So yesterday the Surpeme Court ruled that if a state allows its wineries to ship wine to out of state customers, it must allow out-of-state wineries to ship wine in as well. This ruling turns out to be huge news for the little company I work for. As I have mentioned at various times over [...]
Entries from May 2005
The Supreme Court did me a favor
May 17th, 2005 · Comments Off
Last word on the Newsweek flap
May 17th, 2005 · Comments Off
Jack Shafer has a pretty good roundup of the mistakes Newsweek made in its report on desecration of the Koran. He also doubts that such desecration occurred in the first place, noting that claims of use of the Koran as toilet paper have some of the qualities of an urban legend. I hope he’s [...]
What’s that I hear?
May 16th, 2005 · Comments Off
Could the new TimesSelect offering from the New York Times result in a steep decline in the influence of Tom Friedman? We can hope.
The magical formula
May 16th, 2005 · Comments Off
Andrew Brown, funny and insightful.
TV piracy
May 16th, 2005 · Comments Off
Mindjack has an interesting on article explaining how piracy helped Battlestar Galactica become the most popular program the Sci-Fi channel has ever aired.
Confusinger and confusinger
May 16th, 2005 · Comments Off
Juan Cole reads Newsweek’s semi-retraction of its story about desecration of the Koran in the interrogation process at Guantanamo carefully. I have to admit, I never stopped thinking that this happened. I just have a hard time believing that people who beat and torture their prisoners would show extreme sensitivity toward a book that they [...]
Another high profile mistake?
May 15th, 2005 · Comments Off
Newsweek is backing off of its story reporting that interrogators at Guantanamo desecrated the Quran in the course of interrogating detainees.
The Kerry Fish!
May 13th, 2005 · Comments Off
Tired: bushfish.com Wired: kerryfish.com
You like us, you really like us
May 12th, 2005 · Comments Off
Looks like our hearts and minds campaign to win Muslims over to our side is going swimmingly. I wish Karen Hughes good luck with this one.
Should terrorism be reported
May 12th, 2005 · Comments Off
John Tierney wrote a somewhat unintersting column for the New York Times suggesting that suicide bombings should not be reported by the media, and that the reason that we do report them is to satisfy people’s base interest in carnage. That column has provoked a number of interesting responses. Bruce Schneier’s disassembly of the argument [...]