A nice story from the Washington Post: As undercover assignments go, posing as a teenage girl online to catch pedophiles has its share of challenges for the typical FBI agent. Should he ever capitalize words in instant messages? Is it okay to say you buy your clothes at 5-7-9? And what about Justin Timberlake? Is… Continue reading Teen IM
Year: 2003
Wedding
We are going to a friend’s wedding in Cape Cod. I won’t have internet access there. Blogging will resume after I return sunday night.
Sharia in NWFP
I am not in a mood to comment on the whole Sharia thing. The NWFP provincial assembly passed a Sharia law a few days ago. I found the following quote from the NWFP Law Minister to be really funny: “We will also make laws to persuade youngsters to obey their parents.” You can do that?
Treatment of Sept 11 Detainees
The Inspector General in the Department of Justice has issued a report criticizing the government conduct in detaining 762 people on suspicion of terrorism after September 11. According to the report, 491 people were arrested in New York and 70 in New Jersey. The largest number (254) were from Pakistan while 111 were from Egypt.… Continue reading Treatment of Sept 11 Detainees
Global Attitudes
I blogged some time ago on last year’s global attitudes survey here. Now, they have a new survey out (full report here, summary here). It seems that the trust between US and Europe has gone down as a result of the disagreement over the Iraq war. The view of the US is now less favorable,… Continue reading Global Attitudes
Burke Marshall, 1922-2003
Burke Marshall has died. Burke Marshall, the government’s legal strategist on civil rights in the era of freedom rides, the Birmingham church bombing and the March on Washington, died yesterday at his home in Newtown, Conn., near Danbury. He was 80. The cause was myelodysplasia, a bone marrow disorder, said his daughter Catie Marshall. As… Continue reading Burke Marshall, 1922-2003
Trackback Problems
I have “Trackback Auto-discovery” switched on for my blog. It was working fine in automatically pinging the weblogs I referred to. But it is not working any more. It does not even find the URLs to ping. Specifically it did not let me ping The Poor Man in the previous post. Does anyone any ideas… Continue reading Trackback Problems
The Poor Man at his best
The Poor Man is supposed to be on semi-vacation working on his thesis (like me), but he is at his funniest and snarkiest posting loads of material. I can excerpt it, so I am linking to all his recent posts. First, he makes fun of Republican whining over alleged prejudice and takes on the thin… Continue reading The Poor Man at his best
Salam Pax
Salam Pax was already a famous blogger. Then we heard that he’s becoming a columnist, writing biweekly for the Guardian starting this wednesday. And now Peter Maass tells us that Salam was his interpreter for a couple of weeks in Baghdad.
Eric Rudolph: Terrorist
Eric Rudolph, longtime fugitive and terrorist, was finally caught a couple of days ago. When Rudolph bombed the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA in 1996, I still was more than a year away from coming here. But Olympics are a big event and I heard all about the bombing and was probably in Atlanta… Continue reading Eric Rudolph: Terrorist