(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
WARBLOGGER WATCH
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Glenn Reynolds, thoughtful bugger he is, links to a "talking points memo for the peace movement." It's great that The Professor knows exactly what the peace movement is thinking, though that's a minor feat of divination compared to his determination of just exactly what the Iraqis are thinking at present. Previously Matt Welch held the record for reckoning-at-a-distance with his count of dead Iraqi children. Welch's achievement was an empirical survey. GHR adds a dimension of the supernatural, his being in apparent telepathic conversation with Iraqi consciousness.
For my part, I am disinclined to attribute a preferred narrative to the doings in Baghdad. Getting a few days distance between present events and ones summation will likely change the image entirely, as does getting a few hundred meters distance between the camera and present events. Things seem too ambiguous. posted by Anonymous8:59 AM
The Watchers
WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.