NYTimes: We Won’t Publish“Statements that Were Never Intended for the Public Eye.” “Statements that Don’t Fit the Narrative.”
...when the choice is between publishing classified information that might endanger the lives of U.S. troops in the field or intelligence programs' [...]
Discussion of Teh Narrative
...unlike the other animals, people do have a drive to seek coherence and meaning. We have a need to tell ourselves stories that explain it all. We use these stories to supply the metaphysics, without which life seems pointless and empty.
Some might say [...]
Discussion of Teh Narrative
[so as not to mess up the rest of the page, I’ve tucked below the fold a discussion of how we got to be “a bunch of Clinging, Ideologically Stubborn Mobster Ruralist Morons”
cuz it’s long-ish]
[*clicky* “Finish your assignment!"]
vamping to Teh Narrative
WTH?!? Passed by Lou Dobbs’ coverage of the Ft Hood incident last nite. Heard General Honore, among others, holding forth on the extreme stress of the military fighting on two fronts while the rest of the nation is not at war.
His point is apt—but not relevant in [...]
vamping to Teh Narrative
WTH?!? Passed by Lou Dobbs’ coverage of the Ft Hood incident last nite. Heard General Honore, among others, holding forth on the extreme stress of the military fighting on two fronts while the rest of the nation is not at war.
His point is apt—but not relevant in [...]
