More document leaks, courtesy of WikiLeaks — a new defender of democracy.
The response from official Washington? Typical McCarthyite drivel. Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat, offered this — which is typical of the comments offered by the people who run our foreign policy.
Of course the people in Washington don’t like Wikileaks. It damages their monopoly on information and their ability to perpetuate their own little worlds.
(Read Andrew Bacevich‘s book, The Limits of Power, to get a better handle on the issue.)
It’s been a light posting week, but you can blame the holiday, the triptophane, galley corrections for the book and the impending launch of South Brunswick Patch. It’s been busy.
But I’ll try to get some blogging in over the weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving and condolences to those of you bold enough — or stupid enough — to venture into the maw of Black Friday.
I’ve written about this often, so I’ll just say that the battle between the governor and the state Legislature over the proposed tool kits — “I say, ‘pass mine,’ one says; ‘no, pass mine,’ the other chimes in” — is pretty meaningless. Real reforms will do more than nibble around the edges of the problem and scapegoat public workers.
The Knicks are proving that this is going to be a long and eventful season. Following up an awful six-game losing streak that dropped them to 3-8, the team ran off three wins on the West Coast — an almost unheard of feat in recent Knicks’ years.
Good things abounded — including the play of point guard Ray Felton and forward Danilo Galinari and the emergence of Ronny Turiaf as a defensive stabilizer.
So, it seems pretty clear that this team is not going to be quite as bad as it looked a week ago, though I’m not sure we are looking at a team that will win much more than 40 games. Given the last half-dozen years or so, I’ll take it.
