November 9, 2005
News And Response
The CIA has asked that the lastest leak about secret CIA prisons be investigated.
As Billy Idol would say, more more more!!!
White House Staffers to take Ethics Class.
Hey, the business solution to ethics problems. Michael Sears once observed that if you weren't ethical before you took an ethics class, you wouldn't be ethical afterwards -- and he ought to know!
Ahmad Chalabi will meet with Secretary Rice during trip to US
You don't have to hold you're nose, but I'd wash my hands afterwards Condi. Just remember, an ambassador is an ethical man who lies for his country (hey, that must be why Joe Wilson is out, he wasn't ethical and his lies were only self serving).
US-EU Stalemate Persists Over Farm Subsidies.
Let me be perfectly clear: end farm subsidies now. Let's not bicker over whose is bigger, cut them both off, completely.
Crude Oil Falls Near a Three-Month Low as U.S. Supply Increases
What, it wasn't Bill O'Reilly holding the feet of Big Oil to the fire that dropped the price of gas? Maybe we'd be better off listening to Adam Smith on tape than listening to radio or TV pundits.
Gates Orders Web Services Emphasis.
I thought MS would already have been all over web services, what with that marvelous free browser of theirs that giving away free didn't hurt consumer choice, and especially after Chairman Bill changed that chapter in his book The Road Ahead from Internet Schminternet to I Guess The Internet Might End Our Monopoly So We Better Crush Our Competitors There First
Europe Space Agency Launches Venus Probe
Looking for love in all the wrong places.... The good news is that spaceflight has become routine, the bad news is spaceflight has become routine.
Scientists unearth earliest known Hebrew ABCs
From graphiti to scientific bonanza in 30 short centuries. How long before the scribblings here become worth writing about?
