The day before the mid-term elections, The Army Times is publishing this editorial, calling for the removal of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. It should be noted that although the paper is sold to military personnel, it is a private publication.
A recommendation of my own is that we return to calling the Defense Department the War Department. Invading Iraq had nothing to do with defending America.
My Google toolbar includes this “RS” link for Rolling Stone magazine. A recent item that appeared there is an interview with both Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, conducted by New York Times columnist Maureen Down. Click here to read.
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I was remiss in failing to record Stephen Colbert on The Night of Too Many Stars on Comedy Central a few weeks ago. I figured it would show up on YouTube™, but then Comedy Central ordered all of its programming pulled from the recent $1.6b Google acquisition.
Indeed, numerous videos have been pulled by YouTube™, including one I linked to here. But, hurray, Stephen’s appearance on the benefit show for Autism remains online.
This installment of DogRat is brought to you by honorable son Eric.
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A new trailer for the highly anticipated video game Dairantou Smash Brothers X (known outside of Japan as Super Smash Brothers Brawl) was released this week at the Tokyo Game Show 2006. Like the other games in the series, DSBX is a crossover fighting game starring Nintendo characters, although this installment will include a guest character from the Metal Gear series by Konami, Snake.
The new trailer reveals several new arenas and one new character, Fox. The game is set to be released in early 2007 for the Nintendo Wii.
-Eric
I continue to appreciate the previously-mentioned reprints of classic Spider-Man comic books that are found in some Sunday papers. I hope that Smart Source will continue to distribute them.
Above are a couple of panels I scanned from this week’s installment. They’re good, but far from the best, examples of artist Steve Ditko’s uniquely compelling approach to drawing the human figure in motion.
There’s so much to appreciate on NPR — Juan Williams being a notable exception. This weekend NPR has a feature on Samuel Barber’s deservedly popular and praised “Adagio for Strings.”
This is quite a switch from last week’s musical pick of Jerry Lee Lewis! The media player below has a recent recording of the Adagio for Strings.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Sounds/Wordpress/NOV06/adagio.mp3]I recall hearing this piece of music for the first time was when I was only 8, after JFK’s assassination. For me it’s expressive of The Human Condition; and not just the sense of loss it evokes, but any profound longing for something good and important in life.
