My weekly blog column for the fine people at Guernica magazine is up and folks, it’s a doozie. Well, it’s alright. Incidentally the apparent etymology of “doozie” is …
[Origin: 1925–30, Americanism; of uncert. orig.; sometimes associated with the Duesenburg, a luxury auto, though the var. dozy precedes the appearance of the car in 1920]
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Archive for January, 2007
A Moment of Shameless Self-Promotion
January 31, 2007The Non-Intervention Alternative
January 29, 2007William Pfaff, the long time international relations scribe and current columnist for the International Herald Tribune, has an essay in the most recent number of The New York Review that is sure to stimulate a great deal of chatter (in those tiny – primarily insignificant – precincts where such chatter can be stimulated. Like small-d).
Pfaff [...]
Black Like Me
January 25, 2007As a fellow black African I truly feel for Barack Obama as he faces his black support quandary. What’s that you say? A pasty-faced white boy like me claiming to be a black African? Yes, it’s true. Researchers conducting a new genetic study have discovered a rare West African Y chromosome in a group of [...]
Obama’s Black Problem
January 25, 2007 I unfurled my Washington Post this morning and my eyes were met with an interesting front page story on Obama’s troublesome relationship with the African-American community (or at least the traditional leadership of the African-American community).
A particularly interesting nugget: “Black Democrats prefer Clinton 3 to 1 over Obama, and four out of five of [...]
Better Left Unsaid
January 24, 2007Our rivener of romance novels imagines that we here at small-d have something insightful to say about last night’s State of the Union address. I can’t speak for my PITC but I certainly don’t. I didn’t even watch the dratted thing. Instead, I spent the evening gorging myself on Sachertorte and then sipping ambrosia [...]
Sudan: The Crimes and the Heroism
January 23, 2007The current issue of Newsweek brings word that charity workers operating in Darfur are being systematically assaulted, raped, and otherwise harassed in an effort to drive them from the war-torn Western region of Sudan. These attacks – on such venerable outfits as Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, and Action Contre la Faim – are taking [...]
Of Bodices and Brains
January 23, 2007In a bourbon-soaked haze last week, I encouraged my good friend Faith to launch her excellent new blog and even supplied the title. Why Faith actually decided to use the name I came up with I’m not certain but I assure you her judgement is otherwise sound. How Faith finds time to ruminate with such [...]
I’m Pretty, I’m So, So Pretty
January 23, 2007Well, not so much perhaps. Nevertheless my picture and bio are now available for all to gaze lovingly upon at Guernica Magazine’s website. (Go ahead and follow the link – I’m nearly all the way down, almost like they were trying to hide me!) And I’m not just a pretty face, or ugly mug as [...]
You Don’t Know Me
January 20, 2007Holy crap! I’d say the pressure has finally gotten to Paula Abdul, but what pressure? Check out this clip of her whacked out on wawwy sauce. Again, no connection to international relations whatsoever, though I hear Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is a fan. I guess she likes her vodka Straight Up.
Urine Big Trouble
January 18, 2007Sorry, sorry. But all this talk of tents and pissing has addled my mind. Let me address my right ‘orrible friend’s questions and objections in reverse order.
The honourable member for Dupont Circle asks me whether it would have been viable (strategically and/or ethically) to exit Iraq the day Saddam was captured? Strategically, I would have [...]
