Month: February 2004

Mark Ames’s inspired review of David Richard Frumperle’s An End to Evil will almost certainly come to be known as a classic of criticism

From: Glenn Reynolds pundit@instapundit.com

I’ve been following that story for a long time. Just search “zeyad”
in my search engine.

Antiwar either knows this, and is trolling, or is a bunch of idiots.
Or both.

My reply:

You have not commented on the post linked to, in which Zeyad complains about the reception of such news in America. I put a link to your earlier post, and a link to a Google cache of all your posts on Zeyad. By the way, Professor, I don’t recall any mention on your site of Zeyad’s rape-all-the-Sunnis diatribe. Perhaps you could point me to it.

Best,
Matt Barganier

Update/Note: By “put a link,” I mean to say that those links were included in the original post. I did NOT add them after the response from Reynolds.

Hey, Glenn Reynolds, Jeff Jarvis: When ya gonna comment on this post by Iraqi blogger Zeyad? Too hot to handle? Could Zeyad work his way back into your good graces by calling for more rape and murder?

(For what it’s worth, here’s Instapundit’s free-for-all debunking of an earlier Zeyad post on the subject.)

In my years of politics, I have heard from many Capitol Hill staffers that Congressmembers hate constituent mail.

Is it possible that someone has found a solution? I tend not to be much of a conspiracy theorist, but I had been wondering about possible motives behind the ricin letters.

Whatever the motive, it appears that writing letters to your congressional representative may soon become a thing of the past. Of course, there is still email, although most of Congress has been ignoring email for years.

But he has drained the rosy hues from the Bushies’ cheeks. They’re so scared of Dubya’s war record that they’ve preemptively appropriated Kerry’s defense of Clinton’s draft-dodging. The foreign policy irrelevance of a Bush/Kerry contest aside, this could be a delightful campaign!

Looking over at the main page just now, I see that 589 people have contributed $22,414 to the Antiwar.com pledge drive. That breaks down to about $38 each. At that rate, we need 332 more contributors to break $35,000. Hey, blog readers, have you pledged yet?