Yeah, we’re handing over sovereignty all right. “The Americans warned that if the council went ahead and voted, the United States might not recognize the choice, the sources said on condition of anonymity. Bremer has the final say on all policy decisions in Iraq.” You get to vote, but only for the right guy. That’s [...]
The M’s face Pedro and Schilling when they come to town, while the O’s breeze through for their make-up game against ~7 ERA Lowe. Dang. The fact of the matter is that this season, the M’s suck so hard, it’s just unreal. Duking it out with a few other pathetic cellar dwellers, after being the [...]
Here’s Clay Shirky’s most recent article on games, Nomic World: By the players, for the players. Clay is my Besht Mate and I lurrrve him, but as is often the case, this strikes me as another instance of an academic taking a circuitous route to a problem that a practitioner would not need to bother [...]
The story below, that Rumsfeld banned cellphone cameras from Iraq army bases, was a hoax. Agence France-Presse fell for a hoax story, and it got picked up by other news sources. Which just goes to show something I’ve always said: the French suck.
It’s stories like this one that get me boiling. Rumsfeld has banned all camera phones from army bases in Iraq, in response to the prisoner abuse scandal. Yeah, that’s the ticket: be seen as working hard to insure that similar scandals don’t come to light again, rather than working hard to make sure they don’t [...]
It’s been a cognitively weird week. Work has been happening, we’re getting things done and the game is looking better day by day. The kids have been in good shape, and make us laugh constantly. Misha, Ian, little William, and my crew all went to see the PawSox yesterday (they lost, but it was a [...]
So the Matrix is on TBS right now, and I’ve had it on in the background as I web surf and read email. And they’ve edited it rather severely: some scenes are shortened for time reasons, obviously, but the edits for content are especially funny. Neo walks through the metal detector, and the guard ask [...]
Allergies have been acting up: I’ve been sneezing all night long, and am now light-headed and can only smell blood. (There’s a great image to start an entry off with.) Allegra doesn’t work worth a damn, I need something new. Frankly, nothing has ever worked for me as well as Hismanol (or however it’s spelled), [...]
Has anyone seen politically-oriented blog spam about David Duke? It’s a bizarre rant about David Duke, klan bigwig from Louisiana, and is ridiculously long (for a blog comment, anyway). I got one today, and it had no URL attached, so it’s there for an entirely different purpose, I suppose to just get the message out. [...]
Seymour Hersh’s latest article on the Iraq prisoner scandal is online at the New Yorker Magazine. Who do you think is more trustworthy: a seasoned Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter who was absolutely right in Round #1 of this scandal, versus Donald Rumsfeld, the man who was representing the wrong side in Round #1, and who has [...]
