Monday, October 18, 2004

"Refusing an order durning time of war is a crime! Durning WW2 these bastards would have been just stood up and shot in the feild and that's all there would be to it." Greensboro blogger Sundance 59 has a less sympathetic view of the mutinous US soldiers in Iraq than do the families of those soldiers. Statistics of the type the soldiers do not wish to become; after a slow start, the October casualty rate has quickened. 1:24:20 PM    comment []

Ivan Cutler: "RAM Time" for the furniture industry. "Right After Market. Everything that really counts occurs in RAM Time." 1:15:05 PM    comment []

Jay Rosen has a couple of intense posts on the Sinclair affair. 1:10:20 PM    comment []

Re Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearance, Dave Winer asks: Should journalists listen to their customers? 8:57:43 AM    comment []

Michael Pollan in the Times mag: "(T)he French experience -- a population of wine-swilling cheese eaters with lower rates of heart disease and obesity?! -- confounds our orthodoxy about food. Maybe what we should be talking about is an American paradox: that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily." 8:53:50 AM    comment []