Snopes has put together the best summary of the events that led to John Kerry’s being awarded various medals in Vietnam that I’ve seen. I point to this only because I’m seeing more and more emails making various accusations and insinuations about Kerry’s service and the truth should be recorded and disseminated. Updated [...]
Entries from February 2004
John Kerry’s military record
February 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off
Your 2004 reading list
February 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off
Ed Felten is requesting that readers recommend the top five science and technology books every student should read.
The fix was in
February 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off
Is it time yet to really reflect on the degree to which the current administration got conned by Ahmed Chalabi and his band of merry exiles?
Ralph Nader
February 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off
Just a little link to welcome Ralph Nader into the Presidential race.
Semi-revolutionary
February 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off
John Covalesky submitted an email to Dave Farber’s Interesting People mailing list that contained a semi-revolutionary idea that I’d love to see some politician take up. He points out that corporations avoid billions of dollars in taxes every year through various loopholes. He suggests that we should take away these loopholes and provide the same [...]
George W Bush, the person
February 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off
If you haven’t yet, please read the first hand account of Rex Hammock’s meeting with President Bush before reading this. In it, Hammock says the following:
Bottom line: If George W. Bush could spend 25 minutes chatting with everybody in America like he did with me and five other folks today, he would win any [...]
Weblogger meets the President
February 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off
Rex Hammock has posted a first hand account of his meeting with President Bush to his weblog.
Techie day
February 21st, 2004 · Comments Off
Returning to work seems to have re-lit the fires of technical curiosity under me. Today I’m installing Subversion on my Linux server, and upgrading from Apache 1.3.27 to Apache 2.0.48. I’m also looking at moving Feed on Feeds to my web host so that I can make a blogroll of sorts out of the [...]
Just for fun
February 21st, 2004 · Comments Off
Robert Fisk on democracy in Iraq. Fisk addresses one of the things his critics often accuse him of — bigotry against Arabs:
The moment we suggest that Iraq never was fertile soil for Western democracy, we get accused of being racists. Do we think the Arabs are incapable of producing democracy, we are asked? Do we [...]
Webb on Bush (and Kerry)
February 21st, 2004 · Comments Off
Don’t read James Webb’s USA Today op-ed without reading Billmon’s follow up. Billmon does a great job of explaining Webb’s background and addressing the somewhat self-contradictory nature of the op-ed.