Unqualified Offerings

The Editors talks a little nonsense:
Jason Campbell is a crap quarterback. The Redskins are a crap team.
This is at best half true. Campbell is going to be pretty good. He makes sound decisions, reads the whole field and uses his eyes well. He can look off a safety and he hasn’t even played a [...]

I agree with Kevin Drum. It’s befuddling that the weekend’s news about the Higazy decision and the FBI’s attempt to censor the details of their conduct in the case out of the judges opinion has gone largely unremarked. Meanwhile I realized today that many of the links back to my early Higazy-case blogging from Dynamist [...]

UO was six years old yesterday. So hey America: I tried!

By Thoreau
Say what you will about Swiss immigration law, but in one respect the Swiss were incredibly progressive this past weekend:  They used quantum cryptography to protect some of their election data.

Christopher Allbritton:
Am I the only one getting tired of seeing civilian casualties as something to be avoided for tactical reasons and not that it’s supposed to be wrong to kill innocent people?
Dear Chris:
No.
Best,
Imitation IOZ

The denouement of the Higazy/”Egyptian Radio” case. This was one of the first stories I ever blogged back in late 2001, early 2002. Virginia Postrel and the Illuminated Donkey and I used it as an early example of how torture could get crucial information wrong rather than right. Let’s reprint the section the FBI doesn’t [...]