Archive for the 'Politics' Category
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Let’s say there’s a street out there in Hypothetica. On that street is a relatively nice big house with a couple spare rooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a five-car garage. It’s a beachfront house with a yard that stretches from sea to shining sea. A nice family lives there, a husband, a wife, 2.05 children, [...]
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
I’m sending a prayer to the family of Lorraine Allard, the UK woman who delayed cancer treatment in order to ensure her baby would have a chance to live.
Stories like this will lift your spirit at the same time they crush your heart; it’s beautiful and tragic.
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I did a Google search for death penalty sentences on 23 Jan 2008 and there didn’t appear to be any judicial activity from most of the usual suspects (China, Iran, Texas). Nor had anybody in the world appeared to have been found guilty of heresy or blasphamy against Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Confucians, or most of [...]
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Bill Whittle over at Eject!Eject!Eject! has a great essay about John Boyd and the OODA loop and how it applies to competitive decision-making in almost any sphere (mostly war).
Iowahawk (caution-language) had an interesting satire on a New York Times piece. Actually, any satire by Iowahawk is practically by-definition "interesting." I’m [...]
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I’m not really sure what’s more ridiculous: Taser parties (a lá Tupperware parties), or Amnesty International’s position on the non-lethal devices.
Because of safety concerns and potential for abuse, we do not believe Tasers should ever be used as a low or medium level force option by police officers. [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Back in October I was browsing Victor Davis Hanson’s website and on the 12th, the sub-headline of the posting jumped out at me. No, it wasn’t the name of the young, troubled socialite that caught me. It was the Ready First Combat Team’s leader’s name posted there.
VDH made a great [...]
Posted in "Downrange", Military Affairs, Politics | No Comments »
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
When I was about 20 years old, a car drove by that had a bumper sticker that said "Wouldn’t it be nice if the schools had all the money they needed and the Air Force had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber?" I remember wishing I were in a bomber at that moment [...]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
In case you haven’t seen the news today, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. She knew this would be a real possibility when she returned from exile to challenge President Musharraf, and given the current state of affairs in Pakistan I figured this would be all too likely. That doesn’t change the [...]
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
If you happen to be in the Pacific NW in late Oct/early Nov and like to write on the Internet, Anwyn‘ll be hosting a Blogofogorama in a couple weeks. I hear the main topic will be Saint Peters’ historic defeat of the Islamic Fundamentalist Balrog on the bridge of Lepanto-dûm. Or something [...]
Posted in Internet, Tolkien, What's Right | 3 Comments »
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Cox & Forkum just announced they’ll be ceasing they’re regular editorial cartooning. Thanks for the laughs for the past six or so years, guys! Message From Above is hanging in my office directly over my computer. I hope you’ll continue the September Eleventh posts every year, too.
I guess this means I’ll [...]
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