Loquacious Ineloquence from Bush to Biden

Good Morning. A few items for the weekend...

• President Bush was scampering discrepant all over Wall Street This week, including a lay-over with the Wall Street Journal Editorial board. The result? See "Bush's Wall Street Bull."
  

• Joe Biden's Loquacious Ineloquence.
  

• Remembering Molly Ivins, and her Queens Days.
  

• Why is the Federal Emergency Management Agency the stand-out champion among federal agencies of the Bush administration's incompetence? See "FEMA's Shams."
  

• The Pentagon thinks there are almost 30,000 fewer casualties than does the Veterans Administration, which recently put the number of wounded out of Iraq at 50,000. The discrepancy is indicative of the government's total war on truth. See "When Casualties Aren't."
  

• Tales of neo-martial law: "What Military States Are Made Of."

Plenty more in the various editions of the Daily Journal. Good weekend everyone (and welcome, new subscribers: the past ten days have brought a surge of their own, and I'm all for this one).pt

War Trash

Good Morning. A few new items...

• A two-part column on war's most common by-product: art and memorials. See part I, "Ash to Art, Art to Dust," and part II, "The Human Tolerance Walls Can Speak Of."
  

• West Virginia is a rolling heartbreak. The explosion at a convenience store on Monday is one more example. See "An Explosion in Ghent."
  

• Hezbollah Wears Prada: See "Lebanon's Nasrallah, Coy Warrior"
  

• America's police agencies are going military. See "Cops' Military Fetish."

Plenty more in the Daily Journal. Thanks for reading.pt

Genocide as Wallpaper

Good morning. A few new items:

• What happens if a genocide takes place and the press does report it as it's happening? Usually, indifference. See "Genocide as Wallpaper"
  

• "Banning Unpleasant Muslims"
  

• Holocaust Memorial Day and its (attempted) hijackers
  

• Roger Federer wins the Australian Open. Big yawn.

More in the Daily Journal. Thanks for reading, and welcome new subscribers: Last week The Notebooks got linked by Crooks & Liars, Slate, Romenesko's Media News and Meta Filter, among others.pt