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I feel like one of my responsibilities is to pay attention to the ravings of the lunatic right, if for no other reason than that when I encounter someone speaking of these lunatics as though they are respectable scholars or thinkers, I’ll be fully armed for argument. The most recent fringe case to make his [...]

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Fred Kaplan has the big picture report. All in all, it seems like things went pretty well.

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Christopher Allbritton is posting periodic first hand updates of the elections today in Iraq.

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Looks like our project to turn Iraq into Somalia is right on track.

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I don’t care how jaded you are, this editorial will make your jaw drop.

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The Struts development team have decided to retire the project and put it into maintenance mode rather than building a 2.0 version that broke backward compatability with Struts 1.2. This is really good news. When I look at the path that many other projects have taken, I realize that big new versions sometimes ruin everything [...]

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I can’t help but watch with fascination and horror as the President Bush and his supporters try to regulate how journalists apply the English language. Sadly, it’s working.

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It seems like far too often I come to appreciate people only after they die. Today I read that architect Philip Johnson had died, and until I read his obituary, I had no idea that he designed my two favorite skyscrapers in Houston, the Republic Bank building (now called the Bank of America building), [...]

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When Amazon said that its search engine, A9, would be layering on features on top of Google’s index, they weren’t lying. Update: Russell Beattie points out that this new feature was done long ago by some online yellow pages in Spain.

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Jeanne at Body and Soul has another powerful post on torture. You may not want to read it, but you probably should.

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