Once upon a time, there lived a plodding tortoise and an excitable hare.  Now, as it happens, the two parties didn’t know each other very well—running, as they did, in different social circles—nor did they have occasion to interact in any truly substantive way, though both lived to be quite long in the tooth.  Consequently, the two never seriously debated, and so they never raced—meaning that the wisdom of a

My laptop, a 3-year old hp pavilion zd7000 (which I’ve twice had repaired after thinking it was dead), is now, officially, on its last legs.  In fact, I doubt very much it will last the week. Because I do nearly all of my blogging on my laptop (I still have a Mac G5 desktop), I’m going to need a replacement.  And because I haven’t been following along with developments in

At something called the Daily Gut.  Looks interesting. A taste: INSTAPUNDIT SAYS HILLARY IS ELECTABLE Here. Therefore, I think so too! That’s how it works, or so I’m told by people who devote a lot of time and energy to disliking Glenn Reynolds. (It’s a cottage industry!) Because all bloggers you don’t agree with must agree with each other 100% of the time, right? Ha Ha!  Poor guy. . .

In the comments to yesterday’s post on Nibras Kazimi’s New Yor Sun article, Karl excerpts what I think is an important addendum to Kazimi’s op-ed from professor of strategy and policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s Monterey Program, Donald Stoker.  In a Foreign Policy web exclusive, “Insurgencies Rarely Win – And Iraq Won’t Be Any Different (Maybe)”, Stoker writes: The cold, hard truth about the Bush administration’s strategy of

Everybody thinks that sixty-nine is all cool and stuff, but I’ll bet they can’t do it either.  I mean, how can you concentrate on what you’re supposed to be doing?