Month August 2008

Our bi-partisan foreign policy in Georgia

This is not some faux-conflict that was ginned up by John McCain and the neoconservatives as some kind of electoral season strategy. And, even if it was (and it’s not) it’s gone far beyond that now. I can hear the…

Word

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” — Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Dave Barry returns

Just in time for the Olympics (and the election, no doubt) He’s in Beijing now. There are a lot of ignorant, narrow-minded, uninformed and just plain stupid people who will tell you that the Beijing Opera is weird and boring.…

Schwarzenegger sues controller to force pay cuts

Schwarzenegger directed that the pay of nearly 140,000 rank-and-file employees be cut to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour. About 30,000 management employees would be paid $455 a week, and another 8,000 workers, mostly doctors and attorneys, would…

Windows Vista security ‘rendered useless’ by researchers

Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system. By taking advantage of the way that browsers, specifically Internet Explorer, handle active scripting and .NET objects,…