Flyover Country

Hundreds of tons of high explosives are stolen in Iraq after Hussein’s dictatorship collapses. Whose responsibility is it that this happened? According to Scott McClellan, spokesman for the White House, it is a problem that belongs to the interim Iraqi government, which came into power more than a year after this event occurred. Huh? Does [...]

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“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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This is from James Wolcott by way of the always incredible William Gibson (yes, that one): “The savage Iraq insurgency, a tragedy for the Iraqi people and the Americans and other foreigners who have been victims there, has unwound the future in ways we still can’t understand.”
Incidentally, Josh Marshall goes into depth today [...]

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I feel like I’ve been engaging in armchair punditry for too long now. I’m going to play all my cards, and make my prediction for this election.
We’ll see how realistic my guesses are in another nine days. I’m not going to touch this entry, but I’ll post a comparison on November 3rd.
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WesnerM writes today on a topic that concerns me occasionally: “By denying the customer a second chance to evaluate the software when they are likely ready to buy, I bet FeedDemon has lost a number of customers.”
How many customers for iRooster have I lost because they downloaded it months ago, and now decide [...]

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I have almost finished iRooster 2.0.1. As the name implies, it’s just a couple bug fixes. However, I have tossed in one extra thing. Now, if and when iRooster crashes, you will be able to send crash report information to me instead of Apple. I don’t collect anything that is potentially comprimising. In fact, I’ll [...]

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I am not a huge baseball fan by any stretch of the imagination. Nonetheless, I was absolutely thrilled by watching the Red Sox crush the Yankees last night. I’m hoping for another Massachusetts win in a little under two weeks, too.

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First off, what the heck is the deal with the Republican flipout over Kerry’s reference to Mary Cheney in the third debate? Sure, I can understand being a little peeved over such a personal reference, but to listen to Lynne and Dick telling it, Kerry may as well have outed Mary for the first time [...]

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I was as confused as everyone else during the last debate about what the hell Dubya meant when he started talking about Dred Scott. “Huh?” I asked myself, “I’m glad to hear he’s opposed to slavery…”
Bush wasn’t actually wandering off into some bizarre tangent. An article on Slate from Timothy Noah points out [...]

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From Josh Marshall today: “It’s not a ‘fairness’ or a free speech issue. It’s a massive and quite public case of election and campaign finance fraud.”

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