I know things are clearer in hindsight, but I think it’s safe to say that something like this would be what is known as a ‘warning sign.’ Maybe nobody in a position to do anything actually saw this, but if there’s this, there must have been other signs.
Archive for March, 2005
School Shooting
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005This picture really says something. It’s striking when someone this young gets arrested for civil disobedience, and kind of sad too.
An Odd One
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005Josh Howard Out
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005The last figure from the ‘Rathergate’ incident has quit. Considering the fact that this is the guy that seemed willing to fight to the end to clear his name, you have to wonder just what happened that triggered his decision to step down.
Ain’t Technology Great?
Monday, March 21st, 2005This idea is just fascinating. I can’t wait for them to implement this kinda stuff — just using it sounds like it’d be a lot of fun.
Ain’t Technology Great?
Monday, March 21st, 2005This idea is just fascinating. I can’t wait for them to implement this kinda stuff — just using it sounds like it’d be a lot of fun.
Moving Up In The World
Sunday, March 20th, 2005I’m moving up in the world! I wrote an email to Power Line suggesting that they remove the license number of the car in the picture in this post, and they cropped the photo to remove it!
Needless to say, I was probably only one of hundreds of people to email in and suggest that, but it’s making me feel special, so don’t point this out.
Another Revolution
Sunday, March 20th, 2005There’s another pro-democracy revolution in Kyrgyzstan after yet another badly-handled election. This bunch is being a little more active and quite a bit more violent than the Orange revolution in Ukraine recently, but it is a further development of the democracy movement throughout the former Soviet Union.
The UN As Parlor Game
Saturday, March 19th, 2005This article illustrates what is most wrong with the UN today. Annan embraces the idea of reform, but the entire thing is viewed as a political concession to the US, instead of a needed fix to the existing real problems. The quote from the French at the end in particular (“They may be going too far in trying to please Washington. The UN is not only about the US.”) shows this all too clearly: the reforms that the US is pushing for (like focusing on the problem with terrorism and eliminating massive bureaucratic corruption) are seen as only political ends for the US alone, instead of truly needed fixes.
Hopefully the reforms will actually work, despite what seems to be wrong motives behind them.
Iraqi RPGs
Saturday, March 19th, 2005Now we know where all of the Iraqi’s RPGs have been recently. They were being shot at this guy. I’m impressed: it took until the 24th paragraph (out of 26) for the Guardian to shoehorn something in about how “nasty” the Iraq war is. And even that was by a historian, not the soldier himself, or even his family.
Via Power Line.