Unqualified Offerings

At the movies. Leonardo Da Vinci was from Italy, which juts into the (warm-water) Mediterranean. Cod range the (cold) North Atlantic from Norway to Newfoundland. So this Da Vinci Cod business is crap. Knock it off already.
On the radio. Yesterday I heard a woman claim that “I drove my cancer into remission with the help [...]

Bellsouth’s denials of USA Today’s NSA story are going well beyond pro forma. Business Week reports on the shadowy world of third-party provision of records to government agencies. Something that doesn’t come up is that it’s possible that third parties could have supplied the government with Qwest’s records too, without Qwest’s knowledge or approval, or [...]

Chris Allbritton makes a plausible case that Iranian intelligence really is providing some measure of strange-bedfellows aid to the Sunni resistance in Iraq. I think it’s entirely possible. It’s the kind of thing the Soviets, Americans and Chinese all did to each other at various times during the Cold War. It’s the kind of thing [...]