WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rails against Facebook, says it’s a spy tool for US government: “Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other and their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US Intelligence,” he said. “Facebook, …
Galt’s Gulch Must Be a Lonely Place
When we last heard from the producer of the mega-bomb movie Atlas Shrugged, he was blaming critics and considering “going on strike”. A few days later, he’s singing a different tune: As for making second and third installments of “Atlas Shrugged,” Aglialoro said he wouldn’t proceed until he had a more extensive marketing plan in …
Hitting Unsubscribe
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh issued an obviously sarcastic rant about the killing of bin Laden. Andrew Sullivan’s reaction was that Limbaugh was “going out of his way to celebrate Obama’s singular role”. Even after his readers alerted him that Limbaugh was being sarcastic, Sully added: Some readers seem to think Limbaugh is being sarcastic. I didn’t. …
Elections Have Consequences
Bush, five months after 9/11. “I just don’t spend that much time on him [bin Laden]”. McCain, in 2008: In July 2008, Larry King asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), “If you were president and knew that bin Laden was in Pakistan, you know where, would you have U.S. forces go in after him?” McCain said …
OBL Round-Up
For those of you who missed it last night, here are a few good links, starting with Obama’s speech. Where we found bin Laden: The courier and his brother were tracked to a massive, palatial compound built in 2005 at the end of a dirt road in an isolated and “affluent” suburb of Abbottabad favored …
100 Strangers
These shots are from a Flickr pool that challenges photographers to take 100 pictures of strangers, and post them with the story. I’ve been into photography for a long time, with varying levels of seriousness, but I don’t think I have the guts to walk up to 100 random individuals and ask to take their …
What Kevin Drum Said
I really can’t add much to this: Shall we roll the tape? Under Bush Sr., FEMA sucked. Under Clinton, FEMA was rehabilitated and turned into a superstar agency. Under Bush Jr., FEMA sucked again. Under Obama, FEMA’s doing great and responding quickly. I know, I know, we’re not supposed to politicize natural disasters. Not when …