Monday, January 31, 2005
What’s Good For The Goose (09:59 PM) - Students at the University of Central Oklahoma want a straight-pride week. I think they ought to throw a candlelight vigil in there at some point, too….
Hit Refresh (09:16 PM) - …I’m experimenting with a new header….
The Contrite BBC (05:31 PM) - The BBC offers a decent apology for making a big to-do about the fact calculated deception that led to the headline: “More Iraqi Civilians Killed by Coalition and Iraqi Forces Than By Insurgents”. Turns out that number of dead included…
Photos That Will Never Make The News (01:24 PM) - …a photo series compiled by the Cuban Veterans Association. Link via Matt Ruggieri….
Hillary Clinton Collapses (01:16 PM) - Hillary collapsed during a speech in Buffalo… details should come in here. UPDATE: Fox has a few more details: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton collapsed while delivering a speech to a local Chamber of Commerce and was taken to a nearby…
Get Your Blue Box Ready! (10:15 AM) - Confirmed: SBC Communications to buy AT&T for $16B. Welcome back, Ma!…
The First Blogger Trustee? (09:24 AM) - Todd Zywicki, a blogger at The Volokh Conspiracy, one of my favorite blogs, wants to run for a Trustee position at Dartmouth. His post on the subject- and an entreatment to petition for his name to be on the ballot-…
In the annals of unnecessary religious trinkets… (07:09 AM) - Sawyer e-mails in, pointing to this website that offers some… odd Jesus dolls….
VW Sues Parody Ad-Maker (07:04 AM) - London-based advertising firm Lee and Dan is in hot water with Volkswagen for their politically incorrect parody ad from a few weeks back. WorldNetdaily reports:Volkswagen filed criminal charges yesterday over a professionally made commercial making rounds on the Internet that…
Sunday, January 30, 2005
“The Liberating Power of Democracy” (11:11 PM) - I wonder how many “insurgents” are sleeping tonight with a purple-inked finger rather than a blood-soaked limb from the latest reactionist plot in defense of a deposed dictator. How many “insurgents” put down a gun and walked into a voting…
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A Headline I Don’t Mind Seeing (08:18 PM) - More died today in the United States than in Iraq. And, today, more people exercised their democratic rights in Iraq than in the United States. This AP headline, which I must commend, says it all:Millions of Iraqis Vote; Attacks Kill…
Soros Sees Reality; Goes Blind (08:11 PM) - George Soros, billionaire investor and the reason Democrats outspent Republicans this past election cycle: “Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative,” Soros, 74, said yesterday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Well,…
Saturday, January 29, 2005
“Most Iraqis Will Vote” (12:34 PM) - Tomorrow is a big day, both for its historicity and for the political situation within the United States. The mainstream media, as far as I’ve seen, has been reporting responsibly over the past 48 hours on the upcoming elections in…
Thanks, Indeed (12:33 PM) - This billboard is going up right near the upcoming Oscars. Looks good to me….
Friday, January 28, 2005
Man Threatens Super Bowl (10:37 PM) - Headline at WKMG-TV in Florida: Man Accused Of Threatening Super Bowl With ‘Big Bang’ Frankly, I think our galaxy is just fine the way it is. Why do people always feel the need to turn a simple sporting event into…
Row A, Seat 104 (06:25 PM) - Tonight I’ll be at the symphony seeing the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play Mendelssohn and world-debut a commissioned work by Daniel Schnyder. Afterwards, it’s on with the scarf, back out in the cold, to the library or bookstore where I’ll work…
One Small Step… (06:10 PM) - A blogger makes history. Now if only I could get wi-fi on my bus to Boston tomorrow……
Bad News (03:40 PM) - Bad news, folks: In Milford, Nebraska, there is a 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide pile of cow dung that has been on fire for two months and no one can divine a way to put…
Self-Hating Republican (10:41 AM) - Christine Whitman, as I’ve often exclaimed here and in other venues, is a bitch not a savory character. Patrick Ruffini offers some more reasons why, and makes a clear case as to why her pathetic attempt to subvert GOP control…
How About You? (10:20 AM) - I didn’t really like Sade….
Voting Begins (10:08 AM) - Iraqi expatriates in the US have begun voting, as AP reports:SOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) - Joyful tears and frequent applause marked the start of U.S. voting Friday in Iraq’s first independent elections in more than 50 years. Iraqi expatriates began casting…
Welcome Back, Ma! (10:03 AM) - Welcome back onto the national scene Ma Bell; USAT reports that SBC is looking to acquire AT&T in a deal that would result in a company earning $75.3 billion a year in revenue….
More Good News From Iraq (07:20 AM) - BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The government on Friday announced the arrests of two close associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, including the chief of the terror mastermind’s Baghdad operation. The announcement came two days before historic elections that extremists have vowed…
Daniel Pipes’ Lecture (07:01 AM) - It was, as the headline says, ‘Unexpectedly Civil’. I was prepared for the ugly side of moronic-studentism when a cop asked me to check my bag at the door and I was handed two items: the blue “Freedom of Expression…
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Kicking and Screaming (12:17 PM) - Page Six reports that Josh Howard, Betsy West and Mary Murphy- the three scapegoats for rampant, institutionalized liberal bias at CBS News- have not even resigned yet. Instead, they have stopped coming to work, but are still employed, and are…
Diversity Schmiversity 2.0 (10:14 AM) - Glenn Reynolds and Power Line both link to a Yale Daily News article that laments the lack of ideological diversity in major colleges. Of course, articles like these are written every week in every major college paper. The Dartmouth had…
“If I Might” (09:22 AM) - The press corps is quite hard-headed, as this amusing excerpt from yesterday’s press conference reveals:Q. I seem to remember a time in Texas on another problem, taxes, where you tried to get out in front and tell people it’s not…
Albright (06:59 AM) - Madeleine Albright has a piece in USAT and Power Line reviews it. Bottom line: she’s a ‘schizophrenic’. When Albright came to Dartmouth last term, a few weeks before the election, she knew that no one in the open-minded, perennially incredulous…
Buy Bob Edward’s Jacket (06:55 AM) - The bidders are going crazy for this eBay item- a fleece jacket “worn by Bob Edwards at what wound up being his final staff retreat among National Public Radio’s Morning Edition staff.” Actually, bids are only up to $5.50. The…
Bush: No More Payola (06:51 AM) - The President has ordered his staff to stop paying columnists for endorsements. And in other news, I still don’t understand what the fuss is about….
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Blogging Update (09:01 PM) - Blogging is slow, still. I apologize. It is quite busy ‘round these parts. My usual torrential clip shall resume soon. In the meantime, be sure to investigate some of the excellent web-publications linked on the right….
Required Viewing (06:08 PM) - Evan Coyne Maloney, the director behind Michael Moore Hates America, has released a short video about anti-inaugural protests. It is very well done. Download the video here….
Recommendation (10:59 AM) - FoxNews should steal Soledad O’Brien from CNN. She doesn’t belong in amateur hour….
Armstrong Williams 2.0 (10:36 AM) - Nothing particularly strikes me about the news that Maggie Gallagher has been outed (the second in as many months) as a “paid shill” for the Bush administration. She wrote a piece in NRO defending the administration’s stance on marriage. That…
New Job (06:53 AM) - I’m going to be webmaster of The Dartmouth Beacon, which is one of two conservative publications at Dartmouth. It won’t be an especially creative job, except for the first part, which is getting the design of the site together. I’ll…
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
When You Outlaw Guns… (12:00 PM) - Liberals, in what, at least as far as firearms go, seems to be an infinite blindness, argue that “fewer guns = fewer gun crimes”. Mmm? The centuries-old practice of private gun ownership has been bulwarked once again by real-world, large-scale…
Pass it On (11:28 AM) - University of Oregon has banned the yellow support the troops ribbons. Action can be taken here. I dare say there’d be a coup if this ever happened at Dartmouth. Or at least a midnight candlelight vigil on the Green….
Rice and Boxer (10:03 AM) - Hah….
New Google (09:40 AM) - Google continues its quest for world domination with Google Video- which is a really neat search engine that grabs stills from TV broadcasts and lets you search them by the text in closed captioning feeds. The actual video isn’t available…
Football Flap Continues… (09:20 AM) - The ‘lil controversy here at Dartmouth about the admissions department’s stance on our football program continues to grow. Yale’s football coach, Jack Siedlecki, is also condemning Dean Furstenberg’s comments, if perhaps only for competitive reasons. The Yale Daily News quotes…
Youth for Limbaugh (09:00 AM) - According to this press release from PRNewswire, it was the youth vote that bolstered Rush Limbaugh’s ratings in the latest Arbitron book. Rush is a major influence; might this be another sign of realignment?Limbaugh received a great birthday gift today…
The Mars Theorem (07:15 AM) - Mars: Theory or fact? It is up for the student to decide!(…via InstaPundit)…
Monday, January 24, 2005
And So It Begins… (09:14 PM) - A bit early to be campaigning, eh, Hill? UPDATE: Here is the Times article on Hillary’s self-deliberalization. Oi….
Academic Quote of the Day (05:50 PM) - From Julian Johnson, in his treatise on the sociality of classical music: Who Needs Classical Music?…I can pause Beethoven halfway through a symphony, answer the telephone, and return where I left off. In some ways this is like putting the…
Activist Judge in Connecticut (05:14 PM) - Though I am personally opposed to capital punishment, I find that this decision by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny smacks of inappropriate judicial activism. Against the wishes of the condemned serial killer Michael Ross (who killed 8 girls and…
Main Iraq Car-Bomber Caught (01:01 PM) - Burried in an AP article that leads with news of a single car bomb (which injured 10 and killed none), it has been released that Iraqi forces have captured Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, who has confessed to personally building…
Breaking News: World Inside Out; Snowstorm in Hell (10:35 AM) - Drudge is reporting that House Ways and Means chairman Rep. Bill Thomas [R-CA] wants to “examine, frankly, … the question of race…[and not] leave gender off the table” when it comes to Social Security reform. And Dems are hopping mad…
On Charles Graner (10:00 AM) - Yesterday, I passed on John Derbyshire’s request for military comments on Spc. Charles Graner Jr. 10 year jail sentence for his role in Abu Gharaib. Jared Smith, a teacher at the Army’s Mountain Warfare School, e-mails in with this insight:Graner…
Today Sucks. (07:09 AM) - According to the BBC, I shouldn’t like today:January has been long regarded as the darkest of months, but a formula from a part-time tutor at Cardiff University shows it gets even worse this Monday. Foul weather, debt, fading Christmas memories,…
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Global Warming (11:31 PM) - One of those liberal pet causes- global warming- will be a topic of discussion tomorrow with some new report coming out that puts us “almost to the point of no return.” Sounds exaggerated to me, like most of this global…
ConservaDiva… (08:06 PM) - …bucking the feminist meme once again….
Graner’s Sentence (07:53 PM) - Two weeks ago- an eternity it seems, in the blogosphere- Spc. Charles Graner Jr. was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for his role in the Abu Ghraib kerfuffle. I agree with John Derbyshire, who says that this sentence is…
Good News From Iraq (03:57 PM) - Yesterday, US CENTCOM reported that two suspected militants had been captured, that Operation Checkmate had rounded up 35 insurgents, and that a weapons cache was discovered:(19) 130 mm mortar rounds (11) 125 mm mortar rounds (42) 82 mm mortar rounds…
Yush In (03:54 PM) - Viktor Yushchenko has been sworn in as president of Ukraine, as the NYT reports. The new president heads to Russia tomorrow, to have a sit down with Putin, the man who [likely] tried to kill him. That’s guts….
TIME: Blowing at the Embers (03:27 PM) - TIME Magazine is wafting the Scalia-to-Chief rumors:If he does not go outside for the job, President Bush will probably choose one of the court’s two most stalwart conservatives, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Scalia seems to have the edge. “The…
Snow (02:24 PM) - I am sitting here in the library of Tuck Business School, a convenient alternative to Baker for those pea-green freshmen relegated to the River dormitories. I am on the second floor, studying Handel’s operas, but more often just surveying the…
Still the Party of Vanity (01:31 PM) - Patrick Ruffini: The President’s willingness to take stands in the face of global opposition makes him the world’s most prominent hero of dissent. I thought dissent was good!He is concerned that the Democrats are still playing the “other countries disagree,…
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Cruel Gloating… But More (09:53 PM) - You know they’d be doing it, had they won. John F. Kerry wonders what it would be like to be a real, live man. Is it odd that I am still savoring the win? Each time I taste the fresh…
New iPod (09:37 PM) - ThinkSecret has the latest on Apple’s next iPod, which they project will be flash-based and have a 5 gig capacity. Here’s hoping it is better than the iPod Shuffle….
The European Airliner [Duo]poly? (08:19 PM) - I have written a few posts on the new Airbus A380, mostly marveling at the pie-eyed coverage it has received in the American media. In this post, I mentioned that I do not like Airbus’ products, nor the state-sponsored monopoly…
The Inaugural: Republican or American? (05:16 PM) - Should the MSM have slated an equal number of liberals and conservatives to head-bob for Inauguration Day? Media Matters for America, an outfit I almost never agree with, says yes. Kevin Aylward says no. I tend to fall on the…
Math-Less in Mass. (09:45 AM) - And just why is Fox News number 1? In part, because they aren’t too politically correct to broadcast stories like this one:About five years ago, writes Tom Mountain, the Newton school district opted to start emphasizing its commitment to “anti-racist…
Overnight Nielson Numbers (09:22 AM) - 1/20/05 - 10a-4p - President Bush’s Inauguration CNN: 779,000 viewers MSNBC: 438,000 viewers Fox News: 2,581,000 viewers I can hear the protests now… “Now our news network!”…
Friday, January 21, 2005
Coldest? (11:35 PM) - I hope so. Wind chill brings it down to -21 right now. The overcompensatory HVAC systems in residence halls can scarcely keep up….
It’s ‘I Hope We Never Part’; Get it Right… (10:56 AM) - Denny Hastert gave Cheney the oath yesterday…And the speaker acquitted himself reasonably well, making just three mistakes — all corrected by Cheney — in the 70-plus-word oath. The first was that Hastert read “defend and support the Constitution,” which Cheney…
When I Grow Up… (10:47 AM) - Two recent news items made me think that I have a few things in common with George Bush besides politics. First, this passage from USAT:One characteristic that hasn’t changed is Bush’s aversion to self-analysis. He brushes off a question about…
No More Powells (10:38 AM) - Michael Powell is going to resign from his FCC post, according to NBC. They already have a career obit up:Lately, the FCC under Powell was perhaps best known for cracking down on indecent antics on television and radio, sparked by…
How Pollsters Pulled for Kerry (10:32 AM) - John Tabin, writing in The American Spectator:Nice inauguration yesterday, wasn’t it? I’m sure the exit pollsters of Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International thought so — nice enough, anyway, to overshadow the 77-page report that the two firms released Wednesday…
Thursday, January 20, 2005
President Saddam? (07:12 PM) - Does anyone know why Saddam Hussein is still defined as the President of Iraq by Merriam-Webster?…
Inaugural Protests (06:50 PM) - Obstructing a Presidential Inauguration is one of the lowest forms of protest an American can engage in. In the extended, witness photos of these deplorable activities….
