[Note: the following is an update to this post from yesterday.] Reader Rick Ballard has kindly let me know that Jay Rosen has pulled the plug and closed comments on the Bay/Rollback thread. Rosen’s reasons for doing so remain somewhat … Continue reading →
Can it be? Hearts and minds changing in the Moslem world?
Continue reading →The nearly geriatric Rolling Stones have a new song out called “Sweet Neo Con.” “It is not really aimed at anyone,” Jagger said on the entertainment-news show’s Wednesday edition. “It’s not aimed, personally aimed, at President Bush. It wouldn’t be … Continue reading →
I took the day off from heavy posting, and expect to return tomorrow. But I thought I’d offer the following passage from one of my favorite authors, something to think about for tomorrow morning. For those of you who love … Continue reading →
And exceedingly slow. All I can say is, wow! Via Scott Kirwin at Dean Esmay.
Continue reading →Every now and then there’s a certain kind of message that’s left on my telephone answering machine. I bet you get them, too: those cozy chatty little communications that try to get you to believe the person leaving it is … Continue reading →
In his new Tech Central Station article, Michael Totten points out some facts about the internal strife in the Islamic world, and how the west tends to ignore it and only notice the war the terrorists are waging against us. … Continue reading →
Mike’s America gets a gold star, for fixing my sitemeter from afar. The world of computers is somewhat of a mystery to me, but not to Mike’s America (see this.) Thanks, Mike!
Continue reading →It may seem as though I’ve been picking on “anonymous” lately, by featuring his/her comments in a serious of posts, answering them or dealing with some aspect of them. And you might ask why I’m doing this. I don’t usually … Continue reading →
I have a computer question for all you techies out there: my sitecounter has unaccountably disappeared from my blog. Actually, it’s not disappeared–it still works when I log onto it–but it seems to be invisible to others. I originally set … Continue reading →
I’m starting to rev up for the next post in the “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series. This is the one that will deal with 9/11. I find it helps to make a public declaration of intent. … Continue reading →
Well, I’m home. I’m thankful to have had an uneventful return trip. But today has been a very hectic and busy day getting myself reorganized–or rather, that is, beginning to get myself reorganized. So, no time for blogging today, although … Continue reading →