International Law

?Prancing around as Hofstadterian faux-warriors waging Civilization Wars?

Posted on February 18, 2008
I’m getting tired of reading Glennzilla posts that I wish I’d written. And of course, their Dear Leader is especially accomplished at this kind of prancing.

What?s a journalist?

Posted on February 18, 2008
Except for people who obviously fit the traditional definition, I have no idea any longer. But more importantly, I don’t really care. And I bet that kids who are growing up with the Internet care even less. I bet they intuitively understand how to evaluate information online across a variety of criteria, [...

2.1 million and 1 reasons

Posted on February 17, 2008
from Norman Spector. Via Kinsella: “they need to keep doing their job”. Yes, they do.

Be Afraid. Be Very, Very Afraid.

Posted on February 15, 2008
If you’re like me, and as my friend Mathew says, I know I am, you’ll find this two-fer of prognostication about the mortgage crisis from Gretchen Morgenson and Eliot Spitzer to be, well, pretty darned alarming.

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Surrender, Dorothy

Posted on February 15, 2008
Enough with the flailing and wailing. Enough, already.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here

Posted on February 15, 2008
Who would have thought giving people something beautiful that solves a problem and meets a need would be so baffling to an entire industry?

?Can It Get Worse Than This For The GOP??

Posted on February 11, 2008
Yes, it can: visible fringe Republicans who are more concerned about their celebrity than their party - Limbaugh, Ingraham and Coulter - are telling Republicans not to vote for their presumptive nominee. That will do wonders for the turnout.

Yahoo Fiddles

Posted on February 09, 2008
Yahoo!’s expected response can’t be taken as anything more than tin-cup begging for more, to my mind. Great entertainment, maybe. But to me this feels like a dog-at-the-dinner-table moment - you know, when everyone in a room knows what’s going on except for one person...

Afghanistan is ?under-resourced?

Posted on February 08, 2008
When the Manley Report on Afghanistan was released I was flabbergasted that it suggested that 1,000 troops could make a difference to, well, anything. It was a policy without a principle. And that suggestion seemed to me a completely dishonest or ill-informed representation of the mission...

?Someone is about to have a complicated afternoon?

Posted on February 08, 2008
This could get ugly.

Obama: Hope, Redemption, Salvation and Faith

Posted on February 08, 2008
Shelby Steele on Obama (not yet online): “we don’t yet know him”, and “a surprising degree of emptiness”. Something of an overstatement, but still generally on the mark. But nonetheless it’s extraordinary to see a media phenom turn into a mythic figure before our eyes - never have so many given so much [...

Substance and Issues

Posted on February 08, 2008
Bill Moyers’ conversations with Kathleen Hall Jamieson are fascinating discussions about how the Presidential campaign is being run. Hillary’s tears, Mitt’s jeers, campaign finance; there is a lot here.

Is Torture in Afghanistan Jails Endemic, or Epidemic?

Posted on February 07, 2008
I must be missing something in this Globe story. The headline says that lawyers for Amnesty International and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association claim that torture in Afghanistan jails is epidemic, while the article (written by the CP) says they claim it’s endemic...

?The search for America?s most confused voters?

Posted on February 06, 2008
This is in part a very sad story, but reading it I can’t help wonder, given the splits in the demographics for US Presidential election primaries, which way the dumb vote would have broken.

Read Warren Kinsella

Posted on February 06, 2008
Whatever else you’re reading these days, you must read Warren Kinsella. He is pouring it on, and it’s important.

We Won?t Get Fooled Again

Posted on February 04, 2008
I can still remember first hearing the phrase “compassionate conservative”. It was coming from Karen Hughes, and I was quite certain at the time that it was a lie, calculated to assuage liberal Republican and conservative Democrat anxiety about the hardship that social conservatism might cause...

?All You Need Is Hate?

Posted on February 04, 2008
Yes, exactly.

Defending Against Mulroney-Schreiber

Posted on February 03, 2008
Looks like the Tories have figured out how to defend themselves from blowback over Mulroney-Schreiber.

You?re Doing a Heck of a Job, Khalid

Posted on February 03, 2008
From the Globe. Shame.

Diane Francis on the Bell Buyout

Posted on February 03, 2008
As the deal wobbles, Francis sharpens her knife: “The deal should be scrapped and Bell’s management and directors should be replaced without bonuses.” It won’t happen - established interests will fight like cornered weasels to protect their cozy sinecures - but it should.

Two Americas

Posted on February 03, 2008
The Clinton-Obama contest in California presents a different ‘two Americas’: The poll also highlights the dramatic split the Clinton-Obama battle has caused in the state’s Democratic Party. Rich versus poor, young versus old, liberal versus conservative, men versus women: Each of those groups has lined up on different sides of the primary divide...

?Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo?

Posted on February 01, 2008
Wow.

?The corps was guilty of ?gross incompetence.??

Posted on February 01, 2008
Here’s yet another story on the US Army Corps of Engineers’ responsibility for the flooding in New Orleans after Katrina for the mainstream media and the Bush Administration to ignore.

Trouble in Paradise

Posted on January 31, 2008
Social networking sites are boring their users and their advertisers. The shelf-life of retail internet experience keeps shrinking - probably tracking diminishing attention spans. What’s next - the nano-net?

Desperation

Posted on January 31, 2008
Fair or not, this Romney reaction is looking like sour grapes and more than a little desperate.

U.S. Election Now in the Bag

Posted on January 30, 2008
It’s sure starting to look that way. We don’t yet know who the Democrats will put forward, but McCain is going to be hard to stop, and so many conservatives will now be bent on trashing him that Republicans will stay away from the polls in droves and the Democrats will win, regardless...

The One Man Who Can Give Republicans the White House

Posted on January 30, 2008
is back.

Fair Copyright for Canada - Toronto Meet & Greet

Posted on January 29, 2008
Join us February 12 at the Gladstone for a Fair Copyright for Canada - Toronto Chapter Meet & Greet.

Facebook, be afraid. Be very, very afraid

Posted on January 29, 2008
Something I’ve heard said several times in recent weeks: “Since I started using Twitter, I’m never on Facebook anymore”.

New Obama Poster

Posted on January 26, 2008
What a remarkable piece of work. How extraordinary to cultivate this depth of passion. I know the polls have been calling this for ages, but it’s still remarkable to watch the Obama campaign immolate its opponents in South Carolina. Very soon, the reality of what is happening is going to sink in, and a [...

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