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Thought and line of the moment
An interesting thought from Jesse Walker at Reason’s Hit and Run
But is there anyone in the country who wouldn’t be delighted to learn that the forces behind 9/11 are based in Washington, D.C.? That the enemy is not some exotic conspiracy of mysteriously motivated foreigners who speak impenetrable languages and fade easily into an alien landscape, but a familiar group of Republicans with Middle American accents who would be ousted the moment their cabal came to light? The Bush-did-it theory lends itself to a tidy movie ending, a conclusion far preferable to the endless bloody soap opera we’ve landed in instead.
There are many reasons I don’t believe the president plotted 9/11. The biggest is that I’m just not optimistic enough to think the problem could be eliminated that easily.
But the real winner is in the comments (they’re quite snarky over there these days) with
… and I think we’ve ‘turned the corner’ again, too. Considering how many times we’ve turned the corner in Iraq, I suspect that the country is shaped like a gigantic four-dimensional dodecahedron.
I think 50 years from now all of this will be seen as a negative function of technology and communications more than anything else.
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It’s that special day again
It’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
As I’m sure you can imagine from the low blog volume, I’ve been quite busy lately.
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Nifty Firefox fix
The “Unresponsive Script Fix“. Quite handy.
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If at first you don’t succeed, you’re not Chuck Norris.
Via Mark, this would seem to be the definitive list of Norrisisms….
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A new blog in our midst
My favorite CD store, Decatur CD has joined the blogosphere. They’ve always had the best email newsletter of any I’ve signed up for and now they reveal that they have the new Neko Case album in, though not for sale. It comes out March 7th evidently. Oh well.
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Now this is interesting
I will laugh and laugh and laugh if true.
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Referrals
Oddly enough, this InstaChuckNorris from Parrotline is the largest referrer to Jargondatabase.com this month but a wide margin.
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Thursday rapid fire
- Telegraph fun
- Bluegrass everywhere but here
- It washes, dries and irons! All in one device.
- The Yahoo Ajax blog.
- More Ajax I need to get around to understanding.
- An interesting article about Saddam and WMD. It’s odd how no one seems to be interested in what happened to the WMD. While it’s been proven they’re not there, the details of the removal are absent.
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Conspiracy thoughts
If I were partial to the intentional fallacy, I would think this:
- Dick Cheney does his interview with the MSM/Fox the same day that more Abu Ghraib photos come out. The photos don’t actually add anything to the case mind you, but they are more fuel on the fire. The Cheney story seems to have trumped the photo story.
- The whole cartoon controversy is ginned up by the establishment regimes in the middle east as a way to shut out Western influence. By making a mountain out of a molehill via artful use of rent-a-mobs they can freak out the West by seeming totally crazy by Western standards and only a little crazy by Middle Eastern standards. This puts pressure on economic and cultural ties between the two regions, and will do a lot to pressure European governments to limit immigration from the Muslim countries. This keeps Western thought out and lets the weird combination of monarchies and theocracies in power.
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Not in the Valentines spirit
Dukhtaran-e-Millat activists burn Valentine’s Day cards in Kashmir
Nearly two dozen black-veiled Muslim women stormed gift and stationery shops Friday in Kashmir, burning Valentine’s Day cards and posters to protest a holiday they say imposes Western values on Muslim youth.