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Friday, May 07, 2004

There He Goes Again. Politus catches the Baltimore Sun catching Bush lying his ass off. Again. Try to act suprised. All this honor and... [The Poor Man] 3:35:56 PM  Permalink  comment []

French Beef. Over at The American Enterprise, Jean-Francois Revel, author of the recent and interesting Anti-Americanism, fries his fellow Frenchies: We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the bosses of China and Vietnam. We reserve our admonitions and our contempt and our attacks for the U.S., for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and for Europeans like Margaret Thatcher, Silvio Berlusconi, and Tony Blair, because they are insufficiently hostile to capitalism. Our enemy is not the dictator but the free market economy. [Hit & Run] 2:29:56 PM  Permalink  comment []

The list keeps on growing. It's worth keeping an eye on the list of people and groups who now claimed to have warned people about what was going on at Abu Ghraib and went unheard. (Or, in some cases, mentioned it before 60 Minutes II ran the horrific photos that I've seen too many times.) Spec. Joseph M. Darby (unknown timing) Paul Bremer (last fall) General Antonio Taguba (late February) David Kay (before leaving Iraq) the Red Cross (November 2003 at the latest) Amnesty International (March 2004 and some initial warnings on June 30, 2003) the Department of Defense (January 16, 2004) [rc3.org Daily] 2:27:39 PM  Permalink  comment []

New Post on Global Guerrillas. Al Qaeda's Grand Strategy:  Superpower Baiting.  This dives into one view of al Qaeda's grand strategy.  Is the US acting as al Qaeda's PR firm?  Are we acting in a reckless fashion that will result in our eventual failure?  You decide. [John Robb's Weblog] 1:53:07 PM  Permalink  comment []

'Aristotle' (The Knowledge Web). "With the knowledge web, humanity's accumulated store of information will become more accessible, more manageable, and more useful. Anyone who wants to learn will be able to find the best and the most meaningful explanations of what they want to know. Anyone with something to teach will have a way to reach those who what to learn. Teachers will move beyond their present role as dispensers of information and become guides, mentors, facilitators, and authors. The knowledge web will make us all smarter. The knowledge web is an idea whose time has come." (W. Daniel Hillis - Edge The Third Culture) [InfoDesign: Understanding by Design] 10:23:35 AM  Permalink  comment []

The Misunderestimated Man. How Bush chose stupidity. [Slate Magazine] Yes, Bush is stupid. But in a smart way. 8:58:41 AM  Permalink  comment []

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