This will have repercussions: Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here). Davidson gave the template code away to anyone who wanted to …
Archives for March 2007
Bad News For Tony Snow
The White House spokesman’s cancer has returned and spread to his liver. Given the staggering progress that mankind has made in controlling the world and our own bodies, to feel as powerless as we often are against this illness is maddening. For a review of some recent advances, seethis post that I put up during …
Is This How It Starts
I can’t be alone in worrying that this is how the next war is going to start: Britain hopes that diplomacy will win the release of 15 sailors and marines detained by Iran but is prepared to move to a “different phase” if not, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday. Britain and the United States …
The Greatest Web Video EVER
Via Ezra Klein, this clip from BloggingheadsTV featuring Garance Franke-Ruta and Ann Althouse. This video clip is just spectacular for several reasons, but the Althouse meltdown that starts at the five minute mark (over a controversy I had never even heard of until today) is particularly delightful, especially after having just listend to her explain …
Damage Control Mode
Centipedes and scandals. Revisit a short vignette that I wrote about a week ago: I really hate centipedes. Spiders are cool, but there’s something about centipedes that drives me up the wall. So when those long-legged house centipedes show up in my bathroom I don’t want to get close enough to squash them. Instead I …
The Nuclear RPG
Not really, but the impact that a new Chinese weapon can potentially have on our force posture in Iraq is not that far off. Jane’s reveals that China’s Xinshidai Company is churning out thermobaric warheads for the venerable RPG-7. Thermobaric explosives are ‘volumetric’ – the explosion comes from a cloud rather than a point source, …
Pleading The Fifth
Gonezo’s lawyer won’t testify before Congress. WASHINGTON — Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday. “The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate …