...at the latest news aggregator patterned after the You-Know-Who report. It's Dilby News Monitor, a superb news aggregator set up just like the other one — but it seems acutely careful not to pitch a specific ideological line. You can go to it at any time and find it updated with the latest stories and links. It is truly habit forming. But it also takes the concept of … [Read more...] about Take A Peek…..

"Bonking Boeing boss sacked." Can't we send boring American headline writers to London on an exchange program? (Via Reason Express.) … [Read more...] about British headline writers are so much better

Washington Post reporter Mike Allen might have stuck his foot in his mouth in describing how reporters give a subtext to the usual "he said/she said" reporting style...OxBlog's David Adesnik has the details. … [Read more...] about Orphan Annie decoder ring would help too

Catblogging, recipe-blogging, drunk-blogging...now we're truly reached our lowest end. (Via Lost Remote.) … [Read more...] about Call it “blinging”

Your views on police powers after 9/11 might have been shaped not by your news consumption habits per se, but which medium you prefer. … [Read more...] about Don’t shoot the medium

Up to 3 years in prison for smoking pot in front of your kid? I'm not terribly averse to 3 strikes laws or similar limitations on too much judicial discretion, but once you start meting out jail time for essentially self-destructive behavior that may set a bad example for your kids, I'd say it does more to hurt than help the child's emotional development to have a missing … [Read more...] about Better parenting through prison

Do you ever get sick of people who proclaim how tolerant they are by telling you what they hate? It's even worse when it's a business describing its social conscience - in this case a hotel on the beautiful Oregon Coast, not far from where I grew up. … [Read more...] about Better tolerance through exclusion

Why do liberals (and some old-guard conservatives) hate Paul Wolfowitz so much? David Brooks gives the intellectual hawk his due and Jeff Jarvis seconds the congratulations to a man who has been "an ardent champion of freedom" going back 25 years, often when the realists in Republican administrations were rhetorically slapping friendly dictators on the back. Jarvis says … [Read more...] about Love the Wolf

The Bull Moose asks if it is time to revisit the idea of national service. As a 40 year old man, it is easy for me to say "yes, it is a good idea whose time has come again," but those who will have to bear the burden should think about both the costs and, equally important, the rewards. … [Read more...] about Back to the future?

...is it really everything it's cracked up to be in management circles? … [Read more...] about Outsourcing…

Have antismoking ads gotten any less lame since The Truth made us hate tobacco companies more than lung cancer? I'm skeptical of the new material. … [Read more...] about That old dude is so, like, evil

If news legend Walter Cronkite is smiling these days it's probably because he's finally saying what analysts and various news people have privately said for years: he was not happy being forced to retire and thought Dan Rather was a poor choice to replace him. That's putting it bluntly, but if you cut away the nicities, that's what's going on right now with Cronkite's comments … [Read more...] about Cronkite: Picking Rather Was A Poor Choice

The latest stirrings of political upheaval in the Middle East are happening...where? … [Read more...] about Iraq + Syria = ???

Steve Barnett is mildly amused at a bill proposed by an Illinois legislator to criminalize implanting a piece of jewelry in someone's eye, a procedure offered only by a Dutch clinic at the moment:Just remember, folks, it’s okay for a woman to choose to suck a fetus out of her own body, but nobody, and they mean nobody, can choose to put something in their own eye.I tend to be … [Read more...] about No more eye dangers!

...for the death of the intelligence agent involved in freeing the Italian journalist held hostage. At least one blogger feels that the public mourning in Italy over this single death is a condemnation of the leadership in the United States because of the lack of public mourning for the 1500+ deaths of American soldiers in the Iraq war and occupation. In democracies, however, … [Read more...] about There is public mourning in Italy…

Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh is excited by what he says is the first use of the word "terrorist" by Egypt's leading newspaper to describe an attack on Iraqi civilians by the insurgents. Still he thinks it's a typo, not a change of heart. (Via Iraq the Model.) I would add the possibility that Egypt is trying to regain some goodwill with America by changing their words if not … [Read more...] about Next they’ll say “Israel” instead of “occupied Palestine”

The recent furor generated by comments from the Federal Election Commission on weblogs linking to candidate web sites may have more to it than meets the eye. … [Read more...] about Hidden agenda?

President Bush has picked a new UN Ambassador...someone who is blunt-spoken, someone who has been a pointed critic of the UN in the past. No, Daniel Patrick Moynihan is no longer with us. But Bush's appointment of Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton first closer to the Moynihan model than the Adlai Stevenson model: President Bush has chosen Undersecretary of State John … [Read more...] about New US. Ambassador To The UN Should Make It Interesting…

Forget the demonstrations that toppled the Lebanese government demanding that Syrian forces get out of their country: Hezbollah, the militant Shiite Muslim movement, is calling for demonstrations to keep the hated Syrians in: BEIRUT, March 6 — The leader of Hezbollah, the militant Shiite Muslim movement that for weeks has stood on the sidelines of Lebanon's political … [Read more...] about Hezbollah Versus Lebanon’s People

This Polish Digital Clock really works. PS: I'm part Polish, so spare me the angry emails about ethnic jokes. … [Read more...] about Polish Digital Clock