Drat!
Monday, 31 May 2004I wrote up a nice, reasonably long post, and then I accidentally deleted it. (This is awfully easy to do in Moveable Type, I’m afraid to say. You preview your post, check to be sure a link works, get distracted, close your browser window, and then it’s gone. Shouldn’t it at least save it as [...]
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(Microsoft) Money Woes
Thursday, 27 May 2004Several years ago, I switched from Quicken to MS Money. I don’t remember why, exactly, but I think that it was a combination of the following factors: (1) Microsoft Money seemed to have more powerful budget tools. (2) I was irritated at Quicken for some (unremembered) reason – perhaps having to do with the vast [...]
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Clueless
Thursday, 20 May 2004An interesting essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Disagreement is a prime engine for advancing human knowledge — and besides, hearing boldly stated opinions is tremendous fun. For smart students to feel challenged, and for dull students to lose their cobwebs, they need to learn that academic subjects are both a matter of grave [...]
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What Liberal Rags!
Tuesday, 11 May 2004That well-known voice of liberalism, the Military Times Media Group, publisher of the ArmyTimes, NavyTimes, AirForceTimes, and MarineCorpsTimes, has issued an editorial calling for Rumsfeld and Myers to be relieved. What’s interesting to me about this editorial is the way that it uses military language to analyze the whole Abu Ghraib affair, using phrases like [...]
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Really Funny…
Tuesday, 11 May 2004In this article, I found the following gem from a Republican supporter of John Kerry. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t look favorably on comparisons between George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln. In this one case, though, I’m willing to make an exception. Not only that, [Terri Reed] said, but as president of Thomas Jefferson Butler Chapter of [...]
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Abuse from the Top
Saturday, 8 May 2004Salon reports that military procedures designed to protect the rights of prisoners were set aside by political appointees in the Pentagon. Lovely. [via IP]
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