…you never thought about before. From (who else?) Lileks:
Saturday I got out the spade and the claw and dug up the worst spots. Dirt into bags, bags down the steps. Dirt is heavy; no wonder the earth weighs so much. Poor Atlas.
“We Fully Intended To Fail”
That’s what Andrew Sullivan says.
Let’s assume, just for the sake of the argument, that that’s the case. Why would we do that? What is the benefit, to the nation, or to the Bush administration, for failure in Iraq? Note, he didn’t say that the administration thought we didn’t need more troops, or that they did but that there were other reasons not to send them. No, the intent was to fail. Fully.
Is he now in Dick Durbin’s camp? Are we now just like Pol Pot…evil?
He’s been second in my blogroll for, literally, years. (Yes, yes, there’s a certain amount of inertia there, but still).
Is there any reason to take anything he writes seriously now? It will be fascinating to see if he responds to this, and apologizes (as Durbin should, but probably won’t). If he’ll say that he wasn’t thinking when he typed those words, and wants to clarify them, I’ll accept that. But if he meant it, I see no reason to even bother reading him any more. Or (more certainly) keep him at his current rank in my blogroll.
He’s jumped the Euphrates.
“We Fully Intended To Fail”
That’s what Andrew Sullivan says.
Let’s assume, just for the sake of the argument, that that’s the case. Why would we do that? What is the benefit, to the nation, or to the Bush administration, for failure in Iraq? Note, he didn’t say that the administration thought we didn’t need more troops, or that they did but that there were other reasons not to send them. No, the intent was to fail. Fully.
Is he now in Dick Durbin’s camp? Are we now just like Pol Pot…evil?
He’s been second in my blogroll for, literally, years. (Yes, yes, there’s a certain amount of inertia there, but still).
Is there any reason to take anything he writes seriously now? It will be fascinating to see if he responds to this, and apologizes (as Durbin should, but probably won’t). If he’ll say that he wasn’t thinking when he typed those words, and wants to clarify them, I’ll accept that. But if he meant it, I see no reason to even bother reading him any more. Or (more certainly) keep him at his current rank in my blogroll.
He’s jumped the Euphrates.
“We Fully Intended To Fail”
That’s what Andrew Sullivan says.
Let’s assume, just for the sake of the argument, that that’s the case. Why would we do that? What is the benefit, to the nation, or to the Bush administration, for failure in Iraq? Note, he didn’t say that the administration thought we didn’t need more troops, or that they did but that there were other reasons not to send them. No, the intent was to fail. Fully.
Is he now in Dick Durbin’s camp? Are we now just like Pol Pot…evil?
He’s been second in my blogroll for, literally, years. (Yes, yes, there’s a certain amount of inertia there, but still).
Is there any reason to take anything he writes seriously now? It will be fascinating to see if he responds to this, and apologizes (as Durbin should, but probably won’t). If he’ll say that he wasn’t thinking when he typed those words, and wants to clarify them, I’ll accept that. But if he meant it, I see no reason to even bother reading him any more. Or (more certainly) keep him at his current rank in my blogroll.
He’s jumped the Euphrates.
I’m Sure The Riots Will Break Out Any Minute Now
A “Palestinian” prisoner threw pages of the Quran in a toilet.
I’m sure that this will be the headline in the New York Times tomorrow. Right?
What? You mean it’s only news when we’re alleged to do it? Not when the people who supposedly revere the book do it?
I’m Sure The Riots Will Break Out Any Minute Now
A “Palestinian” prisoner threw pages of the Quran in a toilet.
I’m sure that this will be the headline in the New York Times tomorrow. Right?
What? You mean it’s only news when we’re alleged to do it? Not when the people who supposedly revere the book do it?
I’m Sure The Riots Will Break Out Any Minute Now
A “Palestinian” prisoner threw pages of the Quran in a toilet.
I’m sure that this will be the headline in the New York Times tomorrow. Right?
What? You mean it’s only news when we’re alleged to do it? Not when the people who supposedly revere the book do it?
Broken Windows
I’m doing a Windows Update on my W2K machine, and there are seven critical security updates that repeatedly fail to install. Anyone have any ideas as to what I should do?
[Update on Sunday morning]
Sigh. Was it really necessary to specify a priori that advice to get different operating systems (I have two other machines running various flavors of Linux) or computers would be unwanted, and unhelpful?
Good Luck With That
Bill Roggio has some good advice for Democrats who want to be taken more seriously on national security. Unfortunately for them (and for the prospect of a serious opposition to the Republicans), they’re probably constitutionally incapable of taking it right now. They’ll have to lose a few more elections first.
A New Problem
I hadn’t previously given this much thought, but it makes sense. More people buying increasingly affordable big-screen televisions is going to skyrocket the nation’s electrical consumption. People don’t realize how much electrical demand is driven by computers and server farms, but this is a new application for the home that will start to exceed the electricity used by multiple computers and home networking.
Of course, I only have the television on when I’m watching, whereas I rarely turn the computers off.