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| Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
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Hope less 
| | On Capitol Hill, a Republican Senate and House are now distinguished by‹or perhaps even synonymous with‹earmarks, the K Street Project, Randy Cunningham (bandit, 12 o¹clock high!), Sen. Ted Stevens¹s $250-million Bridge to Nowhere, Jack Abramoff (Who? Never heard of him), and a Senate Majority Leader who declared, after conducting his own medical evaluation via videotape, that he knew every bit as much about the medical condition of Terry Schiavo as her own doctors and husband. Who knew that conservatism means barging into someone¹s hospital room like Dr. Frankenstein with defibrillator paddles? In what chapter of Hayek¹s The Road to Serfdom or Russell Kirk¹s The Conservative Mind is that principle enunciated? |
Living end
| | He also has a bunch of questions for Apple. The big one for me is, Will it play HD content made by independents cleanly, or will it require broadcast flag handshakes? If it's the latter there's no way I'll ever buy one. |
Good question
| | Mike Linksaver asks, why isn¹t the Ad Council, or the blogger equivalent, running an educational campaign teaching people to avoid spam and malware? |
Adventures in Duopolyville
| | Dave: It's apparently impossible to get Internet service in Berkeley. Brother, I know your pain. |
| | And the bastards don't just fail you at home. It took me almost two months to get Verizon's EVDO to work for more than a few minutes through my new Verizon-only Treo 700p. Advice for laptop owners with Treo 700p phones: don't even bother using them as a bridge to the Net. Get an EVDO card. It's not heaven, but sometimes it gets off the ground. (For $57 a month. If you commit to two years.) |
Quote du jour
| | Britt Blaser: Open source politics is a chance for a society to put zero-cost majorities in politicians¹ laps. |
Thinking outside a different box
Five years ago today
| | We are hearing warfare metaphors everywhere. Attack, Ground Zero, etc. But they are more than metaphors - they are real. And so I want to share this: |
| | The aftermath of battle is horrendous. Be it the plains of the Ancient civilizations, the woods and fields of Gettysburg or a village in Bosnia, most poignant is the fading of the cacophony of battle into the individual voices of the wounded and dying. The women of Sparta heard it, Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, Whitman in the Civil War, Hemingway in WWI, Ernie Pyle in WWII, Dan Rather in Vietnam. |
| | They were highly skilled at telling the story, but no matter how hard they tried - even with TV, it was still just a story. Remote. Sad but...over. |
| | But yesterday, the voice of the fallen, the cry of the dying, the reach for a hand, was heard the world around. It reached out to mothers, fathers, children and spouses. |
| | And it came on a cell phone. |
| | Yesterday, the battlefield become boundary-less. |
| | Never again will the sound of battle fade away after the heat. |
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