Inauguration (12:56 PM) - The entire speech is reprinted in the extended. Some favorite quotes follow. First, the set-up:”For as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny - prone to ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder - violence…
Sworn In (11:57 AM) - 4 minutes ahead of schedule. So Bush. 21 gun salute continues while Lott introduces Bush. Quite romantic. Rehnquist had his own microphone wired to his clothing. His voice must be weak. Still had some hair left underneath that chapeau! Cheers…
Rehnquist (11:43 AM) - Chief Justice Rehnquist looks good. He is walking with a cane, hat on head, and used the handrails going down the steps. But his Honor looks happy and determined. Good to see….
The Cost of Inauguration (10:06 AM) - I commented early last Friday morning on Will Lester’s AP story “Some Now Question Cost of Inauguration” when it came off the wire. I called it a new low for AP. Now, the WashTimes is correcting the record. Adjusted for…
Airbus’ New Marketing Tactic (08:03 AM) - It seems to be: force airlines to buy our planes. The Scotsman: TSUNAMI-struck Thailand has been told by the European Commission that it must buy six A380 Airbus aircraft if it wants to escape the tariffs against its fishing industry….
Renaissance (06:53 AM) - “With the campaign behind us, Americans lift up our sights to the years ahead and to the great goals we will achieve for our country. I am eager and ready for the work ahead.” “The survival of liberty in our…
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
MSM Alert (09:29 PM) - ABC News will have a camera rig at Dartmouth tomorrow to get some inauguration comments. The very rough timeframe is 10a-2p. I’ll update when I know more. The ENG site will be in the Baker/Berry newscenter. I plan on getting…
Browser Inferno (09:07 PM) - Weekend Pundit looks at enterprise users trending towards FireFox. This is bad news for Redmond….
I Had A Feeling (04:48 PM) - Dems in Congress are doing things way, way wrong. Their ranks have been slashed consistently year after year. Their attitudes and left-wing views repeatedly repudiated by Americans. Yet they remain childishly obstinate in a profoundly useless way. Now, they are…
Roe v. Wade (04:45 PM) - Norma McCorvey- Jane Roe- wants her decision overturned:”Now we know so much more, and I plead with the court to listen for witnesses and re-evaluate Roe v. Wade,” said McCorvey, who says she now regrets her role in the case….
Condi In; Kerry “Takes a Stand” (12:47 PM) - Condoleezza Rice has been confirmed for SoS by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, passing her on to the full Senate. Despite Dr. Rice’s frightening boogy-man impression, Barbara Boxer and John Kerry still voted against her. They were the only two…
Dartmouth Football Webconference (12:32 PM) - In response to growing unrest among Dartmouth alums, the administration is setting up a webcast next Wednesday evening which will feature President Wright, Athletic Director Josie Harper and Buddy Teevens ‘79, the new football coach. If you wish to participate…
Let Me Understand… (10:49 AM) - Boeing, an American corporation, comes out with the 747 on September 2nd, 1968. 37 years later, Airbus, a European consortium, releases the A380 on Janurary 18th, 2005. The Airbus is 14 ft. longer, 4 mph faster at cruise, and has…
A New Low for Reuters (10:46 AM) - The AP dug its deepest hole of bias yet with Will Lester’s wire story on the cost of Bush’s inauguration. Now, Timothy Heritage at Reuters is playing catch-up with an article headlined: “Four More Years of Bush Makes the World…
New JibJab (08:57 AM) - The brothers Spiridellis at JibJab have released their newest creation: Second Term. And I suppose I’m in the minority thinking that “It’s Good To Be In DC” was much better than the original “This Land”. We’ll see how this new…
UN: Elections Will Go On (07:24 AM) - Despite protestations from Korrupt Kofi himself, a UN official is saying that only a sustained onslaught or mass resignation of poll workers could delay elections. The comments come from Carlos Valenzuela, the chief U.N. election adviser in Iraq. They are…
Rathergate Update (07:23 AM) - More news on the Rathergate front from Kevin Aylward:Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP were being a bit disingenuous when they claimed that “it may never be possible for anyone to authenticate or discredit the documents.”…
Aveugle Andrew (07:17 AM) - Andrew Sullivan sees something that I, and I suspect most bloggers, do not:Among the more bizarre notions gaining traction in the blogosphere is that there can only be two positions on the Iraq war: a) that it’s all good and…
“Oh, but we have yellow ribbon magnets.” (07:13 AM) - N. Alex Tonelli’s article in The Dartmouth is good. He chides Dartmouth for overly celebrating Martin Luther King Day (2 weeks of festivities and an entire planning committee!) and virtually ignoring other symbolic holidays like Veteran’s Day….
Toothless Dems Gnaw During Hearings (07:02 AM) - It is fairly certain that Condi Rice will be confirmed by the Foreign Relations committee today, and her subsequent full-Senate confirmation will take place on the day of Bush’s inauguration. She seems to have the votes of most of the…
Bad News for Scott Peterson (06:58 AM) - California killed Donald Beardslee this morning at 12:01a for killing two women in 1981 while on parole for a third murder. Beardslee is the 11th victim of the state since capital punishment was reinstated in 1977, and the 1st executee…
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
‘Post No Bills’ (09:15 PM) - Well, I suppose an exception can be made just this once. Looking at those photos from IraqTheModel got to me. It is a physical reminder that these elections are truly historic, and represent a real chance for greater peace in…
Because Our Enemy’s Enemy… (08:01 PM) - Hugh Hewitt is offering a free copy of Blog to whoever gives the best reason why Howard Dean should be DNC chair….
On the Media (07:51 PM) - Lt. C. Tim Ryan: Commander, Task Force 2-12 Cavalry, First Cavalry Division in Iraq:All right, I’ve had enough. I am tired of reading distorted and grossly exaggerated stories from major news organizations about the “failures” in the war in Iraq.Worthwhile…
Knee-Slapping Fun At CNN (07:32 PM) - Boy, those CNN web editors must be pretty pleased with their sly inside joke:…
The Inside Link? (06:43 PM) - An American businessman (an Iraqi who was naturalized in the States) is charged with, in some way, being a link in the Oil-for-Food scandal. In their reporting, the AP does a great job of not associating the actual United Nations…
Praising Che Overseas (06:36 PM) - I didn’t know that Che Guevara is a hero for college students in Britain as well….
Racist Liberals: An Industry Secret (06:26 PM) - All of these racist attacks on Condoleezza Rice irk me. The latest one is reported on here, and it comes from Germany’s Stern Magazine. They show a picture of George Bush, his dog, and Condi walking in a line. The…
The Ivory Tower: Pontificating Without Cause (06:20 PM) - Despite her use of the royal “we”, Ana Cox occasionally has a good one:We hear there is a conference at Harvard this weekend on blogging and ethics. They’re going to work on some ideas about standards and accountability. So glad…
Don’t Judge An Actress By Her Elocution (05:58 PM) - Owing to the actress’ middling Golden Globes acceptance speech, Ann Althouse declares that she is sick of “pixie” Natalie Portman. But Ann misses the point: Natalie Portman is gorgeous….
It’s Dark And We’re Wearing Sunglasses (11:49 AM) - The terrorists may not be going after Bush during the inauguration, but evidently Florida Nazis are. I hate Florida Nazis….
Pragmatism v. Idealism (09:01 AM) - Harvard’s president has created a bit of a row with his observation that “innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers.” Though that is something that is clear to most level-headed…
Many Many Damn Dimes (08:57 AM) - Raven rounds up the weird lefty protests for the forthcoming inauguration: “At any rate, one thing I plan to do this Thursday is spend, spend and spend. I will be doing all my weekly shopping, getting my cars registered and…
Colder (08:47 AM) - With the wind chill, it’s -18 today in Hanover….
