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Andrew Brown: A postcard from Jerusalem

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Mark Schmitt has an informed post on the topic of the Senate stock profits story that’s getting lots of play pretty much everywhere. His conclusion is that the statistical anomaly between the returns on Senators’ investments and those of everybody else are the result of the study’s small sample size as much as anything else.

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Phil Carter has a good post today about land mines and how the US military uses them, in light of the news that the Bush administration is reversing the Clinton plan to eliminate all use of anti-personnel mines by 2006. The Bush administration is going to continue to allow the use of smart mines [...]

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Code Complete is one of those books that I’ve always intended to read, but I’ve never actually gotten around to buying it, much less reading it. Looks like I’ll be rewarded rather than punished for waiting, because Steve McConnell is posting drafts of the second edition online, so I can dip into it and [...]

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Seth Ackerman has written a story for Mother Jones explaining how the Clinton administration was also complicit in willfully distorting Iraq’s weapons capabilities. On the whole, citizens are at the mercy of their government when it comes to topics like this, because the government really does have lots of information that we don’t, and can [...]

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Paul Krugman’s column today is about free trade.

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I confess to an interest in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. For all the denials of the movie being anti-Semitic, it sure seems like people get the impression that it’s anti-Semitic. Here are some of the articles I’ve read:

Nailed, David Denby in the New Yorker Jesus H. Christ, David Edelstein in Slate Why Is [...]

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The New York Times is endorsing John Kerry in the Democratic primary.

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IBM is donating some of the editors from their commercial IDE based on Eclipse to the Eclipse project. The upshot? Eclipse users won’t have to use plugins for editing JSPs, XML files, and other popular formats any more.

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Microsoft’s security chief seems to suggest that patching holes is a bigger problem than having holes in your systems in the first place, due to laziness among hackers.

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