Shorter William Safire
Rumsfeld Should Stay: Rumsfeld should not resign because he symbolizes the Admnistration's willingness to persevere in ignorance of reality; were he to quit it would encourage people to believe that the Bush administration makes mistakes and/or admits them.
From Talking Points Memo:
There is chatter in Pakistani intelligence circles that the US has let the Pakistanis know that the optimal time for bagging 'high value' al Qaida suspects in the untamed Afghan-Pakistani border lands is the last ten days of July, 2004.
But of course.
Memo to self: soon as you get done worrying about oil prices, start worrying about food prices. Memo to John Kerry: it's all the fault of the Chinese. Memo to Brad: yes, yes, that's a joke, really, I know trade is good for everyone in the long run (which I believe to be some time after November). No manholes in Coral Gables, so I don't have to worry about falling down one.
Karl Auerbach of the CaveBear Blog has been thinking about Google's GMail service and has figured out a way to turn the tables on it, Manipulating Google's Gmail for fun and profit.
I'm not sure how practical this is, but I like the spirit of it.
According to Milblogger Citizen Smash, one of the stories I linked to below is false: there is no general order preventing soldiers in Iraq from using e-mail, but rather a localized rule to stop GI's helping themselves to private bandwidth. According to Smash it's an example of how rumors get started:
It would appear that KBR contractors at Ginmar’s camp had set up their own wireless Internet system, and some industrious GIs have since set up their own unofficial Internet café, piggy-backing off the KBR system. But now the KBR folks are upset that the soldiers are slowing down their access (poor babies), so they’ve decided to end the “free ride.”
Not, he says, a general rule blocking access. Rather, the general rule was and remains that e-mail access is spotty, and mostly a matter of private enterprise.
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