thinkness - March 2003 Archives

March 2003

War: still hell - This is the best article I've seen yet describing the war. Humanizing, brutal, and absolutely petrifying. This must come as a surprise to Richard Perle -- increasingly looking like idiot of the year -- who predicted that the role of... Posted in | 9 Trackbacks | 234 Comments
Enron Smackdown - FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee, released a study last week showing that Enron and other energy traders really did manipulate the energy market during Cali's 2001 energy crisis. Apparently, some municipal power companies also got into the act. Barbara... Posted in political currents | 16 Trackbacks | 468 Comments
Is there a new Atlantic alliance forming? - Is there a new Atlantic alliance forming? NYT: "Seals Clear Mines in Vital Harbor" San Jose Mercury News: "Dolphins help Navy clear mines from harbor" It's sorta a cute picture if you can get over the mines and war part:... Posted in | 0 Trackbacks | 157 Comments

first blip #1 - first blip #1 Yesterday while at a conference I saw the delineation of a very useful distinction that will form the basis of my first "first blip" -- it's a new department I'm making. This department [the second -- the... Posted in | 1 Trackbacks | 146 Comments

deep regret #1 - deep regret #1 This is the story that convinced me I would eventually launch some kind of catalog of this one particularly heinous type of insult to the human race as well as to Truth, as a sort of Platonic... Posted in language | 12 Trackbacks | 220 Comments
Welcome to the chronic - Okay, I'm going to launch a whole shiny new part of my blog now. It's called "the chronic". In thinking about making a blog, I realized that there are a few types of posts that I would be making fairly... Posted in | 3 Trackbacks | 173 Comments

Old lessons should die hard - Remember that part of Die Hard when our hero Sgt John McClane -- beaten nearly to a pulp, feet shredded by glass shards -- finally gets face-to-face with international man of terrorism Hans Gruber? McClane is perfectly ready to shoot... Posted in political currents | 0 Trackbacks | 155 Comments

TNR scores - TNR's good post on the dynamic scoring thing. I'm ordinarily too bored by financial/economic news to really care too much, and this isn't the biggest deal in the world, but it's just another part of federal policy that's becoming increasingly... Posted in political currents | 1 Trackbacks | 247 Comments
Air Force One is now, like the House, serving ... - Air Force One is now, like the House, serving freedom toast. I find it more funny than scary but, then again, my home's not getting bombed by the US...... Posted in political currents | 2 Trackbacks | 229 Comments

What's a budget? - I don't know why I just made a long, involved post about some economic hoonanny and I doubly don't know why I'd do it again. Actually, this one's short. I'm just annoyed at the humongous budget deficit [yeah, that again]... Posted in political currents | 16 Trackbacks | 230 Comments
A big, steaming pile of mendacity - A big, steaming pile of mendacity has been coming down the pike for the past couple of months and is just now spilling out of the congressional sewer pipe. The Congressional Budget Office is now using "dynamic scoring" to estimate... Posted in political currents | 2 Trackbacks | 205 Comments
Take 'er out fer a spin - Okay, this is my first post here. The maiden voyage of Thinkness. [The blog may very well soon be re-christened if I have nightmares about that being a bad name. It's good enough to start with.] This blog is going... Posted in | 5 Trackbacks | 202 Comments