Just another nerd.
Somehow I have a feeling that Dave Winer is not going to be too happy with the story NBC ran that included a “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” quote from him. If you missed it, the feature Winer’s been talking about on Scripting News for the past few days was pretty much exclusively about warblogs (and likely gave the impression to the uninitiated that Winer is a warblogger or a fan of warbloggers.)
Why didn’t they just interview Glenn Reynolds since he’s doing a weblog gig with MSNBC anyway? Weird.
Henry Hanks links to a story in which it turns out Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe is capable of telling the truth. Here’s how Mugabe chose to describe himself at the recent state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers,
I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their right to their resources.
If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.
For once, Mugabe is absolutely right. He’s even using Nazi-style tactics, deploying elite units of his army openly to assassinate and sexually assault key members of the opposition party according to the London Daily Telegraph.
One other thing Mugabe shares with Hitler — thanks to spineless multilateralism by the usual suspects, he and others in his government are free to move as they want across Europe. Ah, the fresh smell of appeasement.
Source:
‘Hitler’ Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks. Peta Thornycroft, Daily Telegraph, March 26, 2003.