What’s the alternative?
I've heard a lot of people say in recent weeks things like "Well, I know that Hussein does have the...
The weapons of war
This war may be fought with some relatively nontraditional weapons. Another piece from the Monitor: a set of articles about...
Court of world opinion
I gather that Sen. Robert Byrd is someone with whom I have many disagreements. Nonetheless, he's the only Senator I...
Other hearts in other lands
I think it was either the summer of 1994 or the summer of 1997. The Indigo Girls were performing at...
Politics and private life
Google News continues to be a much more interesting online source of world news than my previous standby, CNN. I'm...
Civilian casualties
The Iraq Body Count Database will be keeping a running total of "civilian deaths in Iraq resulting directly from military...
Sigh
Heh. Browser crashed after I clicked insert-entry button for last entry, so I assumed it didn't get posted. So I...
Productive
After dinner, went to café with Kate and we wrote for about 45 minutes before the café closed. Then we...
Mainstreaming
It occurred to me sometime in the past couple months (and I was reminded of it by Tim's mentioning that...
Playing with their words
Some notes on a notorious style monkey's leisure reading: I'm almost done reading Gardner's Year's Best SF from last year....
Francophobia
Webmaster Will, source of approximately 75% of all cool URLs, points to a cute Christian Science Monitor article titled "English...
Weather and housing
Heh. Bay Area guy sends Madison-area weather report to Madison-area brother ("Temperatures falling to near Zero late tonight will Combine...