U.S. News‘ Paul Bedard reports that CNN offered the White House a preview of their al-Qaeda video tapes. The White House declined because CNN wanted exclusive, instant reaction from President Bush and Condoleeza Rice. There’s no mention of the CNN offering the White House copies of the tapes for analysis.
A few weeks ago, […]
The NY Times covers the argument over September 11th lesson plans. There are the infamous National Education Association plans, and now there is the response produced by Lynne Cheney, Bill Bennett and others.
“Lesson Plans for Sept. 11 Offer a Study in Discord”
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I haven’t bother following the U.S.-bashing–I mean United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development. The talk is the same: evil multinational corporations are exploiting the Third World to line the pockets of the already super rich. The solutions are the same as at any other summit of this type: more foreign aid; a […]
UK engineers worry that needed natural gas will have to be imported. This isn’t so bad from an economic standpoint. Who really cares whether the natural gas needed to heat homes or power electric generators comes from the British part of the North Sea or the Norweigan part? On a stategic level, […]
Patrick wants some data to number crunch with. He writes, “Crunching crosstabs is like crack to me.” He needs a job with the census. But seriously, fill out his survey. It’s quick, painless, and another worthless thing to do on the Web.
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Does anyone know Eminem’s beef with Moby? At the MTV VMAs, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog did a bit with Moby about it and tried to include Eminem. The white trash rapper snubbed the pooch. Then Eminem accepts an award and threatens to hit Moby. The Christian, vegan, placid techno-rocker has […]
Back to the strike that almost was:
For what the owners wanted, they didn’t cave like I expected them to. There will be more revenue sharing and the payroll tax will apply to payrolls above $117 million next year. In return, baseball won’t contract until at least 2006 and the minimum salary will rise […]
John Gray was once a shining light in intellectual conservative circles. He backed Margaret Thatcher and wrote approvingly of F.A. Hayek. Now, Gray hopes for mass death “and by the year 2150 the biosphere should be safely back to its pre-plague population of Homo Sapiens - somewhere between 0.5 and 1 billion.”
Daniel Klein […]
The baseball season has been saved. Now, I can look forward to watching the Milwaukee Brewers lose 100+ games. No time right now to see if the owner’s caved. More later.
“No strike: Players, MLB agree on deal through 2006″
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If you ever saw Tora, Tora, Tora or watched any of documentaries last year on the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, then you know the story about a U.S. ship sinking a Japanese sub. Well, the sub has been found.
“Japanese Sub Found at Pearl Harbor”
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To: President Bush, Tom Ridge, and every member of Congress
Charles Mann’s article is outstanding. So far our security response to September 11th have been whiz-bang techno fixes. Legendary cryptographer and computer security expert Bruce Schneier sees that kind of approach as brittle and prone to bad failures. His security solutions entail flexible, […]
From the “You Learn Something New Everyday” Department: U.S. ships have their own zip codes. [via ETWOF]
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Leon Wieseltier on the remembrance of September 11:
This was not the work of the gods, or the consequence of a series of physical and chemical reactions (”[i]t would be simplifying things, but not by much, to conclude that it was paperwork that brought the South Tower down”), it was the act of enemies of the […]
Unlike the vast majority of webloggers (yours truly included), John Hawkins is actually doing some original reporting. He recently interviewed Middle East expert, Daniel Pipes–buy his new book.
Here’s Pipes on moderate Islam:
It’s true that the voices of moderate Islam are scarce, they’re intimidated, they’re disorganized and they’re in retreat. I think therefore there are […]
Posting will be sparse for a few days. I’m finally working some day shifts, so no late night/early morning weblogging binges. We’ll see if I’m in the mood in the evening.
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