It seems Howard Dean is indeed working to restructure the democratic party from within. And meeting with heavy resistance. Interesting to read about. Reading about what he’s doing makes me vascilate between “Why are you doing things this way?” And “Way to go Dean!” <\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/01\/magazine\/01dean.html<\/p>\n
A lazy man’s story about cutting his own CO2 production:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/05\/garden\/05green.html<\/p>\n
This gives me some hope for the army, they’re talking about completely reforming the organization, and taking this on, not as a traditional conventional land war, but as a counter insurgency struggle, like it is. The particular lessons drawn are especially encouraging. Maybe we’re not totally screwed. It seems to me success at anything is not generally “alot more of whatever we’ve been doing, no matter how it’s going.” It’s a matter of examining what you’ve done, what’s worked, and what hasn’t, and reforming the techniques when needed. It sounds like that may be happening. Or maybe it’s more spin, but that’s not generally what I expect from our armed services (perhaps I’m naive). Would http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/05\/washington\/05doctrine.html<\/p>\n David Brooks says something not-entirely-unreasonable about the Foley controversy thing. He outlines the tensions moderately well, though, of course, his biases, which I unsurprisingly disagree with, run throughout the conversation. He talks about how it’s a cultural conflict. And how there’s a “was anyone hurt? No? Okay, nothing to get too worked up about then.” crowd, which I firmly belong in. And another part which is an “Oh my god, this is destroying the fabric of society.” crowd. It does require times select, but it’s worth the read.<\/p>\n http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/05\/opinion\/05brooks.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems Howard Dean is indeed working to restructure the democratic party from within. And meeting with heavy resistance. Interesting to read about. Reading about what he’s doing makes me vascilate between “Why are you doing things this way?” And “Way to go Dean!” http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/01\/magazine\/01dean.html A lazy man’s story about cutting his own CO2 production: … Continue reading “NYT roundup from this week”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}