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Christopher Hitchens has made much hay by incessantly pushing the fact that George Orwell is as relevant today as he ever was. It perplexes me then that he would start an article off by referring to our invasion of Iraq as an “intervention.” If that’s not a weasel word, I don’t know what is.

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Well, President Bush signed his tax cut yesterday. Hello, permanent deficit spending. Update: a reader sent this important Jonathan Chiatt article on the dangers of deficit spending. Personally, I’m not an anti-deficit absolutist, but I think that slashing government revenue to give a payback to the rich at a time when many important government [...]

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Spinsanity remains an incredibly valuable site. They posted a useful piece today, sort of an Iraq aftermath FAQ. One thing they leave out is that while the initial estimates of how many artifacts were stolen from Iraq’s national museum were much too high, the fact remains that the National Library and Archives was also [...]

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Shop at Whole Foods because they have good deli meat or a broad cheese selection, not because it assuages your conscience.

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James Howard Kunstler’s Eyesore of the Month feature is a wellspring of vituperation against Modernist architecture, television, cars, and plenty of other things. Quite entertaining, and a bit disturbing to boot (in my opinion, he goes over the top when he digresses from his rants against admittedly hideous buildings to gratuitously slamming a portly fellow [...]

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In the WWF, I believe they’d refer to this as the smackdown.

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Ellen Ullman: The Orphans of Invention

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I usually don’t write that much about weblogging here because, you know, who cares? However, there’s a habit common to many webloggers that kind of bugs me, so I’ll post about it here in hopes that at least one person who exhibits this habit will see the light. Oftentimes, I go to a weblog and [...]

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For future reference: a concise explanation of the evils of preferences in applications. It seems like it’s only been recently that I’ve been exposed to the idea that more options are not necessarily a good thing in applications. Generally I like to tweak my applications, so preferences are something I like, or at least put [...]

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Tim Bray asks whether home pages are going away. He says:

Lauren starts up with a blank page; she relies on RSS and bookmarks. Her browser sure does start up fast. Maybe that’s the future.

These days, Google is my home page, but I’m not sure why. I could just as easily type in my queries [...]

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