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
Death in Chicago
Slate‘s Eric Klinenberg writes about the worst U.S. natural disaster of the 1990’s, at least in terms of the loss of life. It wasn’t the Northridge quake or Hurricane Andrew. It was the heatwave that hit Chicago in July of 1995, killing 739 people. If this doesn’t ring a bell, welcome to flyover country. Klinenberg’s… Read more
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