Year: 2002
Jonah Goldberg Defends Bill Clinton!
Jonah Goldberg Defends Bill Clinton? No, not quite, but Jonah writes in defense of hypocrisy by society’s leaders, advancing the proposition that leaders should lie to hide their unseemly side, lest the masses mistake it for virtue and try to emulate it. I wonder if he felt that way about Bill Clinton. By this theory,… Read more
Going Public
Just flipped the Public bit on the Blogger settings page. Five hits so far, all from me. It’s a start. Read more
Who Will Stop Us?
The good professor discusses Eric Alterman’s analogy between Iraq and Vietnam. He asks, So, the question raised by the Vietnam analogy here is: Are we serious about winning? And who, exactly, is going to intervene on a massive scale to stop us if we look like we’re going to win big? Well, there are several… Read more
Why Iraq?
Nick Gillespie suggests that Bush is eager to invade Iraq because it’s a lot easier to find than Osama bin Laden. Read more
Safe Supermarket Discounting
Glenn Reynolds has been tracking worried comments by Susanna Cornett and Kim du Toit about the privacy hazards of supermarket discount cards. However, sometimes hi-tech problems have low-tech solutions. My friend Ken teaches information technology for MBA‘s, and in his security classes he shows them a stupidly simple way to avoid nearly all the privacy… Read more