You all know that I don't post very often. I've been reading a lot this week about the direction that our international military and political efforts are taking, and I thought that others might want to be aware of this as well. Personally, this makes me sick. Perhaps I'm not realistic enough, though, and these tactics are necessary in our ( Read more... )

This post, right down to the HTML code, is taken directly from William Rivers Pitt's blog on the Conyers Hearing. For those of you unfamiliar with Mr. Pitt, he's the author of the excellent book (really an extended interview with former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter) War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know. You can find the blog ( Read more... )

Interesting article in today's Washington Post - provides the clearest picture I've seen yet of who exactly we're fighting in Iraq.

Abu Barra, commander of a group of native insurgents called the Allahu Akbar Battalions, said: "Please do not mix the cards. There is an Iraqi resistance, a genuine resistance, and there are other groups trying to ( Read more... )

I know that quite a few of you are better versed in Japanese politics and history than I am - I ran across something this morning that I don't really understand. According to the BBC article here, we're basically trying to bribe Japan to give up Article Nine of their Constitution with hopes of a seat on the UN Security Council ( Read more... )

and replaced him with this guy.

Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses

Good going.

Now I resolve to think as little as possible about politics this weekend; I've had quite enough. (I don't know if you read this, Tom, but thanks for the copy of Fahrenheit 9/11.)

Just got back from "the city" - xaosenkosmos and I went up there and stayed at oblio's place for the weekend while we attended The Fifth HOPE computer hacking conference. Good stuff - enjoyed listening to the Woz speak, and generally liked being around so many geeks ;) It wasn't as much fun this year as it had been the previous couple years - the talks were too ( Read more... )

What is this word "submittal"? Why am I seeing it all over the place? At first, I thought it was an adjective - but no, it's a noun. Why was "submission" not good enough? I think I'm going to have to start a program for old words that have fallen out of favor and have self-esteem problems.

New Nietzschean Diet Lets You Eat Whatever You Fear Most

This is what happens when you have insufficient security on a web form that goes directly onto the TV screen...

My personal favorite:
http://mercury.rh.ncsu.edu/tww-closings/00234900.jpg

Runner-up:
http://mercury.rh.ncsu.edu/tww-closings/00234733.jpg

See more of them here:
http://mercury.rh.ncsu.edu/tww-closings/

muhahahaha...

I woke up this morning expecting to see the world covered in a foot of snow. It wasn't, so I got a shower and got ready to go to work. Moselle asked me if I was going to campus - and I was - so we got in the car and headed this way. She mentioned along the way that classes were either delayed or cancelled, but I wasn't prepared for what I saw ( Read more... )