Some Words

Two stories I’m a bit surprised I’m not seeing more of. The first is something I picked up at TNR’s Open University blog, which is another one of those blogs where multiple academics get together, so as to post enough as a group, because they’re all too busy with lives in the real world to go it alone. Anyhow, over there a few days ago, one David Bromwich posted this little ditty about Bush, habeas corpus, and private armies. This is one of those articles that doesn’t really tell you anything new, but it puts a finner point on it. I really don’t know why more people aren’t making a deal about the facts laid out.

Then, in a slightly more absurd way, the Guardian writes about something that I haven’t seen reported in the US media. This really makes it sound like Bush’s global warming policy is drafted by two guys in a room with a bag of weed.