With all the flack Aaron Brown gets, maybe I should actually watch some TV news sometime. I feel bad joining in without suffering at his journalistic hands first…
ENRON EXPLAINED: I’m not sure I entirely understand this explanation in “layman’s terms”, so to speak, but it’s funny.
The U.S. withdrew from the ABM treaty and CIA reported that China began plans to increase it’s nuclear arsenal to compensate for our possible ABM systems. Now we get an op-ed by G. Michael Green, a senior planner for NASA, about how China is ramping up it’s space program and will likely have achieved manned space fight by the end of 2002 or 2003. Of course, the technologies used to guide a rocket through orbit and back to earth are many of the same ones used in guiding an ICBM to its target. So I think we can expect not only more ICBMs aimed at America over the next decade or two, but probably more accurate ones as well. Isn’t that just a cheery thought?
Hey, why bother to counterfeit something when the Thai government already produces something that will work?
Of the major terrorist events in the last two decades it seems that almost all of them were executed by Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalists, the Oklahoma City bombing being a notable exception. It makes you wonder why exactly these people like to blow things up so much. A Washington Post article would seem to shed some light on how all that pent up rage develops.
Chuck bought a llama for his farm. This is West Virginia, not the Andes! Hehe…
Zainab al-Suwaij, a Muslim woman living in America, has published an editorial well worth the time to read. I would love to see the Saudi papers publish this, but I’m sure that won’t happen.
Read through some history books and get a feel for how bad King Herod the Great was, and it’s hard to have any sympathy for the guy. I mean, this is the guy who had all Jewish male children under the age of 2 killed when he heard Jesus had been born. Not to mention his chronic paranoia and things like killing off family members at a prodigious rate. But then you hear about how he probably died.
I spent $10 on pyRads, and got 10 click-throughs. This does not seem to be a cost-effective advertisement medium for me. Since the micro-ad idea seems sound, I have to chaulk the abismal performance up to my complete lack of marketing ability. sigh Guess it’s time I actually started learning something about marketing, eh?
So, um, anyone have any hints for some intro marketing type material? Let me know, contact info on the left there….
Well, reading Instapundit has gotten me back in the mood for posting. So far (and I’ve got a lot of catch-up reading still to do), I’ve found these articles of interest…
An amusing photo of President Bush “mooning” the press, at least in an intellectual sort of way.
John Lott, a researcher known for his economics based research into crime deterrence through gun ownership and use, has published an op-ed piece revealing the little-reported fact that the school shootings at Appalachian Law School were stopped by students who had guns.
Followers of the info-warfare school of thought have long preached that meat-world infrastructures could be at risk from attacks through cyber-space. Now a recent review of intrusion reports reveals that not only is the energy industry under heavier cyber attack than other sectors, many of the attacks appear to be launched or coordinated by Middle Eastern countries.