While researching my recent series on questioning authority, I got the idea to write a post about the seminal Milgram experiments on obedience to authority. When I was a psych major back in college, part of our learning experience involved—as … Continue reading →
Mudville Gazette covers the killing of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat (see NOTE below). If you haven’t yet read a description of how this 30-year old woman was brutally and tortuously murdered, I warn you that it’s very strong stuff. I … Continue reading →
It was another lovely Sunday, and I basically took the day off from blogging (except, of course, for this post). For now, I’ve turned off anonymous commenting. That was actually my policy early on; I required registration with Blogger in … Continue reading →
Yesterday, commenter “sally” posted this on the Zarqawi thread: Something to bear in mind in all of this is that terrorism itself is a purely ideological and propagandistic form of warfare. Sudden, random, and otherwise pointless acts of mass slaughter … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but this reminds me of a “Saturday Night Live” bit: The videotape released last week by the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed him firing long bursts from a machine gun, his forearms sprouting from … Continue reading →
The sole survivor of the night of the marauding squirrels/deers/gophers has bloomed: That’s it for my tulips this year. It stands, forlorn and alone, a profile in courage. It’s a beautiful day today, though, one of several unseasonably warm ones … Continue reading →
The jury deliberated, and the verdict for Moussaoui is life without possibility of parole. I think that’s actually the best possible outcome for this extraordinarily strange case. Moussaoui himself is a pernicious person, his rantings devoid of even a drop … Continue reading →
In a way, my post today on Juan Cole and the Left is really about denial. Well, Dr. Sanity’s the expert on that. And if she ever quits her day job, she has a future as a lyricist. Here’s still … Continue reading →
Christopher Hitchens (previously no special friend of Israel’s) deconstructs Juan Cole’s Dowdification of Ahmadinejad’s threats to Israel in this Slate article (via Austin Bay) entitled “The Cole Report: when it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide.” Hitchens’s contention is … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but I’m not the most organized of people. Oh, I’m not all that bad. My desk doesn’t pile up too much before I clear it. You can walk a straight line through my house and … Continue reading →
[Part I] [Part II] [Part III] Under what circumstances should a national security employee decide to disclose classified information, and to whom should he/she disclose it? Should the leaker be met with penalties for these actions, and, if so, what … Continue reading →
I’ve been out most of this beautiful day, and now I’m going to take a pizza over to my mother’s. So I’ll just say see you tomorrow, with Part IV–the final one in the series, I think.
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