I was looking back at my archives to see what I was saying right before the war began, and my post in response to President Bush’s speech announcing that the war was beginning on March 17, 2003, concluded with this paragraph:
I sit here in America, and I ponder the fact that we’re the people who [...]
The lead investor in the $50 million round of financing SCO landed last year, Baystar, wants its money back.
Andrew Sullivan’s essay in favor of raising the gax tax is strongly argued. I’m inclined to agree with it for all of the reasons that he mentions, but I worry about some of the unintended consequences that aren’t explored.
Here’s why all famous people should have weblogs: Mark Cuban smacks down Donald Trump for all the world to see after Trump obliquely disses Cuban’s new show as an imitator.
So that PlayFair project I mentioned the other day was bounced from SourceForge at Apple’s request, as predicted. Then it moved to a host in India, but Apple has forced the host there to pull it down as well. I wonder where the next stop is. Gaza Strip anyone?
Juan Cole has a piece in Salon today discussing the implications of President Bush’s blind support of Ariel Sharon’s plans for the United States’ relationship with the Arab world. The Bush administration’s schtick is that it wants to bring freedom and democracy to the Arab world for their own good (and, consequently, for our good). [...]
I’ve not been into saying much about Iraq lately, because I’m not exactly what to say. I fear the worst, and I don’t feel much confidence in any of the reporting we’re seeing. One thing I have been doing this week is obsessively reading all the Iraqi weblogs I can find. I’ll [...]
I’m trying to avoid commenting on campaign stuff, because I already know who I’m voting for and chances are you readers probably all know who you’re voting for as well. However, I think that this Timothy Noah piece on John Kerry’s proposal to end the corporate tax break for shipping jobs overseas is worth [...]
The big news from the 9/11 commission lately seems to be George Tenet’s statement that he did not meet with George W Bush at all in August 2001 because Bush was down on the ranch, and Tenet was on vacation much of the month himself. A reader found this (from August 25, 2001) on [...]
My knowledge of the classics is neither wide nor deep, but I did read Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War when I was in college, or at least parts of it. So naturally when I read about President Bush’s press conference with Ariel Sharon yesterday, my inclination was to pull a particular quote from [...]