We've got a busy June ahead of us at the FDL Book Salon. It's shaping up as a month devoted to the many different ways that the current administration has taken the country into a lawless and dangerous place and left it there without a clear way home.
On Sunday, June 10, we'll be hosting investigative reporter Murray Waas, the author and editor of The United States v. I. Lewis Libby. This book, due to be released tomorrow, combines transcripts from the Libby trial and Waas's own reporting. It shows how the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative was one part of a larger plan to preserve the fiction that "intelligence failures," rather than deliberate manipulations of the truth, were behind the administration's bogus claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Then on Sunday, June 24, Glenn Greenwald returns to discuss his forthcoming book, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency. Greenwald's book may be the first ever about how a President was undone by a logical fallacy familiar to anyone who has ever taken a freshman year philosophy class. That fallacy–known as the either/or fallacy or the fallacy of the excluded middle–was transformed into official American policy by the Bush administration. As Thomas Pynchon has written, excluded middles are bad shit; as Glenn Greenwald has written, they leave those who are guided by them unprepared for complexity, ambiguity and nuance.
Both salons go live at 5:00 pm EDT. Pull up a chair, fire up your internet connection, and join us for discussions with these two writers who have given us the first drafts of the history of the Bush administration.
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I notified the prior Thread, James!!!
Here’s another book guys.
http://www.radaronline.com/exc…..ollins.php
Ooh, awesome pair of Books!!! Waas and Greenwald!!! Should make for some interesting reading!!! And commentary here at the Lake!!! Aloha, Firepups!!!
Fab choices. Now if I could only take time away from this screen to read something other than this screen!
I hope we will be trying to get Naomi Wolf when her forthcoming book, The End of America and Charlie Savage who has a book coming out in Sept.
This is the go-to place for serious writers tackling the hideous state our country is in right now.
CTuttle @ 1
Congratulations, Buddy !!!
… sniff sniff … couldn’t happen to a nicer guy … sniff sniff …
… and now back to the Hockey, eh?
Petrocelli @ 7
Arrgh, what period is it in! Score? *g*
That sounds like two good reads. The Greenwald book sounds particularly intriguing. It always amazes me how shallow the electorate are in this country, therefore giving us a president as awful as Bush. “Who would you rather have a beer with”, indeed. This evening Tweety was at it again, asking that very question of the pundits on his show. It makes me want to retreat to the porcelain throne and hurl.
Did any of you see the hit-job on Waas a few weeks back. My first thought when I read it was that there must be a scathing article coming out. A nice book book is better.
Fox Noise at it again. Running clips of John Conyer’s while talking about the indictments against Dollar Bill Jefferson.
-GSD
Will Judge Walton throw The Book at Libby hard enough to hurt the COWARD hiding behind him?
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Wow, GSD. Talk about racism.
Off topic: On Steve Gilliard’s blog, they have put up a paypal link to contribute to the cost of his funeral and to help out his family. You do not have to have a paypal account. I just used my credit card.
Bravo for Glenn and Murray! Both salons should be awesome.
solai @ 10
Pre-emptive strike, I suppose???
OT-Category 4 tropical cyclone in the Persian Gulf. Translation: Price of oil is going up.
“You have not even seen the start of real operations,” Petraeus told reporters on the sidelines of a medal ceremony at a U.S. air base near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.
Petraeus, spinning like James Carville and Karl Rove on crystal meth.
-GSD
yellowdogD @ 9
I’ve stopped watching him. Much better for my disposition to just tune in to Keith.
Wow! Can’t wait to read these! Better order Wass’ tomorrow, but can’t read it before Sunday…
Oklahoma kiddo @ 4
OKK, you’ve made me retrace my steps to the aforementioned throne room. A pox on you!
Yeah, I just watched Scarborough try to spin that the Iraq war has not helped to inflame anti-American terrorists.
Talk about dopey.
-GSD
solai @ 10
No. Where was it?