A New United Nations Report! (07:01 AM) - Our lovely United Nations has produced yet another report. And, again, “hundreds of experts agree”! Huzzah! This time, they agree that “Global poverty can be cut in half by 2015 and eliminated by 2025 if the world’s richest countries… more…
France Celebrates New “Flying Machine” (06:57 AM) - Frenchman Jean-Michel Belot reports from Toulouse, France:Planemaker Airbus threw a huge media party Tuesday for the A380 — overweight, overbudget and still on the ground, but hailed as the world’s largest airliner which its designers say will reshape aviation. French…
Iraq to Seal Borders (06:52 AM) - BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi officials announced Tuesday they will seal the country’s borders, extend a nighttime curfew and restrict movement to protect voters during the Jan. 30 vote, which insurgents are seeking to ruin with a campaign of violence.A…
This Just In: Two Parties in the US! (06:48 AM) - The WaPo this morning has another little piece of tripe that begins, “President Bush will begin his second term in office without a clear mandate to lead the nation, with strong disapproval of his policies in Iraq and…” Well, of…
False Alarm (06:44 AM) - In Washington, DC - Faulty intelligence indicated that there was an inaugural plot; Secret Service ramped up activity. In Chile - Faulty intelligence indicated that a tsunami was in the cards; people evacuated homes. More evidence that, sometimes, the data…
Monday, January 17, 2005
Huzzah For Political Incorrectness (07:25 PM) - Jesse Roisin e-mails in a link to this delightfully un-PC advertisement for the Volkswagon Polo. See it in all of its glory right here….
Sing for Tsunami Victims (03:37 PM) - Dartmouth student groups and All-Star Karaoke present the Sing-a-Thon Tsunami Fundraiser. Sign up here….
Abusing MLK (03:10 PM) - It seems as if Martin Luther King day just cannot be about the man anymore; as Dartmouth’s practices have shown and as John Kerry demonstrated today.BOSTON (AP) - Sen. John Kerry, in some of his most pointed public comments yet…
Cold (03:06 PM) - In Minnesota. About 4 degrees with the wind chill here….
Straight Eye for the Blog Guy (01:45 PM) - Patrick Ruffini, Bush-Cheney ‘04 webmaster, has a new design. Neat….
Winning By Out-Liberaling (11:49 AM) - It is things like this (not to mention this) that are slowly chipping away at Dartmouth’s place on the national stage. The Dartmouth reports:Controversy surrounds the College’s choice of Dorothy Allison, a white lesbian activist and writer, to commemorate Martin…
[Don’t] Hack the Planet! (11:24 AM) - Tim Blair’s site has ostensibly been hacked. Hugh Hewitt:[T]he DOJ should go after such an event when it occurs in the U.S. or when perpetrated by Americans on foreign sites in a high-profile and punishing fashion. The obstruction of political…
Elvis… Still the King (10:56 AM) - I wanted to link to this several days ago and never got the chance. It seems that, as I blogged about in anticipation a week ago, Elvis’ ‘One Night’ is now officially the UK’s 1,000th #1. It knocked the 999th…
Breaking News (08:22 AM) - Jesse Jackson is outraged! I know, I did a double-take when I read it. Normally mild-mannered, temperate, and pensive, the reverend is unusually uppity today….
Drudge: Couric (maybe) to CBS (08:11 AM) - TIME is passing on rumors that overtures are being made to Katie Couric for Dan Rather’s job. It’s anchorman, not anchorlady.* Joking aside, Couric is cute (though that is fading fast) but she isn’t exactly a great communicator. Her delivery…
Happy MLK Day (07:26 AM) - It’s a day off at Dartmouth. Though lefty sites are falling all over themselves to emote about how much this day means to them (why?), I’ll just say, ‘Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.’…
Terrorism in New Jersey (07:13 AM) - I worked in Jersey City, NJ at an insurance firm one summer, and never saw much evidence of terrorist activity. Yesterday, that statement shouldn’t have surprised anyone, but today it might. Read the story from the NY Post about an…
Berkeley Misadventures (07:10 AM) - I have written about the fruits of my meandering in Bezerkely, CA. Now, Eric of Classical Values, having moved out there, has already had a weirdo experience. And he videoblogged it!…
UNSCAM Update (07:04 AM) - The scandal has extended up to Benon Sevan, the manager of the Oil-For-Food program. The largest relief operation in history. The most corrupt. And from Sevan, it is just a hop and a skip to Annan himself. Fox audits an…
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Bucharest to Baghdad (11:20 PM) - J.D. Crouch II, the US ambassador to Romania, says: If Romania could become a democracy, so can Iraq….
Natalie Portman (11:11 PM) - So Natalie Portman won a Golden Globe award for Closer. But as Harry at AICN notes, her win would be better warranted if the topless scene had been left in. Hell of a moment for Hollywood to become conservative tout…
Audiophilia Update (10:40 PM) - I have been greatly enjoying my HD-595s, but of course headphones can never match the imaging of a decent pair of speakers. I am equally, if not more, satisfied with my Newton MC300s. I have recently put in an order…
Attn: College Students (10:34 PM) - If you haven’t already seen the rough cut of Evan Coyne Maloney’s Brainwashing 101, you should do so. It is very well done. Maloney is also asking for e-mails from college students:If you’re a current college student, you can help…
Scarebus (10:16 PM) - I hate Airbus. I have never had a good experience on their products and I dislike the fact that the consortium represents institutionalized monopoly in Europe, preventing any small or medium-fry airplane makers from having a crack at the market….
The Deficit Shrinks (10:11 PM) - This is old news to Kudlow and blog readers, but the federal deficit is shrinking.Last week’s Treasury report on U.S. finances for December shows a year-to-date fiscal 2005 deficit already $11 billion less than last year’s. In the first three…
If You Happen to Care… (10:09 PM) - Ann Althouse is liveblogging Hollywood’s pat-on-the-back session….
A Quick Fix (05:39 PM) - I commented earlier on the new iPod Shuffle, and how poor a product it is. Of course, there are those who disagree with me. And some want this new iPod so much that they have come up with a modification…
Of Feminazis and Dowd (05:02 PM) - Maureen Dowd- that highbrow hussy- was ruined by feminism, according to Timothy Birdnow: “Poor Maureen. She will never be happy. The more she looks for a red-blooded man, the bluer she becomes.” Ha! Here is the offending Dowd article. UPDATE:…
Nixon/Moonves (12:03 PM) - Thoughts on Water/Rathergate at Power Line.One of the eerie echoes of Watergate in the Rathergate affair is the four terminations — of CBS News Senior Vice President Betsy West; 60 Minutes Executive Producer Josh Howard; Howard’s deputy, Mary Murphy; and…
New Army Times Poll (10:55 AM) - Once again, the soldiers on the ground in Iraq see things going much better than do the distant MSM:Do you approve or disapprove of the way Pres. Bush is handling the situation in Iraq? Approve: 63% Disapprove: 20% No opinion:…
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Cigar or No Cigar… (11:26 PM) - Paul should have opened the door….
Where’s the Love? (08:21 PM) - DAVISON, Mich. (AP) - Oscar on the shelf or not, Michael Moore is not getting much respect at his old high school. Despite his fame and many honors, the filmmaker has been rejected all four times that he has been…
Inaugural Festivities (04:51 PM) - Kelsey Grammar is a neat guy, as I’ve commented before. He’s also one of the few “out” Republicans on the left coast. And, according to Ana Cox, he’s going to be the master of ceremonies at the inaugural ball. Cool….
