Interesting article
Mar. 4th, 2009 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillThere is an interview with John Yoo (think "torture memo") here. It is interesting in a teeth-gritting kind of way. What actually struck me is at the very end (maybe the middle is just too painful to deal with) when the interviewer asks him what's on his iPhone. (Really, the questions they come up with...not, "how do you look yourself in the face in the morning" or "how did you explain the whole torture thing to your family" but "what's on your iPhone"...but nevermind.)
2) He reads e-books. Okay; that's not going to turn me off e-books; if Timothy McVey liked kittens that wouldn't make kittens bad.
2a) The free literature is, of course, mostly not ancient but simply out of copyright. Although if members of the Bush administration can't tell the difference between "75 years old" and "from the dawn of history on the plains of Ur", that explains a lot about the whole "failure to protect Iraqi antiquities with due dilligence" thing, doesn't it?
3) Classical music covers the period from 1750 to 1820. Doing the math, that gives us a gap of 189 years, not 400. 259 years at the absolute maximum, supposing he only likes the very earliest classical music.
Not only does he not know that, he doesn't even *realize* he doesn't know that, because he didn't bother to do the 30 seconds of research to figure it out.
Typical.
Q. What's on your iPhone?1) Bush took legal advice from a man who can't suss out an iPhone. Okay, we knew about Michael "Heckofajob Brownie" Browne; we knew competence was not a big factor in being considered for the Bush administration. But still!
A. I can't get the thing to work right now, so I don't have any music. I have a lot of books. There's an enormous amount of ancient literature that you can download for free, so that's what's on there. In terms of music, what I tend to listen to is classical music and then Top 40. Basically, there's a 400-year gap in my knowledge of music.
2) He reads e-books. Okay; that's not going to turn me off e-books; if Timothy McVey liked kittens that wouldn't make kittens bad.
2a) The free literature is, of course, mostly not ancient but simply out of copyright. Although if members of the Bush administration can't tell the difference between "75 years old" and "from the dawn of history on the plains of Ur", that explains a lot about the whole "failure to protect Iraqi antiquities with due dilligence" thing, doesn't it?
3) Classical music covers the period from 1750 to 1820. Doing the math, that gives us a gap of 189 years, not 400. 259 years at the absolute maximum, supposing he only likes the very earliest classical music.
Not only does he not know that, he doesn't even *realize* he doesn't know that, because he didn't bother to do the 30 seconds of research to figure it out.
Typical.