CTuttle @ 16
Along with everything else, I’m also very tired of the personal attacks made against any critic. Not just journalists, but Governors, private citizens, U.S. Attys. Well, just everyone. A very mean-spirited, vindictive bunch of christians we have, running a smear machine.
Loo Hoo,
I’m looking.
CTuttle @ 8
2 – 2, 17 minutes left in the 3rd. … updates as they happen.
OKK, that was cruel.
RonD @ 17
Are you sure it’s not just Cheney … he is quite a windbag … *g*
GSD @ 18
Did you expect anything else from Betrayus?
gonna lurk cuz its lawyerly talk – way over my head – i’ll just relax and follow along via the comments
Petrocelli funny all day!
I want to call the attention of the FDL technical folks to a problem I am experiencing on my screen. The panels on the right side of the screen labeled “Blogads,” “Donate,” “Sydnication,” etc. are encroaching on the text in the post and in the comments. They are blocking out part of the text.
I don’t recall having this problem on FDL before although I have seen it on other Web sites occasionally. Is anyone else having this problem?
Is this what is known as “breaking the margins”?
I am using Internet Explorer on a Dell PC with Windows 2000 and cable service.
Eric Alterman tells his side:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/200…..9838503699
CTuttle, Senators got caught on a bad change and the Ducks score. Ducks now lead 3 – 2 with 14 minutes left in the 3rd period.
neurophius, I am not having problems.
GSD @ 22
So Joe S is one of Busherella’s 7 dwarfs?
… paging darkblack …
I found it. It’s at the Washington City Paper. I hate to link. It’s trash.
Loo Hoo. @ 31
sniff sniff … you noticed … sniff sniff … I was beginning to think that I was just a pretty face to you … *g*
Can you tell, my little girl is as right as rain?
… I’m out of my haze …
Neurophius: I have that problem when I increase the type size so that I can read it. The overlap happens a little bit at FDL, much worse at TPM and some other sites. If I make the type tiny again, everything’s OK. I haven’t found a solution.
CD @ 39
Thanks. How do you change the type size? (I have not done so).
I did not have this problem on the previous thread.
neuro, the tech guys are looking into it to see if it is something on this end
(ducking backstage)
Asiatimes with an in depth article about the deteriorating situation in Iraq.
Turkey mulls entering Iraq.
-GSD
neurophius @ 41
***
On Mozilla Firefox, it’s under the View menu…Text size…increase or decrease.
Republicans, this is war. And you guys are gonna to know you’ve been in a fight. And that you got your asses kicked. Let’s bounce!
Suzanne @ 42
Much appreciated.
Dang, I sure hope TRex isn’t visiting the BBC. They’re calling him a “slow turning prodder.”
Have they no sensitivity?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci…..720461.stm
GSD @ 43
solai @ 37
Thanks anyway.
Petrocelli @ 36
Cinderella didn’t have dwarfs. That was Sleeping Beauty.
Loo Hoo. @ 47
We decided in the previous thread that that isn’t our T-Rex, its the one at the Creationism Museum playing with Adam and Eve.
Was your daughter sick, Pet?
SnarKassandra @ 49
You are both wrong…..
Snow White.
-GSD
Loo Hoo. @ 46
He’d eat them, but the Brits are tasteless … *g*
SnarKassandra @ 50
um. . . Snow White and the Seven . . .
How about Snow Job and the WH Dwarfs?
Rev. Deb, missed it by that much.
-Agent Smart
GSD @ 56
Great minds think likely. Same time stamp anyway.
SnarKassandra @ 49
Thanks Cassie, can you tell I’m watching a very good Hockey game while commenting?
Can you tell that I’m a guy … can’t multitask worth a d*mn? *g*
All right you skin-head Republican motherfuckers. Let’s rumble!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
neurophious,
Here’s my non-techie solution to every mystery problem I have with my computer. Shut it down and unplug it. You’d be surprised how often that works.
And if it doesn’t, call a 12yr old for help.
Anybody know what time Scoots has his date with Reggie tomorrow?
