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Jay Bookman’s analysis of the foreign policy goals of the Bush administration is a must read (I found the link at Camworld). Basically, Bookman’s argument is that the current Bush foreign policy is the outgrowth of a philosophy adopted by the decision makers in the Bush administration (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, for [...]

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Did you know that I’m supposed to be pinging blo.gs to let it know when my site is updated? I didn’t. Anyway, it should be notified when I add a new item now.

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My favorite new feature in Windows XP over Windows 2000 is the grouping of buttons on your task bar by application, and the way that it stacks up like buttons and turns them into the menu when your task bar fills up instead of just making a long row of ever-smaller buttons. Frankly, I [...]

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John Gruber is going through the RSS conversion. First, you start using a news aggregator that you like, then you feel dumb for not providing an RSS feed for your Web site, and then you kind of stop reading all those sites that don’t have RSS feeds. There are some sites that don’t support RSS [...]

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Last week, Jacob Weisberg made a pretty powerful argument in favor of going to war with Iraq in a Slate dialogue. As you guys know, I’m all over the map on the Iraq issue. Perhaps I should make a list of pros and cons that I update weekly or something.

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Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was denied a visa to enter the United States after being invited to attend the New York Film Festival, presumably due to the new harsher restrictions on visas being granted to people from Muslim countries.

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I’m pretty frustrated with the runaround that federal judicial nominee Miguel Estrada is getting from the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. I believe that judges who put their ideology ahead of interpreting the law as it is written (like Justice Scalia) should not be confirmed to the bench, but that doesn’t seem to [...]

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Somebody paid $44,000 for the so-called “crooked E” sign from Enron at an auction yesterday.

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Fareed Zakaria: The Lonesome Doves of Europe. Another interesting piece, this one criticizing the European response to a potential war in Iraq. I confess to being amazed at the European reaction to the war plans, because they seem so reflexive. Just as I’m offended at the insistence that we must go to war with Iraq [...]

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Michael Kinsley: Ours Is Not To Reason Why. Kinsley offers a scathing attack on the lack of a coherent argument in favor of war in Iraq by the Bush administration. The USA Today reports on efforts to get Saddam Hussein to slink off into exile. I don’t think anyone would like to see [...]

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