Wolfowitz: U.S. Eager to Hand Over Tsunami Mission (03:10 PM) - Wolfowitz seems to want to drop the mission, even though US troops are providing the most significant aid to the countries in question. I wouldn’t mind this move if the UN weren’t so woefully inadequate that it has begun paying…
Maybe NYC Needs Some Protocol Droids (02:55 PM) - For the 10th year in a row, Charleston, South Carolina is the most polite city in the nation. This striked me as spot-on. And, of course, New York and Boston are not on the list. Philadelphia is, which was a…
Towards the Iraq Vote (02:49 PM) - The Iraqi government is taking some specific steps to ensure safety on voting day. They include restricting vehicular travel, and publicizing a same-day preliminary tally. The AP article is here, but it is slim on facts. There is, however, another…
The CBS Switcharoo (02:46 PM) - If you hadn’t realized, CBS switched the online copies of its Rathergate report to a non-copy-and-paste-able version soon after it became avilable in the first place. Sisyphus finds out why:From: Sims, Michael [msims-at-cbs.com] On Behalf Of CTN - Webmail Sent:…
SSA To Skirt DNC TPs (02:42 PM) - According to Drudge, the Social Security Administration itself, over the objections of its many bureaucrats, is “gearing up for a major effort to publicize the financial problems of Social Security and to persuade the public that private accounts are needed…
Friday, January 14, 2005
Delicious (06:06 PM) - “The crying happens when they try to scrape the Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers from their Priuses.” Enjoy NRO’s KJL’s interview with Drudger and anti-Hollywood Hollywooder Andrew Breitbart….
More Spitzer (02:04 PM) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer continues his quest for personal glory, a national name, and a foundation for a big-office run with this story. He has elicited a nice statement/agreement from Macy’s after accusing their security guards of criminal…
MattManweller.com (01:14 PM) - A few days before the election, I wrote about an article by Dr. Mathew Manweller, Professor of Political Science at Central Washington University. Prof. Manweller e-mails in, telling me that that, as a consequence of the wide play the article…
Geek Test (12:45 PM) - Anyone who’s anyone is here right now, awaiting the first response from the Huygens probe. UPDATE: Success!…
The Problem With Free-Wheelin’ Communal I.P. (10:14 AM) - Is, as Bill Gates articulates here, that there is very little incentive for development. When intellectual property exists solely as a commons, things get, well, tragic. The endgame of “let’s make everything uncopyrighted, unpatented, free, easy, and amorphous” is a…
Krauthammer’s Take on Thornburgh Report (10:05 AM) - It echoes most of the sentiment in the blogosphere; while the report is a bevy of interesting (and incriminating) facts, it makes a monstrously impossible claim and offers no foundation: there was no political impetus inside CBS News. Here is…
The Annals of Royal Tomfoolery (07:42 AM) - Boy, you know it’s bad news when news reports say: Prince Harry, son of Princess Diana… has broken new ground [in Royal scandals]….
A New Low for AP (07:32 AM) - Some Now Question Cost of Inauguration Thu Jan 13,11:32 PM ET By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - President Bush’s second inauguration will cost tens of millions of dollars — $40 million alone in private donations for the balls,…
Good Ideas, All (04:33 AM) - But what will critics of “torture” in our current campaign against terrorism say when they learn that Clinton and company looked into:[A]n “aphrodisiac” chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among…
Kos in the Pocket (04:02 AM) - Democrats only want to ackowledge blogs in the adulatory light of “the Dean campaign revolutionized communication!” That old talking point just got a little more pathetic with this news from the Wall Street Journal:Howard Dean’s presidential campaign hired two Internet…
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Taking it Too Far (08:38 PM) - In general, I am a fan of British comedy. But Sasha Baron Cohen- ‘Ali G’ took it too far last weekend.According to a report in the Roanoke (Virginia) Times, a man who was introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan -…
The Dartblogosphere (07:44 PM) - Sawyer e-mails in an interesting Java app: Have a look at the Dartblogosphere! And then try your own ideas out right over here….
WalMart’s PR Game (11:41 AM) - WalMart’s newspaper blitz this morning seems like a good move to me. The whole anti-WalMart movement always seemed a strange peripheral of anti-capitalism. But it has taken on a life of its own, drawing in everyday left-leaners and rebellious youth…
Welcome to the Fantasy-Based Community! (08:59 AM) - I truly cannot understand how lefty blogs can assume the appellation “member of the reality-based community” when they come up with data tables as, well, wrong, as this one….
Lux (07:12 AM) - Colin Powell is shedding a little light on the Iraq endgame:WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States might be able to withdraw some troops from Iraq this year if Iraqi forces can take a greater role in security, Secretary of State…
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Pity the Blogger (11:06 PM) - Paul at Wizbang has an annual ritual. It involves 21,214 pieces of unread e-mail this year. I suspect other namebrand bloggers get the same. Just one more reason to avoid “mailto” tags. Not that there are 20,000 people clamoring to…
“Helen Thomas, UPI!” (10:55 PM) - If you’d like to learn about Helen Thomas’ latest exploits in defiance of McClellan, head over to Adam Sharon’s press gaggle report. Short story: According to Thomas, it’s “my house, too!” (…via Ana Cox)…
The Russia Problems (10:51 PM) - Roger L. Simon on news that Russia is looking towards selling advanced weaponry to Syria:As if Putin hadn’t fully wrapped himself in the mantle of the KGB during the Ukrainian elections, rumors now abound that the Russians are about to…
One Nation Under God (10:43 PM) - As I expected, the “God’s Role In The White House” theme flew about the newsmedia today. To put things in perspective, have a look at this webpage from the Library of Congress, and in particular, the below excerpts- all from…
Can You Say “Moonbat”? (08:54 PM) - This is just ridiculous….
Another Disaster Prevented (03:10 PM) - It is so hard to be thankful for prevention. After all, an event forestalled may never have happened in the first place. But we may as well look on the bright side… While hard-left liberals will be yelling “civil liberties!”…
Who Said Stockpiles? (01:33 PM) - Among the many arguments for the Iraq War was that the country had, or was close to having, the ability to produce weapons of mass destruction. And that stockpiles existed of illegal weapons- though not WMD. Both were true. (A…
Of Marital Infidelity and Holodecks (01:31 PM) - This important discussion is going on right now over at The Corner. Be there or be square….
Newspapers in Academia (08:54 AM) - Dartmouth supplies only the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and USA Today in its free newspaper machines. Yuck. My conservative compatriot at U. Richmond is lucky- he can get the Wall Street Journal and has a good roundup of…
A Cox Oddity (08:44 AM) - Well, I suppose the Cox News Service is always a curveball but this colorful wording caught my eye:WASHINGTON — With the confident grin of a man convinced he is pulling an ace out of his sleeve, President Bush on Tuesday…
Blogging Update (07:09 AM) - The network/internet is slow today and I am very busy, so blogging will be slim today……
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Bush in the WashTimes Tomorrow (11:03 PM) - Drudge has exclusive excerpts from the WashTimes’ exclusive interview with the President tomorrow. One line struck me as one of those “this is why I like the man” moments:President Bush’s policy on women in ground combat takes just four words…
An Idea For Dow Jones (09:09 PM) - Simple. The day the New York Times goes pay for online reading, WSJ.com goes free….
The New Apple (04:23 PM) - My concerns about Apple lowering its standard for build quality were unnecessary. As Sawyer e-mails in, the new Apple Mini Mac is inexpensive, but not cheap. Anodized aluminum all the way. This is the first appliance computer that might actually…
Ukraine Withdraws in Anti-US Huff (12:21 PM) - In a highly political move, Ukraine’s outgoing administration- which was complacent in the attempted assassination via poison of pro-West President-elect Viktor Yushchenko- has decided to withdraw its troops from Iraq. No word if Yush will send them back to finish…
Dean Wants to Chair DNC (12:12 PM) - Dr. Dean has thrown his hat in the ring for the chairmanship of the Democrat National Committee. Report here. Confirm here. They deserve him….
A $420b Infusion (11:49 AM) - A USA Today story this morning details a key element of Bush’s comprehensive tax-cuts. Here are the basics as I see them… United States companies have an estimated $420 billion in profit stored away overseas; out of the US economy….
Disgraceful Cartoon in The Voice (10:01 AM) - Here is how the Village Voice sees me and indeed most of the country. (…via Andrew Sullivan)…
Traffic Plateau (09:21 AM) - N.Z. Bear, on Tech Central Station, shows that blog traffic has stalled post-election. Meanwhile, BlogPulse has tabulations of the most popular bloggy things in 2004… Top Blog Cited: BoingBoing Top Media Source Cited: Yahoo News Top Media Story Cited: Jon…
NOW and Then (09:10 AM) - I prefer Rush Limbaugh’s NAG (National Association of Gals) to NOW, but in any event Different River has notes on hypocrisy within the National Organization of Women….
