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Archives for February 2007
Eat It, Colbert
Stephen Colbert fans, Onion editors take note: Wikipedia is a surprisingly reliable source of information. Three groups of researchers claim to have untangled the process by which many Wikipedia entries achieve their impressive accuracy (1, 2, 3). They say that the best articles are those that are highly edited by many different contributors. […] The …
Great Moments in Celebrity Blogging
I wish I had written this: Madonna getting upset with her daughter for dressing too slutty is like Mr. T getting upset with his son for pitying too many fools. I think there was a period in Madonna’s life where all she wore was spaghetti pasta and condoms. I give that two thumbs up.
Problem Solved!
Via the Nitpicker, we see everything has been taken care of at Walter Reed: Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to …
Attention Deficit Warfighting
Matthew Cole, writing for Salon.com, has a discouraging dispatch from an outpost in the border region between Afghanistan and tribal Pakistan. The article gives a useful sense of the daily grind in America’s “other” war, but take care to read the passages where US troops describe exactly why we are losing and may entirely lose …
The Iranian IEDs That Weren’t
Two separate news outlets have revealed the source of those shaped-penetrator super-IEDs that some anonymous official claimed could only come from Iran. Surprise, it wasn’t Iran. The work was done by Iraqis working with material supplied from places in the middle east that don’t lie directly to Iraq’s northeast. Free advice to anybody who took …
Why We Need a Third Party
Watch this video clip of a bunch of citizens attempting to have Patty Murray arrested for war crimes. Then ask yourself what would be worse as a politician. Being a Democrat and catering to these guys, or being a Republican and dealing with the Jesus creeps? I really don’t know. BTW- I loved the guy …