Here are the Blogs in the Hugh Fitzgerald category.
Sunday, 5 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: You'd Be Surprised (Madeline Kahn)
Posted on 02/05/2012 1:47 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Ahmad Chalabi Did Not Inherit Iraq; Farid Ghadry Will Not Inherit Syria
If Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich have their way, the American government will make sure that "Assad has to go."
And if he does go? Then what?
Because if he goes, that means the Alawites will be demoralized, and the Sunni Muslims -- more and more of whom are displaying, though the Western
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Posted on 02/05/2012 12:56 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Gingrich Wants To Help Sunni Muslims "Get Rid Of Assad"
Gingrich suggests covert action in Syria
by Lucy Madison
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Posted on 02/05/2012 12:45 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 5 February 2012
English, As She Is Broke, Deserves Charity
The zaftig -- to use a word much loved by John Updike -- Sheryl Sandberg, No. 2 executive at Facebook, whose founder's face is so amusingly unsettling -- is the subject of a largely admiring piece in today's New York Times.
That piece includes this offense to the English language:
Sukhinder
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Posted on 02/05/2012 12:27 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Madame Secretary Buttinsky Just Can't Stop, Can She?
CBC.ca
Clinton urges 'friends of democratic Syria' to rally against Assad after UN ...
Washington Post - 18 minutes ago
SOFIA, Bulgaria - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Sunday
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Posted on 02/05/2012 9:48 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, 5 February 2012
America Should Never Have Given Aid To Egypt, But At Least Now No One Can Stop Its Being Stopped
ABC News
Egypt Sends 43 NGO Workers to Trial Over Funds
ABC News - 25 minutes ago
Egyptian investigating judges on Sunday referred 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, to trial before a criminal court
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Posted on 02/05/2012 9:36 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
It All Depends On What You Mean By Cavendish
Labs?
Bananas?
Dukes Of Devonshire?
Towns In Vermont?
Now study each of the names below and assign each, in turn, to one of the four categories of Cavendish given above:
James Clerk Maxweil, Irina Alberti, Varlam Shalamov, J. D. Watson, Henri Salvador, Max Perutz,
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Posted on 02/04/2012 10:45 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Andrew Roberts Reviews Deborah Scroggins
From The Tablet:
Heroine Stupor
Wanted Women, a new joint biography of two Muslim women, refuses to distinguish between an al-Qaida terrorist and a feminist intellectual
By Andrew Roberts|February 2, 2012
There are occasionally some books that are so deeply unpleasant, indeed repulsive,
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Posted on 02/04/2012 9:35 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
"The Days Of Blank Checks Are Over"
"In a sign of congressional anger, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who chairs an influential Senate subcommittee that oversees some foreign aid, on Friday warned the Egyptian military 'that the days of blank checks are over.'"
But why did they ever begin?
Why was
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Posted on 02/04/2012 8:51 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
No Comment Necessary
Muslim Brotherhood official says West is neglecting Egypt
Washington Post (blog) - Feb 3, 2012
CAIRO - Egypt is on the brink of political and economic collapse and the West has an obligation to sustain the country with
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Posted on 02/04/2012 7:49 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: Black Jim (Mieczyslaw Fogg)
Posted on 02/04/2012 5:33 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Putin And His Billiion-Dollar Villa On The Black Sea
Putin's palm-fringed palace is giving Livadia a run for the Russian government's money:
From The New York Times:
February 4, 2012
From Success at Putin’s Side to Exposing Corruption
By SCOTT SHANE
SERGEI KOLESNIKOV is a soft-spoken biophysicist who once thought he would spend his
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Posted on 02/04/2012 5:26 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Except That Israel, Alas, Much As It Might Like To, Can Never Throw That Badge In The Dust
Everyone pulls out -- all the townsfolk -- as the gang finally arrives, the gang that is not a threat only to the forces of order, that is to Gary Cooper, but to everyone. For if they kill him, they will do what they want with the town. In the end, he finds himself, despite earlier signs of others perhaps
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Posted on 02/04/2012 4:58 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
A Cinematic -- And Pointed -- Interlude: The Last Scene Of High Noon
Posted on 02/04/2012 4:57 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Yemen Builds A New Nation
Report: Al-Qaeda will transfer war hotbed from Afghanistan to Yemen and North Africa
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Yemen Post Staff
The Yemen-based Abaad Centre for Studies and Researches has cautioned that some factions seek to collapse Yemeni cities militarily under
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Posted on 02/04/2012 11:41 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: En Cueillant La Noisette (Fred Adison Orch., voc. R. Toussaint)
Listen here.
Sing along, if you wish, with the lyrics here:
Un jour, la tendre Annette,
Le cœur plein de désir,
Délaissant sa chambrette,
A pris bien du plaisir
{Refrain:}
En cueillant la noisette et la fraise des bois
En cueillant la noisette et en gaulant des
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Posted on 02/04/2012 11:34 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Libya Builds A New Nation
Arab Spring's First Fruits (Libyan Division)
Libyan diplomat was tortured, died in detention, rights group says
By the CNN Wire Staff
February 3, 2012
(CNN) -- A Libyan diplomat died 24 hours after he was detained by a militia based in the city of Zintan, Human Rights Watch said.
The French
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Posted on 02/04/2012 11:29 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
A Literary Interlude: "Il Faut Laisser Maisons..." (Pierre Ronsard)
Il faut laisser maisons et vergers et jardins
Vaisselles et vaisseaux que l’artisan burine,
Et chanter son obsèque en la façon du Cygne,
Qui chante son trépas sur les bords Méandrins.
C’est fait, j’ai dévidé le cours de mes destins,
J’ai
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Posted on 02/04/2012 11:19 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
La France Chante Son Prépas Ou Khâgne à Sucre
Prépas, l'excellence au prix fort
LE MONDE CULTURE ET IDEES | 03.02.12
Dans une classe du lycée Marceau à Chartres.Cyril Mariclhacy pour Le Monde.fr
La France a l'amour vache. En envoyant ceux qu'elle considère comme les meilleurs de ses
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Posted on 02/04/2012 11:07 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
In Syria, The Beat Goes On
From The New York Times:
Feb. 4, 2012
Death Toll Is Said to Rise in Syrian City of Homs
By ANTHONY SHADID
BEIRUT — Syria opposition leaders raised the death toll to 260 in a military assault Saturday on the ravaged central city of Homs, an attack that opposition leaders described as the government’s
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Posted on 02/04/2012 7:24 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Saturday, 4 February 2012
From The Money-Can-Buy-Everything-Except-Civilization Department
Culture Monster
All the Arts, All the Time
Oil-rich Qatar pays record $250 million for painting
February 3, 2012
In a reminder of the heady days of high-priced art sales, Cezanne's "The Card Players" [on has sold for more than $250 million,
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Posted on 02/04/2012 6:57 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
Friday Movie: Night Train To Munich
Posted on 02/03/2012 7:12 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
A Letter In The Wall Street Journal: Who Is Entitled To An Opinion On Global Warming, And Who Is Not?
Letter published in The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, 2012:
Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate
Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work.
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Posted on 02/03/2012 7:01 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
Afghans: How Dare The Americans Leave Before They Have "Fixed Afghanistan"?
From The New York Times:
Afghans Fear Downturn as Foreigners Withdraw
January 31, 2012
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
KABUL, Afghanistan — The anticipated withdrawal of most international forces is still two years away, but already Afghans who have depended on the decade-old foreign presence for their livelihoods
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Posted on 02/03/2012 6:45 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: My Very Good Friend The Milkman (Fats Waller)
Posted on 02/03/2012 5:13 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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