Brett Thomas read Tuesday's item about a link on San Francisco's Marina Middle School's web site to a porn site. Thomas called the school to report the link and tells what happened. Punch line: it took the school 36 hours to fix the problem, and they couldn't just remove the link. They took the whole site down! I hate to think how they would fix a more complicated problem, and how long it would take. Marina is my neighborhood middle school. God forbid I should ever have to send David there.
Listen to NPR's Annie Garrels' priceless report from Baghdad [audio]: A group of Greek anti-war activist physicians try to organize an anti-American demonstration, but find few Iraqis who are willing to join them. Instead they find Iraqi physicians blaming the shortage of medicines not on the UN sanctions, but on the Iraqi Ministry of Health. Garrels reports that Iraqis seem to want Saddam's cruel and corrupt regime to end, but they are (justifiably) concerned whether Bush has the interests of the Iraqi people at heart. This is in no way an argument against use of force for regime change. It is an argument for the Administration to continue to speak and act like the liberators that we are.
An appropriate punishment for this man? He should have to spend the rest of his life in prison, wearing these.
Nancy Pelosi's reaction to Bush's State of the Union address included this quote
"If you don't have a job, and you don't have access to health care, and you see your retirement savings fading away . . . you have a different picture of the state of the union than the rosy one that the president might paint."Translation: "We Democrats believe in taxing the industrious to subsidize the indolent, and in squeezing responsible investors to support those who blew their retirements on pets.com"
Dilettantish Asian expert Tom Plate blasts George Bush for causing the North Korea nuclear crisis and says that the only approach that ever made sense to deal with North Korea would have been "an endlessly patient engagement policy". But wasn't it the Pollyannaish engagement by Carter and Clinton that allowed the Dear Leader to launch his nuclear program in the first place?
Like Father Like Son: Unindicted killer and Harvard expellee Edward Kennedy doesn't want to get off his bar stool long enough to read the evidence that Saddam Hussein is an incorrigible problem.
The UN is taking the right steps to disarm Saddam Hussein ... That's why I intend to introduce a resolution to require the President to come back to Congress and present convincing evidence of an imminent threat before we send troops to war with Iraq.Kennedy seems to have inherited more than just his towering libido from his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. The elder Kennedy, as FDR's pre-war ambassador to Great Britain, argued against confronting Hitler. Teddy should learn instead from his late brother John, from whom he inherited his Senate seat. JFK's book Why England Slept blames pacifists and proponents of unilateral disarmament for causing Britain to delay preparations for the ineluctable confrontation with Hitler. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 30, 2003 04:18 PM