“It’ll Never Happen to Us!” (09:00 AM) - AP:The media gathers outside the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, Monday Jan. 10, 2005. Four CBS News staffers were fired following the release of an independent investigation into the “60 Minutes” story about President Bush’s military service. (AP Photo/Richard…
Monday, January 10, 2005
Sinking In… (10:26 PM) - CBS Source quoted in tomorrow’s New York Times:’We have no juice. We’re a dying business, and this didn’t help us. Some people feel like CBS News could be out of business in five years…’UPDATE: NYTimes article here….
Thornburgh/Boccardi Report in HTML (07:50 PM) - I have put the entire report in HTML format, indexed by page, online right here….
Rathergate on Lefty Blogs (06:12 PM) - All has been eerily quiet on the left in regards to Rathergate. Save for Ana Cox’s dismissive jab (“Awesome. Now can we talk about where Bush was in 1972?”) and TalkLeft’s just-the-facts, ma’am reportage, I haven’t seen anything of note….
The President’s Active Lifestyle (04:55 PM) - Read the extended for two interesting photos……
Moore Video (04:44 PM) - I blogged earlier on Michael Moore’s People’s Choice acceptance speech. The offending piece is downloadable here….
Drudge: Rather Won’t Bother Tonight (04:20 PM) - According to Drudge, Dan Rather won’t be on the air tonight……
Rathergate Report Out (10:14 AM) - CBS has released an article and attachments relating to the Rathergate scandal. The web article is here. Read the complete report in PDF form here. A list of official actions to be taken is here, also in PDF. Short story:Four…
The New York Times (08:20 AM) - No longer unflaggingly pro-Kofi. (…via Roger L. Simon, whom I suspect has stolen my brilliant alliteration Korrupt Kofi)…
The New Dem Figurehead (08:14 AM) - Professor Samwick, noting the following quote from The Inqy, gives some good advice to Democrats:…But some Democrats, yearning for a fighter who would draw sharp contrasts with the Republicans, don’t want a chairman who would merely echo the GOP’s red-state…
Blogging in The D (07:58 AM) - Kelsey Blodget’s article on blogging is in today’s The Dartmouth. It mentions Power Line, Gawker, and the Dartblog. The article isn’t on the internet yet; I’ll post a link when it’s put up. UPDATE: The article is online here. UPDATE:…
The More Things Change… (07:53 AM) - Bret Stephens has an article in the Journal this morning, describing his experiences in Ramallah circa election day. He notes that “Mahmoud Abbas sets out to be the un-Arafat”, a position that doesn’t seem congruent with this narrative:It is past…
More Tsunami Video (07:45 AM) - This one shows a wave shooting down a street in Aceh….
Moore F9/11s! (07:05 AM) - As expected, Michael Moore won the “People’s Choice Award” last night for best picture, and, tragically, was unable to Photoshop himself as he walked on stage to accept the award. Applause, to my surprise, was exuberant. I knew the Hollywood…
Sunday, January 09, 2005
100 Days Late: C-BS Report Rumors (10:38 PM) - The rumor is that the CBS independent investigation of Rathergate will be released tomorrow, Monday. RatherBiased asks if the CBS legal team is behind the month-long delays. My view is that this report will be more of a novelty than…
More on Dartmouth Football (09:24 PM) - Hunter Buckner ‘94, who declined better financial offers from Penn and Princeton to attend Dartmouth and play ball here, pens this missive to President Wright advising him to take more decisive action in regards to the almost-famous Furstenberg letter. UPDATE:…
Fumer (08:59 PM) - Italy’s new $360 fine for smoking in public places seems a bit excessive to me….
Peace in Sudan (08:53 PM) - Bare-chested warriors danced and turbaned heads bowed in prayer when Sudan’s Islamist government and southern rebels sealed a comprehensive peace agreement on Sunday ending Africa’s longest-running civil war.Good news, but it does not help the current situation in Darfur, of…
Apple About to Jump the Shark? (06:31 PM) - Knowing what I do about Steve Jobs, I’m fairly confident that he’s a jerk. But he’s quite a visionary, that is for sure. Apple’s offerings over the past 5-7 years have been more than impressive. They are, I believe, the…
Who Was Che Guevara? (01:22 PM) - A murderous communist, of course. But nowadays he is oft-aggrandized as some sort of Marxist demigod, fighting for the rights of the common man. If your friends are among the revisionist coterie unaware of his gulag-founding, homosexual-killing, raid-and-pillage history, perhaps…
Stem Cells in 2005 (12:06 PM) - WashTimes has a good article on stem-cells, though it seems to ignore that the most significant advances thus far have come from adult stem cells. Best quote:Jane Roskams, a neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver: “When it…
A Bright Golden Haze on the Meadow (12:02 PM) - It is a quiet afternoon here in New Hampshire, and relatively so on the national scene. The Dartmouth article on blogs should be out tomorrow morning; be sure to read it….
First, Do No Harm (02:59 AM) - Verizon Wireless has the wrong priorities:With the mammoth International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as a backdrop, Verizon Wireless detailed a robust multimedia service for mobile phones, promising video, audio and 3-D games custom-designed for the constraints of a…
Happy Birthday, Elvis (02:50 AM) - My earlier Elvis post is here, but I think this warrants mention:ELVIS PRESLEY looks set to score his 19th UK chart topper on Sunday (January 9) - putting him in the running for the 1000th Number One ever. The re-release…
Abbas Wins (02:42 AM) - RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians voted on Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat and looked likely to elect Mahmoud Abbas, a pragmatist who has promised to revive a peace process with Israel after years of bloodshed.Pretty adulatory for…
AP: U.N. Audits Show Oil-For-Food Bilking (02:27 AM) - Horrors! The trusty Associated Press has sent its intrepid fact-finders into the treacherous caverns of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper to unearth evidence of…gasp… UN corruption. Yes, that’s right… roll up and view the first AP article on one of the…
Grammar Update (02:19 AM) - According to Weekend Pundit, we’ve been using jihad incorrectly all this time.[L]et us change the designation of those willing to kill everybody “in the name of Allah” from the mis- and overused term jihadi to harabahi - from holy warrior…
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Winter in Hanover (07:30 PM) - Photo by Joseph Mehling ‘69…
Before Anyone Did Anything… (04:50 PM) - …Elvis did everything. The inventor of rock ‘n roll- the King- Elvis Presley- would have turned 70 tomorrow. PowerLine rounds up the festivities….
New Tsunami Video (04:42 PM) - New video from a home camcorder can be seen here. The video is 1:06 long. For a point of reference, the statue in the video is 113 ft….
In The Easier-Said-Than-Done Dept… (02:26 PM) - Joe Lieberman is proposing a “a $30 million network of buoys, wave gauges and seismic sensors to warn of tsunamis globally.”…
President Gingrich? (02:17 PM) - Newt is considering it, offering this little nugget of campaigning:For an Army brat from Pennsylvania who became the only Georgia Republican in the House and the first Republican Speaker of the House in 40 years, anything seems possible.Before George W….
[Some]gate? (11:28 AM) - Hillary Clinton’s Former Campaign Finance Director Indicted. Go figure. It never ends with these people….
