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It’s late at night, and I’m still thinking about US foreign policy, Iraq, and war. One of the most common arguments from the pro-war camp (they bang it like a drum), is that being against going to war with Iraq is the equivalent of the appeasement of the Nazi regime that took place at the [...]

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In the LawMeme article I linked to today, there’s a site called The Political Compass that assesses your political views on two axes, left/right and authoritarian/libertarian. It’s more interesting than most of the silly quizzes that you see on the Web. I wasn’t surprised to find out that I skew somewhat to the [...]

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I’m quoting this letter from Keith Olbermann to Jim Romenesko’s media blog in its entirety because the letters page doesn’t provide permalinks. Anyway, Olbermann is really, really mad at News Corp:

Occasionally one accepts the fact that there is a company called News Corp, just as occasionally one accepts that there are terrorists, or that [...]

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If there’s one thing I love, it’s bitter corporate politics. That’s why I found the story of SWT (the GUI toolkit IBM developed as an alternative to Swing) to be so interesting. The fact that some or all of the story may very well be fiction is completely irrelevant — we are talking about an [...]

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The Laurie Garrett email fiasco is turning into an event of major proportions (at least in the small pond of blogging). You may remember that I linked to her email to friends about Davos the other day, mainly as a springboard for my own thoughts about what imminent events might do to the global economy, [...]

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Josh Marshall has finally posted part two of his interview with Ken Pollack (author of The Threatening Storm, a book that discusses our options with regard to Iraq), and even better, the whole interview on its own web page. Pollack is probably the best articulator of the pro-war case out there right now. On the other [...]

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Salon picked up the voting machine story this week, which is a good sign. The next thing you know, it will actually be reported in the major media. If nothing else, what should come out of this story is that all voting machines should produce a physical record of each vote. The idea that electronic [...]

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I’ve updated how the RSS feed works. If you notice any problems, please send email.

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I’ve decided that the time has come to do something more sensible with my RSS feed. Right now, the code that generates my RSS feeds just strips all of the tags out of my items, which means, basically, that they contain now outbound links or formatting. As you know, many of the entries on this [...]

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SpamAssassin 2.50 is out. This is the big release with the Bayesian filter and a bunch of other new spam trapping features. I’ve already installed it and tested it, and it appears to work. It seems to me that spammers are starting to try to evade SpamAssassin’s ruleset, or try to make their spam [...]

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