At about this time every year when I was in college, my friend Todd Cohen used to complain about all the businesses that would wish everyone a "Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish friends!" It was the "to our Jewish friends" part that somehow got on his nerves. With that in mind, I was listening to a few tracks off of The Life and Times of Mike Fanning by Da … [Read more...] about Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel…
Defense Secretary Gates on Wikileaks
This sounds about right to me. It's from an email to Michael Yon from Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates: This is obviously a massive dump of information. First of all, I would say unlike the Pentagon Papers, one of the things that is important, I think, in all of these releases, whether it's Afghanistan, Iraq or the releases this week, is the lack of any … [Read more...] about Defense Secretary Gates on Wikileaks
On the WikiLeaks Mess
This WikiLeaks business is bringing out the stupid on all sides. Start with all the folks who have been applying the Secret classification to all these diplomatic messages. From what I'm reading, most of latest batch of documents is utterly routine and pretty boring. The U.S. government produces classified documents at an insane rate, and with a few exceptions--ongoing military … [Read more...] about On the WikiLeaks Mess
Scattershot 2010-11-27
Random shots around the web: Yet another reason why the U.N. is a joke. Why Ken Lammers should stay out of England. (Explanation) Why Canada's Human Rights Commission is a joke and why Patrick at Popehat should stay out of Canada. It looks like music piracy is now a matter of homeland security. Why I'm putting Jennifer in charge of Homeland Security if I'm ever elected … [Read more...] about Scattershot 2010-11-27
Infobleg – Suing Government Contractors?
I need to beg my legal readers for some information. I've been arguing with some guy in another blog's comments that if the airport passenger checkpoints were operated by private security firms instead of a government agency, we'd have a better chance of suing the screeners when they do something wrong. My argument is based on the fact that the TSA's employees benefit from … [Read more...] about Infobleg – Suing Government Contractors?