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| news, networking, 1000, web dafesign, how, labor laws, jesus, weblog, sledging(cricket), links, kama sutra, hamburger harry's, andrei codrescu, terrible, pantyhose, nihilism, excellent, | He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the swingers Bush presidency. The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based swingers community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your swingers judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community? Many of the other elected officials in Washington, it would seem. |
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| However, my current mood, combined with some recent press, links has prompted me to speak about politics again. In Sunday’s edition of The New York Times, in the Magazine, Ron Suskind published a lengthy article about George Bush’s “faith-based presidency” called Without a Doubt. I would link you to it, but you have to register to read the Times on line (although registration is free), so just go to www.nytimes.com and you can do so. I’ve decided to include these two quotes, just to give you a taste. The emphasis added links is mine: A cluster of particularly links vivid qualities was shaping George W. Bush's White House through the summer of 2001: a disdain for contemplation or deliberation, an embrace of decisiveness, a retreat from empiricism, a sometimes bullying impatience with doubters and even friendly questioners. ……………………………… In the summer of 2002, after I [Ron Suskind] had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. |
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