Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet 15h

@dick_nixon Mr President, it looks like you were the first black POTUSA! Why haven't you been given credit for this?!?

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 19

@Prof_Clinty @VersoBooks If inanimate objects can be heroic, then Jameson's typewriter is a hero.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 19

@ciccmaher @VersoBooks One of these days I'm going to write an essay about Jameson's heroic typewriter.

James Muir ‏@ephraim_quin Jan 19

Another independent bookstore closes @HeerJeet, this time anarchist co-op new&used bookstore and vegan cafe in wpg! http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Mondragon-closing-doors-for-good-this-month-241013351.html?device=mobile …

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 19

January continues to be the cruelest month for Canadian independent bookstores: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Mondragon-closing-doors-for-good-this-month-241013351.html?device=mobile …

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@WillWargo Fair point, although my original tweet was supposed to carry a tang of irony.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

Who would've thought that the BBC had the same low moral standards one associates with the Vatican?

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@billmon1 "I didn't support Nixon until Watergate,” Stan Evans.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@henryfarrell Imprecise analogy but some right-wing Republicans only became pro-Nixon AFTER he was under attack for Watergate.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@henryfarrell The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It took Greenwald, etc. to bring Wilentz into Obama camp.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@StephenWalt @billmon1 The analogy is with NSC-68, which was ready to go but unimplemented when Korean War broke out.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@StephenWalt @billmon1 Bureaucratic theory: if you someone has a plan, crisis allows implementation. Wolfowitz had a plan pre-9/11

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@StephenWalt @billmon1 My working theory is that Bush was genuinely scared, didn't know what to do, so drawn to self-assurance of Cheney

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@CraigFischer1 Everything is okay, I just like throwing out a downer aphorism every now and then. Helps thin out followers.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@StephenWalt But also: aren't the very tactics USA uses in GWOT creating newer enemies?

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

The only real haunted houses are our minds, which fill up with the dead as we grow older.

Jeet Heer ‏@HeerJeet Jan 18

@rtraister @yeselson @helaineolen @annaleighclark @RonRosenbaum1 For what it's worth: Persuasion, P&P, MP, Emma, S&S, N. Abbey.

Metro Morning ‏@metromorning Jan 18

Good reading in the new @toronto_life on TO as a divided city, inc @HeerJeet on Rexdale, @ppreville on economy and @cselley on leadership.