Didion vs. Cheney

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Good stuff. I've read the Mann book she references (Rise of the Vulcans), also great reading. Didion doesn't even go into the Team B stuff Cheney was a part of in the 80s: all those "undisclosed locations" are probably derived from these plans to set up provisional government in the event of a nuclear attack, completely disregarding the 25th amendment. Also little wierd to think that Cheney is Rumsfeld's disciple.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I finished the (massive) Draper book in June. Outstanding.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Since November 1, 2001, under this administration's Executive Order 13233, which limits access to all presidential and vice-presidential papers, Cheney has been the first vice-president in American history entitled to executive privilege, a claim to co-presidency reinforced in March 2003 by Executive Order 13292, giving him the same power to classify information as the president has.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

good stuff, as per usual with didion

there was a great RS piece about Cheney a year or two ago...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6450422/the_curse_of_dick_cheney

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

after reading the first para.

Didion wanted to go to Stanford, but perhaps it was a good thing she went to Berkeley.

Will Yale drop early admissions within the week?

― youn (youn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

"metronomic regularity" ! :)

rephrase: perhaps it didn't matter, doesn't matter that I was rejected

― youn (youn), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

"The question of where the President gets the notions known to the nation as 'I'm the decider' and within the White House as 'the unitary executive theory' leads pretty fast to the blackout zone that is the Vice President and his office."

― youn (youn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

I liked this, I should read more. Will check out "Vulcans" and that Draper book as I'm pretty ridiculously unfamiliar w/ Iran-Contra.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

iran-contra is complicated and incredibly simple all at the same time. like everything else these yobbos are involved in, it mostly boils down to "go fuck yourself."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 22 September 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

Vulcans is grimly fascinating. See also Barry Werth's 31 Days on the Nixon/Ford transition. More abt Rumsfeld than Cheney there, Don's a real piece of work as they say, but so is Dick.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

a Suck.com classic, from '00, by Chris Bray, who apparently got called out of his graduate history program to go to Kuwait this year:

http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/09/01/daily.html

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I love most of Didion's stuff but was anyone else slighty put-off by her Terri Schiavo essay?

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 23 September 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

i wasnt, i thot it was the only peice on that mess that called bullshit on both ends

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 25 September 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

I love most of Didion's stuff but was anyone else slighty put-off by her Terri Schiavo essay?

How so?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 25 September 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

Dido vs Cheney

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 25 September 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

I was thoroughly confused by the science in Didion's Terri Schiavo essay in The NY Review of Books, while the letters-to-the-editor from physicians refuting her points made more sense to my liberal arts educated brain. But Didion's piece felt unusually passionate and angry, for her, in a way that suggested her horrible experiences w/her daughter in the hospital colored her view of the Schiavo mess. Ultimately she may have been addressing the case as a grieving parent, analyzing it with a semi-conscious emotional agenda rather than with her usual dispassionate intensity.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 25 September 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

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