact that the Republican Party is more supportive of the current Israeli government than the Democratic Party is.
who is Richard Posner?by Richard Posner(! Yes, the Richard Posner!)
Judge Posner has written a number of books, including Economic Analysis of Law (8th ed., 2011), The Economics of Justice (1981), Law and Literature (3rd ed. 2009), The Problems of Jurisprudence (1990), Cardozo: A Study in Reputation (1990), The Essential Holmes (1992), Sex and Reason (1992), Overcoming Law (1995), The Federal Courts: Challenge and Reform (1996), Law and Legal Theory in England and America (1996), The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (1999), Antitrust Law (2d ed. 2001), Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy (2003), Catastrophe: Risk and Response (2004), Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 (2005), How Judges Think (2008), A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression (2009), and The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy (2010), as well as books on the Clinton impeachment and Bush v. Gore, and many articles in legal and economic journals and book reviews in the popular press.
这篇报道里充满了有趣的细节。例如，Roger Ailes 对 Woodward 无力的否认：我是开玩笑的啦，我派出去的使者 (Kathleen McFarland) 理解错了，还以为我是认真的呢。他还说“我才不是什么 King Maker 呢”。中国人对这个现象有句话，此地无银三百两。Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David H. Petraeus.
So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed to Afghanistan to pass on his thoughts to Petraeus, who was then the commander of U.S. and coalition forces there. Petraeus, Ailes advised, should turn down an expected offer from President Obama to become CIA director and accept nothing less than the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military post. If Obama did not offer the Joint Chiefs post, Petraeus should resign from the military and run for president, Ailes suggested.
The Fox News chairman’s message was delivered to Petraeus by Kathleen T. McFarland, a Fox News national security analyst and former national security and Pentagon aide in three Republican administrations. She did so at the end of a 90-minute, unfiltered conversation with Petraeus that touched on the general’s future, his relationship with the media and his political aspirations — or lack thereof. The Washington Post has obtained a digital recording from the meeting, which took place in Petraeus’s office in Kabul.
McFarland also said that Ailes — who had a decades-long career as a Republican political consultant, advising Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — might resign as head of Fox to run a Petraeus presidential campaign. At one point, McFarland and Petraeus spoke about the possibility that Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp., which owns Fox News, would “bankroll” the campaign.
Ah the irony.“It’s never going to happen,” Petraeus said. “You know it’s never going to happen. It really isn’t.
“My wife would divorce me,” he added. “And I love my wife. . . . We have a beautiful house.” Both Petraeus and McFarland laughed. “With his-and-hers bathrooms, believe it or not. I just want to live in it. I’ve never spent a night in it.”
