September, 2003

  1. Wow — It’s Cheaper to Kill than Create

    Philip Greenspun has an idiotic essay in which he is apparently shocked that it is more expensive to build things and create wealth than it is to murder civilians. If you wanted to have Greenspun assassinated, it would probably cost at most a couple thousand dollars — far less, I assume, than Greenspun chargers his…

  2. Why Is Wesley Clark Running, Again?

    Apparently Wesley Clark doesn’t realize that before he can become president he first has to win the Democratic Party nomination. Does Clark really think he’s going to have much chance winning Democratic primaries with stuff like this, Clark, relaxed and chatty, portrayed himself as a different kind of Democrat, one without strong partisan impulses. He…

  3. To Offer Discussion Groups Or Not

    One of my favorite weblogs, Boing! Boing! was rendered significantly less useful recently when the powers-that-be removed the discussion group feature which used QuickTopic. There was no announcement that the discussion system would disappear, nor any explanation as to why, though there is a thread over at CoolTool.Com that speculates two of the problems that…

  4. Al-Jazeera/Al Qaeda Connection: How Shocking

    In a completely shocking move, an Al Jazeera reporter has been imprisoned in Spain on suspicion of acting as a conduit for funds for Al Qaeda, Last week Spanish investigating Judge Baltasar Garzon charged that Alouni took a total of $4,500 to terrorists in Afghanistan on two occasions. AlouniÂ’s lawyers say he did take smaller…

  5. Did Wesley Clark Act Under False Pretenses?

    According to Fox News, Wesley Clark is going to announce his candidacy for president. Given his performance as a talking head, I think he’s wasting his time, but what I’m especially curious to see is how the press treats Clark’s numerous waffles and bizarre accusations (like the implication that the White House told him to…

  6. Kids and Infections

    Saturday afternoon, my wife took the kids to visit her grandmother and parents in Jackson, about a 45 minute drive from here. I stayed behind to work on lots of important things (i.e., B:TVS marathon time). By the time they returned around 8 or 9 p.m., my daughter said she had a headache. Actually, she’d…