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One of my chief complaints with the Bush administration has been a perverse obsession with secrecy. I know that some things have to be kept secret, but lots of stuff is classified when it should be released to the public, and things are generally kept secret long after they should be in the public domain. [...]

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I’ve been following the events in Najaf with interest over the last 3 weeks, because I believe that the confrontation between the US military (working at the behest of the interim government) and the followers of Moqtada al-Sadr will, in many ways, set the parameters for Iraq’s future. There are three major groups in Iraq, [...]

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I’ve decided to declare my swiftvets del.icio.us tag experiment a success. It’s already on the front page of the Google results for the search term “swiftvets,” not bad. The area of interest I’m focusing on now is framing, which is a concept found in economics and linguistics, but really boils down to psychology. The basic [...]

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Looks like the Bush administration is finally catching up with most of the scientfic community and accepting that global warming is real, and that human activity has contributed to it.

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I haven’t written anything about ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of the Sudan, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about it. The New Yorker has an article this week that explains what’s going on. Is it possible that nothing will be done about this ongoing tragedy? It’s almost impossible to believe that [...]

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Phil Carter has a good piece at Slate on the necessity of rewriting the laws of war.

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Jason Kottke has been saying for some time that Google is working on a web-based operating system of sorts, and today he comments on how Google might release a Google browser based on Mozilla to support those efforts. That sounds completely plausible to me, but it brings up an interesting question. When does Microsoft turn [...]

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For all of the baseless accusations made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, there was one that seemed to stick — the charge that John Kerry was not in Cambodia in December, 1968, as he had claimed. I’ve read two arguments in favor of Kerry on this, one that argued that he might not [...]

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An alpha release of Hibernate 3 is available.

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How should the Kerry-Edwards ticket fight back against the swift boat liars? As Chris Suellentrop points out calling on the President to denounce the ads isn’t working. Not only does the President refuse to denounce the ads, but he instead uses the ads as a tool to denounce all ads from 527 groups, as [...]

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