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Entertaining Google search of the day: “i feel safer already”.

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I think one of the reasons I’m so obsessed with missile defense is that I find that the program is emblematic of every initiative pursued by the Bush administration. Success is judged by intentions rather than by results. Fred Kaplan has the latest on the system. To save you some time, it doesn’t work and [...]

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A few weeks ago, I subscribed to the RSS feed for cryptome.org. The site is best known for publishing documents that the government doesn’t want you to see. Here’s a partial list of RSS entries for the past 72 hours:

Calendar of 1060 US Military Dead in Iraqi War Calendar of 1059 US Military Dead in Iraqi [...]

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How bad are things? This bad.

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I downloaded the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 preview release earlier this week, and am troubled to find that the pop up blocker in it is horribly screwed up. The problem is that it wants to block pop ups that are loaded when you click on a link, and doesn’t seem to listen if you tell it [...]

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Here’s a paragraph that should have been in John Kerry’s acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention. It’s from a campaign speech he delivered yesterday:

George Bush’s record speaks for itself. 1.6 million lost jobs. The first president in 72 years to actually lose jobs on his watch. 8 million Americans are now [...]

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Note to Denny Hastert: billionaires often have good lawyers.

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The human urge to find things to which we can give our unqualified support never ceases to amaze me. In any dispute, the natural urge is to pick a side and assume that everything done by that side is ethical, just, and sensible. This compulsion is much on my mind lately as I ponder Iraq. [...]

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The Washington Post has a terrifying story about the dire consequences of a major hurricane hitting New Orleans dead on. That, of course, very well may happen less than 24 hours from now. I’m from just down the road from New Orleans myself, and so I’ve watched hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico for most [...]

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People love to talk about John Kerry’s unspectacular Senate career, but stupid missile defense boondoggles are one thing he’s been staunchly against since he was originally elected 20 years ago. Today we learn that the final flight test for the missile defense system being deployed in Alaska has been delayed until after the election, and [...]

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