Jeff Foust has a podcast up of Mike Griffin’s speech and Q&A from last week’s Mar Society Meeting.
From The Horse’s Mouth
Jeff Foust has a podcast up of Mike Griffin’s speech and Q&A from last week’s Mar Society Meeting.
From The Horse’s Mouth
Jeff Foust has a podcast up of Mike Griffin’s speech and Q&A from last week’s Mar Society Meeting.
Deja Vu
Why is America waiting to be attacked by Tehran?
What is the explanation for America’s willful fiction that the United Nations Security Council can engineer an accommodation in Lebanon, when it is vivid to every member state that this is a replay of September 1938, when Europe fed Hitler the Sudetenland as the U.N. now wants to feed the jihadists the sovereignty of Israel?
As the author points out, as is often the case, we won’t start this war, but as usual, we’ll have to finish it.
[Update]
Listening to Sky News describing British Muslims who claim that they are Muslims first, and British citizens second. Sounds like it’s time to deport some folks.
But What About Football Season?
The world is going to end in less than two weeks. Well, at least if Islamist nutballs have anything to say about it. I was going to put this down as war commentary, but I think I’ll stick to “Weird.”
Useless
I cannot use my Windows 2000 desktop machine. (Almost) every time I boot it, it refuses to recognize the mouse. I say “almost” because once in a while it does. When it does, I use it, and hope that I won’t have to reboot again. It seems to be random, but it doesn’t work much more often than it does. Can anyone imagine what causes this behavior?
I’m writing this from my Fedora machine (which is on the same KVM switch as the Windows machine, and using the same mouse, with no problems). Fortunately, I finished up my work for the client, that required MS Word, before I had to reboot (I was installing a flurry of Windows security updates…)
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, the sixth time was the charm. Oh, did I mention that part of the ritual is making vigorous mouse motions during boot to get it to work (this seems to be a necessary, but not sufficient condition).
Death Of A Space Scientist
James Van Allen, discoverer of the magnetic belts surrounding the earth that bear his name, has died. He was one of the most (perhaps the most) notable long-time opponents of the manned space program. He never understood that civil space is about much more than science.
Condolences to his family. It is a loss to science, if not informed space policy debate.
Leave Cuba Alone
If I had more time, I’d have more to write about the noble creatures who are concerned that we might interfere with continuing dictatorship in Cuba. As it is, I can only laugh. While crying.
By the way, while I’m sure that this crowd will profoundly mourn it if true, I think that the monster is probably pushing up palm trees.
And to my current leftist trolls, was that an “unlibertarian” thought?
As If We Didn’t Have Enough Problems
Bedbugs. They’re baaaaccckkk.
It’s funny, you always hear that expression, “don’t let the bedbugs bite,” but you never actually associate it with the very real phenomenon that spurred it, if you’ve never experienced it. And it may mean that we have to rethink the balance between comfort and perceived threats to health from pesticides. Of course, it’s nothing compared to the holocaust caused by the banning of DDT. Thanks, Rachel!
As If We Didn’t Have Enough Problems
Bedbugs. They’re baaaaccckkk.
It’s funny, you always hear that expression, “don’t let the bedbugs bite,” but you never actually associate it with the very real phenomenon that spurred it, if you’ve never experienced it. And it may mean that we have to rethink the balance between comfort and perceived threats to health from pesticides. Of course, it’s nothing compared to the holocaust caused by the banning of DDT. Thanks, Rachel!