Hey, I just saw a web report stating Sen. Thomas has died…but they cited CNN and I don’t see it on their website.
Anyone?
-GSD
Rawstory has that headlined without a a link yet.
ooops. messed up my dwarfs. now grumpy is mad at me. ;)
RevDeb @ 61
9:30 a.m. ET, I think.
GSD @ 62
we still have this:
Wyoming senator in serious condition – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..r_leukemia
CD @ 64
thanx
solai @ 60
Thanks, solai. I will try the first part. Don’t know any 12 year olds though, may have to settle for a 20-something…
juslin @ 30
You’d be surprised. Many insightful Book Salon questions have come from the non-JDed among us. No one should feel their questions are lesser here because they lack a professional qualification. It certainly doesn’t stop me from piping up; don’t be bashful!
These are two great books for us to discuss. It’s very exciting Murray and Glenn are joining us. Are we moving from a “read ahead” model to a “preview upcoming attractions” model for Book Salon, James?
Thanks very much for all your hard work.
Loo Hoo. @ 51
She had a bad cough … took 4 days for the meds to work. When she coughed, I could see her cute, sweet, little head shaking … she’s my little snuggle bear – 9 years old but still loves to snuggle … sometimes at 4 a.m. Kids are so spontaneous … *g*
Anyways, I was shunting between her bed and my computer all of last night … made some “Barbara Bush-like” comment … thanks Suz for not hitting me with the Tazer … *g*
SnarKassandra @ 50
Actually, it was Snow White.
Phew, I feel so much better now than I did during the ‘hydrogen becomes energy’/’energy becomes hydrogen’ controversy. THIS I know about.
SnarKassandra @49; actually, it was Snow White, but since it was way before your time, you can be excused.
neuro, have you done a hard refresh of the page? if so, and that did not work, try restarting your browser. let me know if that does not work
GSD @ 52
Thanks GSD, The Kid is so smart, I didn’t even think to question her. *g*
I did find this interesting snippet of news in my search for info on Sen. Thomas.
A noted passing from the great state of NH:
Pamela Low
NEW LONDON, N.H. (AP) – Pamela Low, who was credited with developing the flavored coating for Cap’n Crunch cereal, has died, her brother said. She was 79.
Low died Friday at New London Hospital.
Low was working for the Arthur D. Little consulting firm in the Boston area when she was asked to help find a flavor for the corn-and-oat cereal. She had studied microbiology at the University of New Hampshire, but drew upon a recipe that her grandmother, Luella Low, used to serve at home in Derry.
“She used to serve rice with a butter-and-brown sugar sauce that she made. She’d serve it over the rice on Sundays,” said William Low, one of Pamela Low’s younger brothers.
Cap’n Crunch was introduced in 1963, and has been enticing children and adults with a child’s sweet tooth ever since.
Low, who never married, worked as a flavorist for Arthur D. Little for more than 30 years, and also tinkered with flavors for snacks such as Almond Joy and Mounds.
-GSD
I haven’t been doing a very good job of keeping up with things here lately, but I was wondering if consideration has been given to Al Gore’s new book, The Assault On Reason, for the book salon. If he was asked, he might just show up and join us. He may even be familiar with Firedoglake, especially since the site has been so well publicized about live-blogging the Libby trial. He seems to keep track of the internet and considers it the real grass roots way to communicate these days. Or at least, that’s what he said when he was on the Daily Show. Sorry if this has all been covered, but I don’t seem to have time to read much these days. But I’d sure like to know. Thanks.
Yeah.
I am surprised I questioned it when I saw her answer.
But we like her and we won’t let one eensy little trivia slip-up ruin our high regard.
Right Cassie?
-GSD
Since 9/11 as I’ve watched Mr. Bush rip apart what makes America America, the blogs have provided for me the only beacon of hope I have that our country can sustain itself, despite Bush/Cheney, Delay, Hannity, Morgan, O’Reilly, et al. I read Glenn daily and wish he were asking the questions at a White House news conference and each time I see the by-line Waas, I’m on it. Thank you both so much for what you do.
