Seymour Hersch has a lucid article in the New Yorker on our Minister of War Donald Rumsfeld. My current favorite acronyme du jour TPFDL (time-phased forces-deployment list). Pronounced tipfiddle. Thanks to Allan Miller for passing it along. Here's another take by Wayne Madsen in CounterPunch. Ran across this link on a blog yclept Quotidian Doom via the Technorati überblog site. One thing that Technorati lets you see is how sites in the blogosphere are linking to one another. The CounterPunch site is run by Alexander Cockburn and Geoffrey St. Clair: names I had run across years ago while working in the belly of the great beast. Those were the heady pre-dot-com bust days of my slight flirtation with the Pynchon list. Years later, I ran into Ian Evans (Pynchon fan extraordinaire) at yet another KZ-lager in the software gulags, and we discussed the Tinasky letters. Ian is the only person I know of who actually subscribes to the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Itty-bitty world.
Posted by jim at April 2, 2003 02:57 PM