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Merry Christmas

10:34 am on Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy Holidays to everyone.

RIP Majel Barrett Roddenberry

6:42 am on Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Roddenberry.com
Boldy Go

Pakistan, the ISI, Taliban and Al-Qaida

8:02 am on Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Strategy Page
These guys are not just “Taliban spies,” but Pakistani intelligence professionals that believe in Islamic radicalism.
The article gives a pretty good overview of how these factions relate to each other and how the history behind them.

An idea whose time has finally come

9:05 am on Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Bacon Flavored Chocolate!
(via my little brother)

Detroit Bailout

8:38 am on Wednesday, December 10, 2008

washingtonpost.com
The agreement, which is set for a vote in the House today, calls for the government to speed $15 billion in emergency loans to the car companies as soon as next week, and for President Bush to immediately name a car czar to oversee the bailout. The companies would be required by March 31 to [...]

Illinois governor taken into custody

8:53 am on Tuesday, December 9, 2008

CNN.com
“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement. “They allege that Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States Senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly [...]

Mumbai

8:17 am on Wednesday, December 3, 2008

I haven’t blogged on this previously, since I was away from the computer when the actual events happened and since have simply been trying to make sense of what it means, both from direct geo-political consequences and as perhaps a signal for what we can expect in the future.
This article, from Asia Times Online does [...]