-30-
solai @ 59
solai, are we supposed to plug it in and turn it on again or just leave it?
Well, of course Al Gore keeps track of the internet — he invented it!
RevDeb @ 60
9:30 Eastern, RevDeb.
GSD @ 76
Snarkassandra — world renowned expert at many things, but not at dwarfs and sleeping beauty and snow white.
Will they go ahead with the GOP debate tomorrow, do you think?
GSD @ 75
Well, it shows she’s not infallible like the Pope. *g*
Multiple news sources are reporting that Senator Craig has passed away…citing reports from his family.
Rest in peace.
-GSD
HotFlash @ 78
I warned you that I wasn’t a techie. Try never turning it on again and see if it still drives you crazy.
CTuttle
1:30 left, Anaheim lead by a goal. Ducks are playing Kitty Bar The Door and Ottawa can’t hit water if they fell out of a F**KING boat !!!
AP report on Sen Thomas of Wy.
This is Shooter’s seat. Chosen by dem gov. from 3 repub finalists…
TRex upstairs
Petrocelli @ 85
Over. And Emory has looked lost the whole series. Damn.
CNN…Dem governor to appoint replacement. Prolly from a list provided by the GOP
TeddySanFran @ 81
Hope so, I love live entertainment.
WASHINGTON – Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas, a three-term conservative Republican who stayed clear of the Washington limelight and political catfights, died Monday. He was 74.
The senator’s family issued a statement saying he died Monday evening at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He had been receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia.
Just before the 2006 election, Thomas was hospitalized with pneumonia and had to cancel his last campaign stops. He nonetheless won with 70 percent of the vote, monitoring the election from his hospital bed.
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Two days after the election, Thomas announced that he had just been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
Gov. Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat, will appoint a successor from one of three finalists chosen by the state Republican party.
newtonusr @ 88
Full credit to the Ducks … they won without Pronger. Scott Niedermayer is probably the most underrated Captain in the NHL.
Good for Giguere !!!
Petrocelli @ 92
Yep. And Niedermayer is a lot like Robert Horry.
Thanks, James. That’s a knock-out lineup.
Hope to find a copy of Murray’s book tomorrow and get through it by Sunday pm.
He was impressive (and humble) on the Yearly Kos panel televised by C-SPAN last summer. Even on matters “everyone” is talking half to death, Murray seems to bring a fresh and singular perspective.
Though I rarely post, I generally read most everything on FDL sooner or later and it just gets better and better. The ladies of the lake, et al display remarkable vision — and masterful implementation.
TeddySanFran @ 78
Teddy, he didn’t invent it; he created it, which is a quite different thing if you think about it. Actually, when I did some research, I came to the conclusion that he had a right to claim some credit, since he was responsible for reporting to Congress on tech advances and did a lot to promote bringing the internet into widespread commercial usage, as opposed to just an instrument for the military to use. He helped write the laws to make the internet possible. Hope you agree, but if you don’t, oh, well, to each his own.
I feel so sorry for the Rethuglicans, and there is more bad news for Decider Commander Guy. (from HuffPo linking to Newsweek.)
Frank33 @ 96
You couldn’t pay ME enough to have my picture taken with the Chimperor. No thank you.
Excuse me, but when things looked bad for Senator Tim Johnson looked to be in bad shape, the republicans were all hell bent ready for their republican governor to appoint a republican replacement–maybe even if he just stayed sick for too long. Why the hell is it all of a sudden automatic that a Democratic governor will replace Thomas from a list submitted by the GOP????
Don’t we get to raise the issue, get some spokespeople spoking, SOMETHING???
Excuse me, but when things looked bad for Senator Tim Johnson and he looked to be in bad shape, the republicans were all hell bent ready for their republican governor to appoint a republican replacement–maybe even if he just stayed sick for too long. Why the hell is it all of a sudden automatic that a Democratic governor will replace Thomas from a list submitted by the GOP????
Don’t we get to raise the issue, get some spokespeople spoking, SOMETHING???