Wretchard at The Belmont Club points to an article in the Sierra Vista Herald about an address by Qubad J. Talabany, a representative of Iraqi Kurdistan, to a U.S. military Training and Doctrine Command Cultural Awareness Summit: In 1974, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger led the United States away from supporting a Kurdish homeland. After the first Gulf War against Iraq in … [Read more...] about What Will Happen to the Kurds?
Friday Catblogging
No real blogging today, so here are a few cat pictures to contemplate. … [Read more...] about Friday Catblogging
It Hurts Being Green
I would normally save a video like this until Friday, but I have a feeling we're just counting the minutes until the DMCA take-down notice.I don't want to spoil it too much, but it's Kermit the Frog following in Mr Johnny Cash's footsteps with his own very special cover of Trent Reznor's "Hurt." To quote Radley Balko: Warning: Contains muppet nudity, muppet sex, muppet … [Read more...] about It Hurts Being Green
Whose Freedom? Counting the Cost
I'm listening to the audiobook of George Lakoff's Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea, in which he contrasts the progressive and conservative ideas of freedom. Lakoff repeats over and over again that progressive morality is built on empathy, whereas conservative morality is based on discipline. That formulation makes a certain amount of sense, but it … [Read more...] about Whose Freedom? Counting the Cost
Hacking John McCain
Apparently, Senator John McCain has a MySpace page. Rather than using the boring default design, whoever built the page for McCain used a customized MySpace template that he got from Mike Davidson. Only problem is, he forgot to credit Mike, which is all Mike asks for if you want to use his template. Well, that wasn't the only problem. The web designer also left in the … [Read more...] about Hacking John McCain