More Good Economic News (11:20 AM) - WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers hired workers in 2004 at the fastest pace in five years, with overall payrolls rising by 2.2 million. [Emphasis mine.]Though it deals with numbers in the millions, it is just too darn hard for the AP…
Indian-Giving (11:17 AM) - Israel pledged to halt operations in Palestinian communities while the latter prepare for voting. They will choose a successor to Arafat tomorrow, and nearly 2 million are expected to show up. But Israel is now hinting that it will take…
Wag the Dog (11:09 AM) - UN watchdogs in the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (read: shills) are revealing that “U.N. peacekeepers in Congo sexually abused and exploited women and girls.” The story, which comes via AP but isn’t echoed on many AP outlets, is…
Unreasonable Expectations (11:02 AM) - In recent stories about Iraq’s upcoming elections, the Associated Press made it a point to include this little trifle:Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, said on Thursday he could “not guarantee that every person who…
NYTime$ (10:59 AM) - New York Times: Charging for access to your website is a lose-lose situation. But they are looking into it….
Friday, January 07, 2005
Good Economic News (08:48 AM) - AP:U.S. employers added 157,000 workers overall to their payrolls in December, bringing the year-end total of new jobs to 2.2 million, the best showing in five years. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.4 percent….
The Second Amendment (07:47 AM) - Today seems to be a good day for Bush news, as I learn that his administration “has issued a 109-page memorandum aiming to prove that the Second Amendment grants individuals nearly unrestricted access to firearms.” This is in anticipation of…
One Song Glory (07:44 AM) - President George Bush: confirmed.The U.S. Congress on Thursday formally certified President Bush as the victor of the November elections after two Democrats symbolically stalled the event in protest at alleged voting irregularities in Ohio. California Sen. Barbara Boxer and Ohio…
Islam’s Fork in the Road (07:40 AM) - Mochael Novak in the Journal today:The AP photograph of a killer in Baghdad shooting a pistol into the head of one kneeling election worker—while another lies crumpled on the street—illuminates the face of our enemy. It is the face of…
Blame America! (07:31 AM) - Trying every which way to avoid blaming fundamental Islamicism, the MSM put pressure on various government agencies to conduct “internal investigations” on how they failed before September 11th. The fruits of one such labor, at the CIA, is due to…
Don’t Miss This One (07:22 AM) - Breaking News, folks: AP: Study Finds Americans Split About Bush….
We Have The Money… (07:17 AM) - …”Now spend it sensibly”, warns The Economist:Once the raw displays of generosity are over, the question will quickly switch from “How much aid?” to “How well is it spent?” As the late Fred Cuny, a pioneer of disaster relief, warned:…
One From Sullivan (07:04 AM) - Andrew Sullivan levies his only legitimate critique of George Bush in a good while:As governor of Texas, [Bush] didn’t have much power to prevent the extraordinary number of executions in his home state - but he did have a chance…
My Hands Hurt (12:49 AM) - Just got back (1a) from the annual Dartmouth snowball fight. My frag count was respectable. Sawyer even saw one of my victims collapse. (And then get back up, of course!) T’was a grand old time. I now face several hours…
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Rathergate Report Coming Soon (10:59 AM) - Drudge is flashing that CBS’ report on CBS’ bias is going to come out. Better late than never? Not really. Stay tuned. UPDATE: More at RatherBiased….
Dems Challenge Ohio Voters (10:57 AM) - As expected, Dems are challenging the will of the Ohio electorate. Boxer is at the vanguard of this nonsense. UPDATE: Kerry has said he won’t be taking part, but he still hasn’t inveighed to his colleagues against doing so, as…
Retail Wrap-up (10:38 AM) - Bucking the myraid sorrowful news reports of “disappointing holiday sales”, retailers fared relatively well this season. Despite cannibalization (due to new store openings) and a California grocery strike, Costco’s sales rose 9% in December. Wal-Mart met Wall Street’s projections with…
Robots are Cool (10:33 AM) - Well, that’s a given. But South Korea’s new humanoid-bot is said to be the smartest in operation. All of its programming is served from a computer on a wireless network. So the bot’s processing speed and memory is almost unlimited….
Not Torture (08:16 AM) - The Journal’s incisive piece on today’s Gonzales hearings:[W]hat’s at stake in this controversy is nothing less than the ability of U.S. forces to interrogate enemies who want to murder innocent civilians. And the Democratic position, Mr. Gonzales shouldn’t be afraid…
If Peggy Noonan Were a Dem… (08:16 AM) - …what would she do?…
“Lots of Smiles” (08:13 AM) - USA Today’s cover-story:BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — The U.S. servicemen have been logging 24-hour shifts in sweltering humidity, but their voices bubble with enthusiasm as they describe the welcome they’ve received in the most conservative Islamic province of this Muslim country….
NPR and New Media (07:21 AM) - NPR’s media show On The Media gets it. They are now posting entire shows as single MP3 files. This week’s show, as Jeff Jarvis notes, will be the first to be podcast….
The Reuters Insurgent (07:09 AM) - Evidently, a man who plants bombs underneath civillian vehicles in considered an ‘insurgent’ at Reuters. Actually, a man who plants bombs underneath civillian vehicles is only a suspected insurgent. Have a look at this photo:And its caption:A suspected insurgent asks…
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
In The Press (10:30 PM) - Look for an article in The Dartmouth tomorrow morning about blogs. And if you are visiting from that article, welcome!…
Remote Photoblogging (10:14 PM) - Boi From Troy exercises some neat remote photo-blogging from the USC football game….
Ohio Vote Update (10:12 PM) - Professor Bainbridge notes three House Dems who are expected to oppose Ohio’s certification: Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois, John Conyers of Michigan and Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio. And he asks, “How petty can you get?” Pretty darn petty….
Where’s His Backbone? (06:58 PM) - That question isn’t often asked about President Bush, but I’ll ask it, because this is unexpected news….
Allawi Reaffirms Commitment to Jan. 30 Elections (06:26 PM) - The New York Times is reporting today that Ayad Allawi is sticking to 1/30 elections. The Times is one of the outlets that tried to chalk Allawi’s earlier concerns about a January vote to absolute and utter failure in Iraq…
Simon on the French (06:20 PM) - The French are none too happy with the aid-giving situation. Roger L. Simon thinks the cause is military-envy:It would seem anyone with even average psychological insight would be embarrassed by the obvious envy hardly buried beneath the surface of the…
This Just In (06:17 PM) - CNN’s Crossfire is out. Don’t blame the ratings- all of CNN’s programming is low-rated. Blame Jon Stewart’s drunken, holier-than-thou rant….
Whose [aid] Package is Biggest? (06:16 PM) - The world is locked in a battle of giving:JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Australia promised $810 million - the largest government pledge - to the tsunami relief effort, topping a $674 million German aid package on the eve of a crucial…
Tomorrow: “Go Ape Day” In Congress (06:12 PM) - In 2000, when the Florida vote was about to be confirmed (finally), many groups filed for recounts. For those requests to have any gravity, they needed a concurring senator. None did, at Al Gore’s request. Tomorrow, the Ohio results will…
Get a new equi-vocation? (06:10 PM) - This, from yesterday’s press conference, isn’t Scott McClellan at his best:Q. Scott, the President had said he was going to appoint this bipartisan tax panel , panel to look at tax reform, before the end of 2004. (Laughter.) I’m wondering…
EU Phantom Donations (06:08 PM) - All of those high donation numbers coming in from overseas might be inflated, as Franco Aleman reports:[Of a reported $68m donated from Spain] Only 5 million Euros (roughly $6.5 million) are real donations. All the rest, that is, almost $70…
Hassoun Goes Missing Again (06:06 PM) - The Marine deserter who faked his own kidnapping has vanished… again. Reuters reports:U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, charged a month ago with desertion in a mysterious case in which he left his unit in Iraq only to turn up…
Michael Moore Hates Inaugurations (06:03 PM) - Or perhaps just those of Republicans. Either way, he is providing his followers (few these days, it seems) with various tools to crash the festivities….
Real, but Inaccurate (03:06 PM) - Get the raw (and wrong) exit polling data that Cox and her liberal compatriots in the MSM used on election day right here….
Blogging Update (02:53 PM) - Blogging has been slow today because I have been class-shopping. I’ll update this evening….
