March 29, 2006
'Another Corner Turned' - 02:14 PM“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.” Riverbend, an Iraqi blogger in Baghdad, reports that...
March 27, 2006
'Culture Talk II: The Bloggening' - 04:28 PMMy good friend Andy at the Great Concavity plopped a massive comment on my Culture Talk post, and he's also posted it on his blog, thus my similarly lengthy reply gets its own separate post as well....
March 26, 2006
'Additions' - 08:54 PMJust a quick note for all those of you who only come here for my exquisite wit and insight - the list on the left has changed a bit this semester. I've added some more international news sites to the...
'Culture Talk' - 12:32 PM
Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology at Harvard, tackles the problem of young-black-male disconnection from society in today's New York Times: SEVERAL recent studies have garnered wide attention for reconfirming the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths from the American...
March 21, 2006
'Who's Bad?' - 05:44 PMMatt Yglesias, another blogger I heart a lot, is currently embroiled in a bit of a squabble with other lefty bloggers and his commenters over his statement that George Bush is not, in fact, the worst president ever, and not...
'My Charming Naivete' - 11:10 AM
I had mixed feelings last night when I read this NY Times article: Mr. Bush recounted how American and Iraqi forces initiated a major military offensive against the insurgents last fall, including the construction of an eight-foot dirt wall around...
March 20, 2006
'Three Years' - 09:04 PMFantastic. This NY Times article hits just about every major note of the Iraq War debacle in the opening sentence: On the third anniversary of a war that they once expected to be over by now, President Bush and senior...
'Sull of a Gun' - 03:24 PM
Against my better judgement, I actually like Andrew Sullivan. He's a self-professed conservative who has (to varying extents) actually stood up and denounced the crap that the Bush Administration has pulled these past several years. He's proof that it is...
'The Circle of Mistrust' - 07:16 AM
Bruce Bartlett talks to Andrew Sullivan: I have never understood why so many people — both inside and outside the administration — continue to give Bush so much loyalty. I can only conclude that it is borne more from fear...
March 10, 2006
'Iraq: The Model' - 03:21 PMStephen Biddle is my professor for Analytical Techniques for Military Policy class this semester, wherein we learn the various modeling techniques used in the defense analysis field. In the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs, he tackles a modeling problem...
March 02, 2006
'A Knife on the Table' - 07:24 PMLaura Rozen of War and Piece drags a bracing editorial out from behind the TimesSelect wall: From January 2004 to January 2005, I served in various places in Iraq (including Abu Ghraib) as an Army interrogator. Following orders that I...
'What's Up With the Blogs?' - 10:40 AM
What my rounds of the blogosphere produced today: AmericaBlog is all over the new Katrina-briefing videos, and notes a disturbing new force-deployment tactic in Iraq. Andrew Sullivan is rocking the religious zealotry angle, taking on both Christian and Islamic fundamentalists....