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Many of us have been wondering how long ’till the Iraq-enrinched cronies of Cheney & Co. would get their share of the New Orleans reconstruction pie. About two weeks, apparently. Blackwater private security forces have been deployed en masse to patrol New Orleans.
In fairness, there aren’t many companies in the world that can [...]

That was less painless than I expected. As you can see, I’ve tweaked the site a bit here. More changes are in the works for the next few weeks, so stay tuned. But for now, allow me to indulge in some blog geekery:
First, I upgraded the back-end to Movable Type 3.2. [...]

Nice article in Sunday’s NYT Business section by Ben Stein on conservation post-Katrina. He writes:
Second, we stand on the edge of an energy crisis. In this crisis, I think of two great sayings. One is an economics axiom, first stated to me by Peter M. Flanigan - a former high honcho of Dillon, Read; [...]

Via Jeff Jarvis, I see that Yahoo! has hired war correspondent Kevin Sites to report from the front lines at hotzone.yahoo.com. This is, I think the first time the company has hired a reporter of its own. This seems to me to be a rather dramatic shift. Wired magazine ran a story [...]

Kaus on Coulter:
P.S.: “Let’s concede that lack of competition never … increases efficiency.” What’s the “competition” for local government? Is there a competing State of Louisiana that I’m unaware of? Is government any less monopolistic at the state and local level?”
Ha.

“Only Nixon could go to China,” goes the old proverb. And, likewise, sometimes the most credible complaints are ones that come from within, not without. It’s why Democrats hate to get attacked by other Democrats — they know that it carries more weight than an attack by a Republican. It’s why John [...]

Got this from my Dad today, via a txt message:
lest we forget…

Four years later, we should ask: are we closer to the end or the beginning of this war? I’m going to read this tonight before I go to bed, and I hope it sheds some light. Looks like a downer of an [...]

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Josh Marshall has a full rundown on the various implications of this NY Times article, which seems to indicate that while hurricane victims were dying on national television, the Justice Department was debating the fine points of posse commitatus and worrying about whether it would look good to take command from a female governor. This [...]

Funny thread going on over at Kos right now… 278 comments and counting. Kos brought up his bad clutch in his Subaru and it got everyone talking. Are liberals more likely to drive standard transmissions? Anecdotally, I think so. A disproportional amount of my liberal friends drive stick. Hmm… [...]