Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Iraq Clusterfuck: AP seems to have used Babelfish to translate the Iraqi draft Constitution
Yglesias has some fine examples.
Until we truly know how the text reads, only the most superficial analysis is possible, right?
NOTE I visited Hewitt's site to see what he had to say about this; he'd gotten what turned out to be a cheap link from Memeorandrum based on a content-free one-liner; how very wingerly!
So, OK, I'm incensed that the greatest of weeklies, the New Yorker, actually covered Hewitt, a well-funded cog in the Republican Noise Machine, before covering the roots, unfunded blogging scene here in, um, the Eighth Borough, home to 10 of the top 50 liberal blogs. WTF?
Until we truly know how the text reads, only the most superficial analysis is possible, right?
NOTE I visited Hewitt's site to see what he had to say about this; he'd gotten what turned out to be a cheap link from Memeorandrum based on a content-free one-liner; how very wingerly!
So, OK, I'm incensed that the greatest of weeklies, the New Yorker, actually covered Hewitt, a well-funded cog in the Republican Noise Machine, before covering the roots, unfunded blogging scene here in, um, the Eighth Borough, home to 10 of the top 50 liberal blogs. WTF?
