A debate on Iraq has been orchestrated by N.Z. Bear and the bloggers at Stand Down, with each side posing five questions to the other. Here are the hawk questions, and my answers. 1) If you were President of the United States, what would be your policy toward Iraq over the next year? What advantages […]

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My friend P.J. Doland informs me that I managed to make the short list of suggested blogs for a class on “Information in Cyberspace” at the University of Texas. I have no idea if anyone in the class actually selected this as their blog to follow, though if you did, you got to see the […]

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Courtesy of Jakeneck.

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In response to this story about Japan’s announcement that they would attack North Korea unilaterally if they discovered that Pyongyang were preparing to launch its own attack on Japan. Instaman asks: “Where are the condemnations of ‘unilateralism’ and ‘preemption’?” Well, the thing is, that actually would be preemptive. Y’see, despite the promulgation of the “Bush […]

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Eugene Volokh posts a four part chorus of support for John Lott from ex-colleagues, all attesting to the veracity of his claim about suffering a 1997 hard drive crash. That would be extraordinarily compelling evidence if it were true that, as one of the letter-writers says, the Washington Post, in their article, “unfairly casts doubt […]

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So it’s probably grotesquely arrogant of me to presume to translate one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the 20th century, but I recently ended up rendering in English a talk given by the incredible Mario Vargas Llosa: “Why Does Latin America Fail?” I only hope that when he reads it, he doesn’t hire […]

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Anyone else out there notice that the melody of that Outkast song “So Fresh, So Clean” is lifted from the jingle from old commercials for Super Golden Crisp (a.k.a. “Super Sugar Crisp” before parents started caring about that sort of thing)? Seriously, just listen and try singing along: “Can’t get enough of that Golden Crisp, […]

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Everyone’s abuzz about the news of a tape aired on Al Jazeera by someone purporting to be Osama bin Laden, in which he urges further attacks on the U.S. and talks of an Al Qaeda partnership with Iraq. This is certainly conclusive proof. Conclusive proof that, just as many of us have long suspected, a […]

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His Blogesty links a story from the AP about a plea bargain agreement with the head of a charity accused of funneling money to al-Qaeda. That charge has nominally been dropped in favor of a lesser one, but: “We are prepared to prove that he did support al-Qaida when that issue is addressed at sentencing,” […]

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I’ve put together a page with some pictures from Blogorama II, as well as a partial list of attendees. More to be added soon, so take a look again in another day or so. Check it out.

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