As I've said before, I'm not all that impressed with the whole oil-for-food scandal. It looks like a lot of dirty bureaucrats (yes, including people in Bush's administration) did some bad things at the UN related to Iraq's oil revenues. Ok, fine, let's have the investigation, let's prosecute, let's clean it up. Fine. Count me in.
But where is all the outrage of the ConservaBorg over the order-of-magnitude-greater corruption at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq?
Also, while I'm thinking about it, I didn't give James Wolcott's book a glowing review a wihle back. It was just too much snark to sit and take in all at once. And it was a little thin. I like a good smackdown, and I like it to be backed up with lots of facts and references I can go check. A book can really only do that with endnotes, which are really hard to follow up. I guess I'm spoiled by the nature of the web and the quality of the blogging in the liberal side of the blogsphere.
Anyway, Wolcott's style translates perfectly to the web, and his web site is a daily update of funny liberal observations and outside-the-beaten-path links (though "The Sideshow" still takes the cake for the highest quality collection of links you've never seen before on a given day while everyone else is just linking to the same four or five things). The snarkiness is there, but in small bites, it is just right.
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