An Instalanche—that’s a link from blogger Glenn Reynolds, who’s otherwise known as Instapundit—can drive a huge amount of traffic to a blog. Glenn’s own blog traffic hovers somewhere in the vicinity of 300,000 hits a day (let me spell that … Continue reading →
For those who requested a timeline of the Mumbai attack, this is the best I’ve been able to find so far.
Continue reading →Photographer Sebastian D’Souza, who was able to take a photo of one of the armed terrorists in the train station in Mumbai, also described the events he witnessed there. One puzzling—not to mention profoundly troubling—aspect of his report was the … Continue reading →
And here I thought the Japanese were supposed to be one of those peoples who revered the elderly, with a culture that featured exquisite politeness. I guess that’s all changed now, at least if we consider the evidence offered by … Continue reading →
Rule of thumb in fighting terrorist attacks: if the Israelis offer advice, take it. Israeli spokesmen say that in Mumbai, Indian troops stormed the hotels too soon, without gathering enough intelligence first. There is no country on earth with the … Continue reading →
…an idea for a new source of income for myself. I’m gonna sue em both. And lest you think the linked article was a mere Onion fantasy, there’s a real-life precedent.
Continue reading →The terror in Mumbai angers me, but it doesn’t surprise. Any shock that this sort of thing can be planned and executed with such vicious intent went away long ago, on 9/11. Perhaps even before that. We don’t have many … Continue reading →
A few days ago I noticed a sign outside the local Burger King that said “Open on Thanksgiving.” It made me wonder just what a Thanksgiving Day gathering there might be like. But then I realized that I actually had … Continue reading →
Theodore Dalyrmple mourns the decline of the practice of browsing in secondhand bookstores. Now that the internet allows us to zero in on exactly and precisely the used book we might be looking for, it is no longer necessary—nor do … Continue reading →
…too much information. On the other hand, it’s evidence that astronauts are made of sterner stuff than most of us. But then again, we already knew that. [NOTE: The matter I’m referring to begins in paragraph four of the article.]
Continue reading →Here’s an exceedingly sobering article by Michael Lewis on the roots of the financial crisis, and a few of the prognosticators who saw it coming. These people had a couple of characteristics in common: a finely-honed BS detector; a willingness … Continue reading →
I found the following tangential nugget about the long-term consequences of one of Bill Clinton’s Presidential moves buried in an article on the surprising amount of cooperation that seems to be developing between the outgoing Bush Administration and the incoming … Continue reading →