What’s the Internet, really? Martin Geddes knows:
Which brings us to our old friend, the Internet. In many ways this is the Wal-Mart of data communications. It’s hideously inefficient at real-time communications. Every penis extending spam packet needs to be delivered at the same speed as my webcam with the oldies back home.
Just as Wal-Mart [...]
Singapore is a tiny little island with a predominately Chinese population of 6 million surrounded by 150 million Muslims. Despite its dearth of natural resources, it has managed to cobble together one of the highest living standards in the world, and the highest rate of home ownership in the world. So when its founder [...]
I stepped out the house where I’ve been staying in Greater Portland the other morning to be greeted by this sight.
People in the Frisco Bay Area have to drive three or four hours for this stuff, which was all gone the next day.
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A robust defense of freedom – The Washington Times has a good summary of the President’s speech in London yesterday. Here’s the beef:
The president forcefully rebutted critics who complain about the supposedly “unilateralist” foreign policy approach pursued by the United States and the Bush administration in particular. “In all these cases, military action was proceeded [...]
According to The Guardian, Brits have better things to do than protest Bush:
Peace campaigners dressed as the US president and the Queen in a horse-drawn carriage headed the procession, which also included a pink “love tank” and demonstrators dressed as weapons inspectors and Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Around 200 protesters gathered at Jubilee Gardens on London’s [...]
Omar, an Iraqi blogger, says we owe his countrymen an apology … for waiting so long to liberate them from Saddam:
I don?t know really know why Saddam?s regime lasted for over three decades, but I am sure as an Iraqi who survived that period that there?re no legal or moral justifications for it to remain.
I [...]
Our favorite loon, Dave Winer, is on the soapbox again seeking support from politicians for his media-hating jihad:
Over the weekend I sent a simple idea to Cameron Barrett, who works for the Clark campaign, and to Jim Moore who works for Dean. The message: I would love to see their candidates make an impassioned plea [...]
The anti-war and anti-liberation brigades are pretty upset over the Feith memo, as it clearly sinks their claims of a firewall between Saddam’s goons and Osama’s goons. Consequently, they’re pushing back with their own memo, this by advocate Anthony Cordesman on an exhaustive search he conducted during a harrowing ten-day trip to Iraq spent [...]
President Bush visits the UK this week, and the usual elements of the sanctimonious left intend to demonstrate against the murderous ways of the American hegemon with red paint, papier mache, and the rest of it. Writing in The Observer (the Sunday edition of The Guardian), David Aaronovitch asks why the protests are so selective:
Where [...]
Those still skeptical about the Saddam/Al Qaeda connection had best read the Weekly Standard article on a 50-point memo detailing the connections:
OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training [...]
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