Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Rich Santalesa: "While no one wants a war, there are things worth fighting for, which apparently the French and some others can't fathom. Freedom is one. Safety is another." [Scripting News] Indeed so. The question is, at what point is the US government such a threat to freedom and safety that it's worth fighting a civil war? 3:22:07 PM    comment () Danger, Earthling, Danger!. Robert "The Earthling" Wright has a brief catalogue of fears about Gulf War II (or III if you count Iran vs. Iraq) that are more valid than the chicken little anxieties we've been hearing about new terrorist attacks and Saddam fighting back with WMD (neither of which ever made compelling arguments against this adventure, in my opinion). One that the Man Who Fell To Earth doesn't mention, probably because it doesn't mean much to him, is the longterm domestic consequences of letting the welfare/warfare state become even further engorged and less accountable. (Alas, outside myself and a few shotgun-toting moonshiners, I don't know that anybody cares about that one anymore.) [Hit & Run] Wright attributes the dubious fears he writes about to "doves," although I've actually heard some of them more often from the Crusaders and from government press releases. Regardless of their origin, I think he's pretty much right about their validity. 3:17:13 PM    comment () Former US Vice President Al Gore joins Apple's board [MacCentral] Just when you think Apple has screwed up in every imaginable way, something new happens. 3:08:27 PM    comment () Windbags of War. Initiating war is a particularly stupid form of human activity, and the onset of the war that will start tonight at 8 pm is bringing out the dunce in many. I'm not sure if these will alleviate or increase your depression at the thought of war, but here are a few choice ideas circulating right now [LewRockwell.com] 11:52:48 AM    comment () U.S. May Reduce Non-Military GPS Accuracy [Slashdot] Thus endangering the lives of those who have come to depend on accurate GPS information. 9:23:32 AM    comment () "Red alert" means New Jerseyans may not leave their homes [Politech] If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, the state's anti-terror czar says. If this happened in California, the authorities would be right to assume that I am their enemy. They would have made themselves my enemy. 9:00:31 AM    comment ()

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