Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Read This...
...and cry. It is a wonderful "coming home" piece by a soldiers recently returned from Iraq, from yesterday's Wall Street Journal.
...and worry.
...and grow angry.
...and worry.
Newsweek's technology columnist Steven Levy has declared that the lack of "diversity" among the web's most popular blogs requires corrective action. The goal? A blogosphere whose elite tier "reflects the actual population" ? i.e., where female- and minority-written blogs are found among the top 100 blogs in the same proportion as females and minorities are found in the general population.Thank goodness I am not a top 100 blog -- I can't deal with quotas. Besides how are we going to force readers to certain blogs?
...and grow angry.
"We referred to this other analyst at the CIA, whom I'll try and call Mr. Smith here, I hope I can keep that straight," Bolton said at one point.It's official -- Dick Lugar has left the reservation. I knew Dick when he was mayor of Indianapolis, I'd attend men's prayer breakfast with him. He was a pretty smart guy, but this is just the latest in a number of less than stellar moments recently. Based on my trip to Indy last week, he may not make through the next election, which is not really good becasue no Republican will oppose him, so that means a Dem.
Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both mentioned a name, Fulton Armstrong, that had not previously come up in public accounts of the intelligence flap.
