Category: long story short

The rhetoric gets a little overwrought, but this writer in the Hartford Advocate is starting to miss Richard Nixon.

I was thrilled to hear that seven of our U.S. prisoners of war were rescued near Tikrit. I had been dreading the worst for them. (NY Times login: mediajunkie, password: mediajunkie)

Well, the stress of gearing up for the conference and then running through the whole thing on not enough sleep and too much drinking has left me with a nasty little cold. Like so many it started out with a sore throat but now this one has gotten kind of especially unpleasant. For some reason…

Most years we hold the annual Waterside publishing conference in San Diego’s Mission Bay, but this year we are holding it near East Shore State Park in Berkeley. Author, consultant, entrepreneur (and author of ‘elm’) Dave Taylor, attending the conference, took a walk along the waterfront this morning and posted some observations about this “lovely…

Spotted this IM status message from the environs of Chaif consulting today: YANKEES MAGIC NUMBER – 156

Ken Layne has got Michael Kelly‘s back, with links to other remembrances.

Screwed up taping the first half of Daniel Deronda Sunday night. These VHS tapes hold so little at the high-quality speeds. Juggling the incoming TV stream is becoming unmanageable. So far I’ve managed to avoid cable except when I was rooting for Jerry Brown on the road to the whitehouse in ’91 and ’92. Now,…

The Guardian looks closely at how bloggers covered the aftermath of the Rachel Corrie story, finding an unsavory pile-on in the echo chamber. Cointelpro Tool takes on this line of reasoning and finds that it echoes the Indymedia line.

According to this CNN story: Rumsfeld on Sunday dismissed “hyperventilating” critics of the war in Iraq and called reports that he vetoed plans by top officers for a larger invasion force “fiction.”

Gary Hart has a blog. Let’s see if he can keep it up through a grueling campaign. A presidential blog would be cool but somehow I don’t see it.

For an analysis of the growing scandal around Rumsfeld and other politicos ignoring the best advice of the military brass and needlessly exposing our servicemen to greater risk than necessary, Joshua Marshall’s Talking Point Memo has been invaluable. Depite the fact that his sources are sound and his explanations cogent, he is now being subjected…

Over at Hyperbole, Jim Haefele reminisces about what he refers to as his decade. Well, we can’t choose the time and date of our own birth and one’s own memories always end up entangled with the cultural detritus of the period, plus he’s in Tunisia and I know when you are away from home, it…

As my to-do list grows (book project, consulting projects, conference coming up, taxes to do soon, clients deals to do, and more) I’ve had one of those two or three day periods of just trying to do the same things over and over. First there was a recalcitrant zip file that was showing up corrupted…

I know this war can’t be about control of oil, and we’re supposed to look past Dick Cheney’s revolving-door history from first gulf war to Halliburton, where his contacts in the gulf came in somewhat handy, back into the government in time fo rthe next gulf war and hey, look, if it isn’t ol’ Halliburton…

Oliver Willis objectively supports rounding up Bon Jovi fans.

CNN is maintaining a page listing all available information about U.S. casualties in the ongoing Iraq war. [via Virginia Postrel]

A little late in the game, I find a link to Cronus Connections’ A Warmonger Educates a Peacenik. Will Instapundit be linking to this (or has he already)? I wonder. An excerpt: Peacenik: Why are we invading Iraq? Warmonger: For the last time, we are invading Iraq because the world has called on Saddam Hussein…

Another e-mail tip leads to this graffito response to a “United We Stand” decal.

Or, as my friend Non likes to call him, Lung Scott-Egret (or the variant B and I like: Lung Pict-Egret). From the UC Berkeley J-School’s intellectual property weblog comes Revolution is not an AOL keyword.

Someone sent me a link to Iraq Body Count, which estimates only 16 civilian deaths so far.

This was in my inbox this morning: I’m back to Erbil city since half an hour ago to check out on the house, we are now in a small village in the mountains that is one hour and half far from Erbil.. its a big crowd in a house that belongs to my brother-in-law’s sister…