“Neocons envision a near-static population of terrorists, and prescribe an aggressive policy of killing them in order to rid the world of terrorism. Liberals see a dynamic population of terrorists and prescribe broad policies meant to blunt their popular appeal and deprive them of public support. Neocons looks at the liberal prescription and say, essentially, “you’re not killing enough of them.” And liberals look at the Neocons and, aghast, say, “stop making so many more.”
—EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
March 2008
23 posts
“Since he began running for president, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has embraced President George W. Bush’s foreign policy. He has done so for a simple and understandable reason: it was McCain’s policy first.”
—Spencer Ackerman
“Today, our public discourse is dominated by people who have been wrong about everything — but are still, mysteriously, treated as men of wisdom, whose judgments should be believed. Those who were actually right about the major issues of the day can’t get a word in edgewise.”
—Paul Krugman (via marco)
Six degrees of separation in instant messaging →
primidi.com
‘Do we have a natural harmonic for social communication?’
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“Summary of the undisputed science on this point: If you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will either die or else be so badly hurt it will wish that it were dead. If you put it in a pot of tepid water and turn on the heat, the frog will climb out — if it can — as soon as it gets uncomfortably warm.”
—James Fallows: Boiled-frog Archives
“Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle.”
—Jsn
“Pennsylvania is a swing state that Democrats will almost certainly need to win in November, and Clinton will spend seven weeks and millions of dollars there making the case that Obama is unfit to set foot in the White House. You couldn’t create a more damaging scenario if you tried.”
—Jonathan Chait
“Rasmussen Reports says this morning that when it surveyed Americans about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 3 a.m. ad and asked which candidate voters would want to answer the telephone when the White House is alerted to a crisis the answer that came back from the greatest number of folks was Sen. John McCain.”
—Balloon Juice
“Besides, it is not outside the realm of possibility that Senator Clinton IS, in fact, quite literally somewhat monstrous. She and her team DO seem willing to stoop to “anything,” as Ms. Power claimed. All power mongers do; it’s what makes them effective. They won’t be stopped, nothing gets in their way. What. So. Ever.”
—Jon Robin Baitz: Monstrous - Politics on The Huffington Post
“For example, in spite of public concern, the authors found that adolescents’ use of popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook do not appear to increase their risk of being victimized by online predators. Rather, it is risky online interactions such as talking online about sex to unknown people that increases vulnerability, according to the researchers”
—Schneier on Security: Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded
“Parental neurosis is FAR more detrimental to childhood development than the supposed ease at which the internet will corrupt the youth.”
—LEE
Schneier on Security: Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded →
schneier.com
“There’s been some overreaction to the new technology, especially when it comes to the danger that strangers represent,” said Janis Wolak, a sociologist at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
David Pogue: How Dangerous Is the Internet for Children? →
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com
On how the dangers of the internet to children are exagerated, and some of the fear actually makes things worse.
“The crowning irony is that Plaintiffs—who purport to be shocked, shocked that Wikileaks has promised anonymity to leakers—are a Swiss bank and its Cayman Islands subsidiary,”
—Daniel Matthews
Christian Cliches →
benwitherington.blogspot.com
God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
—Buddha, via dailymeh
