I am a newfound admirer of a journal written under the nom-de-plume of Sisyphus Shrugged. She has come up with what I think ought to be the motto of the New Left. Read it and cheer here.
Author: semi
“BUSHIE VIEW OF THE WORLD”
I love this drawing, a brilliant take-off by Ted Rall on Saul Steinberg’s View of the World from 9th Avenue.
(© 2003 Ted Rall & Universal Press Syndicate and reprinted here completely without permission, so don’t rat on me!)
“BUSH VS. BUSH”
Lisa Rein keeps a most amazing blog site with, among other things, an incomparable collection of video clips. My favorite is the Daily Show Comedy Clips archive of, naturally, clips from Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (regular bedtime viewing in the Semi household).
If you do nothing else today, seek out the Bush vs. Bush clip, immortalizing the contorted turns our “President” has taken from the days he was just “Gov’ner” Bush on the Republican campaign trail.
THE BUSH BEAT
This weekend (it’s already started, actually) Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is convening “a conference of leading scholars and journalists of the U.S. presidency ” for a symposia entitled The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment. There are five panels scheduled, with presenters from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, as well as many other universities, including Stanford, George Mason, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, UC San Diego, Wisconsin, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
From the press releases:
“The conference also will be marked by a roundtable discussion of journalists who have covered the Bush presidency, including Dan Balz of the Washington Post, Carl Cannon of National Journal, Jeanne Cummings of the Wall Street Journal, and Todd Purdum of the New York Times. Mike McCurry, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, will also participate in the roundtable.”
“The presidency of George W. Bush has been fascinating, controversial and unexpectedly eventful,” conference organizer Fred I Greenstein, professor of politics, emeritus, at the WWS and chair of the Program in Leadership Studies, commented. “There are no shortages of defenses of and critiques of Bush and his presidency, but there has been more heat than illumination.” The plan is for the conference’s papers to be published in a scholarly volume, Professor Greenstein added.
Wish I could attend. There is a lot of information on the website; unfortunately, most of the links are to PDF files. However, the one marked Bush Chronology is worth keeping.