Ars Technica: Georgia Cyberwar Not Military?

Seems that some Russian hacker superpatriots might be responsible. Would that they’d done a better job programming the software I once used at work.

Gold Frothings

If you’re an economist or wanna-be and are still ranting about the demise of the gold standard 75 years on, you pretty much forfeit the right to be taken seriously.

Cuban Slide

Peter Gammons over at ESPN has backed up his on-air comments about David Stern, Mark Cuban and Cuban’s bid for the Chicago Cubs with a column explaining why he thinks Cuban would be good for the game. Unfortunately, it’s pay-walled, so we only get tidbits. The most interesting:
There is increasing speculation that Sam Zell, the chairman [...]

Not So Peaceful

The Russians appear to have a loose definition of the cease-fire terms in Georgia, so Bush is sending in troops to deliver humanitarian aid. As the New York Times tells it, there’s a lot of loose talk going around. From our side, we get this:
On a day when the White House evoked emotional memories of [...]

Nyet to Self-Determination

Kevin Drum has an interesting post up, building on an LA Times op-ed, on the question of how the U.S. should address separatist movements. My bias up front: I think Woodrow Wilson made but one of his many horrid mistakes when he put this country’s weight behind the concept of ethnic self-determination. As the authors [...]

Ted Rall, Eviscerated

Remember Ted Rall? Left-wing cartoonist, made a name for himself post-9/11 by slagging on the victims’ families, then became the target of every right-of-center blog in the ’sphere until he lost his platform? Well, he’s back and he’s still bad, in the traditional sense of the word bad, meaning “something noxious.” But this time, it’s [...]

All Quiet in the Caucasus

Now that peace has kinda/sorta/maybe broken out between Russia and Georgia, the recriminations have begun. Most everybody’s getting it wrong.
Galrahn, heretofore on target, has gone off the deep end predicting an EU/French sellout and lamenting that Bush never brought a credible military threat to bear. His commenters properly note that we don’t have much at [...]

Why the MSM Ignores Certain Stories

Short answer: When they seem like a waste of time. Example: the one now going around that wonders why journos haven’t checked Obama’s draft-registration status when the registration law specifies that unregistered people aren’t eligible for executive-branch jobs. Never mind that the Constitution spells out the eligibility threshold for president, nowhere mentions draft status and nowhere [...]