Good. (08:50 AM) - The French resent our leading role in humanitarianism. Good….
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Maybe We Should Live On Mars… (09:38 PM) - More than a few months past its prime, the NASA Mars Rover is still going strong, even though its mission has been completed:”I never, ever would have imagined the opportunity to literally be standing here a year later and saying…
College Newspapers (09:16 PM) - The Dartmouth is back in action, with this piece on Furstenbergate. Don’t look at me- the fellow admitted me. I’ve no right to get snarky for a few more months….
Going the Way of the Dinosaurs (09:15 PM) - Post-election pundit fatigue must be striking, because the extinction of moonbats is being noted now….
Baghdad Gov Killed, Silence from Terrorists (08:59 PM) - Front-page news today, obviously, was the assassination of the governor of Baghdad. But, while Zarqawi terrorists are claiming credit for the hit, I find it odd that this time, there is no message of encouragement from Zarqawi, bin Laden, or…
The Inert UN (08:54 PM) - Why do all headlines about the United Nations use phrases like “the UN fears” “the US is raising concern” “the UN is blowing the whistle” and the like? The answer, simply, is because the UN cannot act. They merely bicker…
Buddhists Sell Temple (08:51 PM) - Vancouver Sun:A Buddhist abbot stunned his Burnaby congregation on Saturday when he announced they would be selling a temple worth more than $500,000 to give all the proceeds to Asia’s tsunami victims.Wonderful story….
Don’t Panic (01:34 PM) - If my girlfriend read this blog, which she does not, she’d be very excited about this. I learn via Ain’t-It-Cool-News that a film based on Douglas Adam’s hilarious novels in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series is in production…
Sigh… French (12:31 PM) - I’ll be continuing my French education this term at Dartmouth. In that spirit, I’m reprinting this And Rightly So post, which is a very handy travel guide written by the “US State Department” for potential visitors to France. Travel guide…
Ancient Tribes Survive (10:56 AM) - The Sentinelese, who were feared wiped out as a result of the tsunami, have evidently survived. They are attacking relief choppers with arrows:An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by…
Lord of the Liberal Ring (09:31 AM) - Far too much has been written on Tolkien’s books. Much like Star Wars and Star Trek, these worlds espouse the epic meme and not much else. Just listen to Joseph Campell and be done with it. But if you absolutely,…
Bush/Clinton Fundraising Drive Update (09:20 AM) - President Bush’s unique fundraising drive for tsunami relief- driven by Bush Sr. and Clinton- seems to be off with a bang. Newsday:Former President George H. W. Bush said Tuesday the initial response to pleas for private donations for the victims…
al-Zarqawi in Custody? (09:16 AM) - A rumor that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been arrested in Iraq began here: a tenuous report from ITAR-TASS. China Daily is now echoing the claim, lending it some believability:Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, whom the US occupation authorities declared to be the…
Weak Dollar Winners (09:11 AM) - The dollar continues to fall against the euro and domestic manufacturing keeps rising. Xinhuanet’s report:US manufacturers gained a strong growth momentum in December as the sliding dollar continued to help exporters and domestic demand strengthened, a report showed on Monday….
WashGov Update (07:49 AM) - Dino Rossi has until Janurary 10th to file a suit; and he should. The Seattle PI reports:The state Republican Party obtained a list of the people who voted in King County as part of a larger request for information designed…
Action and Inaction (07:40 AM) - Jay Tea notes a quintessential perpendicular in responses to the tsunami; from the US and the UN:On December 27, President Bush briefly interrupted his vacation to order US military forces to the area to provide disaster relief and started the…
40 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2004 (07:28 AM) - John Hawkins rounds them up over here. I’ve also reprinted them in the extended. The top of the list is quite funny, but down near the bottom it just gets sad….
Monday, January 03, 2005
Insisting Upon Ethics (11:27 PM) - Republicans in the House did the right thing today when they ate their words on reforming ethics rules:WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans suddenly reversed course Monday, deciding to retain a tough standard for lawmaker discipline and reinstate a rule that…
My Ex-Gov (10:55 PM) - Christine Whitman, who, in her tenure as the governor of New Jersey, never endeared herself to me, is writing one of those hip end-term whistle blowing books. It is called It’s My Party, Too. And it will be released just…
Democratic Giving (10:37 PM) - I like very much the idea of individuals, organizations and corporations giving aid in times of worldy struggle, rather than governments, which are often too heavy-handed and inarticulate to throw money at just the right fires. So it should come…
Home Again (09:49 PM) - I am back in Hanover, and am happy to report that there is little if any snow on the ground and the air temperature is hovering around 32….
The Hewitt Challenge (07:13 AM) - Hugh Hewitt:So as 2005 begins, I invite readers to send me old media quotes demonstrating cluelessness about the blogoshere. They have to be from 1/1/05 forward. I’ll send a copy of Blog out to any deserving innocent.All too easy….
Andrew Heyward Says ‘Sorry’ (07:07 AM) - And, ‘I won’t do it again, promise’. Broadcasting & Cable reports:Let the fence-mending begin. According to a Broadcasting & Cable source in Washington, D.C., CBS News president Andrew Heyward, along with Washington bureau chief Janet Leissner, recently met with White…
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Sean Penn Pontificates (06:40 PM) - Actor and professional ignoramous Sean Penn sat down with the Associated Press to discuss his latest prevarications. When asked “Has corruption in government grown worse since Nixon?” Penn responds:No question about it. The arrogance with which it’s played out. I…
Iraqis Enthused About Voting (06:08 PM) - The number of Iraqis making sure they are properly registered to vote has surged dramatically, officials said Saturday, calling the rise evidence of enthusiasm for the Jan. 30 elections despite continuing security concerns that have blocked the process in two…
Stirrings in Korea (05:59 PM) - UPI reports:Pyongyang warned the danger of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula is growing in a New Year’s editorial published in North Korea’s three major newspapers. “The danger of a nuclear war is growing on the Korean peninsula as the…
Crime-Free NYC (09:40 AM) - Historically low murder rates in Michael Bloomberg’s New York City….
Being UNhelpful? (09:04 AM) - Over at The Belmont Club, the UN’s aid package is fisked. Their acerbic conclusion is:Only an international political class secure in its own invincibility could have thrown such scraps as the UN provides to the people of the Third World…
Longhorns Win (09:03 AM) - Sorry, Flora. Good game, though….
Fading Libraries (08:49 AM) - As more and more of the world’s pre-internet information becomes digitized, indexed, searchable, PDF’d and HTML’d, library stacks are slowly, but certainly, turning into symbolic monuments to a time that once was, and a holding place for mere backups to…
The End of Tribalism? (08:46 AM) - The Boston Globe reports:[The Sentinelese] were members of one of the last tribes on earth — according to some anthropologists, perhaps even the very last one — to live completely isolated from the rest of humankind. For centuries, as other…
A New Blog on the Block (08:37 AM) - Michael Belinsky, a friend of mine at Dartmouth, has started a group blog: The Silicon Mind. He’s talking about tech and politics. And with this post, which mentions that Microsoft isn’t planning any IE updates until 2006, I am one…
Is Europe The Future? (08:30 AM) - Two books: Jeremy Rifkin’s The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream and T.R. Reid’s The United States Of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy posit the idea that…
Blogocide (08:23 AM) - Looks like Ann Althouse is on a mission to Kill Glenn Reynolds….
Laser Terrorism Update (08:15 AM) - A laser beam was aimed at a police helicopter on Friday, and a suspect has been picked up:Soon after, Port Authority officials and the FBI went to a Parsippany home where they had tracked the laser beam and were questioning…
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Happy New Year (09:49 AM) - Well, there it goes. 2004 was by some accounts a joyous year; by others a tragic one. I know I’ve experienced both, as well as the life-change of commencing higher education. With all that has happened personally, nationally, and on…