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There’s much talk everywhere lately about the demise of the Democratic party as a force in electoral politics, and indeed, I’m somewhat worried about it myself. I think that the problems stem mainly from a lack of leadership and the lack of a message for people to rally behind. Not that Republicans have a great [...]

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I never thought I would read of Ariel Sharon saying this:

It is not possible to continue holding three and a half million people under occupation. This is a terrible thing for Israel, for the Palestinians and for the Israeli economy. Today 1.8 million Palestinians live thanks to support from international organization. Do you want to [...]

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In this Economist story about the state of things in Afghanistan, they mention that CNN has shut down its Afghanistan operation. Hopes for America seeing things through in Afghanistan seem particularly bleak to me — we weren’t very committed before we invaded Iraq, campaign season will soon go into full swing, and there’ll be [...]

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Microsoft has submitted its thoughts on spam to the Senate Commerce Committee. No brilliant ideas are contained within. Larry Lessig comments on one specific part, a safe harbor provision for spammers who join self regulating industry groups or something along those lines.

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ESPN is recapping every single one of Annika Sorenstam’s first shots today, for those of you who are curious about how the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event in 58 years does.

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Ben Edelman, an economics grad student at Harvard, has published a study of how Gator actually works. I have never had this abomination installed on my machine, but I imagine plenty of my friends and relatives who have yet to escape the hinternet probably do.

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Fred Kaplan read a Defense Times article in which military brass openly talk about bribing Iraqi commanders before we invaded Iraq. Al Jazeera was running stories about this right after the fall of Baghdad, and it wasn’t picked up at all in the US media. (Perhaps they didn’t think that Americans would be interested [...]

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Slashdot posted a review of Dan Appleman’s ebook, Hijacking .NET, which explains how you can utilize private members in .NET classes even though you should theoretically prevented from doing so. For once, the comments are more interesting than the review, as a pretty good discussion about whether access levels in declarations should be used for [...]

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Ed Felten has some interesting thoughs on the soon to be introduced self-destructing DVDs from FlexPlay.

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Business 2.0 has an intersting article on how big companies use software to score r

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