A debate has been raging in the blogworld recently about using torture on Al-Qaeda members. Here are some of the posts on the topic: No Conclusions: Volokh Conspiracy For: Oliver Willis, The Agitator Against: CalPundit, Unqualified Offerings, Light of Reason, Path of the Paddle, Head Heeb. I would especially like to quote from Head Heeb… Continue reading Torture
Year: 2003
Iraq War
While Jonathan Edelstein, Josh Marshall and Kevin Drum were pro-war and have major misgivings now, I have been trying to move in the opposite direction. I was very skeptical about Gulf War II initially. Not because it would be a quagmire during the war itself, rather because of what would come after the war. Driving… Continue reading Iraq War
No Blogging over the weekend
I haven’t been posting as much as I would have liked to as I had some personal errands to take care of at home. Anyway, I am driving back to school over the weekend. So, there won’t be any blogging before Monday.
Us at My Brother-in-law’s Wedding
Me in a sari at the wedding in Karachi…
Confederate Flag
One of the good things to come as a result of the patriotism expressed by people after the terrorist attacks of September 11 has been the large number of US flags on display everywhere. I like it especially since now it seems to me that Union flags outnumber Confederate flags in rural Georgia (since probably… Continue reading Confederate Flag
Definitely Broken
You are 33% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important… Continue reading Definitely Broken
Conspiracy Theories
CalPundit wonders about Steven Den Beste’s sanity: Several weeks ago, weary of his futile efforts to understand the French psyche, Steven Den Beste announced that he had exhausted all other logical possibilities and come up with the only possible remaining reason why the French continue to oppose our war with Iraq: they have supplied banned… Continue reading Conspiracy Theories
Talking Dog’s Dog Run
The Talking Dog has been going through the massive project of commenting on every single one of the links on his blogroll, the Dog Run, and assigning a dog breed to each one. His blogroll is long and extensive and his comments have been pithy and useful. I have been introduced to quite a lot… Continue reading Talking Dog’s Dog Run
Military Solution to Terrorism
The Talking Dog, commenting on the recent suicide bombing in Israel, talks about the ability of terrorists to act despite military action: Israel can militarily crush all of its enemies combined these days, (possibly including Saddam Hussein), but it cannot stop every single Palestinian or Israeli Arab from this type of attack. Better disguises and… Continue reading Military Solution to Terrorism
INS Prevented me from Blogging Yesterday
Yes, that’s true because I wasted a full day at an INS office. And all because of a mistake by INS. What happened was that my fingerprints on an INS document (done by INS officials themselves) were not identifiable. Why didn’t the INS officer who got those fingerprints checks them? I have no idea. Anyway,… Continue reading INS Prevented me from Blogging Yesterday