See how smart I am? Here’s what Sunday’s Today’s Papers had to say about the Kerry campaign’s handling of the Swiftvets:
With Kerry’s push-back against critics of his Vietnam service so far succeeding only in prolonging the discussion over whether he earned his medals, the wisdom of his response seems increasingly questionable. The Post’s lead [...]
It seems like coverage of the torture at Abu Ghraib has died down, but the truth is that details are still coming out, and the more you read, the worse it gets. Would you be surprised to learn that one of the doctors working at the prison taught an impromptu lesson in suturing wounds to [...]
Mark Cuban argues compellingly that DVD is dead, the industry just doesn’t know it yet.
William Rood, the commander of one of the swift boats that was on patrol with John Kerry on the day that Kerry was awarded his silver star, has gone public with a first person account of the day’s events. There were three boats on the patrol, one was commanded by Kerry, the second by Rood, [...]
I started reading Tony Bourdain’s memoir, Kitchen Confidential this weekend, and it’s great. It’s been on my list since it was published in 2000, and I’ve only now gotten around to it. The book gained much notoriety for its warnings to diners about what not to order in restaurants (don’t order fish on Monday and [...]
I really think at this point John Kerry is going to lose the election, and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are the reason. The bottom line is that they’re gaining momentum, not losing it, and they’ve successfully forced Kerry to address them, which means that now the media can tell the story of the [...]
Someone sent me an email telling me that if you want to find more on Bob Perry (the big Bush donor bankrolling the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth), Google robert perry gop houston.
It seems that BugMeNot has been taken down by its hosting provider, and is looking for new accommodations. It’s also being filtered by some content filtering companies.
Tyler Cowen explains succinctly why growth must be the linchpin of successful economic policy.
The Ninth Circuit US Court held yesterday that P2P software makers Grokster and StreamCast are not liable for copyright infringement by users of their software. The key difference between this software and Napster (which was, of course, smacked down with extreme prejudice) is that Napster used a central server to index files shared on the [...]