links for July 16th through July 17th

IHT: Learning to like like – i refuse to speak to people who talk like this
SF Chronicle: Digital Images Dominate – But With a Downside – or more than one
Bill Arkin: Ready for Surge II? – try to imagine this not happening
NY Daily News: G.I. in shoot scam: better shot in Bronx than in Baghdad – When soldiers prefer being buggered in prison to being redeployed to Iraq
Greg Sargent: Joe Wilson Endorses Hillary! – Apparently, Ambassador Joe thinks she has the best … Iraq policy. Go figure! The big news is that the Clinton campign broke it to the blogs first. We’re all supposed to jump up and down over that.
AP: Pace: U.S. Troops in Iraq Could Rise – Peter Pace picks the perfect political moment to share the U.S. military’s prudent planning. Hell hath no fury, huh?
Fact-esque: Ripping Up the Social Contract – Health insurance debate hipnosis.

Comments

sarabeth says:

July 17, 2007 at 6:28 pm

Re IHT:

My blog-relative, why so negative on this putative quotative?
matt says:

July 17, 2007 at 6:30 pm

maybe you have to live in california.
sarabeth says:

July 17, 2007 at 7:08 pm

not in terms of exposure to “like”. long years of teaching undergrads definitely led to over-exposure.
sac says:

July 18, 2007 at 7:23 am

I don’t mind it in casual conversation, but when it permeates into the workplace, it, like, grates. I’m always amazed at how many people rely on it to convey a thought, even in relatively high-level meetings here at the coalmine.
matt says:

July 18, 2007 at 8:29 am

well, i’ve always hated it, since, like, valley girl.

but the reason for the hardline now is an ex who used it so much that by the end of the relationship i was counting how many times she used it per conversation.