Weblog

2000-08-31

• Cato commentary on a really dumb Postal Service idea
• Self-Help Success
• The army calls the shots in Turkey
• Excuse me, but where are you going with that kidney?
• HS football in Oklahoma is a major social force

2000-08-30

• Joe Lieberman is closer to Strobe Talbot than any moderate on foreign affairs
• The bbc must be reading my weblog! :)
• Trouble for Ecuador, and maybe Latin America more broadly
• Canadian government rams fishing boats

2000-08-29

• Cool and Not
• The Engines of Our Ingenuity
• The Clinton-Gore Foreign Policy team finds that gun control doesn't work
• Events like this make me glad I'm not working in academia
• Everything Russian is falling apart
• You never know what might turn up in your fish and chips

2000-08-28

• Can Gore build a winning coalition solely of interest groups?
• A 1999 African coup is described by the instigators as an "unfortunate incident" (requested by Callie)
• Colombia is disintegrating
• A journalist distills Nietzsche to a junior high reading level *sigh*
• How Republicans lost the Golden State
• Libya attempts to rehabilitate its image (although a better way would be to stop sponsoring terrorism)
• Whaling Sanctions?! It's time to fire the Clinton/Gore Foreign Policy Team in November
• Revisionist Memories of the Schnellenberger-OU football era
• Happy Birthday Dad

2000-08-27

• The election-year DoofusWatch (contributed by my mom)
• I wish I had coined the phrase "just another left-wing bully"
• Along with Kaplan, one of the best journalists on foreign affairs
• If Gore won't have me, I'll take my campaign style to Nigeria!
• The best search engines that nobody's using
• What information to trust: the problem of studying foreign affairs
• Progress: China turns its attention from evil capitalists to cybersquatters

2000-08-26

• Mr. Breese returns to the web
• I guess the truth hit home: Why Jaffo was gone for a while....
• Opera: The web's most highly compliant browser (and small and fast!)
• Enigma: A free, tiny, fast, highly-compliant internet browser
• Ripping the WNBA: a liberal news site sounds like Jim Rome
• The result of Clinton/Gore Arms Control
• Another reason to fire Clinton/Gore and their Pentagon in November
• An Indian Ragnar Danneskjold?
• In Algeria, "No reason has been given" = "the military leadership decided"
• Why are Soviet... err, Russian troops guarding the Afghan-Tajik border?

2000-08-25

• Cartoon characters' political ideologies, passed on by Jonni (blar!)
• Re: my 24 August journal entry, How to have fun with AT&T
• Postmodern INS: We send Elian back, but consider asylum based on gay transvestitism!
• Perils of being a democrat in a second-rate tyranny

2000-08-24

• Houston alternative weekly exposes Organic Foods (and offends a constituency?)
• Robert Kaplan on Pakistan
• Why Al Gore should scare the hell out of the Bushies
• First the U.S. Flag, now computer code: What is free speech?
• Al Gore would call this a risky gun scheme, in his own state even!
• McDonald's Appeases Animal Rights Groups
• Hemingway + the Dallas Cowboys = Dumb Sports Column
• A really snazzy page on Ballistic Missile Defense

2000-08-23

• A de facto weekly weblog of Houston media idiocy!
• We only meant to beat the hell out of him!
• Did anyone nominate this guy for the 1999 Darwin Awards?
• A GREAT journal entry about how to treat people
• Compatibility chart illustrates why I say Netscape Sucks!